The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-04-26
WISCONSIN ITEMS

INSURANCE CoMM!>sIoNrR CHEEK is be-
ing urged to " thdr.w his resignation
because the Governor is not empowered
to appoint his successor.
MRS. NELLIE CUcPER, daughter of he
late J. B. Martin, o. Milwaukee, will
be married in London to an Italian
nobleman.
AT Milwaukee, on the 22d, the bodies
of Heny Eilers and William Seidler
were found in the river aud lake re-
spectlvely.
JUDGE MARSHALL decided that the st.
Croix Dam and Boom Company had no
right to build lis new dam in the ST.
Croix River.
THE contract for tie construction of
the Schlesinger syndicate's railroad
from Iron Mountain to Escanaba has
been let to Mcintosh Bros, OF MllWau-
kee. The road is TO be Ii:ty-Iour miles
long, and the grade is to be ready for
the rolls by October |. When compile e
the line will have cost nearly 81 90 800.
AT Eau Claire the jury in the case o..
JET. McClarney against the Chicago
Milwaukee x st. Pau! Railroad Com
pany, after three ballots and being ont a
little over an hour, on the 10Th. came
in with verdict $1,000 damages for
plaintiff, who sued Tor $4,000. six
jurors were in favor OF the full amount
and four iii favor OF 0,G00 on the
first ballot. McCIarney was yard
master at Wabash, Mimi, and March O.
1888, broke an ankle hy falling from
box car which had been derailed in
switching by accumulated ice and snow.
Surgeons amputated his foot. 1t is be-
ileved the company will pay the ludg-
ment at once. The ground OF the verdict
was the defendants negligence.
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER CHEEK has
resigned his office 10 take II position DIS
state agent for an Eastern insurance
company.
TIE Milwaukee Chamber of Com
merce committee appointed to consider
the BntterWorth bill reported to the
board that 1t was too sweeping and I'M
practlcaDle, and would be inope ratlve.
FIRE in the La Crosse lumber district
for time threatened serious loss.
STANLEY PRouDFIT, assistant general
freight agent of the Omaha Road, died
at Madison.
CHEF HrGuEs, of the Madison Fire
Department., WAS cXonerated OF the
charges of bribery.
OK the 18th the Phoenix Manufacture
ing Company s storehouse, at Eau Claire,
burned. Loss s. 900. An east wind
saved the big plant.
THE Marinette Iron Works plant will
be moved to Duluth. Cneapncss OF fuel
was an item that somewhat fastened
the transfer. At Marinete coal cos,
the company $40 per ton, while at
Duluth all that they can possibly use, III
the shape of screenings, can tie pro-
cured for 80 cents per ton. This I'en
alone means q saving of from 5000 to
$1,000 u year.
JoSEPH GAGNlE, sailor on the Twin
Sisters, fell dead suddenly as the vessel
lett the Milwaukee harbor on the Goth.
His death was caused by apopieNy.
The Twin Sisters returned 10 port,
whence the boly was taken 10 the
morgue. Gagnie was IS years OF age,
and shipped on the Twin Sisters at But
falo, April II.
THREE carloads of immigrants, rrlncl.
pally Polish, numbering about 10 in all,
arrived at the Union Depot. Milwaukee,
on the 18th. The ma ority had friends
in waiting who took charge OF them,
while twenty families ana ten single
men 90 to the Menomonee Falls quar-
ries, where they have found employ
ment through Mr.. Reuter-, the agent OF
the German immigrants Society.
FRANK VALIANT died at his residence
in Prairie du CHEN on the 18th, OF n
cancerous tumor. He had been to Chi
cago only a few days since to have It re-
moved, but it had been neglected too
long. He leaves a wife and one child.
EDWARD +. BARRETT, aged 20, plo-
neer of Northwestern Wisconsin, and a
veteran of the Mexican war, died at
Eau Claire on the 18th.
Ar Eau Claire. on the 18th, Judge
Bundy sentenced Thomas Saunders and
Frank ST. Claire TO three years and i've
years at Waupun, respectively, TOT
burglary in gun shop and residence.
st. Claire made a speech and asked 1oI
a new trial.
A PLUMP and blue-eyed baby boy WAS
left at midnight on the doorstep of the
home Of Nh and Mrs. Furnia, at Eau
Claire, who were aroused by rap AT
their window. There was note at
tached begging them to take care OF the
baby, and saying that its mother would
at some time reclaim 1t.
WHILE Joseph Mills was being boisted
out of we'll that he was cleaning, on
the farm of Harvey Genong, on 1ruax
Prairie. he was overcome by the I'M
pure air and fell back wards, and one
foot became entangled in the rope, and
he was noisted nearly to the top, when
the rope broke. He fell to the bottom,
and was instantly killed.
Coz. AND MRs. WM. L. Villas and Col.
and Mrs. J. H. Knight have returned
from their Southern trip.
JAMES STINsoS, in the United States
court, at Madison, denies that he OBJ
tanned lands near Superior fraudulently
as charged.
MILWAUKEE mlllers protest against
provisions of the Mckinley bill regard
ing jute bags.
THE Milwaukee Presbvtery at Beaver
Dam passed resolutions favoring mod
crate revision Of the Confession OF
Faith.
The Sand Creek Sportsmen's Club has
been organized by number OF promi-
nent business men OF La Crosse. The
club has secured control of one OF the
best trout streams in La Crosse County.
ARTICLES of incorporation have been
fled with the secretary Of state by the
Saddle Mound Sandstone Company, 0!
La Crosse; capital stock, si2,00o; lncor-
porators Abner Gile, Levi Withee and
Chas. A. Goodyear.