The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-15

and that number has dwindled until there
are now but fifteen boarders. An attache
of the concern says that every day takes
institution.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A WIDOW lady named Thompson, about
fifty years old, highly connected and re-
spected, killed her daughter Nettie, about
sixteen years old, while she was sleeping in
her bed, at Springfield, Mo-, on the night of
the Goth ult., and then cut her own throat.
Temporary insanity, occasioneG by sickness,
is assigned as the cause of the act.
On the farm of Robert Linn, four mi les
from Hillsboro, Ohio on the 3lst ult.,
portable saw mill engine exploded, killing
three men and severely scalding several
others. One man was thrown completely
over a tall tree, and was found three hun
dred yards distant.
A MOB of about 10000 people who bad
congregated to see what they could of the
execution of l.. Webb the colored murderer
of Mansfield, Ohio, on the 31st ult, made
rush, overpowered the guards, scaled the
jail-yard fence, and in a few minutes had
torn down the greater part of the enclosure.
The sheriff had to hang the prisoner in full
view of the multitude in order to prevent
further violence.
A GRAVEL train was thrown from the
aails of the Prospect Park and Coney
Island IN. Y. railroad on the Both ult, kill.
ing five laborers and seriously wounding
several more. The killed are VIM. B. Raft,
Patrick Cook, Geo. Primrose, John Geor-
CHAM and Geo. Ellis.
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been
created in Cincinnati, on the 30th ult., by
the discovery of the body of the Hon. j.
Scott Harrifon, son of ex President Harri-
secting rooms of the Ohio Medical Coll ge.
Detectives have arrested the janitor and a
number of other persons.
w. T. DAY, father of a prominent Du-
buque lumber merchant, committed hari-
kari on the Both ult., while on visit to the
country. He was an old gentleman, partial
ly demented, and had gone thence for rest
He had been found in an clubhouse When
called to dinner he had answered repeat
CulI3 Dut w utu TIC uOOI W DIS OpSutu Uc WAS
found with knife in hand literally cutting
off his intestines and feeding them to the
hogs. 1t was a most sad and disgusting
affair.
THE railway machine shops at Peru, Ind.
were destroyed by fire on the 30th ult., to-
gether with three locomotives and two stock
cars.
NEARLY S., 900 in counterfeit $50 notes on
the Tradesman's National bank of New
York were found on the Doth ult. in the pos
session of emigrants by the steamship Les
sing. 1t is stated the cabin passengers also
were supplied with the spurious notes.
The BRUSSELS Hotel and six adjoining
stores were burned at BRUSSELS, Ont, on
the 9th.
w. II. SEENoR, ex-tax collector of Put
nam county, H., has been arrested at Mem
phis, Tenn, and held for a requisition from
the governor of Illinois, on charge of en-
bezzlement.
DEAN TYLER, one of the most prominent
farmers in Barry county, Mich, shot and
killed John Pitts on the Goth. Tyler had
been criminally intimate with Pitts wife,
finally succeeding in enticing Mrs. Pitts to
his house where they lived for a time as
man and wife. An indignant populace
visited the guilty pair one night and admin
istered a coat of tar and feathers to each.
On the Goth Tyler happened to meet Pitts,
when he Immediately shot him.
AN atrocious murder was committed at
Mendoza, H., on the Goth inst. Sam Carney,
young man who had been refused permits
sion to visit Miss Culenbine, young lady
Of his acquaintance, went to her room, cut
her throat with a razor, shot her with re-
volver, and, being met by Mr.. and Mrs. Gull
enbine on his way down stairs, shot the
father in the hip, cut Mrs. Culenbine severe
ly with butcher kife, and, rushing out into
the yard drew the razor across his own
throat several times aud expired almost in
stantly. The parents are severely but not
fatally hurt. The daughter lived but few
minutes.
Four men, Joseph Oberlie, Alois Smith
Edward Williams and Christian Turner.
while engaged in cleaning a privy vault at
Cleveland, O., on the 9th, were overcome
by foul gas and suffocated.
AT Philadelphia, on the 10th inst, James
Snuller living with his son William, went
home intoxicated. An alteration ensued
and the father stabbed him in the abdomen.
intiicting fatal wound. The father gave
himself up.