The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-07-26
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

HARRY SHEPARD, highly respected
young man of Manitowoc, and steward
on the steamer Alpena, of the Goodrich
line, is reported drowned at Muskeyon
Tuesday morning.
THE fifteenth annual turn fest of tho
Bezirks Wisconsin, which has Just closed
at Mayville, has been placed on record
as one of the most pleasant and success
full of the festivals of this association.
AS we go to press, we learn that 2
little son of Mr.. Greenwald, of Menasha
was drowned while bathing in the race
in that city, this morning. The BODY
has not yet been recoyered.-Nsenqh
Gazette.
MONDAY evening, in Racine, man
named Jacob Streaman was kicked by
vicious horse, his jaw being broken and
face badly injured. On account of the
enervating weather, it is thought the
man cannot recover.
DURING the storm on Thursday morn
ing the liberty pole in Weyauwega was
blown down. 1t is said that it was first
put up in 1854, some twenty-five years
ago. Once in that time it has been
taken down and set up anew.
On Sunday Miss Sarah A. Johns
killed rattlesnake in her fathers yard
in Bangor, La Crosse county, that meas
ured three feet nine inches in length and
had ten rattles. 1t was lying among the
currant bushes when discovered, and she
killed it with an axe.
On Sunday, Herman Hantzsche. aged
about 20, son of Robert Hantzsche, Eau
Claire, was thrown from d horse which
he rode into the river to water, and was
drowned. His body was recovered at
Meridian, eighteen miles below the city.
COLUMBUS Republican: The annual
victim to the treacherous waters of the
Crawfish was claimed on Tuesday, this
year the sacrifice being young Henry
Turck, aged II years, son of Mrs. Robert
Stephenson. He was bathing, in COM
pany with other boys.
LAST Thursday afternoon about g
o'clock man in the employ of George
Hall, near Buseyville, was at work in
the bayfield,, when he was sunstrHck and
fell to the ground and almost immedi-
ately died. The man was stranger
here, having been from England only
two weeks He was middle-aged and
has no family.-Janesville Gazette.
DURING the storm of Thursday morn
ing the farm residence of Mrs. Ann Cow
han, in Eldorado, near Fond du Lac,
was struck by lightning and badly dam
aged. The stroke fell at about four
o'clock, and tore hole through the roof,
stripping the clapboards from the side of
the house and damaging the building
some $25, though it did not ignite it.
The shock threw Mrs. Cowhan from the
bed and fairly rocked the structure.
On Saturday afternoon. about twenty
minutes after four o'clock, an alarm of
FIRE was sounded on the Fort Howard
side of the river by the discovery of
Taylor & Duncan's Howard Machine
shops being on fire. The Fort Howard
steamer being under repair, the Green
Bay fire department turned out
promptly. On reaching the scene of the
fire, the building was entirely enveloped
in flames, and the efforts of the fremen
were directed to saving outside property.
The building was dry, and from the
infamable nature Of the second story,
which was used as pattern shop, and
filled with patterns, the flames spread
rapidly, and in half an hour the extern
sive works of this firm were blackened
wreck. Loss $50, 900, insurance $4,000.
A CRUEL and unusual casualty
occurred ON the Fourth at J. J. Stevens
farm, in the town of Elba, which is
worked by German named Poltsen.
The latter was absent from the house
that day, and in the afternoon his wife
was at work in the field, leaving little
girl at home to care for younger children.
She had been especially prohibited from
going near vicious horse which stood
in the stable; but she disobeyed on that
afternoon. While she was putting some
hay in the animals manger, he seized her
by the ear, and bit and tore that organ
completely from her head. She made
her way to the house, and went to bed !;
and when her mother found her some
hour later the clothing was saturated
with blood. We do not learn that sur
gical aid was summoned, but the father
picked up the ear in the barn the next
day with some idea of forming q re-
union at that late hour Columbus
Democrat
ABOUT half-past nine o'clock last
night there was steamboat collision
near Crystal Springs, where the Odd
Fellows held a picnic yesterday. The
Lotos left its moorings about nine
o'clock for its last trip to the picnic
grounds, carrying some fifteen or twenty
passengers AS she neared the grounds
she met the Lottie Lee coming back
with about fifteen passengers. The two
boats collided, and for a few minutes
there was one of the liveliest scenes
which has been witnessed on the river for
many day. There was a great outcry
as the boats came together with crash
and thud, and Immediately the sound
of escaping steam struck terror to all,
and 10 twinkling the Lo.tie Lee was so
full of it that all on board sought
refuge as best they could. The Lotos
was crowded up against her so that the
passengers of the Lostie Lee clambered
easily and speedily onto her. In the
midst of the confusion a woman's voice
cried out for help, and her shriekings
added to the confusion. She was pulled
out of the river. No lives lost.-Janes-
nile Gazette, 18Th.
MARINETTE Eagle, 18th: GA fire
occurred about one o'clock last Sunday
morning, in the Wines settlement up
river, which, while not resulting in a
large pecuniary loss, was made startling
by the destruction of human life. The
house owned and occupied by Al. Wines,
his wife and eight children and his aged
father and mother, was discovered to be
N flames at the hour mentioned. Mr..
" ines had been out hunting, and his two
eldest children were away, leaving his
wife, six children, and w. Wines, ST.,