The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-08-26
TIE NEWS.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Rev. Henry b. Smith OF Phlladelphla
was drowned at Beach Haven. N. j.,
Saturday, the 2lst. The body was re.
covered.
The 'Molly Maguires'' of Glrardsville,
Shenandoah and Mahonoy City, Pa,
killed four working miners, burned four
dwellings and got up several riots Sunday
last.
James s. Giles, postmaster at Prescott,
Arizona, absconded the night of the 18th.
The safe has not been opened, but money
orders to the amount of So, 700 are unac-
counted for.
W. j. Martin and j. w. White have
been arrested at Indianapolis for passing
counterfeit money. Six hundred dollars
in SO notes on the Richmond, In T., ma
tional bank were found IN Whites pos
session.
A steam yacht carrying the Queen of
England and party, on the 18th, colllded
and run down a schooner yacht, carrying
pleasure party of ladies and gentlemen,
several of whom were drowned, and fatal
ly injuring others.
The English ship Brennan arrived at
San Francisco on the 18th, having been
l27 days in making the passage. Thir-
teen Of the crew died of scurvey during
the passage, ana all the re nainder were
helpless from it.
n. J. Rice, postoffice clerk at Battle
Greek, Mich, is under arrest for mail
ROBBERY and confessed the crime. HIS
depredatons have been continuous for
months past during which he led fast
life that directed suspicion towards him,
The second trial of Wintermute for the
killing of Gen. McCook began at Vermil-
ion on the 18th inst, having been taken
from 1ankton on change Of venue. The
Hon. j. b. Brown of Indiana, is to assist
District Attorney Gamble il the prosecu.
ton.
A correspondent of the Toledo Blade,
named Eagan, is believed to have been
drowned in the Missouri. He. left Fort
Randall about week ago in skif,i an
swering the description of one since found
upset, and has not since been seen or
heard from.
Frederick Stouder, a man of well es-
tabEshed good character, of Urbana, H..
is under trial for incest on charge pre-
ferred by his daughter, now 81 years old,
whose story is that he has committed the
crime ever since she was l6, and that she
feared to expose him.
VIM. Van Buren,, a farmer of Mclean
county, Illinois, stoop-shouldered man,
IS years old, left Weston Aug. I'd with
his own team and $1,000 belonging to
DIR. }. q. Green of Wyoming. If he has
not been murdered the Doctor would be
glad to have him arrested.
The bodies of all three of the victims
of the late Passaic Falls accident have
been recovered. Grogan's was lassoed
and hauled up from between the logs
where it hung under the cataract, and
Martin 5 and Horizons came to the sur.
face in eddies below the falls.
Near Goshen, Ind, Saturday the 18th,
farmer named Anthony Ralfsnvder,
while oiling threshing machine, slippe
into the feed box. His right foot being
instantly drawn into the rapidly revov-
ing cylinder his leg was torn eff inch by
inch to within six inches of his body. He
lived SIX hours after.
Two men named Green Contrell and A.
Neil supposed to belong to the Franklin
county, ILL.,, ku klux were arrested on
the 18th. COntrell was found to be bad
ly injured, supposed to have been re
ceved in the fight with the sheriff posse
on the 18th. The sheriff is in pursuit of
the remainder of the band.
-Four scoundrels endeavored to cut
the Mississippi levee at Beulah, near Ma.
poleon, Ark. on the night of the 9th.
Had they succeeded a large property
would have been destroyed and possibly
number of people been drowned But
the levce patrol discovered the williams.
killed one, wounded two and captured
the other.
On the evening of the 18th, the wife of
capt. Phi Bessenger. of Reading, Pa. &C
companled by her three children-two
girls and boy-aged respectively 8,
and 3, walked up the tow-path of the
Union canal. and when three miles north
OF the city, threw the children into the
water and then walked in herself. All
were drowned.
Eighty arrests of negroes alleged to
contemplate an insurrection and murder
OF the whites of the counties of Wash
Ington and Jefferson, Georgia, were
made on the 18th. The prisoners
were lodged in jail without resistance
ne massacre was to take place, it is al
legged, on the Goth. No further trouble
is antcipated.
The London Times speaking of the
Turkish rebellion, says: while we
think the success of the rebellion would
be calamity at the present time. be-
cause 1t might precipitate the disruption
OF the Ottoman Empire, and plunge Eu-
rope into mighty war, we cannot blame
the people for seeking to throw off an
mtolerabe yoke"
James A. Williamson, clerk in the
interior Department, specially assigned
to duty IN the Attorney Generals office
because of his knowledge of the
accounts in the celebrated Judge
Wright Indian frauds, lost his right eve
by shot at Harpers Ferry depot. prob
ably from an air gun. Circumstances in
dlcate that an attempt was made to as
SaSslnatc him.
About SIX miles from Ludington. on
Lake Michlsan, Saturday night the 14th.
from the steamer John Sherman. the
BODY of q man with n l;Ca rrae.cro, -