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

| Long, while fooling with an old gun, shot his
| cousin, Nimrod Briggs killing him instantly.
| The cap on the gun was corroded, and Long
| thought it wasn't loaded.
A WAREHOUSE of the Cocheco Print Works at
| Dover, N. H., was flooded on the 9Th by a
| storm. Loss $50, COO.
FIRE at Elgip, ILL.,, on the 9th, destroyed
| Gerry & Bros clock factory Loss S20.O00
The ice houses of Sargent q Nichols a,
Haverhill, Mass, burned on the 9th. Loss
$40, 900.
SIX colored persons were drowned near
Whiteville, n. c., on the 9th, by the parting of
rudely constructed raft.
| Two boys were drowned IN quarry at st.
! Louis on the 9th.
| DURING storm at Dover, n. H., on the 9Th,
| lightning struck seven houses and killed three
| men.
| SUNsTRoKE on the 9th killed men in Phila-
delphia, Pa, in Jersey City, and in Chica-
go, I'll.
BY the fall of a derrick in Walkers quarry, at
| Lemont, ILL.,, on the 6th two men were killed
and nine seriously injured.
TWENTY SIX buildings burned at Evansville,
Mimi, on the 5th. Loss S150,000.
THE Utah Powder Works at Ogden, Utah,
exploded on the 9th, killing one man and in
| juring several others.
| The residence of Ira 7. Cummings, near
Middletown, n Y, burned on the 5th. Loss
S25.00o.
ONE of the mills of the Hurlbut Paper Co.,
in South Lse, Mass, burned on the 5th. Loss
$685. 900.
Two children of James Mullen, aged and 6
years, were burned TO death with their fathers
| residence at Joliet, H.. on the 4th.
| I. T. KELLEY's saI mill near Huntsville,
| Ala blew up on the 5th, killing 4 men and
| seriously woundlng others.
| In Chicago, on the 4th, Matthew Heradek,
aged IS, was killed by stray bullet; Emma
Knopf, aged 10, received 32-caliber bullet IN
the pit of the stomach; stray bullet which
caught julius Lockman, aged II, in the head,
will cause his death. There were SO casual
| ties, of which the above were fatal.
AT Erie, Pa, on the 4th, Albert Kuhn reck-
lcssly fired revolver from street car win
| dow. The ball struck and killed Miss Mary
| Steiner. Albert's brother Frank was SO over
| come by the occurrence that he committed sui
eide.
THREE men were drowned by the capsizlng
of yacht on the 4th, off New York City.
w. DAMON, of Wauwatosa, Wis, whilst driy-
ing into Milwaukee, on the 4th. during a
| thunderstorm was struck by lightning and
| killed. His horse was also killed.
Two blocks in the business portion of GordeD,
Alabama, burned on the 4tb. Loss 100000.
OK the 4th Grand Street City car crossing
the Manhattan Beach Railway, Brooklyn, n. Y,
was struck by a passing train and smashed to
atoms. Fifteen passengers we're IN the car at
the time, but only one, an aged woman named
Kate Kelly, was seriously injured
II. II. LUCHBLUM, a balloonist, made an ascen-
sion at Scranton, Pa, on the 4tb. At the
height of 40 feet the trapeze rope caught in a
tree. hurling him to the ground. His skull
was crushed and he received internal injuries
which will cause his death.
Two aged women-Mrs. Geitz aud Mrs.
Koor5 were burned to death il the fire at the
Dauphin County aims house, on The I'd.
RUFUS p. MARSH, superintendent Of stocks,
| Boston, Mass, was fatally sunStrucll. on the
| 4tb. Five policem n we're also overcome by the
heat.
JOHN SALsCHEDER, living at Duck Creek,
Wisconsin,, was killed by bolt Of lightning on
the Sd.
FIRE at Astoria, Ore, did damage to the ex-
| tent of 1225, 00l on the I'd.
PARTS of Wisconsin, were damaged by
cyclones on the I'd, but fortunately no lives
were lost. Fond du Lac County suffered by
unrCofed buildings, barns DESTROYED ETC., to
the extent of $50. 600. Over 300 buildings were
| destroyed IN the towns of Freedoaia and Bel
| gum. Necedah, Ripon, EiBhart Lake and Mus
| kegon, Mich, also suffered.
CROMWELL, Conn, on tho evening of the %
was blown to atoms by cyclone and MANY
| killed and Injured.
SEVERE wind storms on the I'd. visited Port
Jervis, and Binghampton. N. Y, and Williams
town, Mass, destroying buildings and running
crops.
The Dauphin County aims house buildings
at Harrisburg, Pa, were DESTROYED by fire on
| the I'd. The inmates were saved Loss.
100000. Twelve of the insane escaped.