The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-13
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At Nashville, Tenn, on the night of
the 9th inst, Everett 5 Smith, a
printer aud secretary Of tie local ty-
geographical union, committed suicide
by shooting He left letter in which
lie ascribed all his troubles I o whisky.
TrInadad Alvarez and Senior Pare
dez, two prominent citizens of Chihua-
hua, Mex, fought a duel with pistols
on the 7th. Three shots were ex-
changed. The former was killed and
the latter will die
A fire in San Francisco on the 7th
destroyed the Grand Western Market
and a number of surI ounding dwellings
and stores at the corner of Polk ard
Bush Streets. Loss, $5O,O0O insur-
anCe unknown.
The American Hotel, Boston, was
partially destroyed by fire on the 9th.
The loss on building and furniture
is estimated at sos, 900.
Calhoun Larty, a porter in the Cap
ital Hotel, Little Rock, Ark, on the
9th inst, IN a fit of jealousy shot his
eetheart and then turned the weapon
upon himself. Both are dead.
Fred. Engstorm, while descending a
shaft at the Lake Superior Iron Mine,
Ishpeming, was struck by a fallingrock
and knocked to the bottom. He was
instantly killed.
Dittmar, Hexter & Co s dynamite
manufactory at Bay Chester, n Y,
was blown up on the night OF the 5th.
Heinrich Heiman, the watchman
was IN the building at the time,
but no trace of him has been
found. The building was a small
structure where dynamite for use on
the new aqueduct was made. 1t CON
tanned two hundred pounds OF dyna-
mite and two tanks of nitric and sui
phuric acid. There is a big hole filled
with sticks and pieces of timber to
mark the spot where the building
stood.
Robert Haine5 went to sleep on the
track of the Norfolk & Western Rail
road on the morning OF the 9th inst,
and was run over and killed.
Francis Ames tried to drink three
and a half pinrs OF whisky at Abilene,
Tex, on the h. He is dead
By the fail OF a heavy beam at the
Atlantic Iron Works, Sharon, Pa, on
the 9Th, Goldie NJ. Morris lost his life.
The trial of James Holland, for the
killing OF the confidence man Tom
Davis, ended on the 9Th with verdict
OF not guilty.
A fire in the gas house Of factory
at Augusta, Ga, on the night OF the
9TH, caused loss Of 81, 900. A fall
ing wall buried uiue men. NJ f. Hill,
81 h,
killed, w. G. Allen died an hour after
wards, and John Edwards was fatally
hurt.
John Darlington, an aged patient in
the insane department of the Ale
gheny County House, at Pittsburg, on
the 5th inst, jumped from a third
story window and was instantly
killed.
Goodbody's tobacco factory, in Tul-
tamore, Kings County, Ireland, was
destroyed by fire on the 4th. The loss
Is S40O, 900
The wall of a building on the corner
of Front and Norris Streets, Philadel-
phia, in process OF demolition, fell on
the 4th burying several laborers. one
of whom was killed, and another fatal
" hurt
A dispatch from FL Paso, Tex, says
the Chinese who are being driven from
the Pacific coast towns are migrating
to that state in large numbers.
TIE mud drum of the boiler in the
bar mill at the steel works OF Hpssey,
Howe 4 Co., Pittsburg, exploded on
the 4th No one was hurt, but the
building was wrecked.
Another fatal accident at the new
New York acqueduct Is to be recorded.
On the evening OF the Sd fifty pounds
OF dynamite exploded at shaft No Is,
killing John McFadden and seriously
if not fatally iniuring four other men.
Brig. Gen. Alfred Terry, the Indian
fighter, has been nominated to succeed
Gen. Hancock.
A freight train on the Mexican Cen
trail Railroad was ditched and robbed
near kuOmetra, Tex, on the night OF
the 2d, by a band OF Mexican outlaws
The train hands were robbed and then
stripped, and their hands bound, in
which condition they were Obliged to
walk several miles to the nearest sta
ton.
The large Boston importing firm of
Z. w Nickerson & Co. suspended on
the Sd inst. The firms debts are esti-
mated at 100000.
The London Socialists were before
the authorities again on the Sd inst,
and after further hearing were remand
ed for trial Bail was accepted.
John Pearson, a commercial travel
er, was found dead in bed at the Lin
dell Hotel, st. Louis, on the morning
OF the 3D.
The supreme court of Missouri has
decided that property-owners have no
redress for injuries to buildings, or
other property by reason OF the sink
ing o. telephone poles, provided the
company has the legal authority.
The building known as the Ethan
Allen Pistol Shop, OF Worcester,
Mass, burned on the night of the LIST.
involving loss on building and CON
tents amounting TO $4,000.
Michael McCabe, Patrick Condor
and an unknown man were frozen 10
death on the streets OF New York
City during the night OF the 1st inst.
An attempt was made by unknown
psr5ie on the night OF the Ist, to