The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-07-13

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DAVID NJ. KoHLER, liquor dealer on East
Twenty-ninth street, New York, made an
assignment on the Gath. Liabilities esti-
mated at half million; assets not given.
The Board of control of eastern coal pro-
ducers have agreed upon one and halt
million of tonnage as the production for
July.
MRS. ELIZABETH VINToN, widow of Rev.
DR.. Vinton, died on the morning of the 22d,
at her residence, in Brooklyn. Mrs. Vinton
was the daughter of Commodore Perry, the
hero OF Lake Erie.
THE will of the late VIM. Cullen Bryant
has been offered for probate to the surrogate
OF Queens county, at Jamaica. Besides
two daughters, one the wife of Parke Good
win, and the other unmarried, only two per-
sons get any portion of the estate, the whole
estimate of which is $350,000.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A MAN named John Hane killed his
father, at Buffalo, n Y, on the 18th, while
drunk.
The night passenger train on the c. & n.
w. railway was thrown from the track near
Menasha junction on the 2Sth, and Engineer
Sam Davis and foreman AL. Cate severely
injured. A misplaced rail-the work of a
tramp-caused the accident.
The schooners Peshtigo and st. Andrew
collided and sunk in Lake Michigan at a
point between Skillagalee and the Beaver
islands, on the Goth. The former was laden
with coal and the latter with corn. A sea-
man named John Boyle was drowned. Both
vessels sank in l2} feet If water.
MICHAEL TcB y, a US soldier, has been
found guilty of the muir Ter of Peter Albers,
at West Point, a short me ago. The jury
recommended executive clemeney.
AT Milwaukee, Wis, on the morning of
the Goth, Russell Wheeler, a well-known
gambler, shot and instantly killed Theodore
Henderer another gambler, in the bar-room
of the Newhan House. Wheeler claims he
acted in self.dtfeDse.
PETER MUELLER & Sons brewery, at
Lincoln, Illinois, was en- irely destroyed by
fire on the morning Of the 10Th, Loss $780,
900: Insurance, $4,000.
NINE illicit distilleries, valued at 81, 900,
have been destroyed in Putnam county,
charge of violating the revenue laws.
THE puddle mills of the Chesapeake nail
works at Harrisburg, Pa, were almost en-
tirely destroyed by the explosion of four
large boilers on the 25th. Chambers Bowe-
master, foreman, was instantly killed, and
Henry Neis, John Hess, George Frank and
John Herrick badly injured
\ DESTRUCTIVE fire at faribault, Mimi,
early on the morning of the 25th, busled
comprising nearly all the buildings on Main
and Elm streets, between Second and Third
streets. The loss will probably exceed $780,
600; insurance $4,000.
OLIVER S. VINCENT and VIM. III. Code
clerks in the tax collectors Office in Brook
Ign, were fatally injured on the oath by an
explosion of gas in the office vault The
vault was ruined and the office furniture
and fixtures demolished.
SANGER CHACE, defaulting treasurer OF
the Fall River mills, pleaded guilty on the
24th and was sentenced to twelve years in
state prison.
The American brig Harriet G. has been
wrecked on the coast of Coro. A steam
tug which twenty men from Maracaibo, sent
to her assistance, foundered, and seven men
were drowned.
THE steam Touring mill of Smith, Shick-
ley q Smith, OF Keoha, Ia, caught fire on
the I'D, and was burned to the ground.
Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
DANIEL CRAWFORD, colored, dweller
on Beech Islands, S. c., killed his wife and
himself one night recently; and the follow
ing morning, a white man, named Ferrie,
killed a woman with whom he cohabited,
and then himself