The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-07-17
A NurderOuS Record.

Lewis Schmidt was murdered at Amityylle,
l.. l., on the night Of the LIST inst. The body
thrown into a well and the house burned.
During the night of the LIST inst, at Cedar
Mills, Texas Fra i Northcote, Who shot con-
stable Crabtree recently was taken from the
guard who had HIM N charge by mob of
masked men, who carried their prisoner over
into Indian territory, where they riddled him
with bullets.
A baliff who had been serving cjectments
was shot and killed by ambushed asSailauts. in
the neghborhood of Bala, county Mayo, Ire
land. on the ID inst.
Mary O'Connor aged As of Wal er avenue
Jersey City, killed her three children dulng the
nj Int of the lst inst. Mrs. O'ConnOr has been
sick fOv long time suffering from ma laria and
has been unable to take care Of her children
and she thought by killing them they would so
to heaven.
At the Nevada state prison. at Carson, on the
LIST inst. ". A. Chamberlain, a convict, was
killed Ly John r. Darling, alias Rattlesnake
Dick, bis partner in robbery case four years
ago. He was killed with pickaXe.
At ] cnnebunk, Me-, on the LIST INST, Mrs.
Sylvester Cnck took her only son, eight years
old, to the river, undressed him. aud held him
under the water till he drowned, and then at
tempted to drown herself.
HoodOO Brown and Charley Frank gamblers
fired at each other across table at Buena Vista
Col. on the 10Th inst. Brown is dead, and
Frank can not live.
At the Adams county poor farm, near Goals
burg, Ill, on the night of 28th ult., one inmate
Killed another. Both were insane.
Two soldiers named TAYLOR and Robinson. at
Fort Stockton, Texas, quarreled abodt woman
on the 9th nit, and Rob nsOn shot Taylor
dead. The murderer was turned over to the
civil authorities, and the next day was forced,
under strong guard, to dig his victim grave
WHISKY and jealousy caused a shocking dou-
bic tragedy at ElBhart, Ind, on the 9th nit.
George Elliott. a young man of dissipated
habits, fired two balls into the head of lis
sweetheart because III the hope Of cuIng bis
evil tendencies, She had accepted other att IN
tons; and then the drunken tiend killed bin self.
The young lady at last accounts not dead.
but was considered to he MORALLY wounded.
A Pittsburg dispatch gives the details of
singular tragedy enacted at small village rear
Canton. o. where a beautiful woman ma fe1
jennie Landes attempted to hur, er Young
man with whom she was desperately in love.
and though as she said III a note fOunu uDOu
her person. at the last she "had no, the heart
to XII him she shot herself through the head
after firing one shot at her beloved and d.
Instantly
Cornelius MAYER a we-hnown glass manu-
facturer Of Brooklyn, \. Y. was assaulted by
rowdies on the streets Of Wl'amSnurGh. y. y,
on the night of the Goth aud / He'd Maver :
foreman was with him at tie time and ldent ed
one William Hanley as the man who mi ctei
tie fatal StabS
In a saloon row at Fischcrs Creek. near
Duluth, Mimi. on the Goth inst, Ed. Brennon
was struck behind the ear With 4 loaded cane,
and instantly killed.
On the night OF the Goth instant, at Buepa
Vista. Col. an inceYdiary attempted TO burn
the Lake house. but wa discovered aud par
sued by mob who fred several shots, fatally
wouuding one man and severely woJnding two
Others The mob then attacked Judge Casey.
intending to murder him, but he escaped. A
shout time since petition signed by c-tzens
caused the dismissal by Judge Casey of some of
the member, of the police force, which caused
the attack on him.
\ NEGRO working III chain-gan@ at Norf H.
Va. on the 26th inst. refused TO obey the :
der of his officer. whereuron the latter strl K
him brutal blow. Tie negro. Infatuated
such treatment. returned the blow and attemT :
ed to escape TIE officer shot at INN, killing
him almost instantly.
At Tecumseh. Ntb on the 25th inst, Elmer
Parker was killed while defending his drunken
father froman attack OF rouEhs.