Posted on: PortageCoWI Obits Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/PortageObits/10926 Surname: FIRKUS, KARBEL ------------------------- Frank KARBEL death notice printed in Waupaca Post May 17, 1888 Another Murder at Stevens Point Two Polanders, of Stevens Point, names Frank FIRKUS and Frank KARBEL, got into a dispute over a line fence when FIRKUS struck KARBEL on the head with a hoe, the blade passing through the skull and part of it breaking of and remaining in the brain. KARBEL died almost instantly. KARBEL leaves a wife and six children the eldest of whom is twelve years old. The laxity with which murderers have been dealt with in that city has tendency to induce men to settle disputes in this barbarous manner.