The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-08-20
TragiCaI Tales.

Thomas Mcdonald was killed by Robert Nor
rls III Sugar Loaf County, Choctaw Nation, on
18th inst. Cause, too much whisky.
Parker, the Adirondack guide who assaulted
lady relative of Senator Plat, of Connecticut,
and was run down and shot by constable,
died of his wounds at Forked Lake.
James Gotelg, laborer of Dedham, Mass,
dubbed his wife to death on the 18th inst
On the night of the 18th inst, at New York
city, Byran Golden, aged 68, probably fatally
assaulted his wife and then killed himself.
James Wetherell, widower aged 20, and
Margaret DOherty, were married at Ottawa,
Ont, on the 18th inst. Roughs started a
charivari in the night, but were driven off by
dlsturbers. In the morning his dead body was
found by the roadside with the head crushed.
Elijah Brady, young scoundrel living at
Corey, Clay County, Ind, shot and killed his
father-ln-law, Josiah DORIAN, on the 9th inst.
They quarreled about some wheat.
In Washington township, Paulding County,
o., on the 9Th INST, two farmers named Fisher
and Young quarreled about the possession of a
house In the fight Fisher was shot dead by
Young.
A gang of Regulators" rode into Grayson,
KY, on the night of the 9th inst, and attempt
ed to take the town. The marshal and his
force killed three of the gang and captured the
rest.
Charles Moody and wife (colored) of Lake
Village, n. c.. murdered their two children and
then burned the house to conceal their crime.
James Crawford, of Maysville, KS, shot and
killed William Yates in q brothel on the night OF
the 7th inst.
4 band of armed men attempted to take two
brothers from the jail at Fredonia, Kansas on
the 18th inst. They overpowered the guards,
but not until one of them handed his pistol to
one of the prisoners in the cell. When the
leader of the lynching party, a wealthy farmer
named Hoffman, approached the cell the pris
oner fired on him, inf1icting a fatal wound
The mob then beat hasty retreat.
Asa Hooton and George Wright had an alter
cation on the train near Sherman. No., on the
It'll inst, and Hooton was arrested therefor
Afterward he crept up behind Wright and
struck him with a Ratchet, besides shooting
him through the brain. The murderer escaped
Martin Lowry, of New York city, got drunk
on the night of the 7th inst. and threw his wife
out of fourth story window. She was fatally
injured.
Parker, the Adirondack guide, who committed
an outrage on Mrs. Ball, was captured on the
bank of Long Lake on the 9th inst. He re-
sisted arrest, and 8 constable shot him in the
neighborhOod of the heart. His recovery is
doubtful.
Edward Northrup, a prominent attorney of
Elhotsville, n. Y, shot and Killed Joseph
O'Donpell. clerk of a lumber firm IN the Craw-
ford House, Elhotsvile, on the 8th inst. The
difficulty grew out of a claim made by O'Don-
nell that NOrthrup had withheld $500 due him
from probate case.
John Taylor, wealthy farmer, was killed
near Sacramento, Cal, on the 7th inst. by his
son-in-law, John Poblitz. The murderer's wife
had left him and returned to her father on &C
count of cruel treatment; this so enraged Pob-
litZ that he committed the crime.
J. T. Noakes, who was sojourning in the Orc
vile, CAL, jail, awaiting his trial for the mur-
| DER of an old man named Crum, was taken
from the Jail by mob on the morning of the
18th inst. and hung.
blacksmith named Payne shot and killed a
young man named Wood at Sipse Springs.
Texas, on the It'll inst. woman in the case
Grow Dog, captain of the police at the Rose
bud agency. shot and instantly killed the In
dian chief Spotted Tail on the 5th inst.
In a row at Tracy City, Tenn, on the night of
the 9Th, Thomas McGou was killed and Taylor
Street dangerously wounded. Several other
participants received slight wounds.
James Ross (whitel sbet and killed coIorea
man named "ifham Jones at Nashville, Tenn,
9n the Eth inst.
In Washington County, Oregon, on the 9th