The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-01-10
LATE NEWS NOTES.

rious parts of India.
The house Of Oide Leclerc, at Hull,
| Ont, burned on the Sd. The occu-
pants in their haste to escape, deserted
| 3year-old child, which perished in
the flames.
At Denver, on the Sd, proceedings
were begun against Williams, manager
of the private foundling asylum at
which three children recently died for
| want of medical attendance, Williams
| IS pray crank.
At Chicago, on the 4th, NJ. Keene,
while drunk, assaulted his old father.
John McName interfered, and was ia
tally shot by Keene, who was finally ar
| rested.
At Bloomington, H., on the night of
the Sd, watchman named Louis Fed
| den was Drained with wagon spoke by
an unknown man.
Fire on the Sd inst, destroyed three
large buildings of the Plymouth Mass. J
Cordage Company. Loss 100000.
Fires on the ID: Jay Cox s residence,
Syracuse, n. Y, loss. $2O,000; bottling
works, Nautasket, Mass, $4,000; gro
Gerry store at Mexico, Mo-, $4,000;
Phoenix lumber yards and mills, barn
and three houses, at Cory, Pa, $780,
| 900; II. Kern's dry goods store, New
| Orleans, 5000; shoe store, at Angus
ta, Ga, $4,000; building used as piano
factory, New York, $4,000; the Glen
wooden mill, North Adams, Mass,
100000.
Herman Garlic was shot dead by a
watchman named John Gordon at
Cherryville, Pa, on the night OF the
| lst.
Mrs. Robert Jennett's clothes caught
fire at Franklin, KY, on the I'd, and the
lady was burned to death.
The weavers in Johnson's gingham
mill at North Adams, Mass, struck on
| the ID, against reduction of wages.
On the 3lst, some children who were
playing on the ice, at Manchaueg. broke
through. Two girls of Metehell Van
| SAINT, and son of Levi Debrians, aged
from 9 to II years, were drowned.
The Corning mill. owned by the pow
| der company. six miles from Xenia, O.,
| exploded on the I'd, killing John CHM,
an emplOye.
An engine and baggage car were
| thrown from the track on the Baltimore
| & Ohio by an obstruction near Grafton,
| W. Va, on the 1st. The engineer and
| fireman were killed.
A collision took place at Barnsley,
| Eng, on the 1st, causing the death OF
four persons and the serious injury OF
thirty more.
The dry goods house of Miller Bros,
Evansville Ind, was totally destroyed
| by fire on the 2ist, several other busi-
ness houses were damaged. The aggre-
| gate loss viii reach S250,G00.
A dispatch from Birds Nest, Va, re
| ports the wreck Of the Norwegian bark
Lena, on the 9th, with less of eight
| lives.
The tug Admiral burst her boiler in
| the Chicago River on the 31st. The up
| per part of the vessel was blown to
| atoms, and five men instantly killed.
Another revolution is reported in
Mexico, five states being implicated.
The steamer T. g, D. NJ. No. l, while
| entering the harbor at Ludington,
Mich, on the Both, struck a pier and
stove her side. She sank Immediately.
| The explosion of a steam pipe fatally
injured Two men.
Three disastrous fires occurred on the
Both. At Pierre, D. T., ten buildings
we're leveled, causing a loss of about $685.
| coo. The loss of E. NJ. Jewett's cooper
shop, Buffalo, n. Y, leave the prOprie-
| tors out 100000, and the destruction
OF eight stores and hotel at Hopkins
vile, KY, caused an aggregate loss of
$4,000.
a portion of the roof of a theater at
Chalet, France, fell during perform
ance on the night of the 30th. The
lights were extinguished and a panic
ensued. About $50 persons were in
iured.
Etzel, Hutchinson & Co., toy dealers,
st. Louis, suspended on the Both. The
firms liabilities amount to 100000.
y man named Greenwood, while try
ing to cross the Niagara River about
mile above the falls, on the Both, was
drawn into the rapids and carried over
the falls.
The works OF the Malleable Iron
Company, Canton, o., were totally de-
stroyed by the fire on the morning of
the 29th. Tie building and machinery
were valued at $4,000.
Fred. Bergholtz, foreman for Nor
timer & Tappan, Chicago, fell down the
elevator shaft of the Home Insurance
building on the 29th, and was killed.
He fell nine stories.
An explosion in the office of the
Augusta, (Ga,) Gas Company, wrecked
the building and seriously injured two