The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-02-21
LATE NEWS NOTES.

The Glasgow Mills, Caryville, Fla,
burned on the 14th. Loss $4,000.
An aged and Incorporate woman
named Esther Thomas was burned to
death at Detroit on the morning of the
14th.
In County Westmeath, Ireland, on
the morning of the 14th, the dead body
of Peter Kelly was found, with circum-
stances pointing toward murder.
The London policemen, Cole and
Cox, who we're injured at the time OF
the recent dynamite explosions, have
received from various sources the ag2re-
gate sun of about 50, 0OO each for their
efforts to prevent the disasters.
A Texas desperate, named Joe Bran
non, wanted for horse stealing, was shot
and killed St Springfield, Mo-, while
resisting arrest, on the 14th.
To save his life In a collision neer
Columbus, o., on the 18th, Richard I.
Sheridan, a Panhandle conductor,
jumped from hls train and was killed.
Considerable excitement was caused
in a Washington Hotel, on the night of
the 18th, by the attempt of Butler
Malone, son of the senator, to shoot
colored porter by way of winding up an
extended iamboree.
b. b. Hotchkiss, inventor of the IA
nous Hotchkiss gun, died in Paris on
the 18th.
DIR. Leopold Damrosch, the great
German musical director, died suddenly
at New York on the 18th, at the age of
So years.
Francis A. Drexel, head of the great
Philadelphia banking house, died at his
residence IN that city on the 18th. He
was 81 years old.
The Union Iron Mills, Pittsburg, re-
sumed work on the 10th. The mills
give employment to over 400 men.
The -four mills of Darrah Bros. &
90, Big Rapids, Mich, were destroyed
by fire on the 18th. Loss $4,000.
DIR. Helmbold, the great "Buchu"
man, was released from the Norristown
(Pa.) Insane Asylum on the 18th. A
special lunacy commission declared him
sane.
Two colored servants were burned to
death at Calvert, Tex, on the night of
the 18th
The Rockford Ill) steam bakery
failed on the 18Th. Liabilities $4,000.
Samuel Proper was killed at Dover
Plains, \. Y, by William J. White, on
the night of the 18th, in quarrel over q
woman.
j. W. Hutchinson, of Gillespie, i'll,
committed suicide by poison at the
Peoples House, St. Louis on the 18th
Financial trouble is said to have been the
cause.
Lee LIN, editor of the Wabash tInd.l
Courier, who shot and killed William
Hickey, was acquitted on the 18th.
-Four tirsmen were seriously hurt at
fire on the 18th which partially destroyed
Pratts rag warehouse, Binghamton. y.
I. Loss $40, 600
In a farming district fifteen miles from
New Albany, Ind, on the night of the
18th, three members of the family of
William Fraznie we're burned to death.
The house caught fire while they were
asleep.
Richard Trenke was hanged at Phil
adelphia on the 18th for the murder OF
Mrs. Zimms, in October lat.
Near Bardstown, Ky, On the 11th,
Hardin Hill, farmer, shot and killed
his wife, and then fled.
Llge Parker and hush Johnson, muir
derers, were hanged at Little Rock,
Ark, on the 18th.
The boiler in the Touring mill of Nc
Daniel q Wright, at Franklin. Ind, ey-
ploded on the 18th. James High, en-
gineer, was killed.
J. Labarre was wound around shaft
and klIsi at Owatonna, Mimi, on the
18th.
Clarence Washington, conductor. was
killed IN railway accident caused bv
broken rail, near Alexandria, Va, on
the 18th
In Perry township, Licking County.
O., on the 11th, Mrs. James Nnn1sjay
left her little child alone in the bousa
while she went to the sprire. Dnrino
her absence the little ones clothes tooF
fire, and death resulted in q few hours