The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-03-05
BADGER NOTES.

SIR MoREIL MACKESzlE, the physi-
clan who attended Emperor Frederick
| of Germany, in his last illness, stated in
| London that he was offered So, 600 10
come to Milwaukee and attend single
patient in 1888, but was unable to accept
/ the fee and make the trip. The fee was
! offered in behalf of the late John
! Planklnton.
! Tue Bayfield, County Board appointed
! John Forseth county clerk TO fill the
vacancy caused by the removal of Allan
/ I. Williams, who, 1t is alleged, is short
! some $4,000 in his accounts.
| THE house of B. T. Hutchinson, at
! Madison, was broken into within the
past two weeks. The Hutchinson fami-
! ly is living in winter residence in
| Florida. The thieves secured some val
| uables and ransacked the house thor
| oughly.
! The board Of directors OF the free Ii
| brary and reading room At Washburn
mas appointed Miss Elvlra Hull AS libra-
rian, with salary of 800 year.
w. b. Hunt. ali exsheriff and a
nephew of the late Senator Beck, died
| at Prairie du Chen. DR.. Hunt, Of Lex
! ington, Ky, and Congressman Brecken-
ridge were present at his death.
! Ar / +. NJ. on the 18th inst, train ot
| seven box cars from the West Mi lwau-
! kee shops. bearing more than 800 la
! borers and mechanics. who had pnlt
work on the short lift" at :;::i0, was
! speeding along to town at the rate OF
twelve or fourteen miles an hour on the
south main track of the st. Paul
road. The Watertown passenger
was running parallel to the shop
! traln,' as it is called, on the
middle track, when il veered from its
course on a misplaced switched and
crashed into the heavily laden shop
train. The passenger engine struck the
| shop train Just in the rear of the first
car, which was, however, only splin-
| tered, and remained on the track with
! the engine. The result was seven men
! killed and large number in lured. All
! the killed and wounded We're on board
the shop train.
FIRE on the night Of the 18th caused
a loss Of 500, in a West Water Street
| business block, Milwaukee, The fire
originated in the department store
| formerly occupied by Isador Lesser, 500
| and sos West Water Street, few min
utes after $ o'clock. There were a
series of explosions, and flames issued
from the front and rear Of the building.
! 1
| bic rapidItv, and when the fire de-
partment arrived the heat from the
burning building was so intense that it
slnged the horses attached to the appa-
ratus as they We're driven by. Twenty
! minutes after the alarm was turned in
p portion of the north wall of the build
| ing fell crushing in the two an!oinlng
| frame buildings, occupied by b. A..
Westlof, a jeweler, and Edward Spar,
| a cigar dealer. They were two-story
frame structures, and were completely
. buried beneath the avalanche o. bricks
and timbers.
Al. WILLIAMS, county clerk of Bay
field County, the defaulter, has disap-
! peared. His bondsmen are good.
| THE Bayfield, County authorities have
secured the services of B. J. Churchill,
| of Eau Claire. and ,Ionn \. Riggs of
! Drummond, as experts, to examine the
| county records. Charges have been
made against some of the county Off
| GERS.
THE farmers Of Sebastopol, Door
| County, have abandoned their project
of establishing a starch factory.
! GEORGE Dow has accepted the presi-
dency of the Dane County Agricultural
| Society. The fair is to commence Sep
| tember ).
ASHLAND papers report that Hattie
| knicklebine, one of the liners in the
| February rush, has won her case, the
! local land office having Just returned a
| decision in her favor.
| TIE auxiliary Worlds Far committee
for Eau Claire County organized by
| eleCting George +. Shaw as president
and William p. Bartlett as secretary
! HENRY WILLARD was the honored guest
at the banquet of the Milwaukee Bark
ers' Club on the evening of the 9th.
| The affair was an elaborate one and
was held in the banquet hall of the Mill
waukee Club. John Johnston, presi
dent of the club sat at the head of the
| table and acted as toa. master. An IN
| formal programme had been arranged
which consisted of addresses bv f. w
Bigelow, j. =. Murphy and J. W. J..
| Lom bard.
TIE Layton art collection has been
augmented by the addition oil sN new
! pieces, from the brushes Of Jules Du-
| pre-, Mauve, Cain, Murthe, Kaufman
and Charles Louis Muller.
| Is the United States court at Madison.
on the 10Th. Judge Bum listened to a
suit brought by +. A. Wright, of Spring
| field, Mo-, against J. +. Ellis, Of Eau
! Claire, for alleged breach OF contract.
! / ha action arose ont of a trade of farm
| ing lands and corporation stock. and
the amount involved is $1,000 While
! the jury was out on agreement WAS
| reached by the litigants, by which the
| plaintiff was given 81 900 the defendant
| TO pay the costs of the suit.
! c. NJ. Dow, of Madison, has been elect
ed president of the Dane County Agri-
cultural Society in place of II. {. \ dams,
| who resigned.
| MARINETrE'> subscriptions for \. VI.
! {. A. building how amount to $ 600.
EMANUEL Cook. once prominent n
| Madison as merchant and member Of
! the Common Council, died at Victoria,
B. c.
TIE ladies of the F,rst Ward in Mari
Lette are about to erect a house of wor-
ship, 10 be known as tie Terrace Ave
nue. | Mon Chapel.
| THE sturgeon Bay Republican SAYS of
Fish Creek. Door Count, that no other
place Of the same size has so many
motherless children.
IL reply to the employees Of the Val
ley Lumber Company at Eau Claire
asking that ten hours be considered a
days time, President Carson wrote as
follows: IF We cannot make anything
running eleven hours n day, how are we
TO make anything running ten? We
can't make much anyway, but we hap
pen to own good deal OF timber, and
AZ long as We are cutting our own tim
Der, We can run. But We shall adhere
to the eleyen-hour plan.
A FREE dispensary mas been estab-
lshed at Trinity Hospital, Milwaukee.
by number OF local physicians. The
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Or. Rosenheimer; secretary, Dr.
Mereness; treasurer, l3r. Carlson. The
dispensary is to be open from to Or NJ.
daily.
SENATOR KIDD, OF Prairie du Chen.
recently received from friend in
Washington steel shaving over 80 feet
long that was cut from the largest piece
OF ordnance ever forged for Jnited
States service.
AT its session in Milwaukee on tie
path the Democratic State Committee