The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-05-03
CRIMINAL.

CRIMINAL
AT the close Of Long Branch, Tex, SUNDAY
school on the 9th, some Of the gentlemanly
teachers and scholars got into quarrel, result
ing IN the death of Houston Gearv, from pistol
shots fired by Gus Scrutchins.
An insane man named Max Michael cremated
himself and I-year old child at Philadelphia, Oh
the 9th
MULLCAN and Clark, murderers, were lyncbed
at Monroe, La, on the Goth.
CHARLES DALI. Bradford, Pa. miner was
found murdered by the roadside, on the 9th.
LUKE PHIPPs, who shot his wife dead on a
Detroit River ferryboat last August, was found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged at Sandwich,
Ont, on the 26th.
GoLooNDA, H., was wildly excited, on the
10th, over the fatal shooting of ex-Sheriff
Frank Waters, by an unknown person who fired
through window of Waters house at night.
Charles Morrell, who was paying attention to a
young lady who also accepted Waters COM
paDy, was arrested on suspicion.
AT Easton Pa, on the 26th, Mrs. Amelia Bar
net cut the throats of her two children. one
aged years and the other months, and then
drew the keen blade GLOSS her own throat
MRS. c. FL. MATTHEWS and family, of Gales
burg, H., returned from Florida, on the 26th.
to ind their residence plundered of property
valued at g, 600.
ADELBERT kNowLToN, farmer living near
Whitewater, Wis, hung himself during fit of
Insanity, on the Goth.
AN old farmer named Hiram Jellerson living
near Audubon, Ia, was dragged from his bed
on the night of the 26th by four unknswn
assassins and hanged to tree.
Mrs. MARY MALIoNEY died during debauch
in New York. on the Goth, and in the morning
the body of her husband, whose own spree had
been so rudey interrupted, was found hanging
from the ceiling near her dead body.
Two specimens of humanity with more
muscle than brain fought 121 rounds near
Plttsburg, on the 25th.
JUDGE BARLOW drew forth universal consem-
nation at Lebanon, Ky, on the 25th, by releas-
ing cold-blooded murderer named Lawrence
Clayton on bond of only $1,000.
A MOB at Mt. Sterling, Ky., on the 25th.
attempted to bang murderer named VIM.
Osborne. who had succeeded in getting off with
sentence of only five years, but the taller well
armed, kept the mob at bay.
WARREN F. MCCHEsNEY, a prominent gam
bling character of St. Louis, was convicted of
fraud on the 25th, and sentenced to two years
In the penitentary.
CHARLES RUGa was found guilty of the Nav
bee murder at Oyster Bay, L. l.. on the 25th.
and Frank James was acquitted OF the Mussel
Shoals robbery at Huntsville, Ala
ACHICAGo dispatch of the oath reports the
suicide in the lake at that place OF an unknown
man aged about 80 years, with dark hair and
brown moustache
SIX Socialists were arrested at Chicago on
the 24th, for varying the monotony of recent
meeting OF their society by attempting to hang
the secretary, John Neitch.
Wrcr fl,o 1o,3
waukee frebugs, was sentenced to the Reform
School at Waukesha, on the oath.
JOHN WEIDMAN, of Rock Island. ILL.,. was
fstaiiy injured by robbers on the night of the
BURGLARS chloroformed and gagged Mrs.
Crawford, an old lady at Davenport Ia on
the Z4th, before beginning a search for vau-
ables.
FRANK DEwALT, the defaulting president Of
the Leadville Bank, was arraigned at Cleveland
on the 23d. He was remanded to iail in de-
fault OF 800, 600 bail and will be taken TO Den
ver
lH4DEN q. ABBOTT. charged with robbing the
Watertown, Mass, bank Of $4,000, was ar
rested at Pierce City, No., on the 23d.
DIR. ABRAM ID. BABcoCK. formerly Of Fond
du Lac, Wis. is undr arrest at Syracuse. n. Y.
charged with criminal malpractice.
W. Fl. LENT, secretary of the Bode Mining
Company, was found dead in the streets of San
Francisco with a bullet through bis heart, on
the 23d.
DEFICIT of s12,0 was discovered in the
finances OF the Massachusetts, state prison. on
the 22d.
JOSEPH ALLEN Was arrested at Hamilton.
Ont, on the 23d, charged with the Crouch muir
der at Jackson, Mich.
Ex-CITY TREASURER SMITH, Of Bayonne. N.
j., is short in his accounts s41,00O.
In Allen County, KY, on the 23d. William
Austin, in fit Of insanity. brutally murdered
bis two young children by roasting them alive.
THOMAS c. BoUGHTos, a prominent citizen of
Jackson, Mich, is defaulter to the amount nj
$4,000
CHAs. FRIKE, an old resident Of Waukegan.
Ill, killed his second wife with club in quarrel
22d.
EUGENE BARKER, police officer. was fatally
shot, at Newport, r. l., on the 22d. by VIM.
Shay, whom he was trying to arrest for disor.
derry conduct
Two Kentucky desperadoes named Flvnr
| and Hale. killed each other in an sffray a,
Irving KY, on the 22d.
On the 22d, John Covle expiated the crime
of murder on the galiows at Gettysburg, Pa.
JAMES NICHOLSON murdered his wife at Bos
ton on the 22d.
The body Of man who had registered at q
New York hotel as Nathan Fish, of Canada
| was found in the river on the 22d. In hi,
trunk dynamite and explosives we're found il
abundance.
DIR. HARRINGTON, who was convicted at Jer
sey City of conspiracy to defrsud the American
| Legion of Honor, was sent to prison for tw,
years, on the 21st.
| A. l.. STEARNs. an insane man. aged 80 years
| jumped into the river at Jsnesvile. Wis, OF
| the 2ist, and was drowned.