The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-08-12
NEWS PARAGRAPHS,

A dispatch from Gartrean, Ottawa.
says three children, while il. the woods
picking berries, were eaten by bear.
George Porter, of Jersey Landing, H..
is in jail at JerSeyville for attempting to
commit rape on his cousin, Miss Emma
Porter.
M. Hogan, shoemaker of CHEYENNE,
w. l., while standing in his doorway.
Saturday. the 7th, was struck by light
ming and killed.
John Carroll, a railroad laborer at
Grand Haven, Mich, has fallen heir TO
$4,000 by the death of a brother in
Pennsylvania.
The cholera is raging in the principal
towns of Asia Minor with terribly fatal
result, the deaths at Damascus being re-
ported at 400 daily.
At Red Jacket. Mich, on the 9th, &
Fnlander outraged and murdered girl
named Anna Swltzer, only eight years
old. If he can be found the people will
hang him.
John NJ. Holden was arrested at Bos-
ton on the 9th for embezzling $4,000 Of
property of the Oneida Community. and
it is charged he has, altogether, embez-
zled $4,000.
DR.. Davis and wife have been commit
ted for trial at Montreal on charge of
abortion and murder, the police having
all they could do to protect them from
being lynched.
At Peoria, H., a young man named
Henry Hotfner is under arrest for at
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old girl named Annie Fuger. He was
caught Iii the act.
The jury in the case of John d. Lee,
charged with being the leader of the
Mountain Meadow Massacre, reported
Saturday that they could not agree and
were discharged.
Ex-Congressman Isaac C. Parker, Of the
st. Joseph, Mo-, district, is accused Of
selling an appointment at the naval acad-
envy for $3.50 and having sold promotion
in the railway postal service for $500.
About 1000 Chinese, under the dircc-
rection Of the San Francisco Christian
mission, held picnic near that city re-
Gently. The principal amusements of the
picknickers were kite-fying and gym
nastics.
Isaac Allen of jacksonville, H., was
shot and dangerously wounded On the 9th
by his son Ben, boy of Is. The father
was drunk and assaulting his wife with a
carving knife, when the boy shot him to
save his mother.
The body of Anna Pendia, woman
missing from Troy, Kansas, fer several
weeks, has been recovered from the Mis-
souri,, opposite Kansae City,and furnishes
evidence that she was outraged and then
thrown in the river.
Owen McKeyver, laborer at Provi.
dence, R. l., in an attack Of insanity on
the night of the 5th, fatally shot clerk
named Edward Hudson and seriously
wounded one of a party of men who ar
rested him.
{. b. Wilkinson, revenue collector and
editor of the II raid at St. Joseph, Mo-,
ana his partner, revenue gauger, have
been held for trial on charge of defrauding
the government by drawing pay for dep
uties not employed.
In the race at Poughkeepsie, n. Y,
Saturday, the It'll, between Goldsmith
| Maid, American Girl and Huntress, the
Maid won, American Girl getting the
first heat, and the Maid the next three.
Time 2::27 "a, 2:l8 2.l9 IL and 2:20.
Three men, Theodore w. Brown, com
monty known as Peleg Brown, William
Hartman and Ben. B. Halleck, have been
arrested for being concerned IN the rob-
| berry Of the United States treasury of the
package of $4,000. Halleck is a
treasury clerk.
| It is reported that Francis D. Moulton
and Ben. Butler have had a consultation,
at which plan was partly perfected for
bringing suit against Mr.. Beecher in
Coos county. N. H., where Mr.. Beecher is
now stopping, for perjury in swearing to
his reply to the Tilton suit last year.
At Athens, Tenn, on the night of the
9Th, negro named lack Gordon, who
was in jail for an assault upon Mrs. How
ard, white woman, was taken out by a
mob of thirty men. Next morning his
body was found, ridded with bullets,
short distance out from the village.
A tornado, the track of which was from
20 to 80 rods wide. ragged through parts |
of Knox, Ogle, Henry and Whiteside |
counties, in Illinois, on the evening Of the |
5th inst. 1t destroyed a number of |
houses and standing crops in its line. Sew
eral persons were killed by and a large
number wounded.
P. II. Britain, young and talented
minister Of the Methodist denomination,
has been expelled from conference and |
has fed from Titusville, Pa, where he
was stationed, to avoid punishment for
criminal intimacy with two young women
of his church. The criminality appears
to be indisputable, and Brittain's wife, 8
beautiful and accomplished lady, has ap-
piled for divorce.
Edward Morris, a commercial traveller,
son of a Congregational clergyman Of
Sherman, Texas, made a desperate at
tempt at suicide OH the 9th, in a retired
place near the city hall of ST. Louis. His
weapon was a pocket knife, with which
he repeatedly stabbed himselfin the neck
after having cut over his throat from ear
to ear. He was discovered in time to
stop the flow Of blood and may recover.