The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-08-12
THE NEWS.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

$4,000; insurance $4,000.
Eight thieves were arrested in Law
renee, Kansas, on the I'd inst, being one
gang of five burglars and another of three
horse thieves
The damage by fire on the 5th in
Arbuckle Bros spice mill, Sc, So and 90
Front street, New York, was $4,000.
Fully insured.
Bill Rodifer, the convict in the Indiana
prison, at Jacksonville, who is the hard
est of all to keep in, is again in hospital
on account Of wounds received in an IN
lawful attempt at escape.
Miller, clerk of the Central Pacific.
who defaulted for about million of dol
lars, and who was reported to have es-
capped and sailed for China, is still safely
locked up in San Francisco.
After long search the sheriff and his
deputies of Peoria, H., have captured in
Lodi, Wis, a man named Job Spencer,
who embezzled, in 1867, the proceeds of
lot OF hogs he sold for farmer of that
county.
The extensive saw mills of C. L. Cole
man of La Crosse, Wis, were burned. the
night of the 5th. Loss from $4,000 to
100000, with no insurance. By the
fire one hundred men are thrown out of
employment.
Hon. l.. A. DessauIles, clerk of the
crown and the peace for Montreal, has
absconded leaving behind him debts to
the extent of $4,000 or 100000, due on
promlssory notes, the indorsem ent on
some of which are believed to be forged.
The money was lost in patent right specu-
lations.
ID. Wright Stone of Putnam, Ct,
young man Of q, has been arrested for
the murder Of Fred. White of Spencer.
Mass. The murder was perpetrated at
New London, CT, Wednesday the 2Sth
ult., Stone stabbing his victim five times
with a jack-knife. After the murder he
robbed the body of S3l
Two cabin passengers who arrived in the
steamer klapstock, from Havre, have
been arrested and in their possession was
found, among other jewelry. some ans
Werlng to the description of family Jewels
stolen from the Countess Dudley, in Lon
don, and also diamond scarf pin stolen
from New York lady in Paris.
A grocery keeper of Philadelphia doing
|N'7-hANSS
thrown away some unsaleabe sauSages.
they were picked up by children of the
nelghborhood and eleven Of them are Sc
rlously sick. One child died on the 4th
The storekeeper and the manufacturer of
the sausages have been arrested.
A gang of burglars has for weeks been
successfully operating in western New
YORK and northwestern PENNSYLVANIA,
without the detection or capture of one
OF them. Three neighboring villages in
pennsylvania were raided in one night.
and now the people Of that country are
organizing companies Of "vigilantes.'
The officers of the Fort Madison, Iowa,
penltentIary, ore tn lie investigated on
CHAR es OF cruelty made by a discharged
convlct-one of which is that the prison
efj were made to work last winter in
SHOPS without fires, and another that
those who revolted against this were
whipped with cat until insensible. and
that fegging, though forbidden by law, is
the usual punishment.
Parts Of the remains of Frederick p
Iowne, well-to-do farmer of Peterson.
Mass, having been found in a field ad-
joining his farm, his brotber.in.Iaw.
Samuel j. Frost who reported that
Iowne had gone to California. leayjnp
him IN charge of the property, has been
arrested for the murder Towne's limbs
cannot be found. Frost was deeply in
debt to the murdered man.
The town of Macomb, H.. was badly
damaged by tornado, accompanied bv a
heavy rain, the evening of the 4th. Laroe
numbers of trees were uprooted. side.
walks, barns and small buildings carried
away, the large Methodist Church unroof.
ed and the steeple carried away, and a two
story brick block just completed, owned
oy DaVid Scott, nearly destroyed Total
loss from Sl50,000 to 100000.
Jerome ). Kinds, who was some time
ago tired and acquitted on charges con-
nected with alleged mail contract frauds
III texas, has commenced suit in the su
Preme court OF the District of Columbia
against the postmaster general. the sixth
auditor, and Altman & Bro, to prevent
tue payment to the latter of a certain
mai contract, on the ground that he has
an interest IN said contract which he was
Illegally deoarred from ex ecutlng.
Bitter personalities between Peter r.
Luther and Sam B. Riley, two editors of
Terre Haute, Ind, led to an attack on
the latter with pistol by the former
on the 5th inst. Luther's first shot
passed through Riley's coat. Riley then
closed IN with Luther and commenced
pounding him over the head with
blast einder, and but for the interior.
ence of bystanders would have killed
him.
On the I'd, in the trial of John D. Lee,
at Beaver, Utah, for the Mountain
Meadow massacre, the defense offered
attidavlts of Brigham Young and George
A. Smith, which are ruled out of this
case but filed. They state in substance
that neither party issued any instructions
IN regard to the Arkansas emigrant train.
but that the people We're counseled not
to sell grain to any parties for forage. |
They state that neither party knew of /
the massacre until afterward, and then
only by general report.
A special from Button. Ind. says the