The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-07-18
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS

Suoui Us, dTt making Ducgldr1OuS eX-
cursions among the neighboring house
holders.
FERD. HADER, aged 80, committed
suicide at Mazomanie by shooting
: CHAs. ENGoRD, aged. II years, was
drowned at Eau Claire on the 9th inst.
n. II. YOUNG, of York Township,
Clark County, took carbolic acid by
mistake, and died almost Instantly
tie was 64 years OF age.
The census of the city OF Lancaster
shows | ,4lO inhabitants. In 1850 it
was l,069, making an increase of 354
or 50 per cent. in five years.
DONALD Downs, foreman of lum-
Der rafting ground on the Wisconsin
side OF the st. Croix River, opposite
Saltwater, Mimi, was struck in the
head with stone by Edward Papnow,
and fatally hurt.
A FARMER near Whitehall plowc
up upwards of 400 snake eggs of the
prairie bull species, in many of which
were four embryo snakes. The prem
ises wereliterally alive with old snakes,
and about twenty were killed.
A NEW disease has broken out
among herd OF cattle belonging to
Ole Semkerson, of Palmyra. State
Veterinary Surgeon Atkinson has been
called to examine and pronounce his
opinion on the disease. The herd is
closely quarantined and every effort
being made TO prevent infection to
other herds.
A BOY named Britton, was badly
powder-blown and punctured by fly
ing fragments OF tin, by a premature
blast near Hilbert. Two other per
sons were somewhat hurt.
A CLOCK belonging to Thomas Kelly,
living near Eden, was struck by light
ming. The works were taken out by
the electric fluid, without damaging
the frame, and were found on the floor,
ticking away without a pause. The
lightning demolished door-frames, and
badly frightened the occupants OF the
house.
A YOUNG man named George Hab-
erer, a carpenter residing on the cor
ner OF Nliet and Ninth Streets, Mil
waukee, was arrested on the Sth,
charged with attempting to blow up
was on bad terms. He had placed a
stick OF stove wood loaded with pow
der where it would find its way into the
kitchen stove OF his intended victim.
A GERMAN named John Egger, aged
3S years, who had suffered from par
tial paralysis for four years, commit
ted suicide at his home in Milwaukee
on the Sth inst.
A WESTERN UNION Telegraph mes
senger boy, at Milwaukee, named Ed
die Gleisner, was accidentally caught
between the Grand Avenue bridge and
the railing at the west approach, as
the structure was closing on the even
ing of the 7th, and severely injured
about the head.
WM. WAGNER, of the town OF Prim-
rose, Dane County, is in jail at Mon
roe, charged with killing Frank Hyde,
by striking him on the temple with
brass armOred knuckles on the
Fourth.
THE "Plankinton prize" OF 81 900,
for the best composition, to be sung
at the National Sangelfest in Milwau-
kee, in July, 1886, was awarded on
the Sth, to Karl Joseph Brambach, of
Bonn, Germany, for his oratorio en-
titled Columbus"
A POST OF the g. A. r. is to be estab-
lished at hartford. There are nine
teen charter members.
SECRETARY NIXON, OF the New Or
leans Exposition, has written Com
missioner Holton that the Wisconsin
premiums will be paid in a short time.
The remains OF young Mueller, who
was drowned at Eau Claire were re-
covered twenty miles Gown the river,
in q fair state of preservation and
taken to that place for burial.
On the evening of the 9th a party of
three was returning to Shawano from
a picnic across the mill-pond, when
one OF them named Iett, jumped from
the boat and was drowned. He was
drunk.
GUSTAV HELLER, a guest of the
Grand Avenue House, Milwaukee,
was found dead in his bed on the
morning OF the 9Th. He was travelling
for bis health, and had been in this
country but d short time.
4 TERRIBLE tragedy occurred at
Arcadia, Trempealeau County, on the
night OF the 5th, when Fred. Rogler,
q young man, shot Annie FOrsch, a
gl.l to whom he had been paying at
tentiOuS, and afterwards committed
suicide. The girl was only Is years
OF age, and her p rents strongly OBJ
lected to Roger as a SultOr. The lat
ter, who was man OF about %, find
ing there was no hope OF marrying the
girl, deliberately planned to take her
life and his own. This plan he sue
cessfully carried out. The girls pa
rents are almost beside themselves
with grief ROIer, after shooting the
girl, carried her dead body into her
house. He then took a large dose of
strychnine and, to make dOubly sure,
shot himself in the temple, dying al
most instantly. Both were well
known and the tragedy has caused
great excitement.
shot dead by some unknown person,
July 4 at Few Glarus. He leaves a
wife and three children.
JOHN WELLS, a German, 45 years
old, committed suicide by HANGING
himself i'm Thomas Redford's barn, in
Monroe, July t. He left no family. No
cause Is given for the act.
WHILE bathing in the Kickapoo Riv-
er, al Viola, on the 4th, three young
men, between the ages of 15 and IS
years, Levi Mcfarland, Ezra Sham
baush and Henry Fisher were drowned
at the same time while in swimming.
Mcfarland rescued one cOmrade from
drowning and was endeavoring to save
another wnen they went down togeth-
eF.
The Skeleton in the Trunk.
The traditional skeleton in the