The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1893-11-18
WISCONSIN NEWS.

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chase of lands set aside for state park
by the Legislature in 1873. When Sweet
and OConnOr made their application
the land commissioners refused to issue
the patent and suit vas brought in the
supreme court to compel sale. The SUI
preme court referred the case to the
lower court to ascertain certain facts
These facts Judge Sloan is endeavoring
TO settle, after which the case Will again
90 to the supreme court. When Sweet
and 0'COnnor made application they
paid sum of money to the state treas
uIer in part payment for the land,
/ which comprises 1900 acres, and lies
partly III Villas County and partly in the
new county of Iron. 1t is thicklY
wooded and is valued AT 100000.
The new submarine torpedo boat
built by Richard Radatzs, OF Oshkosh.
was given a successful trial at that place.
/ The boat is 40 feet long and is propelled
and lighted by electricity The boat
carried three men and remained under
water nearly an hour, under perfect
control.
GAYLORD LOCKWOOD will be obliged to
pay fine OF $1,000 or spend five
month in Green County jail. Judge
Bennett pronounced the above SEN
tence at Monroe, Lockwood being con
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man who had invaded his melon patch.
CAPT NoLNEY BJGELow, of La Crosse,
of the steamer Jessie B. has been made
defendant in $4,000 damage suit by
Engineer Jawley, Of LeClairc. la. The
plaintiff claims to have been injured In
consequence of the Jessie b. colliding
with another boat.
THE Rev. Edward II. Pence, Of
Georgetown, Cal, has accepted a call to
the pastorate of the PRESBYTERIAN
Church at JanesyilIe He viii succeed
the Rev. DR.. Brown, the retiring
pastor.
ANDREW Johnson. who was arrested
on charge of having murdered Will
lam Sullivan, farmer living in the
town of Rusk, Burnett County, was
found hanging to his cell in the county
Jail at trantsburg. The coroner re-
turned a verdict OF suicide Johnson
left no statement. He protested hIs
innocence from the first. Freeman
Darrell is under arrest at Grantsburg
charged with being implicated IN the
Sullivan murder.
f. f. FOSTER, an employa Of the
American Express Company, has been
arrested at Ashland on a charge Of em-
beZZlement Foster is an unmarried
man and had heretofore borne an eX-
ccllent reputation He was formerly
express messenger on the scoot be-
tween Ashland and Bayfield,.
THE {. c. Thompson Lumber Com
pany, Of Ashland, Will put in large
camp at White River the coming win
ter, a little above the old pulp null, the
company having purchased the pine
in that section formerly owned by Mr..
BardOn.
AFTER thirty years separation Hiram
Jefferson and his son Thomas are re-
united in GAINESVILLE. The father be
came separated from his family Just
after the capture OF Fort Donaldson, he
being slave on a plantation near the
fort.
IT is stated that Phelps Perrin, the
Hurley bank robher, who is serving
time at Waupun, is in very poor health
and it is doubtful if he lives his
term out. He has but few months
more to serve.
ANDREW GRADY, Robert Macarthur
and John RoWlands, who were arrested
at Oshkosh ON a charge of highway rob
berry, were discharged, there being no
evidence upon which to hold them.
THE Ashland Street Railway Compa-
nv intend to discontinue to use CON
ductors during the winter months.
The moter-mcn viii have full charge of
the cars.
JosEpH VI NRKS, the man who was shot
in the head at White Birch, Douglas
County, about a month ago, has rccov-
cred sufficiently to leave the hospital.
Miss GERTRUDE ciHEGNov Was thrown
from a buggy ut Trcmpealrau and ~,Is-
tanned a fracture ct the leg She was
also badly bruised about her body.
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