The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-10-06

AT Fincastle, Va, on the 28th, Algernon
Battleheim and George Thomas fought dud
III which the former was seriously wounded.
A PORTER at New York lodging house, was
murdered on the Goth. by an unknown touri&
Tor refusing to give sleeping quarters
REV. JOHN PARKMAN, of East PeppereL
Mass, suieided by drowning on the 2Sth. He
was eccentric.
MAN named Spurrer attempted to rob a
traveller at Lafayette, Ind, on the 29th, and
received bullet IN his brain for his la Dor.
JAMES GoFF, an engineer on the MarshviHe
and Decatur Railway, was found on the track
near Decatur. He is supposed to have been
murdered.
AT Blue Lick Springs, Ky, on the 9th. three
brothers were taking testimony in a disputed
viii case, when one of them-Sam G. Rogers
drew u revolver and killed the other two
VIM. o. and Thomas.
SAILORS wife named Reicher, smciGbd at
Milwaukee, Wis, on the 28th.
The express car of the Wabash Road was
robbed by three masked men on the 28th The
messenger was bound and gagged and $4,000
taken from the safe. The robbers escaped
near Peru, Ind.
A MAN named C. j. Dewey, has swindled
banks in New York, Boston, Mass. and Mon
treal, Can, to the aggregate of 100000 by
forged bills of lading.
A sHERIFF's posse of twenty-five met gang
of four COWBOYS at Tucson. Ari on the 26th.
Two cowboys were killed and the otheI two
escaped. The posse received no injuries.
AT New York ON the 26th, ]. William Walsh
became crazy, and before help arrived seized
his 18-months-old girl aud beat her brains out
by pounding her against the wall. Ee was
finally oyerpowered.
OK the 25th Owen Utterback, farmer,
near Welsvile, Mo-, was shot and killed in his
cornfeld. as feud between him and a
neighbor named Wesley Collins has existed for
some time, Collins was arrested on suspicion.
AT special election held on the 25th at
Shelbyville, Ind, a row resulted in the fatal
stabbing of Charles Varnan by VIM. Cros
CHARLES SYsEMoRE, murderer, incarcerated
in the Jail at Paris, H., attempted to commit
suicide on the 25th, by cutting his throat and
severing an artery in his leg. He was caught
in the act and may recover
DR.. ADoLPH wendell, was arrested at Mil
YANKEE, Wis on the Goth, for practicing medi
cine without having obtained a diploma for
that purpose according to law. The case will
be contested as the doctor claims to be COM
petent and thoroughly qualified.
On the 25th, at Boston, Mass, Richard Cur
RE shot and killed his wife. The couple had
not lived happily.
AT Rocky Mount, N. c., Samuel johnson shot
and killed his sweetheart, Julia Katharine, be-
cause she received attentions from other gen
tlemen.
THE youngest daughter of Cephas Atkinson,
of Oxford, Ind. was found near her house on
the 25th with her throat cut and other injuries.
No clue to the villains.
J. M. EyERITT, prominent merchant of
Forsythe, Mo-, was murdered on the 23d by a
sporting character named Albert G. Layton
POSTMASTER MEM, of Vidalia, Miss, was
arrested on the oath charged with robbing the
mails.
RALsHovEN's jewelry store at Detroit, was
burgarized on the 22d, and goods valued at
S12, 900 stolen.
HENRY BEATTY, fleeing murderer, was shot
-by deputy sheriff, at TalIadego, Ala.
An old feud between DIR. A b. McKune and
DIR. f. D. Cross both located at Council Bluffs,
Ia. resulted on the 9th in the murder of
McKune by Cross.