The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-08-08

found that r. w. Kerr, OF Saltwater,
who was shot on an international
railroad train, had committed suicide,
The receiver OF the iron manufact-
urlng firm OF Brown, Bonnell & Co, at
Youngstown, signed the scale OF the
Amalgamated Association on the
Both, and the works will be started
Immediately. The mills employ 200
men.
John 4. Dutter, a prominent coal
operator OF Mahanoy Plane, near
Ashland Pa, was foreclOsed by the
sheriff, on the Doth. His liabilities are
about S15O,OOO.
J. X. Huston & Co., coffee dealers,
Philadelphia, have made an assign
ment. Their liabilities are estimated
at $50, 900; assets about one-fourth
that sum.
Peter Burke, a wholesale dealer in
tobacco and cigars, at Mobile, Ala,
made an assignment on the 29th. His
liabilities are about 100000 and his
nominal assets 100000.
7. k. Mills, secretary of the Iowa
Legion OF Honor, his daughter and her
friend, Miss Null, OF Cedar Rapids,
were drowned in Cedar River, about
fourteen miles below that place, at
the Palisades, on the 29th.
Every store in the town OF Manns-
vile, y. Y, nine dwelling houses and
the Church of the Disciples were burned
on the Doth. The loss Is estimated at
$4,000, and insurance $4,000.
The Royal Electric Light Company 5
works and Nutter's Box Factory,
Montreal, we're burned on the Doth.
Four tenement houses, owned by Mrs.
McDiarmett, also burned. The Elec-
trio Light Company lose about $50
600, fully insured but the total loss
viii be about 500, 900.
Williams Il Co.'S planning mills and
lumber yard, Cole & Co. 5 warehouse
and lumber yard, W. \. Wilkerson's s
warehouse and a number OF residences
on GayOZO Street, Memphis, Tenn.
burned on the 29th. The fire covered
an area of half a square and ranged
back for more than a block and a
half
Sir Moses Montefore, thewell-known
Hebrew philanthrOpist, who in Octo-
Der last celebrated the Tooth ami
versary OF his birthday, died at Rams
gate, London. on the 2Sth.
Fire in Robert Whites dye woods
establishment, Boston, on the 2Sth,
caused a loss OF between $4,000 and
$4,000. 1t was partly insured.
At Suwanee, Ga, on the 27th. on
the Richmond & Danville Railroad, a
ditch train ran over a COW, throwing
one car from the track. In the car
were fifteen negro train hands and six
bars OF IRON. The car turned on its
side and the iron fellupOn the negroes,
killing seven and wOUnding three
more
The trestle near Muscatine, Ca, on
the Georgia Pacific Railroad, fell on
the Goth, while II passenger train
bound for Atlanta was passing Overit,
pitching a passenger car down. Six
persons We're seriously hurt, two OF
them fatally.
c. y. Carter & Co., wholesale and re-
tail dealers in ladies' cloaks and suits,
Boston, failed on the 9th. The la
bilities are reported at about $780,
600.
An explosion occurred in one of the
cOllieries at st. Etienne, France, on the
9th. So far eight bodies have been
recovered.
James Golden, a carriage painter,
was accidentally shot and killed in a
Chicago saloon by Geo. Link, the bar
keeper, on the Goth.
The BaIignOlles quarter OfParis was
visited on the 25th by fire which
destroyed five blocks OF buildings.
The loss not stated in the dispatches.
Several Ii ives are supposed to be lost.
| During the night Of the 25th eight
incendiaries set fire to number OF
houses in Kiln, a town forty-tve miles
from Moscow, Russia, and property
valued at 100000 roubles was de-
stroyed.
John Moppin, who murdered Daniels
AT Mound Junction, H., for marrying
his daughter, was lynched on the 26th.
Peter Stamps, a negro, was lyrched
by a mob at DOuglasville, Ga, for an
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