The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-02-07
LATE NEWS NOTES.

ine residence OF Geo. Love (cOlored) J
at Altoona, Pa, was destroyed by fire on
the morning of the 3lst, and Loves
wife and two children were burned to
death. The fire was accidental.
John Sandford's house, at Morris
town, Tenn, was burned to the ground
on the 31st Two small children per
ished in the flames.
Mrs. Golf, of Cincinnati, was almost
instantly killed, on the 3lst, by the ex-
plosion of coal stove. The house was
totally wrecked.
w. FL. Phisholm, superintendent of a
Touring mill at Waukegan, ILL.,, was
killed on the 3lst, by catching his cloth
ing on revolving shaft.
The drug house of J. S. BerdsaIl &
Co, Cincinnati, was damaged to the ex-
tent of 900 by fire on the 31st
Jacob Fahrenkrug snapped an empty
gun at his elder brother at Chicago, on
the 3lst. The latter returned the joke
and blew his brothers head of.
At Auburn, n. l., on the 30th, James
Sampson was repairing the interior of
one o. battery of two boilers, when
the fireman turned the steam on, sup
der repair. Sampson was horribly
scalded and died in an hour.
At Boston, on the 30th, John l.. Sui
lvan was fined $l15 in the municipal
court for fast driving and unnecessary
cruelty in beating horse.
Lafayette Welton was hanged at Cor
ming, Ark, on the Both, for the murder
of Franklin Hale. The crime was COM
mitted four years ago.
A dispatch of the Both, from Sydney,
New South Wales, states that an express
train between Sydney and Wagga
Wagga, while running at high rate of
speed, was precipitated into a creek by
the weakness of a bridge. Forty pas
sengers we're killed.
A fire, which originated in the Opera
House, Rondout, n. Y, on the night of
the 28th, consumed that edifce, to-
gether with a hotel adjoining. Loss
$4,000.
Fire was discovered on the 29th In
the mine at Plummer Hill, near Straits
vile, o., and at last accounts was still
burning. The mine was valued at
100000.
The livery stable of Chas. E. Smith,
Mt Philadelphia was consumed by fire
on the 29th. Thirty-nine horses per-
ished. Loss $4,000.
John Keifer was found dead at
Quincy, H., on the 29th, with a bullet
through his head. 1t is supposed to be
case of suicide.
James Sweeney, of Houston, Tex,
shielded on the both, by taking strych-
nine in his coffee. He was prominent
citizen.
The large cotton factory of Scott &
Co, of Glasgow, Scotland. was de-
stroyed by fire on the 29th. Loss $125,-
000.
The Illinois House of Representatives.
on the 29th, elected Elijah NJ. Haines
permanent speaker, after deadlock of
three weeks.
-Four men went on jamboree, at Gin
cinnati, on the night of the 9th. The
following morning the party were found
in the outskirts of the city badly frozen.
One of them will die.
The dry goods store of Berlizheimer
& Stensland, Chicago, was ruined by
fire on the night of the 2Sth. Loss
$4,000
While party of Italians were enioy-
ing themselves in South BROOKLYN, on
the night OF the 9th, they got hold of
bottle containing poison. Two of the
three who drank of it are dead. The
other will recover.
1t is again announced from Paris that
the French government is about to de-
clare war against China.
Charles J. Rogers, who, while warden
nf NH.a -, T
IN October last, killed another warden,
was hanged for the crime at that place
on the 2Sth.
Mrs. Mary Dooley, living at Winter
set, Ia, in fit of despondency, on the
9th, attempted to poison herself and
her children. The mother and one
child are dead.
4 dispatch of the 9th from Havana.
Cuba, gives details of the partial de-
struction by fire of the military bar
racks there. The loss is estimated at
100000. Several tiremen were injured.
The State Insane Asylum, at Indian
apolis, Ind, was partially DESTROYED by
fire on the 9th Loss $4,000. There
were LOO inmates, all of whom escaped
injury.
Two boys were drowned near Hons
ton, Tex, on the 9th while trying to
cross swollen bayou in skiff.
A German named Hines employed in
Shoenberger's mail mill, Pittsbure, was
caught IN the big fy-wheel or the 9th,
and literally torn to pieces.
Tie engineers of two trains were
killed in collision on the Baltimore {,
Ohio road near Quincy, W. Va, on the
9th
The morocco factory of G.. F. Leon
hardt, Brooklyn, was totally DESTROYED
by FIRE on the 9th. Loss 100000.