The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-15
zE-s 3R NEWS NOTES.

IN unfinished iron bridge at Lyons,
n l., fell on the 9th by reason OF the
breaking or a temporary trestle. One
man was fatally and seven seriously
hurt.
At Hull, Quebec, on the 9th inst,
IRE broke out in a bakery, and before
i was gotten under control ten acres
OF ground were burned over and $50
families rendered homeless. The new
post office, costing S250.000, was de
stroyed. The other losses will reach
100000, on which there was insur-
ance OF only $4,000.
While crossing the railroad track at
Fort Wayne, Ind, On the 9th, car
riage containing John Wymer, a young
farmer, his wife and two children, was
struck by an engine. Both horses
were instantly killed. Wyner and
one child were killed outright and his
wife and other child so badly hurt that
they cannot recover.
The Bradford boom, at Charleston,
". Va, which had withstood the re-
cent floods, went out on the Sth. Five
RATS and $4,000 logs went out. The
loss is 1000.
Frank Clement, an actor connected
with the Modieska Company, threw
himself IN front OF a train at Newark,
y. j., and was beheaded.
About 100 Socialists met on the
evening OF the 7th at Davenport, Ia,
to denounce the capitalistic press. A
speaker named Knickrehm alleged
that testimony had been manufactured
by the Chicago police against the Ger
man journalists. At this moment he
was arrested by the chief OF police and
escorted to the ferry boat
Burglars at Manistee, Mich, broke
open the safe IN the p0st-office, on the
night OF the 7th, from which they took
81, 10O IN stamps and 81, 300 in cash.
They also rifled all valuable letters.
In quarrel at Buchtel, O., George
Bradley fired at a man named Heidner,
ba5 missed him and killed Pearl Craw-
lord, aged l l years. Hewas arrested.
/. .. Hewlett. leader of the deputy
sheriifs who fired on the mob at East
at Louis, has been released on s., 900
bail.
At Das Moines, Ia, a search for
hquor IN saloon by a constable
named Pierce, resulted in the shooting
q HAIRY Lloyd, the bartender. Pierce
w5s lodged in jail, and guard OF forty
men was thought necessary to keep
him safe
Ernest Bouchter, an imbecile in
mate Of the Pittsburg city poor farm.
died on the Sth from injuries inflicted
bY Martin Ocular, raving maniac,
also an inmate.
-Four business houses and one
-Is4stf 4t pnCar-gll. !
s'rog ed by hce on the 7th. Loss,
5000 Insurance, $4,000.
The tied States had 167 business
failures during the seven days ending
the 7th.
The house of Mrs. Sarah Brown. a
widow living on Buck Run, near Fort
Scott, Kas., was carried away by
flood caused by a breaking dam, on
the 7th inst. An infant child OF Mrs.
Brown was drowned
Daniel Dunbar, OF Pullman, H.,
member of rowing club, was drowned,
on the 7th inst, by the swamping of
his boat In a squall
An oil tank, at Washington, Pa,
was set on fire by an incendiary, on
the 9TH. Considerable damage was
done, but the loss is not given.
Capp's foundry, at Hamilton, Ont,
was damaged by fire, on the 9th, to
the extent OF $4,000. Partially in
sured.
Charles P. Woerner, a druggist, of
st. Paul, and Kittie Werner, q do
mestic in his family, committed sui
eide, on the 7th, BY taking prussic
acid. They We're accused by Woerner's
wife with having been unnecessarily
intimate.
The Thayer oil well, at Washington,
Pa, was fired by lightning on the 9th
inst
Il. B. Hayes has been chosen COM
mander OF the Ohio Loyal Legion.
John Nelson, q Finlander, working
in the Cambria mine, near Negaunee.
Mich, was instantly killed by a fall of
ore into the pocket in which ne was
working, early on the morning OF the
6tn. He leaves a wife and two chill
dren.
A cyclone visited the country IN the
vicinity Of McHenry, H., on the 9Th.
Three men were killed and a number
injured.
Emil Rhomers was driving a wagon
through Ludlow Street, New York, on
the 9Th, when Nicholas Gels and Hen
ry Kruger stopped his horse and with
clubs and stones beat Rhomers to
death on his wagon seat ia broad day
light. he murderer5 were arrested
and SID Rhomers had collided with a
wago1 II which they had been driving.
At Brooklyn, on the 9Th, Joseph
Welzer stabbed and killed Mrs. Mary
j. Lewis and then cut his own throat
Weller is 2T years old and is believed
to have been insane.
Ain o the entire business portion OF
the village Of Keystone, Ia, including
the post-ofiice and ten other buildings,
was destroyed by fire on the 3Oth.
In accordance with warning 10
take effect May /, the only gambling
house found open IN Chicago on that
evening sas raided By the police
At Chiaago on the I'd inst. Alexander
Ribbola accidentally shot his son Felix
dead, after which he blew out his own
brains He had quarreled with John
ii. Hipsman, German hostler, and
fired at bin. Ribbola was 50 years
old and Italian.
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