The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1893-06-10
THE STEAL GOES.
The Aldermen viii Rob ihc City
Treasury 10 the Tune of Five
Hundred Dollars Each

to tfst iHf vi FiNc
Hundred Dollars Each.
The city council held Il meeting last
Tuesday evening with two members
absent. The most notable business
transacted was as follows:
\ resolution from Mr.. Rice, asking
that each committee be provided with
| 500 for clerk hire, was passed on Il
vote of II to ,, Aldermen Dund0n and
! Barton voting in the negative. Mr..
| Barton, Of course, was in favor of it
| however.
Special bonds to the amount Of $40
600 were ordered issued to Capt. Bar
ker. The issuance of these bonds is
based on the course mapped by Mayor
Kennedy in his veto of the Barker res
Olution. Capt. Barker is very happy
man. He thinks he can now recover
the full amount of his bond though
he has been to considerable expense to
bring this about.
! After a hot secret session which
( lasted about an hour, to decide what
should be done with the city funds the
ensuing year the following resolution
was brought forth:
Resolved, that the sinking fund be divided
among the banks Of the city pro ratio ar-
cOrding TO capital provided they furnish
bonds satisfactory to the finance cOmmit:c e,
comptroller and city attorney.
! The Mayor then announced his new
school commissioners as follows:
Sixth ward John l.. Lewis; Third
ward, J. Fraser Wood; Ninth ward,
! w. J. Greer. They were confirmed by
vote of II to I.
AS delegates TO the reciprocity con
ventiOn the mayor named the follow
ing gentlemen: f. Winsor, +. G..
Mills, F. \. Ross, f. b. Manwaring,
c. c. Pope, Iieber Mcliugh, f. f. G.
| Bryant, p. O. StrOmme.
The council has voted themselves
$500 each, 80 per week for one days
work. For straight unblushing rob
| berry of the city treasury this has no
| parallel i'll history. 1t throws the in
| famous congress which a few years ago
voted itself back pay, all in the shade.
! Criminal action should be and probab-
ly will be instituted against the first
man to touch Il dollar of such money
IL WAS LOADED.
| Another sad and fatal accident hap
pened at the West end Thursday even
ing. John Erickson called on his friend
! Leonard Anderson. Two or three 9th
ers were there also. Anderson eXhib-
tied a new revolver he had just pur-
chased. All hands examined it and
! commented upon its beauty or good
qualities. At last it WAS Mr.. Erick-
| sons turn, and he even tried the trig-
ger. 1t was all right. The ball hit
! his friend just above the eye, turned a
| little. passed through the eye and
lodged in the brain, and Mr.. Anderson
| fell unconscious and fatally wounded.
| The Leader says we are and always
have been getting but pure water from
! the water company. If that is true,
why did the Leader not dare to pub
lIsh " the Shchan report when he first
| got it? And why does the Leader not
| dare to now ask for its publication?
! If Brer. Swineford hates Just Il sort of
everyday hypOcrIte like us, what deep
! contempt he must have for Brother
! Flower.
Rev. J. c. Andrus, the new pastor
! of the West end Pilgrim Congrega-
tional church arrived here with his
! family last week and preached his first
sermon last Sunday morning. y form
al reception will be given the Rev
! gentleman and his family at the ele-
| CANT home of Mr.. and Mrs J. H. Law,
HOS, Tower evenue, this Friday even
ing at O'Clock.
1t is by no means sure that the
! Lappen failure will not carry down
with it the concern at the West end Of
the same name. 1t is said that lap
pen issued his paper collectable at the
Superior house, to the amount of $40,
600. If this paper is good the house
I C mot stand it. But an effort will be
made to show that this paper Will not
hold against the Superior house.
Rev. Stricmer who lately return
ed from the Worlds Fair says that it
VIII be several weeks vet before the
buildings etc, are completed The
| prices for eatables are very reasonable
but for rooms the charges are way up.
In his opinion the Fair as financial
institution Will be failure. but a
sight which all who can should see
| Sun.
The alacrity in which the water
company sets about to remedy the de
fective supply pipe now that 1t has to
do it, is cOmmendable in the same way
that the honesty of the boy who dosen't
steel watermelOns because of the close
proximity of the watch dog Is praise
worthy.-Telegram
1t is fast transpiring that Frank
\. Lappen, who has so recently wreck
ed 50 many people, is first class rascal,
| sparing no one, not even his warmcst
friends. He ought to have a coat of
tar and feathers, but as he has skipped
the country he will probably escape
his deserts.
Frank Dement, was in the city
this week and called. Frank is now a
horny-handed granger with hay seed
in his hair, and has fine homestead
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