The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-23
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
| A MILL dam at Bclvidere, N. j.. gave way
on the 18th inst, and fishing party num-
bering ten persons were precipitated through
a sluice way. Mrs. Reemers, her daughter
Julia Reemers, Miss Crowley, and Thomas
Pressler, were drowned. The owners of the
boat, Mark Fisher and James Osfelt, were
fatally injured by falling into the grinder of
the mill below the sluice way.
AT Eagle Lake, near Racine, Wis, on the
18th inst, Mrs. Oliver Gilbert, Miss Gilbert,
Mrs. Goblet and child, of Kellogg's Corners,
were drowned by the swamping of row boat
| JOHN COLBY, of Plainield, n. H., intending
suicide, he says, put corrosive sublimate in a
mug of cider, on the 10Th inst His sisters
drank it. One will die.
A SAILOR named Pat O'Donahue, employ
ed on the schooner j. r. Benson, at To-
ledo, o., on the 18th inst, was struck on
the head by portion of the loading tackle
and fatally injured.
JAS. MELLERT, a saloon-keeper, while
drunk, at Rondout, N. T., on the 18th inst,
shot james Malloy dead.
THE jury in the case of Rev. d. II. Me-
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on the charge of poisoning his wife, brought
in a verdict, on the 18th inst, of guilty; and
fixed the penalty atfonrteen years. McGhee
was pastor of the Christian church in Ash
ton.
EX-ALD. SAMUEL MCMASTERS, of Pitts
burg, Pa, was sentenced to six years impris-
onment in the penitentiary ON the 18th inst.
| for the crime of abortion. The details OF
the case are the most revolving of any in
our criminal annals. 1t was proved that
McMasters belonged to club comprising
some ten or twelve influential men and per-
haps as many women, whose sole purpose
was the betrayal and ruin OF young girls,
several of whom fell into the net thus pre-
pared for them, at least two dying under the
hands of the club abortionists. Other mem
bers of the club will be prosecuted as soon
as sufficient evidence can be secured.
HALF the business portion of Plymouth,
Amador county, Cal, was burned, on the
18th inst. Loss, $35, 1000; insurance light
\ RAILWAY collision occurred near Point
of Rocks, Maryland, between the regular
morning accommodation train from Winches-
ter and special excursion train from
Frederick to Washington with an excursion
party for Mount Vernon. The engines
crushed each other. Four persons were
instantly killed and eighteen wounded, all
Oh the excursion train. The following are
the killed: Charles II. Kiefer, editor of
the Frederick Examiner; Richard Detrow,
merchant; Dorsey Walker, merchant, and
Howard E. Dickson, all of Frederick city.
Louis Schley, one of the wounded has since
died.
! TIE Mansion House, outbuildines and six
horses were burned at Augusta, Me-, on the
18th inst Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
! Maj. w. j. RossITER, weIl-known bust
ness man, at Lincoln, Neb., fell dead from
apoplexy on the 10th inst, aged 40.
TIE steamer r. n. Rice was partially de-
stroyed by fire at Detroit on the 18th inst
Loss about $4,000; insurance $25, GOO
IRA COLE, was stabbed and killed at
Dover, N. H., on the 18th inst, by James
Hogan, boy II years of age.
FRED. ELLIOTT, indicted for the forgery
OF $4,000 cheek and passing it on the
Union Trust Company at New York escap-
ed from the officers on Saturday, June 9th.
FRED. BoURs, while resisting an arrest at
Lafayette, n. j., on the 9th inst, was fatally
shot by Constable Charles Kailbler Bours
had fired twice upon the officer
WESTERN Tennessee was visited by a
heavy rain storm OH the 9TH. Thirteen and
half inches of rain fell in forty-ei ght hours
1t is feared that the crops are badly damaged.
WAR NOTES.
FURTHER details of what is called Gort-
schakoif's reply to Lord Derby, are as fol-
lows: II the Turks make peace directly
alter the Russians cross the Balkans, Russia
will be ready to accord peace, but otherwise
she would have no alternative but to conquer
and dictate peace to the porte. If England
wishes to prevent the Russians from enter