The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
LATE NEWS NOTES.

rowing machine, committed suicide over
the remains of his dead wife at New
York on the Both.
The collection OF forces and munit-
| ions Of war at Dongola is so slow that il
IS not thought Gen. Wolseley can march
upon khartoum before February.
Horace A. Hurlbut was on the 29tn
appointed receiver of the estate of Viii
hTr +. Storey. He was enjoined, how
ever, from interfering with the Times
newspaper.
Fire IN the building occupied by Ed
mundsOn & Sons furniture establish
ment, Pittsburg, destroyed property to
the value OF $4,000.
The steamship Durango was sunk in
the English Channel on the 2sth. by
collision with sailing vessel. Twenty
persons lost their lives.
In the case Of Frank r. Sherwiu. at
Albany, the court affirmed the judg-
ment Of conviction and sentence to the
penltentiaIy,
The Middletown n. Y National
Bank has closed its doors. 1t is said
the deposItors viii lose nothing.
Charles T. Goodwin, of Port Chester.
\. Y, aged 50 years, crazed by financial
troubles, threw himself before a railway
train on the 2Sth. and was cut to pieces.
Harris elevator snd two other struct-
ures were burned at Jacksonville. Fla.
on the 2Sth. causing a loss of $4,000.
John Bidwell's Touring mill at Chico,
Cal, was destroyed by fire on the 18th,
causing loss of $4,000.
4 fire IN the dry-goods store of Mrs
Elizabeth Moynan at Auburn, \. Y, on
the 18th, caused loss of $4,000.
David Sternberg. a St. Louis dry
goods merchant. failed on the 9th.
Liabilities $4,000.
4 coIierv, owned and operated by j.
h. Swoyer, at Wilkesbarre, Pa, was
burned on the 9th. The loss was S6O,-
900; insurance, $4,000.
A fire at White Hall, IL, on the 26th,
consumed six business houses. The
loss was S2l, 900; insurance, $4,000.
In a family row in New York on
Thanksgiving day, Charles J. Edwards
attacked his father. Joseph Edwards, a
retired merchant, with a knife. The
father drew a revolver TO defend him
self, when Harry, another son, sprang
between the two, receiving the bullet in
the head. He will die.
Burglars broke into the Kings Coun-
" n. u penitentiary on the uight of
the 25th. and stole $4,000 from the safe
II the shoe shop. The money belonged
to the Bay State Shoe and Leather
Company.
The Baltimore Rivet and Spike
Works have assigned. Bond of the
trustee $4,000.
Lem Simmons was shot dead by Jack
Davis, IN Indian Territory on the 18th.
They had quarreled about cattle.
An epidemic Of hydrophobia prevails
at Vienna. Eighty cases and eleven
deaths have been reported.
Frank Casey, (colored) who murdered
Charles Watson, IN Argenta, opposite
Little Rock, Ark, IN September, was
hanged at the latter place on the 18th.
He acknowledged the stabbing Of Wat
son, but pleaded drunke nness, and de
MED that heintended to Kill him.
Six masked men bound and gagged
George Young, Levi Weisman and sew
SEa1 AaulSs aDO rODDed Llern OF SObU ana
LOT ofievelry, at Beaver. Pa, on the
25th.
A DDNG-car on the Michigan Cen
tral took fire near Talleston. Ind, on
the 25th, and was entirely consumed.
Loss $4,000.
Mrs. MENA LEMPKE, the insane wife
of Milwaukee broom-maker, made a
desperate attempt to commit suicide on
the 25th, by severing the arteries of
her wrists. Her condition is critical.
AT Little Rock, Ark. on the 24th.
two men were fatally injured by fall
of forty feet at railroad bridge in proc
ess Of erection.
WAYNEsBUR6, Pa. was visited by
disastrous fire on the oath. Four stores
and the Office of the Independent were
ruined. Loss S25, 600.
A FIRE on the 24t1, in the building
1S3 Monroe Street, Chicago, occupied by
the Chicaeo Paper Company, caused
loss of $50 900.
THE Seldom lumber yard and sheds
at Rome, n. Z, were burned by incen-
diraies on tie morning Of the oath
The loss was about S50. 600; partially
insured.