The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-11-27
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

JOHN WAGNER, of Door County, re-
Gently came into possession of a pair
OF mules, which have been identified
by some OF our old soldiers as being
one OF q lot captured at Fort Donald
son and used continually afterward
by one o. our Wisconsin regiments un-
til the close of the war.
ABRAHAM LEENHoUTs, a farmer of
the town of Franklin, was instantly
killed by falling from strawstack up-
on which he was at work. 1t is sup
posed that he suffered from concussion
OF the brain. Mr.. Leenhouts was SO
years OF age, and had resided in Mil
waukee County since 1888. He leaves
wife and nine children, two of whom
are married.
A PETITION is being circulated at Eau
Claire for the pardon of Helmuth
Stabenow, who is servinga term of six
years for being implicated in the muir
der OF Prtrick O'Meara at Fall Creek
in July, 1884.
K. M. HENDERSON, of Fairplay, q
bachelor, aged 70 years, was found
dead on the floor of his room, in Odd
Fellows Block, in that place. He was
one OF the leading Odd Fellows OF Wis
consln, and was for seventeen years
steamboat clerk on the Mississippi
River. HearL disease was the cause of
his death.
VIM. Il. HARTWIG, the young farmer
near Monroe who fell and broke his
neck on the 10th of last July, is still
alive and enjoys afairly-good appetite
and digestion. The fracture is at
what the physicians call the sixth cer-
vical vertebra. The mans patience
and endurance are the wonder of his
physicians and all who know OF nis
sad condition.
THE trial at Shawano of Henry
Schultz for the murder of John Cor
coran resulted in a verdict of man
slaughter in the first degree and a SEN
tence OF ten years at hard labor in the
state prison. The evidence showed
that Corcoran was a boarder at the
hotel of Schultz, in Wittenberg, and
that on the night of June 20, 1885,
became somewhat intoxicated in
Schultz's saloon, and, after getting q
half-plnt OF whisky of Schultz, went up.
stairs to bed. To reach his room he was
obliged to pass through two rooms in
which his friends slept. He woke
them up and insisted on their drinking
with him, which they did. Soon after
ward he and one of the boys got into
q scuf1ie, and soon Schultz rushed into
the room with lamp in one hand and
q self-cocking revolver IN the other,
walked up to Corcoran, struck him
with the revolver on the side of the
head, inficting very bad wound, and
ordered Corcoran to leave the house.
He said he would when he got his coat
and vest, at the same time asking
Schultz why he did not shoot. Schultz
said: "Hit me once" and backed out
into the hail. Corccran started to 60,
got to the door, and Schultz fired, kill
ing him. Schultz broke jail and wan
derel off into Washington Territory,
and after g year was retaken. He
claimed that his lamp went out, and
at the same time Corcoran struck him,
he fell, and the revolver went off acci-
dentally.
JOHN RUsK, son of ship builder at
Quebec, Can, was found dead in q bed
at a cheap lodging house at 121 Ferry
Street, Milwaukee, on the 18th. Rusk
complained of pains in his chest when
he retired and said he intended going
to hospital the next day. He was
about % years of age, and for the
past two seasons has been sailor on
the propeller F. & P. NJ, No. l. He
was known by the name OF O'Brien.
A 15-YEAR OLD son of Lewis Brook
man, of Little Falls, was accidentally
shot by his uncle. The boy was about
ten feet away watching his uncle load
q Winchester rifle, when the gun was
prematurely discharged, the bullet
passing through both legs between the
hip and the knee. One leg had to be
amputated at the hip.
THE First National Bank OF Ash
land, Wis, has been authorized to
commence business with a capital of
$4,000.
A MINNEAPOLIS book dealer named
Eric T. Farnes, g. graduate of the
State University in 1876, graduate.
also, in theology, and 81 fine scholar,
died at Madison OF malarial fever.
A WRECK, caused by a collision be-
tween two freight trains, occurred five
miles north of Oregon on the night of
the 18th. A wild train, going south,
which had orders to meet No. 33-a
regular north-bound train-at that
point, held the main track, instead of
running on the side track. Train No.
80 came along, expecting to find the
wild freight on the siding, and colls-
ion occurred. The engines were
wrecked considerably and a few box
cars smashed. Luckily no one was
hurt.
FREDERICK HADKE, q laborer, aged
40, occupying poor lodgings with his
wife and two sons, at La Crosse, COM
nitted suicide on the 14th by cutting
his throat.
NEWS mas been received of the de-
struction by fire OF the barn and con-
tents, consisting OF q large quantity OF
grain and hay, of Uhas. Everett, near
Waterville, twentythree miles west OF
Eau Claire. A valuable span of horses
was burned. Loss from 81, 200 to
81 300 with no insurance