The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-10-06
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Crimes. Criminals and Casualties

caused immense damage, and killed many
people
A floor gave way last week III three
story building, in Springfield, H., and Killed
six men.
Three men fell from scaffolding OF
Gore street Methodist church in Montreal, on
the lst, killing them all.
BY the bursting of Il threshlng ma
chine boiler near Cincinnati, two persons
were killed and nine injured,
An attempt was made to burn the
county court house at Chattanooga, Tenn,
last week, but prompt action by citizens saved
it.
Neill S. Nelson was caught III belt
and instantly crushed and killed, In the shops
of the Union Pacific railroad at Omaha, last
week.
DR.. SIade, an American spiritual me-
dunn, was lately brought up in London po-
lice court to answer to a charge OF conspiracy
to deraud, and charge of vagrancy
Down in Texas, the other day COM
pany of military attacked band OF Mexican
cattle thieves, killing five and wOunding
one. They also captured fifty horses.
The coroner's jury III the case Of the
terrible accident on the Pan-H Handle railroad
has returned a verdict that the accident was
caused by q broken axle, and that no blame
can be attached to the railroad company.
Samuel Harlem, of New York, has
been arrested on the charge OF attempting to
defraud insurance companies. His store was
burned and Harlem endeavored to secure
from the companies an amount largely IN ex-
cess of his losses.
Frederick Workman, German tan
ner, while attempting to adjust a leather
band to a fly wheel in a Louisville tannery,
was caught up by the band in some unknown
way, and whirled around at the rate OF sixty
revolutions minute. His head and all
parts of the body were mashed to Jelly and
cut in hundred small pieces.
Personal, ImpersOnai and Political.
Moody and Sankey opened thei1
meetings in Chicago on the 21st inst, and
were greeted with an audience of about 200
Earl Dufferin, Governor General OF
Canada, has returned from his visit to The
Pacific coast.
Mrs. "Brick' Pomeroy's debut viii
be at the New York academy of music, Octo,
Der the l6, in a tragic role
Goldsmith Maid trOtted against time
at Philadelphia, on the Cd, but heavy track
prevented her making her former good rec
ord. Her last heat was 2:17.
General Newton has made thor
ough examination at Hell Gate, and report:
that the breaking up Of the rect is complete
ensuring twenty feet OF draK in low water
Herman Nunnemache, q milwaukee,
plead guilty to a charge OF crookedness anC
was sentenced to three months Imprisonment
and q fine of 81, 500.
\ late dispatch, from Rome reports
the serious and even alarming illness of The
Pope and OF Cardinal AntionelH. Their i'll
ness, it is said, caused the protoundest sho;l
among all classes in the city.
g. James Lick, the eccentric million
aire, died in San Francisco on the ID inst
1t IS thought that no effort will be made
his heirs to break up the trust deed which
has created so much comment.
The safe burglary case in which
General Babcock and Thos. Ii. Sommervil.t
were defendants, was concluded last weel
and the jury returned verdict of not guilty
in each case. The verdict was greeted by
cheers and other demonstrations of approva
/ by those present.
John O'COnOr Power, member Of
parliament for Mayo, arrived in New York OF
the lst inst, bringing the Irish congratulate
! ry address on the centennial of American In
dependence. He is accompanied by Charle
Stewart Parnell, for many years one of thu
ablest advocates of home rule in Ireland