The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-09-18
FraIicat.

Mrs. Cynthia Sargbut, aged 70 years, living
alone at Fort Ann. \. Y. was brutally murdered
on the night of the 9Th inst. There was nothing
disturbed in the house to indicate That the cause
robbery.
Thomas Morgan, formerly assistant superin-
tendent of the gas works at st. Joseph, Mo,
fatally shot by Richard Stevenson, former
deputy sheriff of Kansas City, Mo. at Leadville,
Col, on the 9th inst. Cause jealousy
Salt Lake City, Utah, was startled on the 9th
inst, by bloody ARRAY which occurred at a
railway depot in which both contestants re-
cciged fatal pistol wounds. The parties were
r. 7. Smith and DR.. b. /. Sncdaker and the
trouble was IL regard to a Miss Davidson to
whom Smith was Engaged, and who according to
rumor WAS dru"ged and outraged by the doctor.
AT the Opera House at Melbourne, Australia,
on the 10Th ult.. a new arrival McGrego,
Green, maddened by jealousy, shot his own
wife and Loudey, member Of the French ex-
hibition commission and then himself Tho
two CORNER received severe head and face
wounds. but Green died.
jim Robinson, city marshal of Water Valley
Miss, was shot and instantly killed by John
Adams, q contractor Of the Chicago. ST. Louis
and New Orleans railroad. The difficulty was
about a coat.
". \. Arnold, marshal of Lancaster, Ky.
and cousin of J. II. Arnold, who shot and
killed r. L. Little. shot and instantly killed
Robert Bowie etepsou of Grove G. Kennedy, in
circus at Lancaster on the night Of the eth
inst. Arnold was attempting to arrest Boyle
for bCisterOus conduct, using his weapon with
fatal effect.
Saml. Perkins, young man from Cnlontown,
Ky, was found on tie morning OF the Sth INST
lying Oh the platform at Nincennes, Ind. with
a cash in his head. He died a few hours
afterwards. The cOrCncrs inquest found no
trace to the murderer. but fromthe fact that
Perkins had been robbed 1t was evident that
he had been murdered.
The Galveston (TeXas) Ne'rS special from
NavasOta saws man named Peoples returning
from Mclean where he had sold some cotton
was waylaid, killed and robbed by one TAI
iaferro. q negro. Taliaferro was captured near
Independence, and while on the way back some
men disguised overpoweTed the guard and car
ried of the prisoner. 1t Is supposed he was
lypcled.
4 Pomercv. O.. special dated the It'll inst,
says Frank Green (colored) was hulrahing for
Garfield. when the marshal undertook to stop
the noise. He was struck by Green, whereupon
John Hart, a bystander, knocked Green down,
crashing his skull and killing hlm.
VIM. L. Foster, travelling agent, while on
LARK > with party Of young men at st. 10
sc. II. Mo-. on the 9th inst. vas struck on the
head with q billy by Police Officer Chapman and
his skull crushed, from the effects Of which he
died
ANDY mclaughlin shot and killed Joseph
Nevins at Roses cabin Lake City. Col. on the
9th inst. They auarreied over a game OF cards.
Nevins assaulted Mclaughlin with an axe. The
latter shot in self defense.
At Detroit, Mich. on the 9th inst, John l..
Peltier, laboring man, while drunk and in
tit of jealousy. shot his wife and then himself.
Both balls took effect in the head; but being
q pistol of small calibre. did not penetrate the
skull.