The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-27


st. Louis, was wiped out by conha-
grafton or the 10th. Loss $4,000,
with an insurance of $4,000.
THE Opera House block at Milton,
Ind, burned on the Doth. Loss S20, 900.
Two men employed in repairing a
sewer at Braddock, Pa, were suffocated
by foul gas on the Goth.
A COLLISION on the 20th on the Phila-
delphia & Atlantic Railroad, injured
eleven workmen.
ONE of the crew of the tug j. B.
Woodward lost his life at Chester, Pa,
in fire which destroyed the boat
THE burning of the Grand Trunk
Railway shops, at London, Ont, caused
a loss of S500,000.
SLIGHT shock of earthquake was
felt on the afternoon of the 10Th at De,
troit, Toledo, Ft. Wayne, and other
places in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio
No damage was reported.
BERLIN, Wis, was visited by a disas-
trous fire on the night of the 18th.
Sixteen frame buildings on Main Street
We're swept away, involving a loss of
nearly $4,000.
A QUARRYMAN named Edgar Tucker
was blown to pieces by premature ex-
f5losion of blast at Delphos. o., ON the
18th.
JAMES BIGELow's s-ye r. ID daugh-
ter persisted in fire which destroyed
his residence at East Toledo, on the
10Th.
A FIRE at Pentanguishene, Ont, on
the 10Th, destroyed seven stores. Loss
10000
VIM. Fl. PAYNE's -four mill, New York
City, was destroyed by fire on the 10Th.
Loss 100000.
j. NJ, MCFERRAN, a prominent physi-
clan of Boyle County, KY, was found
dead in a cornfeld on the morning Of
the 18th. 1t is believed he was thrown
from his no Sc
a MAN named W. Calaxes, aged about
So years, was run over and killed at
La Crosse on the 18th, while endeavor-
ing to steal ride on the train.
RICHARD A. FLYNN, aged II, was
killed at Worcester, Mass, on the 18th
by the accidental discharge of a pistol
in the hands of a comrade.
The vitriol works of James Irwin &
Co, Pittsburg, were partially destroyed
by fire on the 18th. Loss about So
600.
THE Temple Manufacturing Com
pany, OF Muskegon, Mich, lost $4,000
by a fire on the 18th.
a TRAIN on Indiana & Western Ken
tucky Railroad, struck broken rail
near Farmer City, ILL.,, on the 18th, de-
railing the train and injuring several
passengers. some, 1t is believed, fatally.
A FIRE on the 18th, which began in
the planning mill of Delbridge, Brooks,
& Fisher, Oh the afternoon of the nth,
spread to a number of surrounding
buildings which were destroyed
Loss estimated at $4,000.
Two freight trains coilided near
Pottstown, Pa, on the 10th, wrecking
iorty-five cars aud badly lnjuring an
engineer.
THE PeninsuIar Car Works were de
stroyed by fire at Detroit on the 10Th.
Loss $4,000; covered by insurance.
A FIRE on One Hundred and Twenty
Eighth Street, New York, on the night
of the 10th destroyed property to the
value Of about 100000.
An aged colored man named Simon
Harrison was burned to death with a
gran child by the burning of his sons
residence at Lockout, La, on The 18th |
AT Brownsville, Tex, John Rosas, a |
convict who had just been released af-
ter serving tive-year sentence, started |
out on the 18th to kill the sheriff who |
had arrested him and all of the wit
nesses in his trial The sheriff when
changed Rosas' programme
by perforating him with three
rifle bullets, causing instant death.
On the 9Th inst, Matt. Orton was ar
rested at Arkansas City, Ark, charged |
with causing the fire of the previous |
day. Immediately after his arrest he |
was taken by mob aud lynched.
THREE men were killed by the explo-
sion of boiler at Morton, ILL.,, on the |
18th.
Four men were killed and building |
damaged 10 the extent of 100000 by |
the explosion of boiler at Eufala, Ala,
Oh the 18th.