The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-19

Moses Froelich drank hydriodic acid
| by mistake, at New York, nthe 10th,
dying soon after.
A sensation in whisky circles was
caused on the 10th, in Lexington, Ky.
by the seizure by the government OF
1000 barrels OF whisky, owned by
John B. Thompson, a wealthy distiller.
The tax on the liquors amounts to
oven S35, 900
At a meeting OF the Woman's In
dustrial League, at Washington, d.
c., on the 10th, resolutions were
adopted declaring that the Chinese
laundries ''must 90"
A dispatch Of the1Oth. from Shamo-
kin, Pa, states that Molly Mcguire
ism Is rampant in the upper and low
ar LuZerne districts, and nine murders
have recently occurred.
At a cOlOred church, ten miles from
Canton, Miss, on the 10th, Leon Cock
rell, a negro school teacher, shot
Aaron War;, a cOIored deacon, while
praying.
Seventy horses and mules were
burned at Nashville, Tenn, on the
lILl, III TIE lNCLE SldD4E OL Lester
Bros. Loss S54, 600.
In a shooting affray at Marshall,
Tex, on the 10th, H H. Ramsey was
shot dead by John Crowder Both
were sporting characters.
The statue OF Commodore Perry was
unveiled at Newport, r. l., on the
afternoon OF the 10th.
Mrs Helen K. Hoyt, wife OF DR.. w
D. Hoyt, OF New York city, aged %
years, died in terrible agony in that
city on the 9th inst, from burns re-
ceived while fixing a furnace fire.
Bud HughtOn, Waco, Tex, hack
driver, was shot dead on the 9th by a
young man named Dram, about whose
mother and sister Hughton had made
sIanderous remarks.
James Mcintosh, a young man Of
Pittsburg, Pa, accidentally shot and
fatally wounded his mother on the
9Th, she stepping IN front of his gun as
ne was about to shoot a cat.
The ditching OF the Montreal sleeper
near COmstOck, n. Y, on the 9th, re-
suited in the deathof Engineer Brown.
The bark Loeb Fergus and the
steamer IdIewild collided of Deal,
Eng, on the 9th, and eight persons
were drowned.
Lincoln Smith and James Sinister,
two Goldendale, w. T, boys who were
stealing fruit from Joseph Linder's :
orchard on he 7th, were fatally shot
by Linder.
T. F. Buch, a stranger with letters
OF Introduction to ex-President Ar
thur and several New York news
papers, suicided in Central Park, New
York, on the Sth inst.
The safe OF the county treasurer s
office in Linn Creek, Mo, was robbed
by burglars on the 5th OF $4,000.
Miss Mary HOyt, the contestant in
the Hoyt will case, had her pocket
picked of money, jewelry and papers
valued at s., 600, at Boston, on the
7th.
The Genoese steamer VIII, sank in
the Mediterranean. on the Sth. Forty
persons lost their lives.
The yacht race at New York on the
Sth, between the British yacht Genes
ia and the Puritan, was a failure, the
latter fOuling with the former, serious
iy damaging both vessels.
At DanviIIe, III, on the Sth, Perry
Whitelock, aged %, went to the resi-
dence OF his father-in-law, and shot
his wife and three sisters, and then
killed himself
John b. ClawsOn, trustee OF Warren
township, Ind, was reported missing
on the Sth. He had issued $40, 900
of fraudulent warrants on the town
ship.
/ Fire at Cleveland on the 7th inst,
caused a loss TO the Doan Oil Works
and Standard Oil Company OF S4O,-
OOO
Hail caused serious damage to to-
bacco and corn in Maryland on the
/ 5th inst, the loss in Charles County
alone amounting to 100000
The mayor, city attorney and other
| officials OF Jackson, Mich, were
/ pulled in a gambling house on the
/ eth.
I'M Ivy & Co., cotton brokers OF
/ RockhilI, s c.. failed on the 7th. Liza
bilities 100000.
Miss Mary Burg, pretty Jewess
/ dressrnaker, of Chicago, shot herself at
Central Park, New York, on the 7th,
but the wound will not prove fatal
A mob at MurfreesbOrO, Tenn,
roasted two men named Polk alive in
the jail at that place on the eth, being
unable to get them out OF their cells.
/ The POlks were confined for murder,
and lynching had twice before been at
tempted.