The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-11-10

Aiois &c on tHc occasion OF the recent tTouole
at Red Cloud Agency. Crazy Horse had
plotted the murder after Modoc Jacks style,
! but his plans were frustrated.
LAME DEER's band of hostile Sioux, num-
berlng about 400, surrendered at Camp
Sheridan on the 10th instant The Black
Hills, and Big Horn country is now clear of
hostiles.' +
JOHN TAYLOR, president of the Tw elve
Apostles, and acting president of the Mormon
church until new president is elected, was
shot at Nauvoo at the time Joseph Smith
was killed, and is most bitter and bigoted
religious fanatic.
The Treasury Commission is examining
into custom house affairs at San Francisco,
| and have discovered that large amounts of
opium were struggled in 1875 through con-
nivance of U. s. employees.
The apostles of the Mormon church report
that the Lord has revealed to them the steps
they should take. John Taylor, senior,
apostle, is sustained in his position as acting
president of the twelve; also that a quorum
OF the twelve is the authority of the church.
This is the plan pursued at the time of the
death of Joseph Smith.
NEWS from Fort Welsh, August IA, says
Sitting Bull is encamped on Point Horse
Buttes, 100 miles from Fort Walsh, and 40
miles from Wood Mountain He has no in
tention of going on the war path. He is de-
termined to remain under British protec-
ton.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
BY collision of two freight trains on the
Rock Island road at Victor, Ia, on the 14th
inst, while one was side-tracking, brake
man was killed and two cars smashed.
AT Cleveland, o., on the 18th inst, Chas.
Croft shot his wife, inficting a slight wound.
He then shot himself, the ball lodging in his
brain, from the effects of which he will prob
ably die. Cause, domestic troubles.
Two tramps entered the house of James
Chaplain, near Pittsburg, Pa, on the 18th
inst, and brutally outraged the person of
Mrs. Chaplain. Two men were arrested and
are to be held until the injured lady is able
to identify them.
FIVE desperadoes named Fred Manly,
Frank Henderson, Joseph st. Clair, Charles
Ross and James Doyle broke Jail at Wauke
sha, Wis, and escaped on the 18th. Will
liam Wood the turnkey was struck and
fatally injured by the ruffians.
JAMES MORGAN, a travelling ieweIry
salesman was robbed of $1,000 worth of his
wares, at Dayton, O., on the 18th.
Two sons and one daughter of Gideon B.
Hutchins, of Georgetown, Delaware, were
killed by bolt of lightning on the 18th.
VIM. b. NELSON and John Hare were ar
rested at Baltimore on the 18th, charged
with being dealers in counterfeit money.
Counterfeit bonds, checks, to a large amount.
and lot of bogus franc pieces were found
upon their persons.
BY an explosion at Turkey Run colliery
near Shenandoah, on the 18th, John Thomas
was killed, and three others seriously in
jured
MARTIN GOWN, Jas. Newman and Mat
thew Murtha were fatally injured by the fall
of heavy laden bucket at sugar refinery
in Jersey City on the 11th
AT St Elmo, Ill, on the 18th, detected
burglar shot and killed three of his pursuers
named Jno. Scales. Frank Barnes and Frank
Wiseman. He succeeded in escaping.
THE Soldiers Orphans Home, near
knightstown, Ind, was totally destroyed by
fire on the 9th. The children were all saved
from the flames. The fire originated in the
attic. Loss about $4,000; insurance about
$4,000.
Two EMPLOYEES of the gas factory at st.
Joseph Mo-, named p. j. Enright and VIM.
Carmody, fell from a scaffolding into mass
of burning ciuders on the 9th, and were
fatally burned.
A. lsELIN Co., Wall street, N. Y, bank
ers, were robbed of $1,000 United States
bonds on the night of the 9th, or during the
day following.
Miss JANE KYLE dropped dead at New
port X. L., on the Sth inst.
AN aged couple named Fitzgerald were
found murdered at their home near Hills
boro, Nd, on the Sth inst.