The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-07-17
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

WITHIN reach. He was finally shot in
saloon from which he had driven
everybody but the proprietor.
Con CLANCY, a coal trimmer at Ash
land, was fatally injured by a Polack
with whom ne had quarreled.
Two Mormon missionaries are trav-
cling Door County in search OF con-
verts.
A GERMAN, who came from Milwau-
kee, and whose name is unknown, fell
under the cars on the Houghton road
at Marquette, Mich, on the Sth and
was maneled beyond recognition. Six
ty cars passed over him. He had at
tempted to board the engine while it
was IN motion.
AZ Madison on the night of the 9th,
EvaI Christensen, of Cambridge, was
beng taken to the North Western
Depot IN hack. On his ar
rival at the depot the driver
got down to open the door and
found that Christensen was dead.
A cousin OF Christensen rode in the
hack, but did not know that Christian
sen was dead until told so by the
driver. Christensen had been in Madi-
son to see a physician and his cousin
thought that he was weak and tired
and dld not care TO talk, so did not
disturb him. He is supposed to have
died OF heart disease.
Gov: RUsK has appointed Thomas
Lamble sheriff of Forest County, vice
|. II. Beulen, resigned.
The mysterious disappearance of
the little son of r. M. Williams, editor
OF the Glidden Pioneer, has been cleared
by the discovery OF the boys body un-
der some floating logs in the Chippewa
River.
The Montello EA ,Jress reports that
several Indian skeletons were found in
mound at that place. Three of them
were found sitting upright while the
fourth was found lying at the feet OF
the others, all being in a well preserved
state. One OF the skulls showed un-
mlstakably the cause of death, the
point OF an arrowhead having pene-
trated the skull, and extending fully
one-half inch on the inside.
A TEAMsTER named Steinke, en-
ployed by Schweikert & Manegold,
Milwaukee stone dealers, met q sud
den death on the 8th. Although
warned against the danger he persist
ed in driving down the steep hill on
Fifteenth, from Clybourn to Fowler
Street. The team was unable to con-
troll the wagon, and he was upset from
his seat on top of the stone. He fell
Immediately in front OF the wheels,
which passed over him, breaking his
nd h
deceased was about 40 years of age
and is supposed to have family.
PETER CHRIsTIANsON, mail-carrier to
the camp of the Seventh Day Advent
lists, near Richland City, drowned
while bathing near Pine River.
HANS PETER OLSEN, q Norwegian,
aged AZ years, living on Hanover
Street, Milwaukee, committed suicide
on the 8th. He got up between 3 and
4 O'Clock In the morning and placing
the muzzle OF a shotgun loaded with
buckshot and water in his mouth,
pulled the trigger with his toes, blow
ing his head to atoms.
The scheme for a public swimming
school at Milwaukee has been aban-
doned.
THE Rev. NJ. l.. Kern, pastor of the
Episcopal Church at Menomonie, Dunn
County, died suddenly from apoplexy
at O'Clock Wednesday afternoon, at
the residence OF j. c. Culver, his son-in.
law, in Eau Claire. The deceased was
about so years Of age.
GEORGE GIBBS, son OF R. Gibbs, sta
ton agent at Glidden, drowned last
Sunday morning at Dryden Creek. He
was II years old, and was highly re-
spected by all.
OASIS, Waushara County, reports a
snake having been seen which is 20
feet 8 inches long, and raises its head
4 feet when it runs. 1t is dark red
color, with large scales on it.
AN unknown man wes run down
and killed by St. Paul train in the
suburbs OF Milwaukee on the 9th
inst.
PATRICK Dunn, alias Pat Sullivan, a
long-term convict at the Milwaukee
house OF correction, committed sui
eide at an early hour on the morning
OF the 9Th. The man had long been
considered sort of a crank, and had
given the prison authorities q great
deal of trouble. The manner of his
suicide was novel. He tore open his
marsh-hay mattress, stuffed his
mouth and nose up with wrapping pa
per, and then deliberately flung him
self upon the mattress, burying his
head In the hay until life was extinct.
LONOs ELLISON, q young man OF 81,
was drowned in the Menomonee River,
near Cedar Falls.
WILLIAM BASS, Is years OF age, was
drowned while bathing in the Kinnick
innic River, at Milwaukee on the 5th.
The body was recovered.
HENRY PUTz has found a piece OF
copper weighing about 900 pounds on
his farm on section 16, town Of Clear
Greek. 1t was about ten inches under
ground. The specimen is exceedingly
fine.
AID. THEODORE RUDzINsKG has sued
the EVENING WISCONSIN fer libel. The
suit is based on an editorial which ap-
peared In that paper rejecting on
Rudzlnski IN connection with the May
riots.
The farmers in the neighborhood OF
Eau Claire are reviving their interest
in grange matters and are reorganizing
old lodges and establishing new ones.
At Talnter, a new grange has been
started with large membership.
A SURVEY for the proposed bridge
across Sturgeon Bay showed an aver
age depth OF q little more than II feet,
the greatest depth being Is feet and
Z inches. Thetest-rod was used twen-
ty times in crossing the bay, the dis
tance being about 1,S00 feet. I or
$50 feet from the south shore the lot
tom was found to be rocky, but alter
that nothing but mud was encoun-
tered. The plans for the bridge are be-
ing drawn in Milwaukee.
They Went Suddenly.
From the Washington Critic.1
An absent-minded Congressman once
lost the vote of an entire family by his