The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-07-14

GEORGE AYERS, aged 90, wealthy farmer
| near Batavia, o., on the 9Th shot aud killed
his grandson, Charles Preston, then set his
house and barn ON fire shot hipnsnlf and
burned up IN the barn. He was insane.
On the night of the 7th Marshal L ensley, of
Greensburg, Ky, with posse undertook to ar
rest James Owen noted desperate. Owen
bad gathered about fifty Of his friends, and
pitched battle ensucd, Marshal Hensley was
killed, Ben Bagley was morally wounded. and
| the desperadoes escaped.
A NEGRO and white man, who refuse to give
their names, outraged two little girls at Sun
bright, Tenn. on the 9th. They confessed and
| a lynching is expected.
JAMES GILMORE has confessed to setting fire
| to the Brdgewater aims house on the 7th The
| buildings were destroyed but the inmates were
| rescued. He says he showed straw up a venti-
ator flue and disabled the steam pump.
NELSON HOWARD. who killed John Kane, at
Mound City, H., on the Fourth, was on the
| 9th taken from the jail by mob and hanged
TIMOTHY SMITH, a trusted clerk of Jno.
Pickering & Mosley, brokers. Boston, Mass.
confessed on the 9Th to losing $4,000 of the
firms wealth in private speculatiops.
A TRAMP committed a fendish outrage on
the wife of John Kessler, near Chrismap. III.
on the 9th. Mrs. Kessler was in delicate
condition and her Injuries are serious. The
tramp escaped.
A BANK messenger in st. Louis had fight
with a sneak thief on the 9th for package Of
| $4,000 which the thief cndeavored to obtain.
he messenger was victorious, but the would
thief escaped.
| In quarrel in Chicago, on the 9th, Chas.
Mccarthy was fatally shot in the stomach.
DISPATCH from Boston. Mass, dated the
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| the release from the insane asylum of woman
confined there for three weeks. Her husband
| placed her under the care Of physician, who
| fed her choral for some time and finally sent
her to the asylum. 1t is alleged she is perfect
| ly sane.
AT Otsego Lake, on the 9Th Alexander Perry
was shot and killed by Mrs Amos Bidwelj,
| He made improper advances during the alb
sence Of her husband.
In attempting to quiet drunken mob at
Davis City, Ia, on The 5th, the marshal shot
| and killed. a bystander named Frank Thompson.
OK the 9th George Davis cut the throat of
James Price at Cambria, Wis.
AT barbecue near Deposit Station on the
| 9th, Levi Miller was cut in fourteen places by
| Wm. Middleton.
A WOMAN named Mrs. Christian was arrested
at Laredo, n. NJ, on the 4th CHARGED with
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having killed seven men.
ANDREW J. McCULLY, the noted rifle shot. was
| arrested at Staples Mills, Mimi, on the 5th.
| for the murder of his sweetheart at Sycamore,
| H., twelve years ago.
NEAR Oakdale, Tenn, as a Sunday school
| picnic was returning home, a gang of roughs
started a row. Jesse Hooker stabbed Tom
| Lyle in the side, and was shot dead bv Lvle's
| brother.
| J. ANNOY KNOX, editor of Texas Siftings. and
David B. Sheahan, noted sculptor of New
York. qusrreled on the evening of the 4tb, and
fought duel to settle the difficulty on the 9Th
| near New York. Knox received flesh wound
| IN the left arm IN the second round.
| ELEVEN military prisoners escaped from the
| guardhouse at Fort Omaha, Neb., on the 5th.
| They bound and gagged the sentry.
| JOIN CONNER escaped from the Warpup
| Wis, state prison on the 5th.
| AT Norristoyn, Pa, on the 4tb. James Jack
| strangled his wife.
| THE state prison conyicts at Salem, Oregon.
| on the 4th, made desperate attack on the Of
| hcers and attempted to escape. Three of them
were killed. two wounded end eight escaped.
Four commissioners and the county clerk of
| Grand County. Col, were murdered by a
mob of masked men on the 4th.
| OK the list Mrs. Christina Ambacker was
| fouad near her house at Skipwitb. Miss, with
| her skull crushed. Martin Jones, colored. was
| arrested and confessed the crime when A mob
| hung him TO tree.
JUDGE HAUGHS, of Jefferson. Texas. was
shot and killed by an unknown person on the
| I'd inst.