The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-10-11
BADGER NOTES.

MILWAUKEE is soon to have another
new industry. The Hoffman-keefe
Office File Company, with capital of
100000, and employing 200 men, Is
proposing to remove from Chicago to
the Cream City.
A. GIEsLER, furniture dealer at Ash
land, has made an assignment of all his
property and credits to julius f. Cohen,
for the benefit of his creditors. The
assets and liabilities about balance at
s., 800.
Miss SUSIE KNIGHT daughter of Col.
]. II. Knight. of Ashland, died at Nfadi-
son, after an illness of several months
duration.
The will of O. P Pillsbury, of Mil
waukee, dsposes Of $40, 600 in personal
and real estate.
SUIT has been begun at Ashland
against County Cleek Hart and Henry
l.. Besse and George W. Marshall, past
and present chairmen of the county
board, by Frederick Abbott, to secure
face value on 81 $3.50 worth of county
orders.
AsnLAxD's charcoal blast furnaces
turned out ] ,00l tons of Bessemer pig
iron In q week.
POTATOES are cheap at La Crosse. The
market is said TO be glutted.
CHARLES BUFFINGToN has resigned as
jailor of the Eau Claire County pen"
CIRCUIT court is in session at Mari
nette. There are but seven criminal
eases to try.
GERMAN-AMERlCAN Day was celebrated
IN Milwaukee and many cities through
ont the country.
OK the night Of the 9th Jacob pluard
with wife and child = years old were
driving across the private bridge of the
La Crosse Lumber Company from
French Island, when their wheel struck
rail and broke ii, oyerturning the bug
gy. The mother and child fell twenty
feet into the water, while Mr.. Pluard
was tangled up III the reins go he could
not extricate himself. The child was
drowned and the mother, it is said to-
night, is not likely To live until morning.
The bridge was known to be unsafe and
signs at both ends warned people of 1t.
THE Badger Illuminating Company
has en- joined the city ol Milwaukee from
receiving new bids for electric lighting.
STREET cars Will be run every twenty
minutes after midnight by the Milwau
kee City and Cream City lines.
WHILE at work in a sewer on Newhall
caved in and buried August Porzinskv
The earth was removed from the unfor-
tunate man as quickly AZ possible. but he
was SO severely injured that he died
soon alter
FREDERICK WGMPNEt, Marinette
grocer, has disappeared, and, il is said,
has $1,000 with him. His store IS in the
sheriti>s hands.
Nc. OBEE>r, of La Crosse, aged Il, dis
appeared from West Superior and can
not be found, though a thorough search
for him has been made
THE Board Of Soldiers Home Manag-
ers have provided for the erection Of a
cottage costing SOTO. for the accommo-
dation of the treasurer's chief clerk, al
the Milwaukee home. The cottage VIII
be built as soon as possible.
"BART" SCoTT. treasurer of Ashland
County, is said 10 be short in his ac
counts.
LAKE SUPERIOR fremen held their first
annual tournament at Ashland on the Sd
inst
DRuGGIsrs of Wisconsin are forming
mutual fire insurance company.
TIE Rev Mr. GrassIc was reelected
secretary of the Wisconsin Congrega-
tional Home Missionary Society.
TIE reports that Bishop Wigger had
been appointed to the archbishopric of
Milwaukee are unfoundcd.
WILLIAM BRowS Was arrested at Ash
land on II charge of burning Christian
Stadcrs residence.
THREE Ashland Cinnamon, All War,
Lee War and sam Lee, left for the &C.
lestIal kingdom the other day, after
having amassed s. ,0G0 with which to
buy their liberty. They were slaves.
FIRE at la Crosse on the 1st de-
stroyed the barn Of nr Frank Powell.
His horses were at his livery stable, but
q heavy truck team belonging to Assem-
hlyman J. J. Hogan occupied the barn.
One horse was burned To death, and in
saving the other Mr.. Hogan was badly
burned.
THE Milwaukee ';as Light Company
las undertaken improvements costing
about $4,000, and consisting Of new
buildings. machinery and the like The
company - experimenting on large
scale with water Gas system, which il
expects To make steady use of before
winter begins. such gas combined with
the coal Gas making an excellent IL
lumnant.
"OID Man ScHNEIpER' an old Ger
man about Ashland, found barrel con
tanning over 500 in gold, silver and pa
per money, " bile cieann" out the alley
back of saloon The barrel had eyi-
IDENTITY been there for wears. Schnei
der took his treasure inside the saloon,
and the harkeerer took it to look at
and kept ii. Schneider has brought
suit to recover the money