The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-09-28
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

!
taken from the officers by mob at Shelby
vile, Tenn, on the night of the Dist inst,
and hung.
CAPT. ROGERS, of the Fifth cavalry, was
killed by lightning near Rock Greek, D. T.,
on the 23d inst.
CADET JAMES TODD, jr., of Indiana, Pa,
who has been ia the West Point hospital
since May 3Oth drowned himself in the
/ Hudson river on the goth inst.
! ANOTHER nitro-glycerine horror at Ne
gaunee, Mich. On the 22d the works of the
miners powder company exploded, killing
! four unmarried men-H. E. Huber, John
Scanned, Dayton s. Brown and Daniel Coop
| er.
! Two men were killed near Deadwood, on
the 10th INST, by the caving of placer
mine.
THREE strangers entered the pawnbroker
shop of NJ. Oshea, on Washington street,
Portland, Oregon, on the Goth, felied the
proprietor with sung shot, locked the door,
packed up jewelry and valuables and escap-
ed by rear entrance, passing through a
dry goods store to Front street. In the ex-
element of the pursuit one of the bullets
intended for the robbers killed Louis Jo-
seph, a boy aged fourteen. Oshea's injuries
are considered fatal.
Tom BOYD, confined in Ripley county,
Indiana, Jail on charge of attempting to
commit rape on the person of a young lacy
of Moor's HILL was killed by q band Of Wig
iants, some eighty in number, who broke
open the Jail on the night of the 10Th, and
fred seventeen balls into his body. BoyG
had previously served term in the peni
/ ,cutiarY Tor a'sHunaI VnUHzo.
nlUsCATINE, Ia, and vicinity experienced
a heavy rainfall on the 19th-4.6s inches
The three creeks which traverse the mos
densely populated portion of the city rose
fifteen feet in thirty minutes, flooding al
the low lands, filling stables and houses
near by and causing dire destruction to
property; but SO far Us known no lives were
lost, although many narrow escapes were
made.
THE schooner San Diego, recently re
ported lost in Behring's Sea, arrived at San
Francisco on the 20tI. The vessel was
blown ashore and much damaged. The
crew dug out dock, wintered there, re.
paired the schooner, and returned with but
three men on board, the chief mate, Robert
son, one white man aud one Indian Capt
Bishop, second mate Orr and five of the
crew of Indians were drowned by the cap.
sizing of boat.
A BOAT occupied by seven young Swedes
capsized on the river at Davenport, Iowa, on
the 10Th inst, and four of them were
drowned.
CAPT. a. H. OATES, well-known tug
owner, shot and killed himself and wife at
Saugatuck, Mich, on the night of the 18th
Cause unknown.
THE iron propeller Java, laden with oil
and salt, sank off Point Sauble, Mich, on
the 18th. All hands saved. The vessel was
owned by Messrs. Holt & Ensign, of Erie
and was valued at 100000.
A POWDER magazine containing 1,IOO
Kegs, was struck by lightning at Pottsville,
Pa, on the 18th. A terrible explosion en-.
sued, killing three Of a picnic party Il ear by
and wounding eleven
JOSEPH P. CONCORD, at one time prom,
inent st. Louis lawyer and member Of the
legislature, shot his mistress named Lettie
Gibbons and then shot himself at the Girard
House, st. Louis, on the 18th inst. Both
died almost instantly.