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WISCONSIN NEWS. RICHARD HANTZCH, a lineman in the employ of the Telephone and Lighting Company at Eau Claire, while at the top of a pole received the full incandescent current. With a cry of pain he fell and hung by one foot to the wires, apparently a corpse. Two fellow workmen ran up the polesand tried to lower him with a rope, but he fell, striking on the curbstone. Life was extinct. There is considerable agitation over the affair and the City Council has appointed a committee to investigate the street railroad and electric light svstem in relation to public safety. Hantzch is the second victim of the deadly'current at Eau Claire within a week. J. S. BROWN, charged with illegally marrying William Wallace to Mrs. Ida A. Clark, had a preliminary examination at Racine. From the testimony it appeared that the ceremony used was similar to that of all ministers. Mrs. Clark thought it was all in fun and Brown was of the same opinion. He was held to the circuit court for trial. A LIVE white sturgeon has been added to the attractions at Washington Park, Green Bay. The rare one is forty inches in length, pure white in color, and with eyes of deep indigo blue. Fishermen who have been in the business forty years say it is the first time a fish of that kind has been taken from the Waters of Lake Superior. THE directors of the Union National Bank at Racine, which suspended a few days ago, have decided togo into liquidation and appoint a receiver to wind up the affairs of the bank. The bank has a sufficient amount of securities to pay depositors dollar for dollar. CHARLES SPLITBERGER, of Cottage Grove, Dane County, pleaded guilty to the charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm to John Allerton, of Deerfield, at a country dance, and was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment. FRED. J. SOMERFIELD, of Iron River, has commenced suit against the Western Union Telegraph Company for $1,000 damages for the non-delivery of message e THE ex-convict impersonating the Rev. T. J. Brown, of Waupaun, when arrested for burglary at St. Joseph, Mo., is Frank Bender, as surmised by Mr. Brown when he read the report of the arrest. In response to Mr. Brown's telegram the chief of pelice of St. Joseph had Bender's photograph taken and it was forwarded to Mr. Brown, who recognized it at a glance. THE Commercial Bank, of Eau Claire, which closed recently, will be reorganized and reopened. The schedule, which is nearly completed, will show diabilities about $154,000, with assets about $50,000 more than that. While the assets comprise not over $40,000 cash, Receiver Buffing believes all liabilities will be paid in full. STATE VETERINARIAN F. J. TOUSSAINT made a trip through the Northwestern counties recently finding many horses suffering with glanders. Horses belonging to Frank Bodwar, of Somerset, St. Croix County; Arthur Wilson, of Canton, Barron County, and Sam Wright, of Flambeau, Chippewa County, were ordered killed. Mr. Wright lost a horse with the same disease last winter. WILLIAM WALLACE SACKET, who participated in an illegal marriage with Sarah A. Clark, at Racine, and whois in jail, is desirous of pleading guilty, but Judge Fish is absent from the city, and he must wait until September 15. HERMAN POEHLING was arrested at La Crosse on a charge of grand larceny. He was bound over to the next term of the circuit court. IT is now certain that Mrs. Charles Urwin, of Chicago, who was supposed to have been drowned in Lake Mendota at Madison, committed suicide. A letter addressed to her husband was found on the table in her room at the hotel where she was stopping stating that she was tired of life and that when he received it she would be at the bottom of the lake. The police have not yet succeeded in finding the body All the claims against the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company Bank and against its stockholders upon their individual liability are to be adjusted in one equity suit. Actions at law will not hold and all those who have already begun such suits will have to discontinue them. COMPTROLLER ECKELS has appointed W. F. Filter, general book-keeper of the Milwaukee National Bank, a bank examiner, and instructed him to go to Racine and take charge of the Union National Bank, under the direction of Bank Examiner Lynch. THE Wisconsin conference trustees of the Methodist Church have opposed the admission to probate of the will of the late Maj. E. H. Paine, of Oshkosh. The objection is that the testament bearing the date of May 3, 1892, is not the last will of the deceased. ELI DANKS, an old resident of the town of Dale, Outagamie County, died at the age of 70 years. MRS. KANDY, formerly a resident of Neosho, died at her home in Colby, aged years. 69 Gov. PECK has granted pardons to Daniel Hanley, who was sentenced by the circuit court ol Green Lake County, June, 1886, for a term of fifteen years, and John W. Hart, sentenced on February 26, 1886, for fifteen years for murder in the second degree. Hanley has always been a faithful worker and had an excellent record for good behavior. Recently he saved the life of a prison official, who had been attacked by one of the convicts with a large knife In referring to Hart's behavior Gov. Peck said: "For the past five years he has filled the position of engineer and fireman. As such he has faithfully cared for the machinerv and property of the
