The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-20
LATE NEWS NOTES.

Ire on me 10TH destroyed Six stores
at st. Mary, Kas., valued at $45, 900;
| a car storehouse in Philadelphia, and
two dry goods stores at Norfolk, Va.
In the mines at Coal Greek, Tennes-
see, on the 18th, six convicts undertook
to escape. Two were killed and two
fatally wounded by the guards.
Gains Chadwick, who was nearly
murdered by fellow convict in Joliet
penitentiary, has been pardoned out.
The Mignonette cannibals, sentenced
to hang at London, have had their SEN
tence commuted to six months in pris-
OIL.
An engine and twenty freight ears
iRmped the track near Marshall P,l =,
Col, on the night of the 18th. One
man was killed.
An explosion took place in the coll
iery of the Stattsbahn Company at Anuna
,oteyrdorf, South Hungary, on the 14th
Seventy-fve were killed. All are hus-
bands and fathers of families.
Fire in New Bedford, Mass, on the
18th caused loss of about $4,000.
The linseed oil,works of ". Il. Grove,
Kansas City, Mo, burned on the 18th.
Loss $4,000.
A dispatch from Odessa of the 18th,
says the Turkish atrocities in Mace
donia, are increasing. Two hundred
Christians were murdered within few
weeks, and three villages were burned.
kidnapping Is common, and the inhab-
itants are afraid to leave their homes.
A break in the wall of the big gasom-
eter of the city gas works, ST. Louis,
on the 11th, caused an explosion which
did damage to the amount of 100000.
Near Wheaton, Dakota, on the morn
ing of tie llth, farmer named L. J.
Lewis wa5 found dead in bed with a
piece of bed quilt in his throat. His
sons are under suspicion, as they had
quarreled with him.
Twelve Nihilists fell into the hands
Of the police at ST. Petersburg on the
evening of the 11th. Important docu-
ments and 10000 roubles were captured
in an underground passage at lsitchitza.
The party were rested at ball.
William Lynn. ged %, died at Chi
ca2o on the 18th, from the effects OF a
blow from policeman's billy.
Frank Mantel Adams and Miss Cole
ridge were privately married in Lon
don on the 11th.
Engiand's negotiations with China,
looking to a settlement of the trouble
with France, resulted in failure.
Wilkinson Bros, private bankers,
Syracuse, \. Y, suspended on the
10th. Liabilities 100000; assets
100000
Fire in Centraha, ILL.,, destroyed the
works of the Centralia Mining Com
pany. Loss 5000; insurance S., 900.
Clark Bros. & Co.'S furniture fac
tory and number of adjoining build
ings, atPhiladelphia, burned on the 10th.
Loss $4,000.
A dispatch of the 10th, from Golden
City, b. c., states that a commercial
traveller named Baird was killed and
robbed of $4,000 near that place. A
large number of citizens are in hot pur-
suit. Eddy, Hammond & Co., for
whom Baird was travelling, offer a re-
ward of 81 900 for the capture of the
murdererg.
A man named Daniel Kennedy was
shot and killed by his wife, on the
10th, in front of the new City Hall, San
Francisco.
Fire on the 10th, in the hold of the
steamer City of Augusta, at her dock in
Savannah, Ga, destroyed $4,000 worth
Of cotton.
Two Mexicans named Hernandez
and Altimveano fought duel with pis-
tolls near Oakville, Tex, on the 10th.
The latter Was killed at the first fire and
the former had shoulder shattered.
The cause was woman.
Two sections of q broken train collided
near Dongola, H.. on tho 9th, killing a
brakeman named Dougherty.
Aliens tobacco warehouse, with 500
cases of stock, az Thompsonville, Conn,
| burned on the 9th, causing a loss of
$4,000.
Fire on North Street, Philadelphia,
on the 9th, caused loss o. $4,000.
Four Anarchists, with dynamite in
| their possession. were arrested on the
9th, at Sternberg, Austria.
A MOB took desperate PANIED
Charles Stevens from the jail at Mary
| vile, Mo-, on the 9th, aod hanged him
to railroad bridge.
Capt. Dudley and mate, of the
wrecked yacht Mignonette, on trial at
London, who were found guilty of mur-
der in killing the boy Parker for food
to keep themselves alive, were on the
9th, sentenced to death. It is believed
they will certainly be paTdoned.
A judgment against Gen. Grant for
S155,000 was fled in New York by Van
derbilt's attorney, on the 9th.
The Cincinnati Desiccating Com
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| the Sth, to the extent of $4,000.
| st. Louis has sensation. In Nav
last the Office of the city clerk at East St
Louis was robbed by burglars of 50, ,O00i
cash and $1,000 in city scrip. Charles
Clark, leader of gang OF burglars, has
con essed the robbirg, and implica v
= number Of tha police forao and SO
! eral city officials.