The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-10-09
A MurdernnS Record.

III EItdtiIch township, grunge county. lnu.,
farmer named Nathan Lambdin was stabbed
III the neck by Edward Cromwell, an employe,
who then ran hastily to a river near by and
drowned himself. Ii is supposed Cromwell was
rendered delirious by fever to which he was
subject. Lambdin will recover.
A man named W. H. Fairchild was arrested
al Chicago, on the 1st inst, for the murder Of
an old man named Richard French III Kansas
in 1873. The crime diyulged to the chief
of police of Toledo, O., by the pratthnS Of
Fairchilds ven-year-old child.
At Yakima City, W. T., on the 30th, III a
scrmmagc, Dink Splawn was killed, John
Splawn shot through both legs, and David Car
rol shot through the lungs.
4 negro employed on the st. Johns and Lake
Eusticc railroad. Florida, killed white boss.
He was carried to Fort Mason; but, at night, a
band OF men Oyerp0wercd the guard, took the
negro out and Iynched him.
Robbers assassinated the wife of the Russian
consul at Van a city III Turkish Armenia, on
the 18th nit
p Griffin was shot and killed at AbbeviIe
Court House. S. c., on the 2Sth ult., by Chas.
McCmng; both white. They duarrclled while
playing billiards, and Griffin drew knife when
McClung shot hin i'll the head and breast.
worthless Gun known as ''Shang the boot
black, ? met highly respectable young man.
named John Summons, both Colored, III front of
the Arlington house billiard hall, Hot Springs,
Ark, on the 28th ult., and had few words
with him, wherein the lie passed, when Shang
drew his revolyer, levelcd it at Summons and
fired, the ball striking Limi III the head nfiicting
a fatal wound.
Near Plattsburg Mo, lady named VIM.
returning home on horseback from visit
to friends, was seized by a negro who over
came her struggles and violated her person. A
party of ncighbors Immediately started iii pur-
suit of the ticnd, overlook and hanged him on
the spot. The ravisher proved to be a mulatto,
married man, and laborer on WINS farm.
LOUIS BoWIy, lad residing at Fort Wayne,
Ind, hurried stone at n seyen-ycar-old com
panion, named Henry Gerke, infictng injuries
from which he died on the 18th
A German laboIcr at c. and \. W. railroad
construction camp near Florence, Mich, was
brutally murdered i'll his bed on the night of
the oath. by fellow workman named Burke
The murderer was captured and Jailed.
In a stabbing a1fray at Gainesville, Texas, on
the night of the 18th INST, between Harrison
Thurman and John Hayes, the former was
killed.
In fight following ball at New York city on
the 25th inst, Henry School was killed
Atelegram from alwav, Ireland, reports that
Lord Mountmorris a small land owner on bad
terms with his tenants, has been found mur-
dcred near BatlnrObe. He had received SIX
bullet wounds.
Ed. Hogan, an employee of the Ohio 4 Mis-
sissippi railroad went TO the bagniO of Jennie
iitIDtIl AT fEctllltS. 1nCt.. on tnc llBnJ OF
the 25th inst, and found Douglas Williams sit
ting III the lap of Kate Adams, one of the in
mates of the house. Without uttcring a word
he approached Williams and dealt him terrible
blow Oh the head with a large hickory stick, in
illctlng injuries from which Williams died.
The decayed body of II. II. Conant was found
in the woods surrounding his house at Cicero,
Chicago suburb, on the 25th. Conant lived
a secluded life, and his neighbors who found
the body had just missed him. As the house
was in some disorder it is supposed he was killed
by burglars
Tom McCarty and Tom Kelly were burned to
death on the night of the 9th INST. at Bucna
Vista, Col There are strong suspicious that
the men were murdered and the saloon set on
fire to cover the deed.
Theodore Cheney. editor of the Santa Bar
encc GREY political &c" candidate On ont the 25th
for continued attacks on Grey through the
columns of the newspaper
Two boys in Reading, Pa. quarrelcd on the
25th inst, over a game Of marbles: one of them
settled the dispute 10y killing the other