The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-02-17

fired on party OF boys snowballing him and
killed John NoonaD, aged 9 years.
ANTHONY KRoZUuSsEI. a Chicago sand-bag-
ger, was shot dead by Auguste Gerharde, on
the night Of the iii inst. Several shots were
exchanged before IL highwayman dropprd.
ADABISG mail robL cry occurred at the Union
Depot, Cedar Rapids Ia, at a late hour on
tie night OF the 8tll inst. The east-bound
train being late the mail was carried into
the baggage-roonl, and while there a pouch
was rinped open and las registered letters
were taken. The amount of loss is unknown.
Oae letter contained II, 600 in 500 bills it be-
ing the amount Of Postmaster Smiths monthly
remittance to the department. No clue TO the
robbers.
AT PaoLa. Kansas, on the 9Th inst. a mob
attacked the jail for the purpose OF lynching
q negro named Smith, who had outraged a
little girl The negro, hearing the avengers
at the door, committed suicide by cutting his
throat with his pocket knife. This was q
great disappointment to the mob, but did
not stop their work, for they Immediately
put rope around the neck of the corpse.
dt agged II ike q log to tree III the park and
strung it up to the gaze Ell the multitude.
The result Of Smiths acts are: A little girl
terribly outraged and likely to die two ne
groes dead and one nrgrU seriously wounded.
MILTON YABBEBEY, alias Billy, the KID,
was hanged at Albuquerque, n. 1., on the 9Th
INST. Ia the course Of his career lie had com
mitred many murders.
AT Chattanooga. Tenn, Tom Wiggms, col
| orel finding the wife from whom he had sep
1ruied, in cOmaaay with = cUlOred preacher,
| cut her throat and then his own
! NoE1E.E SwABTRELL broke INTO the house of
| Wm. 1IcGaegur. seven miles 5uth of Rock
! ford. H.. Oh the night Of the 8th INST, shot
McGregor and hIs 1u-year-cld gigi and gagged
/ Mrs McGregcr. lie then robbed The couple Of
| $50 and decampeJ. The girl led soon after
| the robbery and the father was n gt expected to
| i've at last accounts.
THREE Chilamen living on ranch near
Fort Bayard, New Mexico, were found mur-
| derad oH the 31st ult. They were killed by
! Mexican bandits
! HENRY NJ. RoHRscHEIB, q German saloon
| keeper at New York. attempted 20 murder his
mistress and then killed himself.
! At st. Louis, on the night of the 7th inst,
! Henry Deces, &c man teamster, cut his
wife's throat aua then cut his own. He was
| hard-workiug man and had accumulated
! $4,000.
| A TRAGEDY occurred among the Creek In
| dians IN Indian Territory ON the Sd inst. The
| Creek orphan money was distributed and one
| Of tie Eucheo band received $4,000 The
| mans good luck drove him crazy on the day
| he received the money. On The 4th inst be
| fore daylight he shot two of his companions
! hlgla Brown and John Buck. through the head
| while sleeping. The whole camp was aroused,
/ and IN an attempt 10 capture the ulatIc Jim
| Barrett was moIlaGv wounded. The Indian
! then took shelter under wagon, and defended
| himself with firearms. II being impossible to
| capture him ho was Hilled by a weIl-directed
! voilay.
GTaANrIc frauds by crooked grain commits
sion men Of Chicago have been discovered.
1 ~ 7--H. /.
| have been swindIed. Large amounts Of money
! from Canada and England went into the poch-
| cts Of the dealers.
DURING the temporary absence of the post
master Of Brooklyn. y. Y, 81 800 were stolen
| from bis desk.
! During shooting affray at CatnIla, Texas,
| Judge Williams was killed by q stray bullet.
| JoHS G. BUcHAN HEPBUBE. son Of SIR
| Thomas Buchan Hepburn, an English baronct.
| was murdered bv miners on the 4th inst in
| PnoS Altos, Chihuahua, Mexico. Five of the
| murderers were tried and shot on the follow
| ing day.
A MAN named Smith killed his wife and HIM
| self in a hotel at Lowell, Mass, on the 9Th
inst. Cause jealousy.
THE pOstofice at Birmingham. Ala, was
robbed of money and stamps amounting TO
$500 or 500 and diamond ring.
A RALEIGH, n. c., dispatch Of the 9Th inst,
says. "Near Richland, yesterday jesse Horn
stayed with VIII Bryant all night. They quar-
relied at breakfast and each shot the usber
| fatally. AZ WIliamstOwn feud arose bel ween
| King Griffin and Smith Griffin, father and son.
| Smith shot his father dead Near Fort Cerey.
| Gilbert Young, map peddler. was killed on
| the highway by W. Fl. Whale, an old man.
| Near Statewide, Mr.. Rast was buried by his
! family. 1t was reported that he bad committed
| suicide. The body was 5isinter-ed and il was
| found that East had been murdered.
JOHN c. PARKER, who was to have been tried
for the murder of Mike Pritor, shot his wife
dead in the criminal court room at St Louis. on
the afternoon of the 5th inst, and then put a
| bullet through his own brain. The room was
crowded with lawyers, witnesses and spccta-
| tors.
CITIZENS Of Weeksyille, Mont'na, becoming
incoused at tue depredations of a. gang of des-
peradoes organized an immense sigilance com
| ulttee and lynched seven of them.