The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-08-07
heCeGt TrauedicS.

An armed mob Of about 100 men from adj
joining counties w'nt into Moberly, Mo-. on
the 18th nit. and a Sheriff Matlock was taking
}. L. CalleW INTO tie court house TO he tried
for committing rape on the person of Mrs.
Crump at the hote. in that city last March,
opened ire ON HIM. Carlew took to his heels
but was finally corueIcd IN a building where he
was shot TO death by the husband of his victim.
Intense excitement pres allied while these violent
proceedings were IN progress and the officers of
the law seemed paralyzed, as they made no eff
fort to stop the butcherv.
On the night of the 29th ult.. a party of Is
masked men went to the house of job Thomp-
son, colored about twenty miles from Atlanta,
Ca, dragged him ou, beat him and his wife
fearfuLy fatally shot his son, and killed his
daughter. Great indignation is felt through
out the county. A citizens meeting at Jones
boro denounced the killing, and offered S5OO re-
ward for the murdere,s. Thompson says he
recognized as the leader of the gang John
Gray, whom he recently prosecuted and had
convicted of assault and battery
A party of Creek Indins attacked two Chero-
KEGS near GobsUu station, |. l., on the 2Sth,
killing one and wondmg another. The Greeks
were incensed because two Of Their number were
hanged by the CherokceS.
Mrs. Anna Lynch, o the Keystone house,
Portland. Oregon. fatally stabbed Alex. Matte
son, who she claims. rlade dlshonorable pro-
position and attempted an indecent assault.
Thomas Delana. proprietor OF livery sta
bic at Chicago, wa~rfatally stabbed about mid
night of the 9th, by his wife, whom he was
endeavorlng to persuade to accompany him
home.
Michael Maddox was arrested at Baltimore,
Md. on the 9th. for killing John Schaba.
Bohemian. Maddox alleges that he found
Scbaba in his (Nladdox's) wifes chamber.
JOSEPH Stats, young man who was married
only 10 days ago, was shot dead in his ward at
Ccntralit, H., on the night Of the 18th 10y some
. g11i9 10 ,ul,i
others believe it a murder.
John Dlggs the negro who outraged Mrs.
James l. Chiifely on the night of the 9th, near
Duncst)wn, Nd, was taken from the Jail at
Rockwell, on the 9th, by an armed mob, and
hung.
At barn dance at Green Brier station.
Robertson county, Tenn, on the Goth, Ben.
Webster was MORALLY wounded with a stone,
thrown ~ Tom Jones. Webster was one Of the
most substantial citizens Of the county.
George Washington, colOred murderer was
recently hanged by mob, in the backwoods Of
Tennessee.
A Mexican army officer being imprisoned at
Monterey for drunkenness, his comrades stormed
the jail. on the 26th but were successfully re-
sisted BY the citizens and police Three officers
and fourteen men were killed or wounded III
the niece.
Pat Kelly and Jack Brown, of Rochester,
Pa, who had been on bad terms for years, met
on the 25th inst. and chad it out" Kelly viii
due from pistol wounds received in the ARRAY.
A son of Hon. d. \. solomon, residing with
his father farm about thirty miles ftom
Council Bluffs, Ia, shot and killed one of two
burglars who entered their premises, on the
night Of the 9th.
During a quarrel at Arcola, ILL.,. on the night
of the 18th, Harmon Mccoy was fatally stabbed
by Elisha McCahe.
DIR. z. NJ. Williams, of Mechanicsbrg, Miss,
was assassuatCd while riding home ON the night
!
cion confessed the crime stating that he was
paid to kill the DOCTOR
A party Of roughs created a disturbance at q
negro camp meeting near Cincinnati, Ohio, on
the 25th instant. and general row cnsued,
One Cf the rOughS was perforated through the
&Jdomen by bullet, and several of the dalllics
were so badly hurt that they are not expected
to survive.
At Sag Harbor, n. Y. on the 2Gth instant,
Miles Morris was shot dead by seaman who
accused Morris Of being improperly intimate
with the wife of the seaman.
Dr.. Alfred Lefevrc was fatally shot III his Of
flee at Oakland, Cal, on Goth instant, by Ed
ward Schroeder. Both parties were III good So
cal position, the latter being a bank teller and
the former a long established and popular dent
ist. Suspicion Of criminal intimacy between
Schrocder's wife and the murdered man led to
the tragedy.
Mrs NiedelTGim. residing in the town of
SOmcrs, kenOsha county, Wis, was brUtally
murdered by tramp. on the oath inst. Her
skull was fractured, evidently by a blow with a
char.
On the afternoon of the 18th inst, at Kokomo,
Col. Charles Morton shot and killed Policeman
O'Neii, who attempted to arrest him for drunk
enncss.
Fred. Wclcom was arrested on the 9th fOr
the murder Of John +. Turner III Echo Canon,
Utah, July 18th. Wclcom confessed and gave
the name of an accomplish The murder was
for theft. and extremely brutal