The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-08-25


18th, by Constable Simon Roberts.
An unknown man suicided at the Railroad
House, Milwaukee, Wis, on the 10th, by shoot
ing.
An oil-well, producing 2,400 barrels day,
was struck on the 18th. in the Balltown Dis
trlct, Forest County, Pennsylvania.
G. E. HARDWOOD, of Audubon, Ia, received
notice on the 18th that he had fallen heir to
$50, 900, which is a dividend of the Morellus
estate In Holland, left by his great-aunt. The
fortune of the aunt amounted to $50, 900, 600.
the 18th, articles of incorporation were
filed at Madison, Wis, for railroad from the
st. Crolx River to Florence, Wis. The road
will run through Polk, Barron, Washburn,
Sawyer, Chippewa, Pierce, Lincoln, Langlade
and Florence Counties.
IHE forty-hfth congress appropriated 1870
for the purchase and Improvement of the birth
place of Washington. On the 18th the state
department bought the old place for 81, 500,
and VIII expend the balance in improvements.
1t is situated Sc miles from Washington down
the Potomac River.
HENRY L. You've, general agent in Cincin-
natl, of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Rail-
road, suicided on the l4th.
AT Fayette Station, West Virginia, on the
l4th, Lee Reeves, colored, shot two men
fatslly and seriously wounded another. He
escaped.
On the 14Uh, a farmer named Heaeock, near
Columbia, S. c., having lost heavily in melons,
staked off a burial lot in his field, made
bis will, gave directions as to his interment
and took dose of laddanum. He died within
few hours.
On the 14th, at Cincinnati, O., James
McDonough was shot and killed by John W.
Day. McDonough accused Day of robbing
him and the quarrel resulted as above.
Two female convicts at the Nashville, Tenn,
prison, engaged in a quarrel on the 18th. One
of them used pocket knife, and cut the other
to the heart.
-Four horse thieves were overtaken in MIS-
sissippi by exasperated Georgians, on the 18th.
and strung up together.
A ST. PAUL real estate dealer named G. NJ.
Dittman was arrested on the 14th for making
duplicates of notes. His forgeries. it is said,
will amount to Sl50,00O.
FRANK n. RUpDocK shielded by shooting on
the 18th, at Chicago, Ill.
GEO. w. VAN ARNOLD, a well-known Upper
Mississippi lumberman. ended dissipated
career at Brainard, Mimi, on the 18Th, bv
shooting himself through the head.
AT Indianapolis, Ind. on the 18th, Edward
Schessler shot and killed Margaret Kaufman,
his divorced wife, and then suicided.
Mrs. II. n. PARISH was arrested on the
14th at Chicago for smuggling. She has made
twenty trips across the ocean, purchased
secondhand dresses from the nobility of Eu.
rope, and succeeded in passing her trunks
free of duty, explaining that they contained
wearing apparel.
AT Austin, Minn., on the 14th, Lawrence
Denman put four 44-caliber bullets into Rev.
r. S. Sewel, who expired in a few minutes.
THE postmaster at Tishoming, l. T., was
driven from his Office on the 18th by gang of
Indian desperadoes.
MARSHAL MURRAY, of Helena, Ark. was
assassinated on the 14th.
PATRICK KIRBY, young man still in lis
teens committed suicide with revolver AZ
New York, On the 18th.
Ok the 18th Hans Hsrnason handed his coat
to a companion and jumped from Van Buren,
Street bridge, Chicago He was drowned aud
the coat-holder is under arrest.
AT Pueblo, COL, on the 18th, gambler
named Frank Hutchinson, slashed his uife's
throat with razor and then cut his own
throat from ear to ear. The woman escaped
by jumping from second story window.
CHARLES SHELTON and Will Keys, two
wealthy stock and ranchmen OF North Park,
WEo., engaged in duel with Winchester rifles
III 16eI-On the 1Utn, over some
trifing dispute. Keys was killed and Shelton
seriously wounded.
MAN named Emerson, alias Texas Bill, shot
and killed without provocation, baker named
EDger, at Hutchinson, Kas., on the 18th.
}. w. PEARSON was assassinated on the 18th.
at Jackson, Miss, by parties unknown.
The wife of United States Senator Allison.
OF Iowa, suicided by drowning at Dubuque,
Ia. on the 18th. She had been suffering from
and been treated for mental disease for several
years past.
FRANK VAIL and August Bunker quarroled
over game of cards at St. Louis. Mo-. on the
11th. bunker fired three shots into Wall.
killing him, and then suicided.
CHARLES McDoLE, of Green Bay. Wis, as
saulted his wife and attempted to brain her
with an axe on the 18th, because she refused
to let him pawn her gold watch for gambling
money.
A YOUNG man named Sklenar was burned tn
death in 9 barn near Racine, Wis, on the 18th.
1t appears the young man and his mother had
quarrel the evening previous and he went to
the barn to sleep. She had threatened ven
geance and investigation showed that the doors
Of the barn had been blockaded from the ont
side, presumably by Mrs. Sklenar.
NEAR Chattanooga, Tenn. on the 18th, four
men we're found dead in a railroad camp Tt
is supposed they fought over game OF cards.