The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-03-20
Work of The Flames.

Ind. burned on the 18th, together with some
flour, wheat and Inillstufis. Loss $4,000; no
insurance.
Murray stables, with $50 buggies and sew
eral horses John d. McCanhy's grocery store
and some small buildings at Augusta. Ga.
burned on the 18th instant Loss $4,000;
fully insured.
At Geneva Lake. Wis, on the 18th inst, an
incendlaIy fine de trOycd the steam yacht Arrow,
the dly dock and q number Of row boats Loss
$4,000.
Near Zadworre Austria, twenty-five houses
were destroyed recently. Fiyepersons lost Their
ives.
Three-fourths Of NevesInje, herzegovina,
has burned, including the residence of the com
mandant Of the post and the telegraph offices.
No lives were lost. The fire was accidental.
The weaving works at Moscow, Russia were
destroyed by ire on the 8th instant Twenty
four persons were burned to death and twenty
nine injured,
The Express hotel, Montreal. burned on the
nth instant. Loss S25, 900.
The Webster house. Grand Central hotel. and
five otLer structures were consumed by fire at
Oakland, Cal, on the 9th inst. Loss over $780,,
600.
Ely's elevator and pork packing establishment
at Washington Court House, OHIO, were burned
on the 9Th. Loss 49, 900.
At Os7awatOmie, Kansas on the 8th inst, the
main luilding Of the state insane asylum burned.
The institution contained 800 inmates at the
time of the fire, but fortunately all escaped.
Loss $4,000
A Paris dispatch of the 9th says the ware
houses of Messagelies Nauonales, the great car
rying company, have been destroyed by fire.
Merchandise of an estimated value of 1900. 00Q
francs was destroyed, Fully covered by IN
surance. Six thousand square yards are COW
cred with debris.
Five stores were reduced to ashes at Chatham.
Ont, Oh the 18th inst Loss S25 600.
l1ys of in
burned on the 9th inst. Loss $4,000; insu
about SD, 600
Phoenix distille1y cooper shop at Chicago,
vanished in smoke on the 9th. Loss 520, 900.
The blacksmith shop, locomotive erection
shops and locomotive building shops proper, of
the Danforth locomotive and machine works,
Paterson. y. j., burned on the 9th. Loss from
Slf5,O0O to S2UOOOO; insurance $1,000 Over
800 men are thrown out of employment.
The large four story brick building Beak
street, Buffalo, \. T.. formerly used as tam
merry by SchOellkopf u Co., and lately sold to
the New York Central railroad company at
cost Of $40, 900 and the building dJoining at
$4,000, burned on the night of the 9th instant.
Loss about 100000; insurance $40, 800
A fire at Petroha, Pa, on the 9th instant,
destroyed five buildings. Loss $4,000.
The wholesale dry goods house of Auerbach.
Finch, Culbertson Co., at st. Paul, Mimi,
was burned out on the 18th instant. The build
ing cost 200, 900 three years ago. and was insur-
ed for $4,000 TWAS filled with a stock valued
at @S50,OO0 for the spIlng trade, on which there
was an insurance of 1892, 900.
Galbraith's spinning mills at Glasgow, Scot
land, have burned. Loss 100000. Two lives
were lost.
Recent Tragedies.
AT Marshall, Mo-, ON the 18th inst, Beal
Goodman, young white man II years old, had
an alteration with Smith Loomis, colored.
LOOMS used offensive language, whereupon
Goodman whipped out revolver and shot him
twice, killing linn instantly.
At Liberty, Casey county, Ky, on the 18th
inst, Deputy Sheriff ". L. Brown, while at
tempting to arrest James Coffey, received a
charge Of four buckshots in bis abdomen. and
viii die. Coffee escaped.
Ed. Murphy, a noted leader of horse thieves
and desperadoes. was killed by posse of Sher-
if Roberts, of Miller county, Ark, on the It'll
inst, after desperate resistance. A compGu-
ion named Hill was captured. This breaks up
a gang, of which Murphy was the leader, that
has long terrorized the Red river country
of Texas and Arkansas.
Elijah Mason, jealous negro, killed his wife
and then ended his own existence, at Cairo, H.,
Oh the Sth inst.
Some time since George Kohl, farm hand in
the employ Of Fred WLitcamp, ST., near Cairo.
H.. reported that his employer had drowned by
falling into the Mississippi This statement was
at first believed, but later suspicious led to an
investigation which resulted Ill the arrest of
Kohl, who, on the 7th inst, confessed that he
murdered Whitcamp and was assisted in the
deed by Mrs. Whitcamp. The body was found
buried in the rear CT the stable on the premises.
II Will be remembered that Willie Anderson
murdered his mother, Mrs HATTIE, Mrs. Weeks
and her daughter, near Waynesvile, O.. last
August, and subsequently killed himself when
arrested. 1t seems the end is not yet, for on
9th inst, Daniel Anderson, father of Willie,
was arrested at Cincinnati, charged with the
murder. Ii Is now claimed that proof hes been
obtained that he left Cincinnati went 10 Waynes-
vile, committed tie murder and returned before
duy-ljt ht, and that his only had a guilty
knowledge of the crime. Mrs. HATTIE was An
i,n,snrlls I1unrcnI nj f.