The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-28
CRIMINAL

JASPER WHARTON, formerly of Louisville
KY, died at Dallas, Tex, on the 22d
from the effects of poison, supposed
to have been taken with suicidal intent.
PETER MCCORMICK, wealthy resident OF
Hunters Point, l.. l., was shot and instantly
killed, on the 22d, by tenant named Patrick
Kiernan.
In duel on horseback near Denver, Col, or
the 22d, Pat Cain killed Billy Wilson.
CAPT. MAURY, of the steamer City of Toxic
was arrested at San Francisco, on the 21st. fol-
neglecting to report a case of small pox.
ISAAC B. SHARP, of Wyandotte, Has. COM
mitted suicide, on the morning of the 2lst, by
shooting through the head. Ill health was the
cause.
On the 10Th inst, s. Waldo Sibley, promi-
nent New York merchant in good financial cir
cumstances, cut bis throat with razor to escape
the pangs of dyspepsia.
AN examination of the accounts of Robert c..
Morgan, deceased treasury clerk, developed a
shortage of $4,000. His bondsmen will make
up the loss.
The embezzling manager Of the Cantonial
Bank, at Neufshatel, committed suicide ON the
18th inst.
J. F. CEoHURA, living in the suburbs of st.
Paul, Minn., in fit Of rage, on the 18th inst,
stabbed to death his two tenants, Katharine
Messerchmidt and her daughter, because they
paid their rent to his wife.
THE safe of John Collins, in Saniac County,
Mich. was raided by burglars on the night of
the 18th. The lunar artists secured $4,000
On the 18th, prohibitionists at Upton, Ia,
on the Missouri state line, crossed into Missouri
and demolished a saloon in which liquor was
being sold in defiance Of the Iowa law. The
ruins of the saloon were fired. Women ap-
plauded the act.
Mrs. THOMAS SHELTON was found dead at
her residence in Owensville, Ind, on the 18th
inst, having been murdered by some unknown
person. Her husband left her ten days previ-
GUS, III consequence OF quarrel.
DIR. NJ. AGELBRow, of Minneapolis, was
robbed Of S2,700 on a West Shore train near
Syracuse, n. Y, oD the 18th.
ISAAC JACOBSON, who murdered George Be
dell, III Chicago, last April, has been sentenced
o be hanged April 20.
CHAs. II. CAMBRIDGE, in fit of jealousy,
Mich, on the 18th.
JOHN P. KENNEDY murdered bis wife be-
cause of her infidelity, at New London. Ont,
on the 18th inst.
On the 18th friends of James Clifford 8
murderer, who was confined in the Jail at New
Lexington, o., drugged the jaier and released
the prisoner, who made his escape from the
county.
C. c. MORRIS, prominent citizen of Greens.
| burg, Ky, was mysteriously assassinated on the
| 18th INST. His body was found on road neal
| the city, pi creed by six bullets.
LUKE PHIPHs was hanged at Sandwich, Ont.
ON the 18th inst, for the murder of his wife
| on ferry steamer at Detroit on the goth OF
| last August.
| L. d. LEFFINGwELL. the largest plate-glass
manufacturer west of New York, was found
| dead with bullet-hole through his head, a,
| Cleveland, on the 18th. Supposed suicide.
"RED" MORRIS was fatally stabbed in
| drunken row at Bromley, KY, on the 10th.
A GERMAN named Shemlick committed sui
eide by shooting at Portage, Wis, on the 16tt
| inst.
| JoHS LOWRY, who two years ago embezzled
$40, coo from the Heca Mining Company. wa
arrested near Moorhead, Mimi, on the 10th.
| HUNTERS near Buffalo. n. Y, found ths
| skeleton of man hanging to a tree on th,
| 10th inst. 1t had apparently been swingint
/ in the wind for years.