The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-29
EEH0s NEWS ResTEa.

Ihe steamer Dean Adams was burn
ed to the waters edge at Memphis on
the night Of the 23d. she was loaded
with cotton and corn, and insured for
$4,000.
Morse Dawson, a drunken negro,
elected from a train In Kentucky,
jumped back on theplatform and fired
INTO crowd d coach, fatally iDiuring
A. @ Clinton, 8 farmer.
j. X. Walton, one OF the wealthiest
citizens Of Union County, Ill, was
found dead IN a barn at Anna on the
morning OF the 23d. He was shot
through the head, supposedly by
tramps.
John Robinson, an English amateur
swimmer, swan the Tappan Fee, at
TarrytOwn, on the Hudson, on the
23d, against time, 1 hour and 45 min
utes, for a. wager OF $500. Hemadethe
distance, 81 miles, in l hour and SO
minutes. The tide was ebb and dead
against him.
Leopold Won Ranke, thefamous his.
torian, died at Berlin on the 23d. He
was 81 years old, and had been i'll but
short time
Disastrous forest fires are reported
in Clare County, Mich, and much anx-
lety IS felt for the occupants OF lumber
camps in the woods.
Fire damaged the Office OF the Toron-
to Mail 10 the extent OF $4,000 on
the night of the 22d.
A new oil well at Washington, Pa,
began flowing on the 23d at the rate
or . 200 barrels per day. This is one
OF the biggest wells on record.
At Sidney, Neb., on the 21st, Jim
Reynolds was privately executed for
the murder OF John and James Pink
ston last fall
DR.. Dio Lewis, author and reformer,
died.at his home at Yonkers, n. Y, on
the morning of the 21=+ afr0r an III
ness OF tw- JL three days, from cry
sipelas.
Lee Barnes vas hanged at Dover,
Ark, on JB8 2lst, for the murder OF
Charles Holman, IN November, 1885.
On the sane day, st Buffalo, \. Y,
Peter Louis otto suffered the death
penalty TOR vie murder
There were only I4T business fail
ures in the Uai5ed States for the week
ending on be 2.st
The official reports show that the
cost OF the R.sl rebellion to the Cana
dian goy5gf msnt was S4,70O. 600.
There wera z6 meu killed and 1O6
wounded
Heavy fre-hets arereport5d through
out UpDel Carolina. The Pedee River
Is thirty k f-e. above lov water
Crops CO the river are n total loss.
Sentercs 81 nine years and ten
months il thz p=-itenriary was pro
r,ny,V,a,I
York, on H. 205h inst
Louis NG.st. alias Cusries Crosby.
was hangv.i at Kingston, \ Y. on the
goth, for the murder Of Edwin Kellan,
IN January, 1884
-Four children OF Mrs Mary Moody.
a widow living near Akron, O., were
burned TO death on the night OF the
18th in @ conhagration which de
stroyed the house.
Suits have been begun AGAINST the
Chicago firm of Mandel Bros, to COM
pei them to comply with the city ordi-
nance aad provide seats for their fe-
male employees.
At Jacksonville, H.. on the 10Th,
Charles Orler was given the extraordi-
nary sentence of forty years in the
penltentiary for iu5anticide.
A cyclone struck. the town of Black
foot, idaho, on the 10th. The only
damage TO property was the destruc-
tion of the Union Pacific roundhousa.
OF thirty msn in the building only
small number were injured.
AT Salt Lake City on the night of the
18th, John =. Flowers shot his wife IN
the side, MS mother-in-law, Mrs. Deck
er, in the abdomen, and IN a seuffie to
shoot Lester Decker, his wife's broth
er, shot himself in the head, dying IN
stantly. Mrs. Decker IS dead. Mrs.
Flowers Is fatally injured and not ex-
pected to live.
At New York on the 7th, Mrs. Louis
Wolf, one Of the most beautiful wom-
en- IN the city, committed suicide IN
her room by shooting herself.
A desperate fgat occurred on the
night OF the 1tb at Martinsviile, Va,
between Col. p. d. Spencer and the
Terry brothers. J. K. Terry was
killed and his brothers and Col. Spen-
Ger, Tarleton Brown, Hugh Dyer, Robt.
Gregory aud two negroes were fright
fully If not fatally wounded.
The dead and mutilated body OF
Mrs. Mary Collins was found in the
.OClI oSCuEicu Oy ne1eeA ana luSOdnu
IN Hoboken, \. J., on the morning OF
The 18th. The discovery was made
by her two little boys. The husband,
who went TO New York to his work
early IN the morning, was arrested
charged with the crime.
The Opera House and two dwellings
at Sheffield, Pa, were burned on the
nigh ol the 10Th. Loss SIG. 900.
Albert tliller and Mr. Black. who
had been living together at Joliet, H.,