The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-21
CRIMINAL

NICHOLAS DEGRoAr, cashier of the Union
Mutual Life Insurance Company. at Portland.
Me-, committed suicide on the l4th
GEO. HUGHES clerk in the Central Hotel at
Bardstown, Ky, was fatally stabbed by a
worthless negro on the 18th inst.
The wife of Geo. Wilson, now in the Micbi-
gan penitentiary for numbering Policeman Bal
lard at Detroit died of broken heart on the
18th.
The body of young man named Taylor. of
Bordentown. KY, was found in the river near
Santa Fe, Mo-, on the 18th, with arms bound
and neck broken.
ALEX. JEFFERSON, negro, who murdered
Mrs. Emma Jackson and Henry Hicks, at New
York, is to be hanged August l.
HANGINGs on the 18th: RecIo a colored Gu
ban. for murder, at Key West, Fla LIeweIlvn
Robinson, colored, at Montgomery, Ala, also
for murder.
B. F. BARNS was found guilty of the charge
Of wife murder at Richland Center, Wis., on
the 18th inst. and was sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for life.
B. F. STONE, wealthy manufacturer of Bal
timore, committed suicide on the 18th.
POSTMASTER REUBEN ADAMS, of Hersey, Wis,
and S. D. McKobn, of Menomonie. Wis, will
be indicted by the United States court for en-
bezzlement of postal funds
A YOUNG man named Marchalek, committed
suicide by hanging, at Tisch Mills, Kewaunee
County, Wis, on the 18th.
JAMES QUILLAN, an employe in brewery at
Newburg. N. Y. was killed by the explosion of
beer barrel on the 18th inst.
A DEsPERADo named LLOYD Ford was killed
in political row at New Albany Mass, on the
18th.
AT Wheeling, W. Va, boy named ANDY
Adams, on the 18th inst, offered up bis moth
er and sister as sacrifices while in religious
frenzy.
GEORGE E. PURINToN, postmaster and mer
chant at Folietts, Ia. suicided on the 18th.
VIM. S. MORGAN, the defaultng agent of the
New York banking house CT Putnam & Earl,
was sent up for three years at Hartford, Conn
on the 11th.
OTTo II. WEIDNER, general delivery clerk in
the st. Louis postoffice, was placed under ar
rest on the 18th inst, on charge of rifiing
letters OF money.
A NEGRO boy who shot lad named Osborne,
while strawberrying at Castlewood, Va, was
taken from jail, on the 11tb, and hanged by a
mob
IssAc A. STANLEY, Cleveland bank teller,
was arrested on the lth, and confessed having
stolen 100000.
A PAUPER in the Erie County, Pa, aims
house becoming demented ON the 10TH rushed
to the highest part of the building and jumped
off, breaking his neck.
AT Milwaukee on the 10TH Ferd. Gutzmap,
of Menssba, was sentenced to Waupun for
two years. for rihiug a mail pouch, and
DR.. VIM. Mink, of Racine, was fined 800 for
sending obscene literature through the mails
CASHIER HALL, Of the Citizens Bank, Will
mington, Del, is a defaulter to an unknown
amount.
A Boston dispatch Of the 10th inst, SAYS
Tilden G.. Abbott, the defaulting cashier of the
Watertown Bank has been sentenced for tenn
of eight years.
UNKNOWN parties on the 9th inst, attempt
cd to poison 125 cattle owned by James Cation,
a farmer in Miami County, Kas., by putting
arsenic and strvchnine in the wells.
THE body of Mrs. Fox, who disappeared
mysteriously from her home at Auburn. Fond
du Lac County, Wis, some time ago, was re-
covered from swamp in that vicinity on the
9th and her husband placed under arrest.
GEN. ABE BUFoRD. the noted Kentuckian, com
mitted suicide al DanviIle, Ind, on the 9th
irst