The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-08

uuueI the brooklyn Drldge on the ZStn, loSt her
foretop-gallant and maintop-g gallant masts. The
main mast was 241 feet in height
The acting secretary of the navy on the 29th
received dispatch from Rear Admiral Crosby,
commanding the Asiatic station, dated Yoko-
! hama, saying that Lieut.. Noyes was accidental
| ly killed.
The tide on the Jersey coast was unusually
| high on the 29th, and aided by northeast
| wlnd' did considerable damage About $751;
| O00 Will be required to make repairs in the
nelghborhood of Atlantic City. wharves and
| buildings having been washed away.
HE vegetable canning factory of F. b.
Hemenvay & Co.. at Clinton. Ia, was destroyed
by hre on the 29th Loss $4,000.
| FIRE at Philadelphia. Pa, on the 29tb,
caused loss of $4,000. Gilmore Morris,
worsted goods; Gardner & Co., shawls, and
! Lee d Bowers, knit oods, were the losers.
The store and general offices OF the Dia-
mond Joe line of steamers at Dubuque. Ia,
were destroyed by fire on the 29th. Loss S2S,-
| 600.
MAN engaged a trimmer IN the Valley
| Colnpanys manufacturing mill at Eau Claire,
Wis. was killed on the Goth by flying piece of
board
By railroad collision at Crockett, Tex,
on the 29th, two brakemen lost their ives
PORTABLE sawmill at Georgetown, O.. ex-
ploded on the 29th. killing two men and seri-
| ously wounding third.
The dry house of the Duluth Lumber Com
any, Duluth, Num-, burned on the 29th. Loss
$4,000.
A BOILER explosion in a sawmiIl 1T Durango,
| Col, on the 29th, killed two men.
JOHN RUDZINsKI was struck on the bead and
| killed by piece of ice in Milwaukee, Wis. on
| the.29th. The ice, a cake of feet square.
fell a distance of thirty feet.
The excursion steamer Riverdale exploded her
| boiler on the Hudson at New York city on the
2sth. About 200 people were on board at the
time. Tugs and other boats came TO her as
| sistance and rescued all the passengers not
KILLED by the explosion. Three bodies were
found but more are supposed to be IN the
wreck. The steamer sunk within five minutes
after the explosion. The injured number nine
some being seriously sca!ded by escaping
steam.
BY the premature explosion Of blast IN the
Nanaimo mine at Iron River, Wis, on the 18th,
James LuXmore was killed.
ON the 28th near Ashland, Wis, Ole Nelson,
laborer, was accidentally shot in the leg by
an amateur hunter named Frank Ross The
bullet cut an artery, causing the death of Mel
son.
PETER BENDER, farmer near Lima, o., was
killed by lightning on the 28tb.
ADvIcEs from Bar Harbor, Me-, on the 2Sth,
report extensive forest fires between Seal Cave
and Great Pond, over 1000 acres being burned
over.
The button factory at lonia, Mich, was de.
stroyed by fire ON the 2Sth. Loss $3.50
PATRICK CROSBY was suffocated in the de-
structon of cheap restaurant at st. Louis,
Mo-. Oh the 9th.
HARRY PARKER. an employe OF Barnum's cir
Gus, was crushed to death on the 2Sth at Gin
clnnatl, o., by the elephant Queen.
A DESTRUCTIVE hail storm on the 9th ruined
crops in the neighborhood of Sterling, Ill. The
extent of the storm was fifteen miles in length
and ten miles in breadth.
FIRE on the 9th, in New York CITY. de-
stroyed property to the value of S65,0O0
On the 9th, the South Brooklyn Oil Works
caught fire, tank containing several thou
sand gallons exploded ard several employees
seriously injured. Loss s60,000
THE sulphur works of Daniel Gray, Brooklyn,
y. Y. burned on the 9th. Loss $25, 900.
The machine shop of Cotton & HAYES, New
York, burned on the 18th. Loss 5000
The sa~mill of Finley, Young & Co., at
Williamsport, Pa, several dwellings. barns.
and about 100000 600 feet of lumber were de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th. Loss s5O0,000.
DENNIS KELLY was run over and killed by
the cars at Parkdale, Col, on the 26th.
THOMAS LUsT1GER and several companions
went bathing in the lake near Chicago, H., on
the 26th. Thomas dove once too often and
did not rise, and bis comrades became scared
and fled from the place.
On the 26th, Johnnie England aged 10 years,
was killed at Davenport, Ia, by being run over
by street car.
A LIGHTNING express and a freight on the
Pan Handle, collided near Mingo junction.
Ohio, on the 9th. Postal Clerk Havt was
fatally injured, and several others seriously.
AT Janesvile, Wis, on the 26th, Mrs. Mar
garet Wood, a widow aged 81 years, fell into
cistern and drowned.
FIRE at San Antonla, TIE x, on the 9th, de.
stroyed property valued at $3.50, 600, as follows:
Hugo & Schmetzer, wholesale grocers, $780,
900; Groos 6 Co., bank and building, S24O, 600:
Hannig & Stander, $4,000; Dunn's Mercantile
Agency, $1,000.