The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-03-03
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

SUITS have been commenced and attz ch-
ments issued against the Augustinian Society,
Roman Catholic organization Of Lawrence,
Mass, for the recovery Of moneys deposited
with it. II having failed for half million. 1t
is another Archbishop Purcell affair.
MICHAEL HOLMES, bricklayer and Patrick C.
Johnston, a machinlst had a quarrel in low
gIOggery at Milwaukee on the night Of the
25th. Johnston drew a razor and literally dis
cmboveled Holmes. The gash made by the
razor was fully fifteen inches long.
SEyENTY-FIyE eonviets, who were emplovoI
by j. Fl. Cant in work on the levees near
Helena, Ark. rushed ou their guards killed
Mr.. Cant and escaped.
FoUR masked men entered the honse Of PoI-
ter Brown, near Trenton, Mich. gagged his
wife and himself and got away With s., 100.
The suspension of Hatch & Peters Of the
Stock Exchange. New York, is announced It
Is sad that the suspension was on account Of
the defaication Of their cashier, Geo. ".
Iompkius, who embezzied and gambled away
between $4,000 and 5l00, goo of the firms
funds. The firm recovered about $1,000 from
the gamblers.
CRAFT. one Of the Ashland. KY, murderers.
has been found guilty and sentenced to be
hanged on the 25th of May. He protests his
innocence.
The Philadelphia council reports that the
city lost s167 696 during four wears. bv mis-
management Of the gas trustees.
REDMOND, teller of the Dominion Bank.
Toronto Is missing and his cash accounts are
$500 short. He had been dealing in stocks.
Mrs. PAPRICK CASEY, living five miles north
Of RosemOnt Mimi, cut the throat of ber
child. aged four years, and then her own.
| The woman was insane.
Fvr,.
Preston and Jack Flaherty went to Joliet
and robbed a store there of S35. GOO
worth Of silks and checked the trunk contain
ing the goods for Chicago The baggagenaau
IN handling them, felt the bolts of six i0lt and
supposed they were dead bodies. He tele-
graphed to Chicago and on their arrival there
| the thieves were arrested and returned 10
| Joliet.
TIE convicts in Jefferson City, Mo-, penite1l-
tiary, mutinied on the 23d inst. and set fire to
| the workshops. The muiiueers were with
difficulty overcome, but the fire did great dam
| age. II completely destroyed Stauss q Co s
| harness shop and collar and whip factory.
| Their loss Is Sl00, 600. GeisIck il Co. 3 Boot
| and Shoe Company lose 500, 600. the Mvseu-
| burg Shoe Company, $4,000; the State Weav-
/ ing and State Machine shop. 800, OGO; the Fx-
| celsiOr Loom Factory. $50, 900. The total loss.
| with the damage to the minor state buildings,
| VIII be 100000
| CAPT. PIERRE LANIER of East Baton Rouge.
La, was shot dead on the Splitter plantation
on the 22d inst. On the Bslleyiew plantation.
! Saunders Gray and Prince Ackers. negro gam
| blers, were killed.
| IL Meigs County, Tenn. a man na ed eagle
| was killed bv John Harwood. eagles brother
/ then fatally shot Harwood and daneerousiv
| wounded scott. The affair grew out OF an cid
| feud.
AN East Tawas, Mich, dispatch Of the 22i
4 inst, says: = an argument arose between two
! teamsters at Browns Camp as to who LauIad
the heaviest toad of legs, one having 2 800 feet
| of legs and the other ?, 700 feet. The DISPUTE
! resulted in favor Of the smaller load. and N
| night when most of the men had retired the
| victor was seated besI le a stove head bowed
| down, the other maa came IN and with cne
/ blow OF az axe completely severed the head
! from the body of the victor. and while the
| head lald upon the floor, the mouth and ewes
| opened and closed once or twice. The c-y Of
| murder was Slvec, sud sixty men hurriedIv
| arose from bed, saw the fearful deed. and
! without further ceremony took q log chain and
| hung the murderer TO the first tree, and will
| 40, all Ow hlm TO be taken down until the az
| uval OF the sheriff. II was reported TO-DAY
! that number of men from an adjoining camp
I came TO cut the body down. which resulted in
| 5 riot and seven men were killed. "
| ANDPEw WILLIAMS. colored youth aged l9
| years, attempted to outrage Mrs Joseph Tav-
Tor. at Sellersburg, Ind. IN the 18Th inst but
| was folled by the determined resistance of Mrs.
| TAYLOR. During the struggle the Noman's two
| year old son rendered valuable assistance bv
| stTbing the black fiend a Tesounding blow on
| the head with an IRON poser, Assistance ar