The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-10-20

| -Four got over the walls, one escaped entirely
one was killed 200 yards from the wall, and
two were badly crippled.
AN insane woman named Vreeland, escaped
from the Erie County IPa.) alms-house on the
18th, by tunnelling from her cell. When dis
covered IN the fields outside she set upon the
acting superintendent with an iron bar, and
but for the arrival of keepers would have killed
him.
! DENNIS DELANEY and Dennis Cannon prum-
meied each other in prize ring at Dover, n.
l., on the llth, until police scare put an end
! 10 the game. Both contestants we're badly
mauled and had to be carried from the field by
/ their friends.
| IHE Wlekenberg stage was robbed near Pres
colt, Arizona, on the 18th. The Wells-Fargo
cash oox and the mail bags were taken.
! HE wife of \. S. Hawley, farmer residing
near Beloit, committed suicide by hanging her
self on the 18th.
| ROBERT CoAPPLEs, an old resident Of Te-
| cumseh, Mich, cut his throat and died on his
wife grave, on the 10th.
An escaped convict named McCabe. was
killed by constable at Port Hope, Ont, on the
| l1th inst
PARTY of thirty negroes and an equal num-
Der of whites engaged in a melee at Cummins-
vile, o., on the night of the 9Th. A police
| ofhcer and several blacks were wounded. one of
the latter fatally.
HENRY HAAS, who was only year ago the
proprietor of an extensive tannery in Holstein,
Germany, hanged bImself at Cincinnati on the
10th.
COUNTERFEIT postal notes have made their
appearance in Indianapolis, and the banks of
that city now refuse to handle them.
The residence of C. J. Handbloom. at East
Des Moines, Ia, was entered by burglars on
the night of the 9th, and despoiled Of prop
erty to the amount of over $500.
j. W. LUKE. secretary of the Masonic Mu-
tual Benefit Society, Of Missouri, is short in
his accounts to the extent of $780, ,000
BURGLARS operated IN Arcadia Wis, on the
night of the 9th, but got very small sums
A RUmoR was current on the 10th that Sir
Stafford Norrhcote was shot and dangerously
wounded IN small town in Ireland.
JOE WILLIAMS killed William Funk in
saloon fight at CoYington, KY. on the night
Of the 9th.
NEGRO murderer was lynched at Hunts
vile, Ala, on the night of the 9Th.
MIRANDA LINGO, the negro woman who killed
her husband with an ak few months ago near
Ewinton, Ga, was on the sth convicted Of
voluntary msnslaughter and sentenced to
twenty years servitude in the chain gang
WILLIAM OBERLY, an old man who had once
been wealthy, but had lost his money and his
family, took Paris green at New York and died
on the 9Th inst.
SAMUEL MCDoNEL was hanged on the 9Th
inst, at Ft. Wayne Ind, for the murder of
Louis Laurent last March.
AT Dodge City, Kansas, on the 8th inst, two
negroes, named Bull Smith and Harrison Hill
man, quarreled, when the former shot his an
tagon1st IN mortal spot. AS he was falling,
HIlman grabbed Smiths pistol from his hands
and blew his brains out.
HUNTERS in Warren County, New York, on
the 9th INST, discovered the body of an infant
buried by fallen leaves. Near by they also dis
covered the pack of a Jew peddler, and sus-
pIclous trall-as though made by dragged
body-whIch led to a river.
HENKY 1. WRIGHT. KaciDe's defaulting post
master was sentenced on the 9th inst, to FIVE
years in the Chester, H., prison, and to make
good the amount Of his defalcation,
DR. ARCHIBALD LAMsoN, prominent physi-
clan of Halifax, fled from the city on the 8th.
to avoid arrest for criminal practice.
HERBERT EATox, who killei Samuel Kelly.
Jr., at MachIas; Me-, last March, has been fined
$1,000 and costs.
FRANK R. SHERwIS was arraigned at Albany.
n. Y, on the 9th inst, and pleaded not guilty.
His bail was fixed $1,000.
Two teamsters quarreed near St. Louis on
the night Of the Sth inst, and one Of them
named Michler, was fatally shot by the other.
A DISPATCH from st. Petersburg under date
of the 9th says several hundred workneu in
the government OF Grodno revolted against the
authorities aud we're marched to their native
places by troops.
BURGLARS got $500 in money and $50 worth
of stamps from the safe of Dorman Bros,
Buffalo, Iowa, on the night Of the 7th inst
AT Barnesville, Ga, on the night of the 7th,
Sam McAllister, went wild with religious fren-
" and drawing big knife, drove the entire
congregation out of the church.
SERGT. JENKs. of the st. Louis police, while
attempting to arrest woman named Sadie
Hays, on the night of the 8th, wa fatally shot
By the woman.
VIM. FOUL, of Northboro, Mass, attempted
to shoot bis wife on the 8th inst, and then
killed himself.
WHILE riding along the road near Yicksburg,
Miss, on the 7th INST, Geo. Klein was shot by
some one unknown. the ball striking a check
book IN his breast pocket thereby saving his
life.
BURNS JORDAN was killed by Richard Gent.
at dance at Harrodsburg, Ky., early on the
morning of the 7th. Both were smokes.
An illicit whisky still was found in the ruins
of the big fire at Dallas Texas.
EDWIN BUTT, Chicago drummer committed
suicide at Bay City Mich. on the 8th.
JOIN BkossINGHAM, a Milwaukee railroad
night Of the 7th.