The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-16
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
HENRY w. TYLER, a well-known desper-
ado of Parkersburg, West Virginia, shot
and killed his wife on the 25th, and then
put bullet through his own head, dying 8
few minutes after.
THE iron steamship City of Houston, OF
New York, 1875 tons burthen, foundered
off the coast OF Florida In the recent gale
All on board saved. On the same day the
steamship General Barnes, foundered of
Hatteras. Passengers ana crew saved.
THE barge Van Shack, sank off Yonkers
on the 25th, and the captain and his wife and
| two children were drowned.
BOILER explosions: At Gainesville, Ill.
on the 25th, in a saw mill, killing James NJ.
Thomson and badly scalding Willis Turner
and Dave Falkinton. At the Otsego fork
handle works, Rome, Iowa, killing George
McKinzel, and seriously injuring two men
and totally destroying the building.
| JOHN d. VACELAT, his wife and two sons
were murdered at their home near Vincen
mes, Ind, on the night of the 23d
Pierce Provost, a hired man, is suspected
and under arrest.
LEARNED, proprietor of the Learned no
tel, Cookshire, Quebec, was shot dead by 6
| tramp, to whom he refused whisky, on the
oath instant.
| DAN DEMAND, Zone of the gang of train
robbers who escaped when Mike Rourke
was captured day or two ago, was over
taken by detective Light, of the Kansa,
| Pacific Rna1 fiftpau mil
Kansas, on the night of the 22d inst, and in
the struggle which ensued, Light shot and
killed the robber.
| THE schooner Algerine, laden with iron
ore, went ashore at Springfield, Pa, on the
23d and became total loss.
| THE banking house of Clabaugh, Nelson
| & Co., of Baltimore, Ind, has suspended
and made an assignment to James Preston
A SPECIAL from Fort Worth, Texas, say,
| the stage for Weatherford was stopped Il
miles east of the latter place by two masked
men. The mail pouches were cut open anc
the contents rifed. One male and two
female passengers were stripped of valua
| bles.
| Two trains on the Hamilton & North
western railway collided near Barrie, Ont.
on the 22d. Both engines and several cars
were wrecked. Three employees seriously
injured. Loss $4,000.
| THE schooner Morr Glen from st. Johns
n. B., for New York, became total wreck
in the gale of Oct. IL. During the nigh
/ two seamen and the steward were washed
overheard. The captain, mate and remain
ing seamen dashed themselves to the mizzer
chains, and after drifting four days withou
food and water were picked up.
A FIRE at Dearborn, Mich, on the 21s
inst, destroyed the depot, a number O
freight cars and 500 cords of wood. Los!
unknown.
AT the wedding supper of Willis Peelt
and Alice Burdge, in Azalia, Ind, on the
night of the 18th inst,. ten of the party wer,
poisoned, some unknown person having pu
strychnine in the food. Charles White
John White and D. Burdge, it is thought
will not recover. 1t is surmised that one o
Miss Burdge's rejected suitors committed
| the deed.
| A BOILER in Dale's saw mill, eight mile!
from McLeansboro, ILL.,, exploded on tn,
10th, killing r. Dale the proprietor, Geo
Warren, laborer, and wounding three others
| THE schooner Dan Lyons, of Oswego, witt
cargo of wheat, was run into and sunk by
the schooner Kate Gillett on the 18th inst
on Lake Michigan. The schooner wa
valued at $4,000. Cargo insured for SO,
| 500.
GENERAL.
! THE special agent of the treasury Kinds