The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-01-29
EragiCaI.


VIM. Van Ballroom, farmer living neal
Genoa, Livingston county, Mich, shot his wife
dead on the Goth inst, and then killed himself
Cause, drink and family troubles.
row occurred in saloon kept by man
named Tafforty, at Jacksonville, o., on the night
of the goth inst Tafforty elected two men
named Altman and Jones, when-they broke
through the door and killed him with a chunk
of iron.
At Delaware Bend, Red River county, Texas,
on the 10th inst, Noah Bowling assaulted G.
Barnett with murderous intent and was shot
dead by the latter. At San Angelo, in the
same state, gambler killed soldier of Co. L.
Sixteenth infantry.
Two Lafferty brothers. living near Parkes-
burg, West Va. got into fight on the goth inst
when the eldest stabbed and killed the youngest.
Two notorious Bodie, Cal. characters, Dave
Bannon and Ed Ryan, had terrible combat in
barroom at thatplace on the 21st. They began
the fay in playful scuffie. At the close they
had their arms around each others neck at the
same time shooting each other. Bannon fell
dead and Ryan was MORALLY wounded.
DR.. De Haven, formerly clown in Dan Rices
circus, had an alteration with Nat Parish in a
Glasgow Ky, saloon, on the goth inst, when
Parish pulled out a knife and cut De Ravens
throat.
J. D. Cheek was kicked to death by Col.
Carey, near Galena, H., on the 18th inst.
Two negroes named Spearman and Fair out
IdSGu anu InuIueIeu MISS DeSSle w eftZ III New
berry county, S. c., on the 18th inst. The
guilty wretches were arrested, and promptly
confessed. whereupOn an unfuriated party of
citizens shot Spearman dead on the spot where
the crime was committed and hung Fair.
From Madison county, Ohio, come the par
ticulars Of a horrible and mysterious triple muir
der, on the 18Th inst. Ophelia Clark a spin
ster, aged 80 and blind, an adopted boy aged
IA, and Miss Maria Scott were found dead i'll
their house, having been brutaly murdered
with a huge bluIgeon. The indications are
that Robert Garner, rejected lover of Maria
Scott, the young lady, outraged her and then
murdered the entire family TO hide the crime.
Garner is under arrest.
A dance at Las Mia, small village in New
Mexico, ended in q free fight between Ameri-
cans and Mexicans, in which two of the former
and one of the latter were kille7. The names
of the American victims are Doc Hodges and
Frank Smith.
Vigilantes hung Joseph Daroche at Bode,
Cal, on the 18th inst, for the murder of Thos.
A. TrelOan, whose wife Daroche had made ad-
yances to.
Near Grayson, Stanislaus county, Cal, on the
18th inst, a rejected sutton for the hand of
Miss Lizzie Kuene, attempted to shoot her, but
the plucky girl anticipated the villains inten-
ton and shot him dead.
At Lapeer Village, seventy miles north OF
Detroit, Mich, on the 10th inst. Mrs Bernard,
III fit of religious excitement went to the
house of Rev. Z. Curtis. the Baptist minister
/ oyerpowered his wife, an old lady 60 years OF
age, poured gasoline over her clothing and fired
it. Mrs. Curtis was fatally burned.
North Carolina girl gave birth to an illegit
innate child, and was driven from home by hel
| stepfather. She wandered about in the storm
! with her babe, being refused shelter wherever
she begged it, until desperation drove her t
kill her infant rather than hear its vail of suf
| fering. The unfortunate mother lies in tn,
/ Pender county jail.