The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-27
LATE NEWS NOTES.

an insane man, named Thomas Mil
Ter, created great excitement on the
streets Of Chicago, on the Goth by
fourishing big knife and attempting
TO run muck. He was arrested after
stabbing a number of people.
There is trouble in Roberts County,
d. 7, over the county seat location.
On the Doth a party of armed men from
Wilmot went TO Traverse, wrecked the
courthouse and broke open the safe. A
number OF chattel mortgages were de-
stroyed. The county records had been
removed,
While temporarily insane, on the
20th, DIR. A. c. Newell, of Lone
Pine, Mo, wandered from his home and
was frozen to death.
London had another shake Gp on the
2lst. 4 small fire occurred at Windsor
Station, and in the debris was found
the remains OF what is thought to have
been all internal machine.
Two engines were demolished and n
number of train men injured by col
Hsion on the Panhandle road near Day
ton, O., on the 21st.
Six masked men entered the house of
Henry WOrkenhouse, in Wheeling, w.
Va, early on the morning of the 2lst,
by breaking down the door. After beat
ing ard binding the inmates the thieves
got away with $4,000.
A man named Drake was shot and in
stantly killed by Joseph Carter, near
Eldon, Ia, on the 18th.
William Armstrong, assistant super
intendent of the Cleveland iron mine,
at Ishpeming, was killed in the mine on
the 1qth, ly fall into shaft.
Fire among the oil tanks of Fisher
Brothers, at Phillips City, Pa, on the
18th, caused a loss Of $4,000.
Mail advices Of the 10Th report the
sinking by collision in the harbor of
Manila, Philippine Islands, of the Span
ish steamer Maria, with loss of twenty
lives.
The county poor house at Lapeer,
Mich, burned on the night of the 10Th.
An insane inmate named Bertha Rock
well perished in the flames. The other
inmates escaped in their night clothes
Wrappelles furniture and toy factory,
Louisville, KY. burned on the 10Th.
Loss $50,000.
Great excitement was caused in for
eign financial centers on the 18th by the
announcement on the Vienna bourse of
the flight of Lucas Jauner, director of
the securities department of the Lower
Austrian Bank, leaving deficit of ST.
100000. it YVES rumored that he had
committed suicide.
Cargiil Brothers Touring mill at
WhaEen, Mimi, was totally destroyed
by fire on the 18th. Loss $40 900.
Fire on the 18th destroyed the tin
stamping works of Thomas Davidson &,
Co., Montreal, causing loss of $4,000.
An explosion in the wholesale drug
store of Lamar & Co., Augusta, Ga, on
the 18th. killed William Holt. a colered
boy, and seriously damaged the build
ing.
The morning train west on the East
Brandywine & Waynesburg road on the
18th was wrecked by a broken rail near
Reeds Road, Chester County, Pa. The
engineer and fireman were killed.
An explosion in the building of the
Metallic Cap Company, Philadelphia Oh
the 18th, killed the superintendent, G.
N. Hughes, and George Owens, boy.
The Rev. 7. B. Fuller, bishop o
Niagara, died on the 18th, from gan
creme, caused by running a file into hi:
hand.
Marion Mcfarland. farmer nea,
Geneva, GA, died from hydrophobia
on the 10th.
Fire in the hold Of the steamer Bar
rowmore, at Baltimore, on the 17th
damaged 5000 bales of cotton and so,
| 0O0 bushels of wheat. Loss $4,000.
The wooden mill of Hawes. King &
Co., Lewistown, H., burned on th.
18th. Loss $4,000.
| Riegel & Robinson, clothiers, Buffalo