The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-06-18
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS


place.
Phillips came home shortly after
midnight and found his wife and Bore
man conversing on the rear porch. A
rife was lying beside them, and 1t Is
said that as Phillips entered Bore
man and Mrs Phillips tried to get it.
During a struggle over the weapon
Foreman was shot and bled to death
in a few minutes. Phillips, not
knowing that the other man had been
wounded, went back to the station and
awaited the arrival Of train. When
he returned to his home he was told
Foreman had been shot and killed.
A doctor called from Minocqua
found that the bullet had pierced the
heart and lodged in the right lung
The dead man is survived by a moth
er, three sisters and brother
No arrest has been made.
Portage. Ferdinand Driham, seven
tyfve years old and one of the
pioneers of this community, was
struck by an automobile and re
ceived injuries from which he died at
the hospital two hours later. The
automobile was driven by Jud Clarke,
a prominent business man of West
field, who, with party of four, was
returning from the picnic of the Mod
ern Woodmen of the World, which
was held here. The aged man was
crossing the street and was caught
between two automobiles. Bewildered
he walked directly in front of the
Clarke machine, and was thrown to
the ground and crushed by the wheels
before Mr.. Clarke was able to stop
the car. The occupants of the car
assisted him to the hospital
Fond du Lac.-The Windecker
triplets, who claim to be the
oldest living triplets in the world
celebrated their sixty-sixth birthday
anniversary in Wausau. They were
born June 8, 1914, in Lowville, N. Y,
and five years later came to this coun-
ty with their parents. The triplets
are Sylvester Windecker, Byron; sgd
ney Windecker of this city, and Mrs.
Sedate Pier, Wausau. Each year
they hold birthday celebration
Kenosha. - Michael r. Sievert,
siXty-six years old, a retired farm
err died at his home here after a
short illness from blood poisoning.
Sievert bruised the thumb of his
right hand and went to a physician.
The hand began to swell and within
short time the poison was carried
to all parts of his system and caused
his death. He has resided in Kenosha
county for more than sixty years.
Fond du Lac.-The city OF Fond
du Lac has notified the East
ern Wisconsin Railway & Light com
pany, the Wisconsin Telephone com
pany, the Western Union Telegraph
company, to remove all poles and
wires owned by them from Main
street within four months. The trac-
ton company must replace trolley
poles with iron standards.
Elkhorn.-- Mrs, Orland Carswell,
wife of an Elkhorn pioneer mer-
chant, dropped dead of heart dis.
ease in her home here. She was sixty
eight years old. Her husband and two
sons, Frank of Green Bay and Joseph
Of New York, survive her
Superior - superintendent George
2. Penn of the state free en-
ploylhent Office here, was arrested
charged with embezzling $3.50 from
the treasury of the Trades and Labor
assembly of which he was treasurer.
Fdgerton.-The siXty-sixth annual
convention of the Primitive Meth
odist Western association Of Wis
consin and Illinois opened at Al
bion Prairie, near here. Many min
listers are in attendance as delegates.
Green Bay.-Florian Renhart, a
farmer living near Cormier, was
struck by passenger train on
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
road and almost instantly killed. Mir.
Reinhart was sixty years old,
Beloit.-St. Jude's Catholic church
will be dedicated on June 2G
and Archbishop S. G. Messmer, Mil
waukee, will conduct the ceremonies.
Waupaca.-Three prisoners escaped
trom the Waupaca county Jail ~
saving the bar that locked the door
to the cage, After reaching the cor
rdor 1t was an easy matter to remove
enough bricks from beneath IN outside
window to gain freedom 1t is believed
that the saw was delivered to the men
by a confederate from outside The
men were all awaiting n prosecution
for burglary. They have not yet been
recaptured.
Superior With his throat cut
from ear TO ear, the body OF a man
believed TO be Magnus Nelson OF Su-
perior w@s found on the bay shore. a
short distance from the Country club
at Belungs park, Evidence indicating
that the man might have been muir,
dered has been found and is being in.
vestigated by the police.
Eau Claire-Judge Sanborn of
the United States court sentenced
Charles kabat Of La Crosse to one
year al Leavenworth peuitentiary. He
had pleaded guilty 10 counterfetting
Racine.-Two hundred ana tirv
union carpenters, who have been