The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-10

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nominal value of$1 ,OO0,00o. In consequence
of the condition of affairs the company has
suspended.
THE Tuscarora Indians won the best three
out of five games of Lacrosse, defeating the
Union club, of Port Colbome, Ont, on the
goth inst
IT is understood that the Teditors of Jay
Cooke d Co., will receive alother dividend
on some $500, 600 now in the hands of the
trustee. The sum of s., 000 900 has been re-
allied from claims due the estate.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
FOURTEEN children and three teachers
were drowned by the capsizing of a boat, on
the Goth, on the river Blackwater, near the
town of Bailieborough, Ireland.
AT picnic in Lewis county, KY, on the
25th, Thos. and Vim. Blankenship were
stabbed to death by Daniel and Joseph Nor
gan in melee; ten Or fifteen persons were
wounded. Daniel Morgan is under arrest;
Joseph fled.
A FREIGHT train on the ST. Louis and
Iron Mountain railway was ditched at Gard
ner Station, forty miles from Little Rock,
Ark. The engineer, Robert Wilkinson, was
killed, and fireman, named Hastings, was
badly injured a broken rail was the cause
of the disaster.
The stage running between Deadwood
and Cheyenne was stopped two miles north
of Lightning Creek on the morning of the
9th inst, and relieved of registered letters
and other valuable matter by road agents.
IF no kah dos of
modern times, occurred at Capron, H., on
the night of the Oath. Geo. w. Burleigh,
on old rosidont of Ohiv, had advertised that
he would lecture and at its conclusion
would crafty the curiosity of part
of the townsmen to witness some trag-
edy, by shooting himself. Onthe appointed
evening he appeared, and at the close Of
his discourse, blew his brains out with a
| derringer, despite the attempts of friends
who were secreted near by to prevent him.
The amount realized from the lecture, Bur
leigh willed should be devoted to paying
his funeral expenses and to purchasing
works of Darwin, Huxley and Tyndall for
the town library.
A SERIOUS atfray growing out of hard
words used at a political meeting, occurred
at Nashville on the oath inst, between Sam
uel Hicks and Edward, Nathaine, Jere and
Jones Baxter, sons of Judge Nathaniel
Baxter, Democratic nominee for re-
election as Judge of the circuit court, Hicks
and Jones Baxter were fatally shot. Jere
Baxter received slight wound in the hand
Nat. Baxter in the foot, and negro girl
thirteen years of age was struck in the thigh
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fatal wound.
AT Waterford, Ont, on the oath inst, 6
farmer named George Smith, living neal
Rockland, was murdered by his son, who
also beat his sister, as js supposed fatally
and then hung himself.
AT Kewanna court house. Virginia or
the 22d inst, Wilson Houchins murdered
his wife, mother-in-law and one child, ant
then killed himself. A son years old saw
his father attack his mother, and took the
baby out of its cradle and fled to place o
safety.
A SCHOONER which arrived at San Fran
cisco on the 23d inst. reports having fell il
with, when about 100 miles from San Fran
cisco, japanese junk, on which were
number of dead bodies, elegantly attired
and shackled together. Not living thins
was on board, and the victims had evidently
been dead about a month
THE boiler of threshing machine at worl
on the farm of Ben Wessett, near Belleville
ILL.,, exploded on the Odd inst, killing VIM
Dexter, of Centerville, Mr. Jones, a neighbo
of Wessett's, and the engineer, name un
known, and seriously injuring Mr.. Vessel
and his brother and another man, name no
given. The accident is attributed to the in
competency or carelessness Of the engineer
A BALLOONIsT named L. D. Atkinson
while making an ascension at EImwood, Ill.
on the evening of the end inst, was in
stantly killed by falling distance Of 2Ct
feet.
WHILE the steamer Adriatic from Liver
, pool for New York by the way of Queens
town, was coming down the British channel
on the Goth inst, in fog, she ran into ant
sank coasting schooner. The crew of tn,
schooner, with the exception of one person
was drowned.
The workshops of the new state prison a
Concord, Mass, burned on the Goth inst
Loss estimated at $4,000.
DURING a heavy storm at Gloucester
Mass, on the 2lst inst, Miss Julia McPhet
and Mrs. Geo. Byers were killed by light
ming.
MARTIN MCNAMARA was murdered will
a pitchfork by Michael Mcnamara, hi.
cousin, at Bridgeport, Conn, on the 2Otl
inst.
JOHN DAILY, keeper of the State Line
house, at Sanford, VT, killed an aged scis
sors grinder named Spellman on the 21s
inst, in a quarrel.
GENERAL