The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-29
June 9Th, can easily be seen from the fol.
lowing table:
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

| THE walls of two large brick stores IN
Rochester, N. Y, fell with terrific crash,
on the 18th instant, burying number OF
people in the ruins. Four were recovered
alive, but badly injured. One OF the build
ings was occupied by Graves candy factory,
the other by the United States Express
company, printing offices, etc. The express
employees all escaped. Colonel W. FL. Smith
printer, was seriously injured.
! WHILE workmen on the Brooklyn bridge
were lowering into place one of the large
cables, on the 14th, the tackling at the an
chorage on the New York side parted, ard
Thomas Blake and Henry Supple were kill
| ed, and Peter Arbergh and James McGrath
were dangerously wounded.
LIEUT.. ToTTER who was graduated in
1865, at West Point, was instantly killed on
the 14th, by being run over by the st. Louis
express at Cold Spring, nearly opposite
West Point
| A BOHEMIAN living on Nineteenth street.
Chicago, named Jacob Villinger, aged Sc,
killed his wife, two years younger, on the
night of the 18th inst, by shooting her
through the heart and then brutally beating
and strangling her. He seems to have been
crazy with drink, rage and suspicion at the
time, and accused her of infdelity when
questioned as to mis- motive.
ARNOLD SIMON, an Indianapolis brewer
suicided on the 18th inst. by shooting. He
was unmarried.
WALLACE c. WHITE, a "scalper," of Bal
timore, convicted of conspiring to defraud
the Pennsylvania Railroad company, has
been sentenced to two years Imprisonment
and pay fine of $500.
! INDIANS captured the Idaho stage near
Summit, on the 11th. The driver was killed
and only one passenger escaped on one OF
the horses. He gave the alarm to settlers
along the road, and they are all crowding
into camp McDermot.
THE boiler in saw mill at Buffalo, N. Y,
exploded On the 18th, killing the proprietor,
named Wolf, his son, and another man, be.
sides wounding several others.
AT Haverhill, Mass, On the 18th inst.
Andrew Trues fatally stabbed his wife and
killed himself while in state of intoxica
| ton.
DURING storm near Dawson, Ga, on the
9th inst, Miss Moore and Mrs. Smith were
killed by lightning.
A COW on the track of the Erie railway
near Middleton, N. Y, on the 11th inst.
threw the engine off the track, killing the
engineer, Edward Thorton and wrecking
| thirteen cars.
| ANDREW MILLER, and his wife Jenny
residing at Burkeville, Va, quarreled at the
| breakfast table on the 9th inst, when the
| woman arose, seized an axe and Drained hei
husband. When he fell to the floor she
| brought the keen blade of the axe down on
his neck, completely severing the head from
the body.
ONE-HALF of Searcy, White county, Ark.
was destroyed by fire on the 10th. Loss
5000
dam at Alden, Iowa, On the 10th inst, and
| Walter Massey was drowned.
KEROSENE burned to death a child and
badly burned her mother and another child
in Little Rock, Ark, on the 10th inst.
| WYNN's gin factory, near Augusta, Ga
was blown down by heavy storm on the
9Th inst. Three children were killed.
MRS. SARAH }. WILSON, the widow Of
| Woodford Wilson, living about nine miles
north of Greenfield. and her little niece
named Annie Cass, about years of age
who had been adopted by Mrs. Wilson, were
found on the morning of the sth inst, muir
dered in their own house. There was nc
evidence of robbery or violation of the
bodies.
AN Orville, Cal, dispatch, of the Sth inst
says: DR.. B. F. Holsclaw, of Durham station
married a week ago to Minnie Holze, this
morning killed his wife and himself. The
cause was jealousy.