The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-09-10
BADGER NOTES.


John CoNNoRs, who has for forty-two
YEARS been an employee Of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway Com
pany, and has for some years past
acted as depot master at the Union De-
pot at Milwaukee, has been retired on
a pension.
IHE dry goods business of the late T.
A. Chapman, Of Milwaukee, has been
organized by his heirs into stock COM
l,Iny, with a paid-up capital of $780,
200.
AUGUST ANDERSEN was arrested at
Ashland on cargo of passing forged
check for s23.
Mrs. AuGUsr MILLER, aged So, died at
Prairie du Chen from heart disease
while walking home from the grave
yard, where she had been attending
Andrew kahler's funeral.
NJ. HARDoS, a farmer living about two
miles from Augusta, was attacked by an
Infatuated COW and probably fatally in
iured. MIR. Harden had his little
laughter with him, but managed to get
her over the fence safely.
EARLY on the morning OF the 9Th. w.
B. Doane, al engineer on the Burling-
ton, was killed at Stoddard, few miles
below La Crosse. He was leaning out
betweel. the cab and tender, looking
back, when he WAS struck by the pipe
of a water tank, crushing his skull. The
fireman did not see the accident, and
the train ran one mile before it could be
stopped. Doane was dead when the
train backed down to where the body
lay between the tracks. He was about
: nf ms
children. He lad been an engineer
about year.
TIMOTHY Mccormick has been award
ed the contract of furnishing the Kim
berly & Clark mill at Kimberly with
5000 tons of straw. The contract is
worth SIS 600.
BURGLARS cracked the safe in Villas
Follett's store at Coloma, securing sew
eral thousand dollars worth OF notes,
mortgages, etc, and gold watch.
A NEW opera house at Ashland is now
assured, the necessary subscriptions
having been secured. The building will
cost, when completed, $l25, 900.
II. NlEDECKEN & Co., of Milwaukee,
have been awarded the contract for
furnishing the state with paper the en-
suing TWO years by the state printing
commission.
CAPT. WILLIAM WILSON, a pioneer
lumberman of the Chippewa Valley,
and one of the founders of the Knapp,
Stout & CO. Company, died at his home
in Menomonee at the advanced age Of
50 years.
FRANK PICKARD has resigned the city
sttorneyship at Marinette to engage in
business at Chicago.
WAsHBuEN has accepted plans for a
new library building.
THE new Madison directory. just is
sued contain $3.50 rames, and on this
basis the population is estimated 10 ex-
coed 5000.
A BOARD fence ten feet in height is
being erected around the new federal
building site at Milwaukee, which will
cost s., 400. Col. WatrOus has received
notice that the fence cannot be used for
advertising purposes.
A COMPLETE train of fifteen freight
cars loaded with Milwaukee beer and
decorated with red. white and blue,
Grand Army banners, ETC., left Milyau
kee on the night of the lst for Wash
ington to supply the wants of the thou
sands who Will attend the Grand Army
encampment there.
Crosse. now in England, has received a
tender of a professorship at the Fari-
bault seminary to teach ecclesiastical
history. 1t is a position well suited to
the taste of Mr.. Ten Brock, and he may
decide to accept, although he dislikes to
leave his parish.
ALEX. MALCOLM, prominent logging
contractor, died at Eau Claire after
period OF illness.
A HEAVY white frost fell in the vicin-
itv of Marshfeld on the night of the
night of the 3lst, causing considerable
damage to root and corn crops.
FIRE destroyed the office, pattern
castings of the Novelty Iron Works at
Ashland. The loss is estimated at fully
$40, 600. No iarurcnoc.
I. W. HOPKINS, city assessor at Ash
land. was arrested at Duluth in COM
pa2y with Mrs. Williams, who formerly
lived at Ashland. Hopkins is 81 years
old, and Las family there. The arrest
was made at the instigation of his wife.
Ten years ago Milwaukee barely sup
ported TWO inferior theaters. To-day
the city has one of the finest houses in
the country, and three others equal to
any OF those of decade ago. In addi-
ton to all this, number of Milwaukee
capitalists have inauguarated as
a supplement- to the indoor
amusements presentation of an out
door spectacle of the Last Days of
Pompeli," in which the life, manners
and customs of the ancient city are
portrayed by means of pageants,
scenery. fireworks, etc. The stage in
cludes q miniature lake, and the am
phitheater will seat 10000 spectators
The performances, which close with
eruption of Nesuvius and the destruc-
ton of the city, began on the lst inst,
and will continue until the close of the
state fair.
DANIEL STEELE DURRIE, librarian Of the
State Historical Society, died unexpect-
eddy on the 3lst, although he has been
quite feeble for some months. He was
born at Albany, \. y, IN 1919.
Nor dollar of Indebtedness hangs
over the Monona Lake Assembly
grounds. The Hon. Wilett S. Main
was reelected president