The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-12
Tenn, died in New York city ON the 18th
| inst.
Boston contributed $50,94S.43 for the
relief of the fever scourged south.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

SHERMAN CITY, small village In Isabella
county, Michigan, was annlhllated on the
18th by a terrific tornado. Every store,
dwelling house and shed in the village were
swept clear except one frame dwelling
which was partially destroyed. Several
persons were badly injured.
AT Morris station, Ca, on the 2oth, some
fiends murdered an old lady named Farmer.
who lived alone on farm with her daugh'
ter. She was killed with a bludgeon, and
the contents of the fireplace poured into
the bed. The murderers then took the
eldest daughter, carried her to an adjoining
wood, outraged her, and then broke her
skull with rocks, leaving her for dead.
On the Goth inst still In the Queens
county oil works, at Flushing, L. l., explod-
ed. John McKeon, Owen Lynch and james
McElery were terribly, perhaps fatally
burned.
A QUARTER of mile of frame sheds in
the horse department of the Ohio state fair
at Columbus were destroyed by fire on the
18th. The fire was caused by carelessness
of children.
Col. VIM. BOONE, president of the Mount
Vernon cotton mills, and director of the
First National Bank of Baltimore, Nd, was
robbed on the 10Th inst, of $27 $50 in bonds
and $37 900 in cash. The robbery occurred
in broad day light and at busy time of the
day, but, so far as known, there is no clue
to the perpetrators.
CHARLES SILK, son of Henry Silk, a prom,
inent Cincinnati merchant, comm tilted sui.
eide on the 10th inst.
THE dead body of B. w. Fay, a halter,
was found on the docks at Chicago, on the
18th inst, with bullet hole through his
head. Probable case o. suicide. He had
been unfortunate in business in New York
and Chicago.
LAWRENCE GARDEN, while feeding a
burning slab-pit at Manistee, Mich, fell
into the glowing mass and was consumed.
THE dead bodies of two men, named o.
B. Davis and Geo. w. Heating, well-known
horse and cattle thieves, were found hang
ing to tree, FIVE miles norte of Spearfish
D. T., on the 18th inst, undoubtedly the
work of the vigilants of Spearfsh.
MRS. CHAs. MORSE, of Chardon, o., while
temporarily insane, on the 18th inst, killed
her little daughter, aged 7, and then cut her
own throat, both dying in few moments.
LAFLIN & RAND's powder mill and dry
house, at Platteville, Wis, blew up On the
10th inst, the terrific conclusion shaking
a workman, was seriously injured. The
other mills were badly wrecked. Loss,
900. No lives lost.
DAM at Mays Landing, N. j., burst on
the night of the 18th inst, the released
water sweeping through the village, causing
great damage. Several persons are reported
lost.
A FIEND entered the house of George
Lynch, at Berkely, Texas, on the night OF
the 10th inst. and murdered Berkely and
his seven children the eldest a girl seven.
teen years of age. A young man named
Boatware with whom Lynch had difficulty,
is suspected of the crime
A MAGAZINE containing twenty pounds
of glycerine and seventy-fv pounds OF
dynamite, located two miles south of Brad
ford, Pa, exploded on the 10th inst, killing
Andy P. Higgins, ]. B. Burkholder, N. B.
Pulver and Charles l. Page.
ROBERT CARvELLA, trapeze performer
fell fifty feet from balloon at Phoenix, n
Y, on the 18th inst, and was killed.
j. T. GRosENBACH, a prominent young
physician of Marysville, o., committed sui
eide on the night of the 18th inst, by taking
prussic acid. He left a letter REQUESTING
burial by the side of Miss Dora King, who
died about six weeks ago; TO whom he wal
engaged to be married.