The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-26
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 18th inst a barn belonging to Mr..
Leslie, near Windsor, Sonoma county, Cal,
burned. boy three years old was burned
| to death and Mrs Leslie and two other chill
| dren severely injured.
| VIM. j. WHITE, of San Francisco, Cal :,
suspecting undue intimacy between his wife
and DIR. Mehring, the family physician,
ostensibly left home, en- the night of the
18th inst, but soon returning found Mehr-
ing in Mrs. Whites bedroom and attacked
him with penknife and cut his throat,
producing instant death.
A TERRIBLE storm of wind aud rain swept
| through portions of Ohio and PENNSYLVANIA
on the 18th inst, causing frightful damage,
and loss OF life. At Erie the house of James
! Dodsworth, situated on the banks of Mill
Creek was carried away, and Dodsworth
and 16-year-old daughter persisted. Rail
way travel was suspended for time. The
Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad lost three
! bridges-at Alliance, Browns and Mingo,-
and culvert at Wellsville. Dispatches
| from the country surrounding Cleveland
state that large losses of property have oc-
Cured by the flood. A creek running
| through the heart of Meadeville, Pa, over
flowed its banks, flooding the principal
streets ard damaging property to the
| amount of 100000. Four persons were
drowned. At Guntown, five miles north of
| Conneautville, the entire valley il perfect
sea of water and great damage has been sus-
| tanned. A train ran into damaged culvert
near Shenango, and went down, killing the
engineer and fireman, and njuring the first
| brakeman so badly that his recovery is i'm
| possible. In the vicinity of Geneva, Penn.
nine lives were lost, while the loss to the
city will foot up nearly 100000.
FIVE masked men took possession of the
Great Western railroad station at Dundas,
Ont, on the 9th instant, blew open the safe
and appropriated therefrom 500.
! AT Murfresboro, Tenn, on the 9th inst,
Pickney Bell, white man in Jail for MUIR
dering constable, was taken from jail and
lynched by an armed mob.
IHE body of farmer named Zeak and
a girl named Carrie Myers, were found in
the vicinity of Muscatine, Iowa, on the 9TH
When found both were neatly dressed with
Grape about their arms. The facts develop
ed at the cOroner's inquest show that leak
and the lady were disappointed in not be-
ing able to consummate a marriage, he be-
ing unable to secure divorce from his first
| wife, whom he claimed was unfaithful de-
termined to end their troubles, and went to
Muscatine for that purpose. Both resided
at Coalfeld, Cherokee county, Kansas.
AN accident occurred on the Long Island
| raj tIUn M rtc d.,
the 18th inst. The engine and three cars
were thrown down an embankment and one
man was killed and several seriously in
jured
RICE plantations around Savannah, Ga.
were damaged by gale and rain to the ex-
tent of $35O,O0O.
THE schooner Mary, wood laden, was
wrecked near New Buffalo, Ind, on Lake
Michigan, on the 18th inst. Four of the
crew were drowned.
EIGHT COTTAGES on Sunset terrace Len
OK, Mass, burned on the 18th inst. Loss
$4,000; insurance $4,000. The persona,
loss of the occupants was serious, one lady
losing $4,000 worth of diamonds
ALEX. AUSTIN, a prominent member o.
the San Francisco stock exchange and ex
! ColltctOT Oh taxes, committed suicide on the
18th inst, by shooting.
BY the fall of derrick at Buffalo, N. Y.
on the 10th inst three men were killed ant
two wounded.
The small stern wheel steamer Nadin,
struck snag near ST. Charles, Mo-, on tn,
afternoon of the Sth inst. and sunk. Loui
Wilkinson, colored, Charlas Everty, and
man named Dunlop, were drowned.
SYLVESTER Z. DEAN, in fit of jealousy
cut his wife's face badly and then severed
his jugular. Dean died but his wife survives
They lived at Chicago.
JOHN SMITH refused to allow Jos. Dick
son to marry his daughter, in New Orleans
on the Sth instant, whereupon Dickson sho
and killed him.