The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-10-16
MINOR VIEWS EOFEs.

MINOR VIEWS NOTES..
At the Alhambra Theater, st. Louis,
on the evening of the 10th, just before
the time Tor the evening performance,
Frank Handler stabbed and inst antly
killed Josie Martellez, and then com
mltted suicide. The act was COM
mitted on the stage, both victims
beng variety performers.
1t is announced that Senate Lafay-
cite and Gen. Grevy have declined to
go to New York to represent the
French senate at the dedication of the
Bartholdi statue of Liberty.
August Becker's residence and tail
oring establishment, at Cincinnati,
was destroyed by fire during the night
OF the 9th. The following day the
bodies OF Margaret Link, aged go, and
her daughter, aged 13, were found in
the ruins.
At Richmond, Va, on the 9th inst,
Thomas j. Cluverius, convicted of
the murder of Fannie Madison, was
re- sentenced to be hanged on the 10th
of December.
The big packing house of J. G. Fer
guson & Co.. Chicago, has collapsed.
Forged warehouse receipts to the
amount of 100000, by n. Nj. Neeld,
who is now in Canada, was the cause.
The loss will fall principally on the
banks.
A train on the Chicago, Burlington
& Northern road ran over and fatally
hurt an aged deaf woman, near Fount-
ain City, Ia., on the 9th.
Three men were badly burned by an
explosion in coal bank at Beaver
Falls, Pa, on the Sth.
Only 167 business failures were re-
ported in the United States for the
week ending on the 8th.
Lawrence's cotton mill and four
houses at Chorley, Lancaster, Eng,
were destroyed by fire on the 8th.
Loss, 81, 100000.
Josiah Carter, who for twenty years
has been treasurer and tax collector
OF Pittsfield, Mass, has been placed
under arrest, pending an examination
OF his books. He is said to be $51,-
900 short.
In Silver Bow Canyon, near Butte.
Mon, on the 7th, 24,OOO cords OF
wood, owned by Williams & Co., were
totally destroyed by an incendiary
fire. Loss $1OO,O0O; insurance $780,
600.
In hotel near Gloversville, N. Y,
on the 7th, the bodies of Frank Beren-
ger and a woman, whose name is un-
known, were found. Both had died
from poison.
The waterworks buildings at Sleeps
head Bay, L. l., collapsed on the 7th.
The tower Is complete wreck.
The Negaunee Concentrating Com
pany, OF Negaunee, Mich, has been re-
vived, and it is expected the works
will be started up in short time.
Burglars entered the office OF the
Ashland Avenue & Loan Association,
on West Twelfth Street, Chicago, on
the night of the 5th, and secured 50 900
in money and $5, 900 in government
bonds, and carried off bonds and
mortgages representing $4,000 The
papers of the association were after
wards found in an alley in the rear of
the building.
The triennial convention of the
Episcopal Church was opened at Chi
cago on the 9th inst.
On the night of the 5th inst, burg
lars broke into the Church OF the Sa-
cred Heart, at Notre Dame, Ind, and
got away with two gold crowns from
the altar. One of the crowns was
studded with Jewels, and the two were
valued at SO, 900. One of the maraud-
ers was captured with the plumber, but
OF the Jewels lost.
At Steeleville, Mo, on the night of
the 4th, r. P. Wallace, in prison
81, l. Z, zf+ h., 7
family, was taken from the jail fer the
second time by a masked mob. This
time the assaulting party finished their
work and hanged Wallace to a tree IL
the jail yard.
The Union Furniture Company's
Works, near Grand Rapids, Mich,
were destroyed by fire on the 9Th.
Loss, $50, 900; insurance, S22, 800.
The New York court OF appeals has
affirmed the sentence of the lower
court in the case OF Alderman Jaehne,
| and he will have to serve his term.
During small fire at st. Louis on
| the night of the 4th inst, fire plug
burst and flooded the street. A young
| man whose name is unknown was
| drowned.
President Cleveland has pardoned
Hedden, the defaulting banker, OF
| Newark, n. J.
A three days session of the National
| Woman Suffrage Association was be-
gun at Leavenworth, Kas., On the 4th.
The opening speech was made by
Susan B. Anthony.
Dispatches from Algeria report that
forty Arabs have been drowned by
! floods in Laghouat.
A woman OF about 80, whose name
is unknown, took laughing gas in a
dentists chair in New York, on the
4th, had a tooth extracted, and after
apparently recovering from the effects
OF the gas, fell to the floor and died.