The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-08
TragiCnl Tales.

At Philadelphia, on the 3Oth ult., John Ma
| ginnis shot his divorced wife, seriously wound
ing her, and afterward fatally shot her mother
brutal and fiendIsh murder occurred in
Union county, ILL.,, few days since. Samuel
Hazel without any provocation, kicked and
strangied MoIhe Dalton, girl six years of age
before the eyes of the child's mother. The
fiend afterwards applied burning brand to the
dead chlld's feet to see whether life was al
together extinct.
A. P. Rogers, employed in the Burlington car
shops at Aurora, ILL.,, met his wife on the street
on the night of the 28th ult., and gave her a
fatal shot in the back, instantly following the
deed by killing himself. They spent twenty
years unhappiy together.
John and Frank Mcdonald, of Menomonee,
Mich, having served two years in the peniten-
tlary. returned for vengeance. On the Goth
ut, they killed William Kittson and fatally
stabbed his brother Norman. On the following
evening mob of four hundred battered down
the door of the Jail with heavy timber, dragged
the prisoners to death on the road and hung
their bodies to trees.
A bloody ARRAY occurred in magistrate's
court In Burke County, Ga, on the 10Th ult,
III which Chas j. Walker and Arthur Smith
were killed and Mike Smith wounded. The
trouble grew out of a suit about a horse
James Andrews was shot dead at OrovilIe
Cal, on the night of the 9th, by E. r..
Sproul. The latter thought he was shooting J.
b. Espoy, who had seduced Mrs. Sproul.
Two colored men were stabbed to death in a
saloon at Webb City, Ark, on the night of the
oath, by two white men, Berry Harwood and
George Hughes. One of the murdererg.
Harwood, has been arrested. Hughes is stif
at large. The murders were entirely unpro-
voked.
Deputy Sheriff Jere Ward quarreled with W.
L. Boteller at Scanlan's Landing, Ark, on the
goth inst, over business transaction, when
Ward shot Boteler dead.
Henry Tate and Joseph Aston, colored.
fought at Newark, n. j., on the night of the
goth. a terrible razor cash ended Tate's
career.
In quarrel about girl at Landmarks Hotel
Terry Place, Brooklyn, on the Goth. Frank
Wild attempted to shoot fellow boarder
named DiXel, but failed. He then returned to
his room aud killed himself
Ike Stockton, noted desperate, was fatally
shot while resisting arrest at Durango, Col, on
the Goth.
shooting affray occurred near Hamburg
Bay, Calhoun County, H., on the 25th inst, in
which Sheriff John Lammie was killed by Ed.
Maxwell and Lon Maxwell, better known as
'the Williams boys" who made a reputation In
Wisconsin some time since. John IL. Church
man and Frank McNeff, of the sherif's posse.
we're slightly wounded. G.. W. Roberts, deputy
sheriff of Pike County, Ill.,, with James Hayes
and Mr.. Clendcnning, started for the des-
peradOes, but were kept back by steady firing.
The deputy sheriff Of Pike County, with posse
of men, are keeping guard of the river near
Cape au Girls and Falmouth.
Thomas Saunders, aged 80, proposed mar
riage to his landlady, Susan Bromley, aged 81,
at New York, on the Goth, and was refused
Becoming intoxicated, he returned to the house
and engaged the woman in conversation.
While talking he suddenly stabbed her and
then drew the knife across his own throat. Both
will die