The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-01
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

AT North Andover, Mass, John Butter
worth, while filled with liquor and jealousy
killed his wife and probably fatally stabbed
himself.
PERCY D. ESTE, who has been prominent
as singer in the Murphy movement, was
caught robbing ladies trunk in Edgefield,
Tenn, on the oath inst, while his brother,
who was likewise engaged, was standing on
watch in the middle of the doorway. Frank
was arrested, but Percy escaped by skiff
down the river.
JOHN AND ELIZABETH HARVEY, old and
destitute, were burned to death in their
house at Niagara, n. Y, on the night of the
22d inst.
WILLIAM KELLEY, carpenter, was run
over and killed by the cars at Pittsburg, Pa,
on the 23d inst.
ADOLF STREPoLCHY, a Russian, who was
arrested at Philadelphia recently, as an ac-
complete of Whalen for the murder OF Max
Hochne, at Elm Station, confessed the deed
on the 23d inst
STOCK FOSTER, a colored man, while be-
ing arrested at Memphis, Tenn, on the 22d
inst for the murder of his father-in-law in
from the officer who shot him dead.
MILLER & KEATS planning mill at Cleve-
land, o., burned on the 22d. Loss about
$50, 900.
ABOUT fifteen lives were lost by the
laundering of the steam collier Yana
Yana at the entrance of New Castle Harbor,
New South Wales, on July Is.
S. f. HARDMAN manufacturer of Ken
yons fire escape, was killed on the 21st, at
New York, while giving an exhibition of
the apparatus. He fastened the instrument
| to his breast, and was lowering himself out
of the third story window of the Aston
House when the brass band parted and
| Hardman fell to the ground, killing him in
stantly.
LAKESIDE HOTEL and barn summer re-
sort on Lake MCnona Madison, Wis,
was destroyed by fire on the DIST. Loss
1000.
Mr.. VoNDRA and wife, Boheminns, who
were found dead and locked in each others
arms on the floor of their house, some Is
miles northeast of Iowa city, on the Dist, are
supposed by the coroner to have poisoned
themselves.
Gov. STADGE and Mrs. Heger were in
stantly killed at Omaha, on the 21st inst, by
being struck by lightning while in a pleasure
boat.
A LARGE elevator, flour mills and horse
nail factory were destroyed by fire at Mon
treal on the Dist inst. Loss 100000.
AT Atchison, Kansas, on the 10TH Bill
| Scroggs, worthless fellow living near Oak
| HILL shot and killed Mr.. ]. Oliphant, his
| father-in-law and afterwards while resisting
arrest, fired at the posse and killed John
Giraffe, respectable farmer On the goth
inst, mob went to the place where Scroggs
was confined, took him out among the hills
and hung him.
A FIRE on Main street, Darlington, Ia,
on the goth inst, destroyed property valued
at S14, 600 The heaviest losses are Trax ell
Bros. $4,000, and David Raven, $4,000
THE town of Gayville, two miles from
| Deadwood, L. D., was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th inst About 200
houses ranging in value from $50 to s., 500,
were destroyed. Loss estimated at SOC. 900.
| No insurance.
A CHICAGO man of responsibility and
wealth, named Stevens, alias Henderson, a
Spectator in grain and stocks, a wealthy
Minnesota man, former member of the
Legislature of that state, Nelson A. Gesner,
and a Chicago real estate broker named E.
B. Weston, were arrested by detectives on
the 18th. 1t is alleged that they have been
carrying on system of forgery throughout
the states, by which they have realized large
sums of money.