The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-02-03


were riding on pair of bob sleds
Wednesday afternoon when q street
car came along and the team becoming
frightened whirled around and brought
the Sled in contact with the car Mr..
Ryan jumped and escaped unhurt, but
Mr.. Lynch who was driving was pretty
badly injured, having an ankle broken,
a foot crushed, his skull fractured and
a scalp wound inflicted. He is a man
nearly 20 years of age, and is now at
st. Francis Hospital
The Call is great on sensational
insinuations, but it never materialzes
a case. Here is its latest attempt III
this line: There is still another of
those cases in which a happy family
has been broken up on account of 4
smooth gentleman alternating the affec-
tiOnS of Il wife of a Superior citizen.
The husband has put his case in the
hands of a local law firm and unless a
settlement is affected out of court, q
suit for damages will be begun"
Mr.. and Mrs l.. r. IIurd, assisted
by Mr.. and Mrs. w. b. Perry, held an
elegant reception III the parlors of The
Euclid Thursday evening. The rooms
were elegantly draped and made beau
tiful by a profusion of flowers. There
was music for those who wished to
dance and cards and tables for those
who preferred that line of amusement.
An elegant lunch was served at 1890.
Over one hundred guests were enter
tanned.
By what authority does the Secre-
tary OF the West End chamber of
Commerce announce to the world that
Superior is ready to contribute $1,000
for a prize fight by two fierce brutes
called men, Superior does not want
any prize fight and would not permit
one within her limits if She could get
it for nothing. Superior IS not seek
ing that kind of notoriety.
J. f. Chase, of Poplar, was in the
city Monday and made the TINES Of
flee pleasant call. Mr. Chase has
fine saw mill a. Poplar, and expects to
cut about 800, 900 feet of lumber the
ensuing season, He is all ready to
start up any day, but trade is so duh
now that he Will probably wait until
the spring opens before he starts his
mill
The Northwestern Fuel Company
has opened an office at this end Of the
city and put our old friend J. ". Fen
wick in charge. The office is in one of
the basement offices of The Euclid, on
on Fifth street, where you Will always
find Mr.. Fenwick ready to receive
your orders for coal, and to fill the
same promptly:
1t is ROW thought that the effort
to concoct some new form of bond for
the city, will be abandoned, cOntrac-
tors Barker and Burke having decided
that the old form of bond is good
enough. 1t is said that Wolf & King
found little difficulty i'll selling their
bonds in the eastern market some three
or four weeks ago.
The Leader says w B. Tanning
has succeeded TO the business of James
DaWkinS at the West end, conSldera
tion 800, 600. This is one of the larg
est department stores at the head of
the lake, and Mr.. Tanning will have
to rustic if he keeps it up to the nigh
place it has occupied under Mr., Daw-
kin 5 management.
The literary branch of the East
end Epworth League, held its last
meeting Tuesday evening with Miss
Minnie Coleman, ON Second street.
Three or four very excellent papers
were read The Merchant of We
nice VIII be read 1T the next meeting
of the club
The amount of taxes collected il
January 1894, was $4,000 less than in
1898 To raise valuations and increase
the rate of tax is not the way to en-
courage tax paying. But this is the
policy adopted by our public officials
The result is not t. be wondered at
The attempt TO organize a relief
corps in conjunction with the J. u.
Robe post, at the East end, WedneS-
day afternoon did not bear fruit as
desired, and the meeting then held at
the residence of Col lIayes stands in
dptineutly poStpOnpd