The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-09-04

except through Port Emerson, where
they viii be quarantined
AT Bedford, Pa, on the night OF the
9th, Jacob Duncan shot and killed
his brother-in-law, Jeremiah Plecker,
IN q quarrel over some trivial affair.
At Willis Station, about ten miles
south OF Ypsilanti, Mich, on the 26th.
a farmer by the name of Wells cut his
wife's throat from ear to ear.
Sister Eulalie, surperioress of the
immaculate Academy, at Newport,
KY, was burned TO death on the 9th.
She was recovering from q severe i'll
ness, and while taking some medicine
set fire to the mosquito bar over her
bed.
There were III business failures re-
ported in the United States during the
week ending on the 27th.
Hog cholera is ragingto an alarming
extent in the counties adjacent to Mad
ison, Ind
The citizens of McCulloch County,
Texas, have ordered all Mexicans out
OF the county.
Eight or nine persons are believed to
have died IN the asylum at Lincoln,
Neb., from Oyerdoses of chloral. The
nightwatchman had an order to give
restless patients a tablespoonful OF
chloral. Supt. Mathewson's removal
has been recommended.
Nathaniel s. Bates was executed at
Richmond, Ind, on the 26th, for the
murder OF his wife at Hagerstown in
March last.
Three Italian miners were seriously
injured by the fall OF mass of rock
at the Calumet and Becla mine, at
Calumet, Mich, on the 25th.
Henry Ward Beecher is reported i'll
in London by a dispatch of the 26th.
At Usage Mission, Kas.- on the Goth,
Willie Sells, the boy wlo murdered
his family, was sentenced to behanged.
This, under the present Kansas law,
Is eQulvalen5 to Imprisonment for life.
A new trial has been refused.
The triennial conference OF the Ger
man Evangelical Synod OF North
America began in Buffalo, n. Y, on
the 25th.
The Anchor Line Steamship Com
pany has established q monthly line
iUerranean ports.
A bold daylight robbery is reported
from Chicago. On the 25th Frank r.
Campbell was arraigned for forcing
James Carruthers at the point o. a re.
volver to write him check for $3.50.
The affair occurred in the Office Of the
latter IN bread daylight.
By tue collapse Of a large building at
Sheffield, England, on the 25th, a
number OF children were crushed to
death. Seven dead bodies were taken
IrOm the ruins and it is thought more
win be found.
Gen. r. P. Ransom, a prominent
citizen O. Lexington, KY, died at that
place on the oath, presumably from
morphine taken with suicidal intent.
The craze for swimming in the Niaga-
ra River . spreading. On the oath,
Jeanette Larke, OF Youngstown,
swan across the liver just below the
rapids. The distance Is about O mile
and half. This is the first time the
feat has been accomplished by wo-
man.
James McEIhaney, 20 years old,
living on West Thirty-seventh Street,
New York, came home drunk on the
night Of the 24th, and beat his aged
mother so that SIZE will die.
J. B. Murphy, OF Chicago, a promi-
neut membe" Of the Knights OF Labor,
dropped dead at his home that city
on the night OF the 22d. He was "a
years old.
Two hostlers, named Zeigler and
Jordan, quarreled on Michigan Ave
nue., Chicago, on the 23d, which re-
suited u the fatal wounding OF the
former with a pitchfork. Jordan was
arrested.
The trial OF DR.. S. A. Richmond for
the killing of Col. James W. Strong,
managing editor OF the Herald OF St.
Joseph, Mo-, which had been in prog
ress Ior TWO weeks, terminated on the
23d, the Jury rendering a verdict OF
not gull = and finding defendant insane
at the time OF the killing and at the
present time.