The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-17


man American Teacher Association was
held in Turn Hall, New York city, on the
29th ult. One hundred and sixty-fye dele
gates, from all the states of the Union, were
present.
THE Potter investigating committee, after
a session at New York, on the 29th ult, adj
journed until August 18th.
On the Doth instant there was a general
suspension of mining operations in the
Schuylkill, Pa, region, which is to continue
until August 9Th, after which time it is
thought there will be steady work during
the balance of the shipping season.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
MAN named Mclean was murdered by
Ute Indians, 10 miles from Cheyenne Wells,
Col, Oh the I'd instant
On the morning of the I'd instant, George
Abbott, a farmer of Pennington, San Joa-
quin county, California, killed j. P. Nc
Clary, saloon keeper, for intimacy with
his wife.
A. Nj. TULLIs. wealthy farmer of Grand
Island, Sacramento county, California was
murdered on the evening of the I'd instant,
~ H''ANiSo oAhuoNHj Willie dI WOTh III his
orchard.
n elevator at Henry H., was struck by
lightning, on the night of the 3lst ult. and
burned to the ground, together with the
contents, over 10000 bushels of grain. The
warehouse was worth $4,000.
GEO. KELLEY, of West Florence, O COM
mitted suicide on the evening of the 3ist
ult., by hanging himself.
MAJOR BABEL ANTRY was murdered at
his home, in Sampson county, N. c., on the
night OF the 31st ult. A large iron chest,
usually kept under his bed, was found in
the middle of the room, broken open, and
the contents gone. 1t is supposed about
So, 900 in money and valuables rewarded the
murderer.
The mining town of Alto, Utah, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire on the 1st
instant.
| AT Hagerstown, Nd, on the 1st instant,
at pigeon shooting match, S. Donahue was
accidentally shot dead by VIM. Cox enour.
AT Lanaconing, Md, on the 1st instant,
Mary Pitchard, aged 10, was killed, Robert
Dick, aged 20, probably fatally injured and
Abraham Lynch, severely bruised by the
breaking of a swing.
| HENRY SMITH, policeman of Jersey
City, with his wife, retired at IL O'Clock on
the night of the 3lst ulU, and at o'clock
next morning Mrs. Smith awoke to find her
husband dead with his skull crushed. He
had been murdered in his sleep, and it ap-
pears the assassin first chloroformed hus-
band and wife, as the deed was perpetrated
without Mrs Smiths kno wing ANYTHING
about it.
A ROW occurred at the Fifth ward polls
at Memphis, on the LIST inst, in which ex-
Councilman Dick Daugherty, white Ma
tional, shot and killed Joseph Day, coiored
! Democrat.
THE private bank of l.. L. Holmes, Bloom
2 ington, ILL.,, who has been carrying on a
loan agency and private bank for money
lenders in Willamantic, Conn, was burglar
lied on the night of the 30th ult. Bonds
valued at $4,000 were carried off, and 81, 00C
in currency is missing. The record book in
which the records of the bonds were kept is
so badly mutilated that the bonds cannot be
described.
EDWARD NJ. ORR shot, and it is thought
fally wounded, james II. Mclaughlin, law
yer OF Little Rock, Ark, on the 31st ult., be
cause the latter refused to give up a valise
which he held as security for fee. Ne
Laughlin came from Cleveland, Ohio, and
stands well at the bar.
DURING a storm at Detroit, on the 31st
ult., the fiat grand roof of the blast wing OF
the molding shop of the Detroit stove works
became overloaded with water and fell in
There were about 30 employees in this part
OF the building. The only one seriously in
jured was Henry f. Helbin, who was badly
crushed about the body and injured inter.
nally. Damage to building, ETC., 81, 800.
FOUR negroes, charged with murder, were
taken from jail at Monroe. La, early on the
morning of the 30th ult., by party OF
masked men, and hung.
Two passenger trains on the c. and n.
W. Railway collided on the 30th ult. short
distance from Brooklyn, Green county.
Wis, totally wrecking one train and run
ming the engine and tender on the other.
Engineer Whitfield, fireman Mcmahon, and
one or two passengers were slightly INJURED.
Strange to say, no one was killed. Damage
$4,000. The trains were running five miles
an hour.
AT New Orleans, on the night of the 29th
ult., j. f. Ganther, aged II, being mistaken
for a burglar, was shot and killed by Chas.
\ Hirnandey, in whose house Ganther was
rooming.
VIM BARRON, a Cincinnati excursionist,
had his skull crushed, resulting in instant
death, during free fight in Nicholasville,
KY, on the 2Sth ult., between negroes and
a party of Irishmen.
On the night Of the 2Sth ult., Isaac Hammil
rode up to John Angeles farm house, a few
miles south of Jacksonville, H., and asked
to see Angeles daughters. Angelo refused
permission, and at the same time ordered
his son JudSon, aged IA, to shoot Hammil,
which he did, discharging a load of sIugs
into Hammil's head, killing him instantly
PARTIES arriving from the Silver Lake
Mennonite settlement, forty miles north of
1ankton, bring intelligence of a cloud burst
in that region on the 22d, by which large
portion OF the country was submerged and
seven persons drowned. The west branch
of the Vermillion river, ordinarily about two
yards wide, was filed to a width of over a
mile, and to depth OF from ten TO thirty
feet, causing much destruction of property.
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