The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-11-14

French-Canadians. Forty-live cases
OF smallpox were verified on the 4th.
There are at present receiving relief
from the city / ,63l persons.
4 serious gas explosion occurred at
Sugar Notch Mine, near Wilkesbarre.
Pa, on the 9Th. Richard James, John
Davis and Patrick Pligh were terribly
burned, James suffered serious inin-
ries, his hands being burned to acrisp.
Mrs Catherine Trump, postmist1 ess
at the village Of Corning, Pa, has been
arrested, charged with opening letters
ont OF curiosity and reading them.
She admitted hercuilt and in iustifica-
rIOn alleged that she did not know
that she was committing an offense
for which she could be punished.
Work has been resumed in ROach's
ship yard, at Chester. Pa.
In family quarrel in Tittabasse
Township, Saginaw County, Mich. on
the 5th, William c. Decker. Is years
old, shot and fatally injured his step
father, Homer Stanton. The boy
gave himself up, and claims that he
did the shooting in sef-defense. He
says that Stanton was pounding his
mother when he interfered, and his
stepfather then pitched into him,
whereupon he shot him.
A dispatch OF the 5th from Tacoma,
Ore, states that Chinatown, situated
near the lower depot and wharf OF the
Northern Pacific Railroad, has been
burned by d mob, and that the rail
road tracks, trestle and other property
have been damaged by the flames
Devils Lake, OAK, wasfavored with
eight inches OF snow on the 4th inst.
The body Of Eva Herman, wife OF
Charles Herman, was found in the
rooms of the couple in Buffalo, n Y,
on the 4th. The couple were heard
qUarreGng on Sunday night, and the
tact that Mrs. Herman had not since
been seen, led to an Investigation.
The body was lying on the bed, the
throat cut from ear TO ear, and the
hands gashed IN the struggle, to which
the state OF the room bore witness.
The woman kept a market stall, and
the husband Is a butcher out OF work
He has been seen to enter the house
every evening and leave it every morn
ing since the tragedy, and, as there Is
but one bed, it Is believed that he has
been sleeping beside the corpse Of his
wife. He has not been arrested.
At Newton, \. c., on the Sd, Caleb
Seigman, who undertook to drink a
quart OF apple brandy, died from the
effects of the dose. For several min
utes after his death the brandy ran in
q stream from his mouth and nostrils.
John Bunch, the negro Jockey who
shot and killed "Richball'sn driver,
James kiley, OF Toledo O., at Home
wood Park, last July. was convicted,
at PIttsburg, on the Sd, OF murder in
the second degree.
On the evening of the ID, while J. B.
White, prominent planter, residing
two miles from Richmond, Tex, was
seated at the supper table, he was
shot and instantly killed by some un-
known person, who fired at him
through the window. BlOOd-hounds
have been put on the track Of the muir
derer.
During an election row between col
Ored men at Baltimore, on the Sd,
John Hebrew was fatally shot by
Sheep Brown
Perry Bayne, one OF the seven men
charged with the murder OF Cinnamon
recently at Squak, w. T, was acquit-
ted at Seattle on the Sd. Six others
remain to be tried
While the vote was being counted in
the Rome n. " station-house on
the 3D. inst, the place took fire. Two
prisoners, who were confined in the
lookup, lost their lives.
Miss Katie Tabb, a well-known
young lady OF Louisville, Ky, was
fatally burned on the night OF the Sd
inst. She was kneeling before a CRATE
saying her prayers.
4 collision occurred between two
freight trains on the St Paul Road
near Whitman, MINI, on the I'd inst.
Both engines were badly smashed and
Engineer Severance lost his life
The funeral services over the re-
mains OF the late Cen Mcclellan took
place at New York on the ID inst. A
large concOurse Of people were present,
but according to the wish Of the d.
ceased there was no military pageant.