The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-02-28
LATE NEWS NOTES.

othefs, Hames adding terror TO the sit
uatlon Five mangled corpses have
been recovered.
A Toronto dispatch chronicles the
failure Of William Thompson & Co,
hardware and crockery merchants. with
liabilities of $2500OO.
Near Grafton, ". Va, on the evening
Of the Goth, occurred a collision of Bal
tlmore 4 Ohio trains. Three men were
killed and two others fatally injured.
The wrsckage on the train was twenty
feet high, and nights work was re-
quired to uncover the corpses.
A loss of SI25.000 was sustained in
Philadelphia on the 21st, by the burn
ing Of the buildings 504 to sos Market
Street.
The Mountain institute, at C Chappaqua,
N. Y, was destroyed by fire on the 2lst.
the loss being $4,000. Seventy FIVE
children were safely removed IN their
night.clothes.
Ten business buildings in New Brit
ain, Conn, valued with contents at
$500, GOO, We're burned on the 21st. One
man lost his life,
BY collision OF trains at Delhi, o.,
on the 2lst thirteen residents of Cincin-
natl We're more or less injured. Two
passengers were badly manned by a
wreck at Lockland, near Cincinnati. An
engineer ana ferman were killed by a
collision near Clnaioharie, n. Y. where
100000 worth of roiling-stock was
destroyed.
The passenger house Of the Union
Depot at MENDOZA, ILL.,, and the baggage
and telegraph rooms were burned with
contents on the morning of the 20ah.
The loss Is estimated at 10000.
AT Jamaica, il. L, on the 20th, Mrs.
Annie Snyder was fatally burned by her
clothing catching fire from a CRATE.
The Mansion House, Boston, was
damaged to the extent Of $50, 900 by fire
on the 9)th. 1t was owned by the
Waldo Adams estate.
Tie building cf the Marvin Safe
Company, on West Twenty-seventh
Street, New York, was DESTROYED bv fire
on the night OF the 195h. Loss $23O,OOO.
James Graham, an old soldier, was
frozen 70 death IN Dayton, o., on the
goth.
Two policemen were dangerously
wounded by burglars at Chester, Pa,
on the night of the 18th.
Fannie Murphy died IN Pittsburg. on
the Goth, from the effects of 8 terrible
beating by her husband.
Mrs. William Clark, of Leech's Corners
Pa, cut the throat of her newborn
child on the 18th. It is thought she
VIII also die from exposure.
Thomas Lloyd, from Valley Center,
Ka5., was found dead IN his room in a
hotel in Centralia, H., on the Goth.
Considerable money was found on his
person.
Fire at Providence, Il. l., on the lot
INST, destroyed a building known a
the Bridge block. Loss $4,000.
Two cases OF trichinosis are reported
at Columbus o.
An old man named Jackson persisted
on the 10Th in a coDfagration which
destroyed the Franklin Hall building,
Walineford Conn.
a. s. Staples flour mill, Rondout,
n. T.. burned on the 10Th inst. Loss
$25C00.
Mrs. James Russell Lowell died in
London on the 19th.
The J. Leroy Pipe Company's store
and Coon Il Co.'S collar shop. Troy,
N. y burned on the 18th. Loss 500
GOO.
Brazil, Ind, had a $50, 600 blaze on
the 18Th
The knugden Cotton Mills, at Black
burn, Eng. were destroyed by fire on
the 1850. Loss 100000. Two men
were killed by falling walls.
The Gramis block, on Dearborn
Street, Chicago, was totally destroyed by
fire on the 19,h. The lower part OF the
building was occupied by the Continen-
tai National Bank, and the National
Bank Of Illinois, and the upper stories
were filed with offices. The losses will
aggregate nearly S250,000.
The failures in the United States for
the seven days ending on the 18th.
numbered 273.
Chatfe & Powell, cotton merchants,
failed on the 18th, with liabilities of
$4,000.
The shoe factory of C. \. Coffin &
Co, Lynn, Mass, and two adjoining
buildings, were destroyed by fire on the
night OF the 18th. Less S125.O0O.
s dispatch of the 18th from Shang-
hai states that in the naval en-.
gagement between the French fleet
under Admiral COurbet and five Chinese
men-of-war, the French torpedo boats
sunk two Chinese war ships. L e three
others escaped in fog TO Chinhai.
The French residents at Shanghai
have been placed under Russian pro
lection. The Russian flag is hoisted
over the French concessions.
Bray Brothers. San Francisco grain
commission firm, suspended on the 18th.
The liabilities are placed at S5OO.0OO
The failure IS attributed to defalcation
by one of their clerks.
George Sexton, a Baltimore & Ohio
watchman, was knocked down and killed
at Paw Paw station, near Wheeling on
the 18th An unknown tramp was killed
by the same train a few minutes later.
An attempt was made 10 wreck and
rob the passenger train from ST. Lonis
near Wayne, between Jefferson aud
Texarkana, Tex, on the night Of tbe
18th, by removing a rail. The freight
train IN advance of the passenger fell
into the trap and eight freight cars were