The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-20
WISCONSIN STATE VIEWS

AN unknown man was drowned in a
pond IN the stone quarry at the foot
OF Twenty-sixth Street, Milwaukee, on
the afternoon OF the 18th. He was
seen to undress and walk into the
pond, evidently intending to take
oath, but soon disappeared under
water. He is supposed to have been
seized with cramps, the water in no
place being more than eight feet deep
The body was recovered. 1t is that of
8 man apparently % to "a years of
age. His clothes Indicate that he was
laborlng man, but there were no pa
pers or other articles of identification.
THE Park Hotel, Sheboygan, was
totally destroyed by fire on the morn
ing OF the l1th. Loss S25, 900; insur-
ance on building from So, 900 to ST.
600; on furniture, some of which was
gotten out, $4,000. The fire was
caused by the accidental over-turning
OF lamp by Otto Pullman, of Plym-
outh, who occupied a room in the
third story OF the hotel. Pullman,
after doing all in his power to subdue
the flames, Jumped out OF the window,
and, strange to say, escaped without
serious injury. All theguests and serv-
ant girls managed to escape from the
burning building, many of them in
their night clothes. The furniture of
the lower floor was saved in dam
aged condition
DURING the closing session of the
Wisconsin Masonic Grand Lodge, at
Milwaukee, on the 11th, the following
grand officers were installed: Grand
master, Oliver Libbey, Green Bay;
deputy grand master, Eugene S. Eli
oft, Milwaukee; grand senior warden,
Alex. Moran, Onalaska; grand Junior
warden, Byron j. Rumrill, Hartland;
grand treasurer, n. NJ. Littlejohn,
Whitewater; grand secretary, John
W. Latin, Milwaukee; grand trustee,
VIM. c. Swain, Milwaukee.
LATE on the night of the 9th, Geo.
Delong, a farmer living three miles
from Cumberland, brutally murdered
a Norwegian named Swenson, killing
HIM with an axe. The cause of the
murder is unknown. Both parties
were drinking.
THE Wisconsin Fire Underwriters
Union has elected the following Of
fcers: President John H. Warner, of
Milwaukee; Vice-president, VIM. l..
Jones, of Milwaukee; secretary and
treasurer, j. c. Griffiths, of Madison;
executive committee, George E. Red
field, of Chicago; Daniel Schultz, of
Milwaukee; T. w. Briggs, of Appleton;
]. F. Bates, of Dubuque, Ia; Alex. H.
Main. OF Madison.
MILWAUKEE income from licenses
this year will reach 100000.
A MAN who claimed to be a night
telegraph operator engaged board at
a Milwaukee boarding house on the
9th, and short time afterward left the
house with $3.50 which he got from the
trunk of fellow boarder.
IT is now stated that Gunderson,
the defaulting postmaster of Cumber-
land, Wis, had been traced to small
town in Norway. Gunderson disap-
peared last March, being defaulter
as postmaster to the extent of about
81 900, as school treasurer about
$500, and as town treasurer in quite
a sum. Since his flight about 81, 500
have been spent by the government to
capture him, of which sum about
S400 went for cablegrams and the rest
for photographs, circulars and detect
i've work.
0. c. HALE has been appointed re-
ceiver of the land Office at La Crosse.
CLAIMS aggregating 50, ,596.68 have
been filed against the suspended Ex-
change Bank of Prairie du Chen.
FIRE on the evening of the 9th inst.
caused a loss of about 50, 500 to the
proprietor OF the Milwaukee Dime
Museum.
The sheriff attached the stock of
goods of Ed. ID. Rankin, a merchant
tailor of Eau Claire on the Sth. Liza
bilities So, 600, assets, SO, 500. J. f.
Singer & Co., Milwaukee; ]. S. Lesher
& Co., Chicago, and Jas. NJ. Hayes,
St. Louis, are the principal creditors.
The failure is caused by over-specula-
ton.
GEORGE KOLJEIEN, aged 40, COM
mitted suicide in barn in Milwaukee
on the Sth, by hanging. 1t is thought
be was suffering from temporary in
sanity caused by heavy drinking. He
leaves a family.
CHARLES BORCHERT, who killed
Voorhees, Cozine in Milwaukee, was con-
Vlcted OF manslaughter IN the second
degree and on the Sth was sentenced
to state prison for five years.
A 13-YEAR-OLD son of Patrick Gar
win, of Altoona, Eau Claire County,
while rummaging in the garret struck
box of nails and iron refuse. An
explosion occurred, and the tlyingnails
cut the boys face, injured the thumb
and first finger of his right hand and
badly tore his left hand, of which he
will lose the use. The box is sup
posed to have contained dynamite.
FRANK MATzENHETM aged years,
was run over and killed at Milwaukee
on the 9th inst, by heavy team.
THE death of her mother, in April
last, caused Minnie p. Kaercher to be-
come despOndent, and on the Goth of
May she left her sisters house, III Mil,
waukee, and failed to return. On the
9th inst. her body was found in the
woods near the city. 1t is thought
she took poison.