The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-07-26
CRIMINAL

A MOB at West Point, Ga. took a negro
named Sam Gibson from the Jail on the 18th
for the purpose cf dsaug;rs him cihzan
fought desperately with razor inficting ter
rible wounds on five OF the lynchers, three of
whom viii die. Gibson was shot dead during
the struggle.
c. l. GILLILASD, a prominent citizen Of
SabInal, Tex, committed suicide at San
Antonio hotel on the 18th.
ANDREW ALLEN, an old resident of Sparta,
Wis, opened vein in his arm. with suicidal
Intentions on the 18Th, and bled TO death.
Albert HAKEY, travelling man, formerly
Of Minneapolis, ended his life with poison at
MosInee, Wis, on the 18th.
FANNY BEHLE, aged IS. shot herself in the
presence Of her mother at Cincinnati. on the
18th inst, because her lover was discovered to
be a married man
MONTANA cowboys have organized against
horse-thiCves. and during the past three weeks
nave executed thirteen thieves.
AT Baltimore on the 18th Valentine Fritz.
while IN an unconscious condition from the
heat, was killed by his idiot son driving a nail
into his head.
A SPECIAL OF the 18th from Cheraw, s. c.,
states that Hawley Douglass, supposed to have
been the leader Of the posse who killed Began
Cash. was shot down while at work in the field.
HENRY BLOOM, Baltimore & Ohio express
messenger, was arrested at Pittsburg on the
18th inst, for the theft of SO, 900.
SAM. WILLIAMS, colored,. vas hanged at
Waynesboro, Pa, on the 18th. for the murder
Of Glenn. Bush, also colOred, October 20.
An attempted insurance swindle by DR.. Eli
Quigley, was discovered at Reddrug. Ia. on the
18th. He lately secured policy of $4,000 in
the Northwestern Mutual Life, of Milwaukee.
and one Of $4,000 in the Bankers Association.
He then robbed a grave and after placing the
corpse in his Office, fred the building. The
fire was discovered and extinguished and the
attempted fraud exposed by the Identification
OF the scorched body. QuigIey is now a wan
derer.
WARNER D. HATCH, president of a New York
hthographiug company, suicided on the 10th
INST, by jumping from a Long Island Sound
steamer.
GEORGE PATRICK, a wealthy johnson County.
Tenn, farmer, was found on the 18th inst.
with seventeen bullet holes in his body
ALERT MILES. coIored, who murdered hi,
wife in a fit Of jealousy. September. 1882. was
hung at Natchez, Miss, on the 18th.
WILLIAM Faulkner was fatally shot by Ben
Miller in quarrel at Cooperstown, Ky, on the
18th inst.
An Irishwoman named Conners quarreIed
With sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary Madden. at
Pittsburg, on the 18th. about the right TO use a
bake-Oven. and in her anger struck Mrs. Mad
den over the head twice with an axe inlicting
fatal injuries.
CHARLES SPUBLoCK. a desperate who mur-
dered Alvin Woods. near Charleston. W. va.
IN April last, and VIM. Coleman, a colored man
who killed a man at a dsnce-housa bravi a.
Charleston. IN October, have been sentenced to
be hanged October II.
AT Newcomerstown, o., on the 18th inst. G
". McNeely kicked Lewis Brumly in the
stomach, causing death In few hours.
RICHARD A. ROBBINS was drugged with beer
aud shot and robbed Of Il. 500 at Hsrr1sb7,rg
Pa, on the 18th. He may recover.
JOHN WILLIAMS. brick yard laborer at st.
Louis, killed his wife on the 18th inst. by stab
hing her nine times with pocket knife
A CARPENTER named Albert Burdick. aged Il
years, shot himself st Watertovn, Wis, on the
morning OF the 14th.