The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-05-11
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

A TIGBT-RoPE performer, while walking
backward over a rope at Chausequa' IA, on
the Goth, missed his footing, and fell nfty
feet to the ground. He will die.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire broke out at River
Falls, Wis, on the Goth ult., totally destroy
ing thirteen business buildings, and render
ing six families homeless.
FIVE persons were injured by collision
between freight and coal train at Glover,
Va, on the Goth ult
THE Windsor Hotel, at Coburg, Ontario,
burned to the ground on the 25th. Thefront
wall fell outward, burying number of fire.
men, four of whom were killed.
AN ARRAY occurred at Grifintown, a
suburb of Montreal city, on the night of the
25th, between Orange young Britons and
Catholic Unionists, in which James Hartney,
Catholic, was fatally shot by, it is alleged,
young Briton, Russell, who escaped.
0. C. SELLERS, cashier of the National
Exchange Bank, Tiffin, o., after banking
hours on the night of the Goth, absconded,
taking with him $45, 500 of the funds of the
bank. The loss is confined exclusively to
the stockholders. The business of the bank
will not be interrupted. The directors offer
a reward of $4,000 for the return of Sellers
to the sheriff of Seneca county, Ohio, and
an additional reward of $1,000 for the re-
turn of the money, or an equitable proper
ton for all the money returned.
VIM. HEFFNER and Jonas Krell, working
in drift colliery near Minersville, Pa, on
the oath instant, were buried by an immense
fall of coal and slate. After a search of
several hours, Heffner was found dead. The
position of Krell was not discovered till
evening, when renewed efforts were made
to recover his body.
A GALVESTON special dated the 23d says
that all the ranches in Duvall and Fall
counties have been broken up by Indian
and Mexican raiders. Among the persons
killed during the past week are Fred Moore,
son of Col. Moore, clerk of the court of APP
peals, Antoine Minley and John Gordon.
Two children were also killed.
SECOND street bridge, Memphis, Tenn,
| which recently cost the city 5000, was
swept away by flood on the 23d.
The International Hotel and some dwell
ings burned at Calais, Me-, on the 22d inst,
causing a loss of $4,000.
A TERRIFIC storm swept over Iowa and
Illinois on the night of the 21st, doing i'm
mense damage. A portion of the village of
Wall Lake, Ia, was completely destroyed
and three persons injured. AtStorm Lake,
La, many dwellings and other buildings
were RACED. Six persons are reported killed
and large number wounded.
CAPTAINS FoRTLEY S. PLANTER, Briscoe,
two brothers named Moran and an un.
known laborer, while cutting a sluice-way
to drain a large body of water in Boliver
county, Miss, on the 18th, were caught in a
vortex and all but Briscoe persisted. Bris-
coe was rescued after being more than an
hour in the water and quicksand
On the night of the Goth, at GAINESVILLE,
Wis, a young man named Thomas Lawler,
in trying to save B. NJ. Clement, an old man
60 years of age, from drowning, was himself
drowned with Clement.
Col. KLEEMAN, formerly of Chicago, was
killed on the goth by falling down the shaft
of the Sunrise mine, at Laramie City, w.
T. He was being drawn up the shaft when
he seized with vertigo, and, stepping
out of the bucket, fell to the bottom, "a dis
lance of $50 feet