The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-08-28

man named Waldron was arrested for clipping
with his wife's sister, aged II years. county
posse overpowered the sheriff, took the prls
oner and cut his head off.
A travelling salesman named hamburger was
mysteriously murdered in place of bad repute
at Denver, Col, on the night of the 18th inst.
A dispatch from Barnstable, Mass, says the
naked and terribly mutilated body OF Mary
Cassidy, aged 10 years. was found IN brush
heap in the woods near thst place. The head
was nearly severed from the body, and III the
child's side was large butcher knife.
Freeman +. Gross shot and almost instantly
killed Michael Flemming, on Ewing street,
Chicago, on the 18th inst. Gross had intertered
to protect Mrs. Flemming from her husband,
who was drunk, and being cornered, killed
Flemming in self defense.
Charles Sebert shot and killed Vim. John
son III st. Louis on the 18th instant 4 saloon
quarrel led to the crime.
On the 18th instant, Iremalne, an East St.
Louis saloon keeper, shot and killed Horace b..
Vail, drunken customer. who assaulted him.
On the 14th inst, John Karin, a Buffalo
saloon keeper, refused hquor to a boarder
named Martin flanngan, already drunk. AT
midnight FIannlgan arose. entered the bedroom
of Karin and stabbed him fatally in the pres
ence of his wife and child.
While Joseph Buchler was hauling party of
men III furniture wagon from Bamberg's gar
den, in the southwestern suburbs of St Louis,
on the night of the 18th inst, a dispute arose
between some of the men, who seemed to have
been drunk, and Butcher as to the direction the
latter should drive to reach the railroad.
Buchler was set upon by the occupants OF hls
wagon and so roughly handled that he died soon
after. The Williams ESCAPED.
Two Texas farmers named Odel and Johnson
had a fight on the 10th, in which both were
killed. So says Galveston dispatch.
Henry Cardwell, living at Bunker Hill, H., a
min Short
railroad, shot and Killed his wife on the 10th
inst. and then cut his own throat from car to
ear. Cardwell was hard drinker.
A body has been picked up in III New York
bay weighted with tue bottom of a platform
scales The Jaw wa, broken and there were
thirteen cuts about the head.
Mai. Gen. Bryan Grimes, formerly of the
confederate army, was shot dead by an un-
known person while driving near his home in
Pitt county, n. c.. on the 18th inst.
The Catholics hld demonstration in various
parts Of ireland on the 18th, iii connection
with the assumption or Lady day celebration.
At Dungaupon, there was serious rioting. The
police who had been severely stoned, fired on
the procession and one man was killed and 20
wounded. Thare:was also riotinG IN other parts
of the country, and several police were injured.
jeremiah Ford, a drunken brute, beat his
wife fatally st New York city on the 14th inst.
Herman Packers killed his father, Geo. Rack
ers, at Dayton. KY, on the 18th instant. The
old man had been melancholy for some time
over the loss of money placed in Archbishop
PuceIl's hs1lds, and on the fatal day made al
assault on bis wife with a poker, when the son
seized a spade and felled him. His skull was
crushed.
Mr. X f Parkhurst, a young lawyer of Bath,
n. Y. slot and killed Fannie Howell. the
daughter IF a prominent merchant of that
town, on the 14th instant. PaIkhurst then
committed suicide. The murderer and his vic
tim were married four years ago. but never
lived together, as legal separation was had
Immediately after the marriage. Parkhurst's
act was IN consequence Of the young lady's re-
fusal to I've with him as his wife.
Deputy Sheriff Farnsworth was fatally shot
and Rath Eastman, another officer. slightly
wounded by Dan Linehan, a whisky dealer al
Buena Vista. Col, on the right of the 18th in
slant. All the parties had been drinking in
Linchans establishment