The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-08-11

ers at Manchester, England
A NINE-TENEMENT block at Hull, Ontario,
was destroyed by fire on the 3oth uit. Loss
$4,000.
In consequence of the miners strike coal
has advanced so cents per ton IN New ork.
Dr. ISAAC w. JACKSON, distinguished
| scientist, for Is years professor in Union
| College. died in Schenectady, on the 2Sth ult.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
| AN entire family, consisting of Lewis
Spencer and his four children, two girls and
two boys, living in Clark county, Missouri,
were murdered on the night of the I'd inst.
THE first inquest into the death of Thos.
c. Hackett killed in the Montreal riot on
the 18th of July, being considered illegal,
the investigation was reopened on the I'd.
Two witnesses swore they saw John Sheehan
fire several times at the deceased. Sheehan
was committed for trial.
| AT Pittsburg on the I'd several men were
engaged in lining a furnace at the Lucy
Furnace Co.'s works, when the scaffold fell,
precipitating the men into the furnace. Two
men, Julius Harden and NJ. Cussick were
brought out dead and the five others so
badly burned that they are not expected to
live.
JOE OSWALD, who recently set fire to and
burned up the barn of Charles Duenkel, a
farmer near Wauwatosa, Wis, has been sem
fenced to the House of Correction at Mil
waukee for ten years. All of Mr.. DuenkePs
horses and crops were consumed in the
flames.
| A " cd Cf,,fc E,,;p
few miles from Girard, Ill.,, committed sui
eide on the 30th ult, by hanging himself.
Mr.. G. c. WORKMAN. telegraph operator
at Golden, ILL.,, was arrested OH the 30th ult.,
by the sheriff of Union county, and taken to
Jonesboro, charged with bigamy.
/ HENRY S. RUMERY was arrested at Pom
poonosuc, Vt, whittier he had flown, and
taken back to Worcester, Mass, to answer
to charge of forgery, having altered checks
from $500 to $500.
BY an explosion in mould of hot metal
at the foundry of r. C. Tolten & Co., on
Liberty street, Pittsburg, on the 3lst ult.,
two men were fatally and eight others
seriously burned
A MAN named Koch was shot and in.
stantly killed on the lake front at Chicago,
on the 31st ult, by the accidental discharge
of a Calling gun.
STREET drain caved in at Toronto, on
the 31st ult., killing Charles d. Brown and
F. w. Laughlin. Three others were badly
injured.
, In Madison county, Tenn, on the 30th
ult., r. j. Smith, quiet citizen, was bru.
tally murdered by Turner Massingill, hi.
neighbor, while working on the road Smith
left wife and several children
TIE Memphis Avalanche's Helena, Ark
special says Norman Lindsay, colored, was
hung there on the Goth ult, for the murder
of the Rev. Charles Hightower, also colored
in 1875.
GEO. w. PECK, editor of the Auburn, n
Y. Daily Adoertiser, fatally shot himself on
the 2Sth ult. Cause, melancholy.
THE Cosmopolitan Hotel, San Francisco
a four-story wooden building, burned with
allits contents on the 2Ssh uIt Loss about
$4,000. The remains of one man was found
In the ruins, and one other is missing.
THE WEST.
THE Hon. A. ID. Frazer died at Detroit on
) the night of the I'd list, after a long and
painful illness, with malignant cancer or
the face. He was the senior lawyer of the
Detroit bar, and was in the SD year of his
age.
HARVESTING throughout the country is
proceeding satisfactorily with favorable
weather and fine results
THE remains of Captains Yates and Gus
ter and Lieutenants Smith, Mcintosh and
Calhoun, who were killed in the Custer
massacre, were buried at Fort Leavenwortf
on the Sd inst, with appropriate ceremo
, MES.
lone PLACE, club house on South Park
Boulevard, Chicago, was burned on the 31s1
ult. Loss S30,000 insurance So, 00O
THE First National Bank of Georgetown
Col, failed on the Both ult, with liabilities
amounting to more than 100000. The
alleged cause was its presidents persona
financial embarrassment
The body of DR.. c. F. Winslow was
, cremated at Salt Lake, on the 3lst ult The
process occupied about three hours The
heart had been taken out and sent to his
birth place, Nantuck. The ashes will be sem
to the grave of his wife, near Boston.
LUTHER b. WILLARD, who has been fol
twenty-five years a Director of the Poor OF
Detroit, Mich, died of heart-disease on the
2Sth inst His departure was sudden and
unexpected.
THERE was an unauthenticated report
current at Yankton on the 2Sth ult., that the
Indians have massacred all the inhabitants
at Fort Pierre. No particulars received
The telegraph line is down this side of Pierre.
WASHINGTON
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