The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-29

Police Station Notes.-The Lost BY the
Schiller Disaster-.The Whisky
Seizures-Opera BOuffers-.A
New Manager-.An Un-
founded RumOr. Etc.

crimes have brought them there, and
wonder that in this bright world of ours,
where there is SO much to make us hap.
Ply and to be thankful for, there should
be so frequent and appalling cases Of
human depraTity. There tie darker
side of human nature is seen in all its
hideousness-the night brawler, the
thief, the burglar, the courtesan, the
drunken vagabond just taken from the
gutter, and not unfrequently the muir.
derer, find unwelcome detention, and
are tried and punished for their SINS
A half hours tarry at the station house,
a few day ago, sufficed to gain an insight
into the working of the force, aud
to see several specimens of the
character which makes the institution
necessary. La cells were confined some
half dozen brawlers of the night before,
who In their now sober senses, were
contemplating regretfully their conduct
which made confinement necessary, and
impatiently awaiting their Arrangement
in the morning. Ona pallet in small
back room, with grated door and
window, lay an old man of over three
score years, who had just been brought
in with his throat cut from ear to ear
by his own hand. The officers found
him wandering in the fields adjacent to
the city, staggering and nearly dead
from loss of blood. He was q drunk
ard, and had committed the act viii e
crazed with liquor. No sooner is the
suicide disposed of, than officers enter
having in charge the would be- assassin
Herzberg, who had but now shot down
IN cold blood, his brother-in law, Chas
Ii. Ramein, while walking on the street
with friend. The assassin was placed
in cell next the suicide, where he now
lies awaiting the result of his victim s
wounds. And thus these scenes are re-
peated, day after day, the station
scarcely ever being without a number
of Goddess tenants, whose perpetual in
generation could but tend to the great
good of society, and be a blessing to
themselves.
THE SCHILLER DISASTER.
In my last letter mention was made
of the departure for Europe of several
time / little thought to chronicle in my
next the terrible news of their loss at
sea. But such is the fact. On Satur-
day last cable dispatches announced the
loss of the steamship Schiller, on which
our townsmen had taken passage. The
sad news cast a gloom over the entire
city, and visited upon many house
hold in our midst, the profoundest
grief for the loss of dear relatives. Not
since the Lady Elgin disaster, fifteen
years ago, has Milwaukee been so gen
orally afflicted. The first dispatch was
received about ten o'clock in the fore
noon, and Immediately the sad news was
borne to every quarter of the city. The
telegraph Office was soon besieged by an
eager crowd eycitedly waiting partlcu-
lars. + lends and relatives of those
known to have sailed on the Inflated
vessel were almost frantic with grief
and impatient at the seeming lack of
promptness in sending details. In their
great sorrow, SO suddenly thrust upon
them, they seemed to hardly realize the
fact that thousands of miles of sea and
land lay between them and the angry
waves in which their loved ones We're,
possibly at that moment, battling brave
ly but hopelessly for their lives. Dis
patch followed dispatch, and was eager
ly listened to by the excited crowd
Towards night a telegram beginning
with the words, 1.-The following per-
sons are known tOhave been saved was
received. AS the operator pronounced
tie words the most intense and pain
full silence prevailed. The heart
beats of the excited crowd of
listeners could almost be heard
with the click of the in
struments. The blanched countenances
of those who had near relatives aboard
indicated the intensity of their grief
and their fearful uncertainty whether
JOY or profounder sorrow would follow
the reading of the telegram. The list
is at last finished, some 90 or 30 names
in all, and none of them familiar, and
then goes out a deep murmur of
anguish, as the dreadful uncertainty is
dispelled and the fact is realized that
no single ray of hope remains One
gentleman, Mr. Carl Miltner, whose
young wife and child are among the
lost, had been constant attendant at
the telegraph Office since the first dis
patch, and when the final telegram an
nouncing the wreck was received. his
loved ones not appearing IN the list, his
great suffering overcame him, and he
sank to his knees on the floor, and
there, surrounded by the crowd of af-
ficted sympathizers, with. bowed head
and clasped hands, gave way to his
agony in subdued sobs. There was not
dry eye in the room, and the stricken,
strong man, seemed but child in the
great sorrow that overwhelmed him.
Other instances equally touching oc-
Cured, wildly bringing to mind the af
fecting scenes following the Lady Elgi
disaster, when the loss of ovtl
200 of our citizens plunged the whole
city in mourning. Milwaukee's loss by
the Schiller disaster includes some of
her best citizens, of whom the follow
is list Henry Friend, and wife, of
Friend & Brothers; Ii. Zlnkeisen, of
the commission firm of Zinkeisen, Bart
lett & Co., wife and daughter; Joseph
Schlitz, the extensive brewer; Marcus
Stein, of the firm of Stein Brothers
Mrs. Carl Miltper and daughter, and
Jacob Lamfrom, of Oconomowoc. Mr.
Friend leaves family of nine children
a widow survives Mr.. Schlitz, and one
son is all that remains of the Zinkeisen
family. In the gentlemen above named,
our city has lost fodr of its most enter
prising and successful business men,
whose places it will not be easy to fill;
and Mesdames Friend, Zinkeisen and
Miltner, and Miss Zinkeisen were ladies'
of our best society, to which their many
accomplishments and womanly graces
had endeared them, and in which they