The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-04-10
4 yfurt.eroU4 EsccOri.

\ young gr, daughter OF I farmer nNlug
near AtAalaeNaNlle Canada, was murdered on
the night If the 10Th u'f., and her body thrown
III well. Young man natncd La Chance is
under arrest charged with the crime.
At Los Vega. New Mexico OF the 81 inst,
two r0ughs named David l1udcbach and John
Allen entered the jail, shot and MORALLY
Wounded thu iailor and attempted the rescue Of
webb, q prisoner under sentence of death for
murder. They we're scared off, however. before
they accomplished their purpose, and posse is
III pursuit for the purpose of hanging them on
capture.
Ben Johnson, charged with raping Miss
Annie A. BaIl. in Clark comfy. Ky. was taken
from jail at Winchester. in that state, on the
3lst nit, and lung the court house yard.
Near Kalamazoo, Mich, on the night of the
3l5t ult., man TUNED his daughter-iu-aw ont
Of doors. and when demonstrated with by
nCighbors, he fatally shot one of them and
wound up by dosing himself with nitrate Of sill
yer. He may recover.
4 crazy man named Hope Tucker was strau-
gled by Horace Wood. his nephew. at his home
near Saudusilv, OHIO, on the 2Sth nit. He had
stabbed Wood, who glapplcd with him until as
slstanCe arrived when it was found tie maniac
was dead. Wood received severe cut in the
hack and had the end Of his nose cut Oft but
viii recover.
At Leadvllle, Coll on the night Of the 3lst
nit, I. \. Prentice Shot and killed T. c. Dixon
while engaged in 4 quarrel growing out Of an
alleged insult offered by Prentice to a lady
whom Dixon was escorting home.
Frank Howard was shot and killed at prctO-
ma. W. Va. on the 29th ult.. by man named
Atkins who claims he did it in self defense.
James Edward Johnson shot dead at
Washington d. c.. on the night of the 29th
nit, by Joseph alias big Foot Johnson.
Charles Theis, Jr., and Joseph Ritter. two
WcI-knOwn Young men OF Newport, Ky, at
tended a hall together al the Eclipse hail. al
Newport, on the night Of the 18th ult., aud be-
came involved IN aquawel about q certain Young
lady. They were separated hut while gong
home they renewed hostilIties and Theis re-
ccived fatal wound from a pistol discharged
by Ritter
Deputy Sheriff Latham hot and killed
soldier of the tweEty-tifth infantry, at Fort
Davis. La, on the Doth nit. while trying to ar
rest hmm. Latham claims that he used the
pistol as q club, when it exploded, the ball
passing through the soldiers BRAIN The pub
lie dlsCredit his statement.
The body of Amos Whitney was found i'll a
rayinc near Greenville, Ky. on the Goth ult..
with his head cut off, and near by lay his own
bro2d-aXe with which the act was done. His
employer. 4 man named Iule and a frie ID
named Bough. have been arrested on suspicion.
jim Burns. negro, shot and killed his wife
at st. Louis on the night of the 28th nit. Mrs.
Burns had left her husband, owing to abuse.
and when stricken down employed rs
domestic IN private house.
he startling disclosure was made AT l1tts-
burg. Pa. on the 29th ult., that John Geehaing,
pau er from Wcstmoreand county, who was
sent some time ago to the insane department of
the Allegheny city poor farm. had been muir
dCIed by some one unknown. seven weeks ago,
tie officers Of the Institution burying the body.
1t Is alleged that the killing was done by tie
superintendent of the insane department.
1t Louisville. Ky, on the 18th ult.. Vim.
Alfred and Frank Wheeler, alias Simmons.
quaueled over Kate White a = soiled dove"
when Alfred cut Wheeer's throat. killing him
instantly.
Patrick Tenton, laborer in the steel mill at
Springfield, H., quarreled with his wife on the
18th inst. and beat her to death with a sledge
hammer.
In a saloon ARRAY at Greensburg. Pa, on the
night of the 9th, man named Chiselm had
his neck broken.
NJ Mason City, West Va, on the oath, Jesse
Arthur and William Ray had quarrel about 4
woman at dance, when Arthur shot Ray twice
with a fatal effect
Jacob Frey, an old man Of 80 years cut his
wifes throat on the 10th at their home in St.
Louis, and then severed his own windpipe. The
affair grew out of q quarrel about money.