The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-07-24
nIYUR NEWS NOTES.

I1c oI0AS OuG on Un6 DlgnE or the
18th IN the New York Architectural
Terra Gotta Company's works at
RaVenswood, l.. l., and despite all
efforts burned for seven hours. The
works were not entirely destroyed, but
the loss will reach sos, 900. Michael
Llgney was seriously injured by fall
ing wall. About 130 men were thrown
out OF employment.
The damage done by the rain in the
vicinity OF Newark, n. J., on the night
OF the | 7th, will probably amount to
nearly 500, 900 in this county. The
bridges We're carried away and in many
instances the growing crops on the
market gardens were DESTROYED.
Harlan ?. Tracy, whose bank at
Elmwood, H., recently failed, has been
arrested for the embezzlement OF $685.
600, and gave bail when arraigned at
Peoria
A. B Thompson, the absconding
bank cashier Of st. Louis, left a letter
stating that he had been ruined by
speculation and used the banks
money to carry himself along until
discovered. He was recently seen on
a steamboat In Canadian waters by q
party OF three acquaintance.
The boilershop of Joseph Fossett,
at Wellsvllle, O., was wrecked by the
explosion OF an upright boiler on the
17th. A girl named Clara Driscoll,
living IN adjoining house, was killed,
ana her sister was fatally burned.
Capt. Gulian Verplanck Weir, COM
manding Battery B, at Fort Hamil-
ton, New York harbor, shot himself
fatally With suicidal intent on the1Sth.
No cause is assigned.
A portion OF dock at Rockaway
Beaeh, Il. gave way on the 18th,
while the steamer Columbia was un-
loading her passengers. Thirty-five
persons got very wet, but it is believed
none We're drowned.
A ive-story brick building on the
corner of Roosevelt and Front Streets.
New York, occupied by n. T. Swezey' s
Sons 4 Co., as q flour warehouse,
collapsed on the 18th owing to the
weight OF the stock. Several people
were hurt, but none severely.
Edward c. l.. Judson, who wrote
stories for boys for years over the
name OF Ned Buntline, died at his
home at Stamford, \. Y, on the 18th.
OF heart disease. He was in his 9th
year.
Jake Brasswell, negro, living in
Bullock County, Ca, brutally as
saulted little white girl on the 18th.
He was captured by a mob, and given
his choice between burning and hang
ing. He chose the latter, and was
gwen rope which he took uD a tree,
fastened one end to a limb and the
other round his neck. He then DELHI
erately jumped off. His neck was brok.
en-.
The Dubuque (Ia.) Oat Meal Mills
were destroyed by fire on the 10th.
Loss, 500, 900; insurance, $4,000.
James Dacey, the murderer OF Aid.
Michael Gaynor, OF Chicago, was
hanged at Woodstock, H., at 1885
on the 10th. He made no speech and
was moderately composed, though
during the morning he screamed al
most continuously, and had his limbs
bound to prevent his making an as
sault on any OF his attendants.
Jury to try the cases OF the Chica-
go Haymarket rioters was completed,
on the 10Th, after a session OF three
weeks.
a terrible rainstorm, on the night OF
Aoe.I, uId AuCu Ghmage at Baltl-
more. Trees were torn up by the
roots, houses unroofed and cellars
flooded.
Fire destroyed twenty dwelling
houses Traer, Ia, on the 14tn. The
loss Is about $4,000; partially in.
sured. Fire at Cedar Falls on the
same day burned several buildings
Loss about S25, ,000;partially insuI ed
At Merced, Cal, on the 14th, Il. .OoC
tons OF wheat and five wheat-laden