The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-09-21
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

IHE boiler on the steamer Reliance, ply
ing between Jacksonville, Fla, and Savan-
nah, Ga, exploded when the boat was two
miles out from st. Mary's, Ga, on the night
of the 9TH inst. First engineer, VIM. Moul-
ton, second engineer Josiah Armstrong and
second mate VIM. Dartes, were killed or
drowned. Rev. Mr.. Dunlap, of Savannah,
had his thigh broken.
A BOLD outrage has been perpetrated at
Morris crossroads, near Uniontown, Pa.
An attempt was made recently to rob the
clothing store of Morris Hitler, but Hitler
heard the thief and shot him, inflicting
slight wound. The robber fed into the
darkness, threatening vengeance. Early on
the morning of the Sd inst, Killers store
was entered. The proprietor, who slept in
it, was beaten senseless and the establish
ment sent on fire. Mr.. Abe Hall, awakened
by the light, rushed into the store and
dragged Hitler out in time to save him from
were totally consumed, occasioning a loss
of So 900 or $4,000.
JOHN RYAN and his son Patrick, Morris
Cronsen and Patrick Breslin were killed in
the mines at Hibernia, n. j., on the 9Th
inst, by the fall of rock.
THE Grand Central Hotel. at Omaha,
Neb., the finest west of the Mississippi river,
outside of San Francisco, caught fire mystic
riously in the fifth story, on the night of the
4th, and after burning over six hours was
completely destroyed. The building was
FIVE story brick, 1872 feet square and cost
100000. A few minutes before midnight,
when the fire had burned five hours, d divis-
ion wall fell on a squad of fremen who were
in the corridor of the hotel, burying and
killing the men who held the nozzle, named
John A. Lee, Louis Wilson, Alonzo Ran
dali and Billy Mcnamara.
MRS. LAvIGNE, Olvin Paul and Perre
Lavalle, and youth named Menotte, were
drowned while crossing the river near Sorel,
Canada.
AT Sandusky, o., on the 4th inst. VIM.
Taylor, a colored man who is supposed to
have murdered a white girl named Alice
Mcdonnell, was taken from the sheriff by a
mob and hung to a lamp-post.
DURING a quarrel at Boston, on the Sd
inst, John Lane, aged twelve, stabbed his
brother Tim, aged fifteen, causing death in
a short time.
ISAAC ROBINSON, colored, murdered his
wife at Mount Vernon, n. Y, the Sd
inst, and then killed himself. Jealousy
was the cause.
A BUYER for a St. Louis dry goods house,
named O'Neill, killed himself at his hotel
in St. Louis, Mo-, on the Sd inst.
GEO. BURKE, a school teacher living near
Ohio Furnace, Scioto county, was killed at
that place on the LIST inst, by man named
Craighmeyer. Burke had secured the i'll
will of the latter by paying attention to
Miss Craighmeyer.
AT Detroit, Mich, on the I'd inst, John
Chosen, an aged German farmer, was MUIR
dered in bed by Christian Crietenback, his
grandson, aged seventeen. After plundering
the body of $50 secreted upon it, the
youth fed and is still at large 1t is sup
posed he crossed the river to Canada.
MARSHAL JONES, aged 40, was instantly
killed at Pittsburg, Pa, on the 1st inst,
while placing machinery in the exposition
building, by an iron fly wheel, weighing six
thousand pounds, falling upon him.
The cable of a freight elevator in the fac
tory of Kingsland, Ferguson & Co., ST. Louis,
parted on the 31st ult., precipitating the
freight and human occupants to the base
ment, killing R. w. Murphy of the firm of
Murphy & Son, Geo. Foster and Frank
Callahan.
ALLEN G. WOOD, aged IA, jumped from
the hurricane deck of the steamer CITY of De
troit, into Lake Erie on the LIST inst, and was
drowned. Young Wood and party of
friends were bantering each other into the
lake, when without warning the boy jumped
and sank beneath the waves