The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-06-12
HzEOR EEEVS NOTES,

The works of the Pennsylvania Bolt
ana Nut Company, at Lebanon. Pa,
the largest OF their kind in tn country.
was destroyed by fire on the 9th. Four
large brick buildings were consumed
with all their contents, embracing a
large amount OF finished stock and
valuable machinery. The loss is about
Sl5O,0OO, and iscovered by insurance.
About $50 men are thrown out of
work
Drayton and Arthur Williams, the
first convicted of murder and the
other Of rape, from which the victim
died, were hanged at Orlando. Fla, on
the 5th. The hanging was private
Dray ton confessed his crime. Williams
protested he was innocent.
Aquarrel about a horse etradecaused
duel on the highway near Hinesboro,
III, between wealthy and prominent
citizens or Douglas County named Ben
Mason and George Scott. The former
was hit three times, with fatal effect.
James Oacey, the Chicago murderer,
made an almost successful attempt at
suicide in the county jail at Wood
stock, HI, on the 5th, by setting fire
TO ms bed. He was badly burned.
The grand jury at Springfield, Mo-.
adjourned on the 5th, the last bill
presented being an Indictment against
Mrs. Molloy as accessory after the
TACT to the murder OF Sarah Graham.
Ine British House o. Commons has
agreed TO amend the liquor hill by
providing for the cl0Si-g on Sunday OF
every me mouse in England, except
IN London and its suburbs.
John iIttz and Charles f. Prentiss
have each received a FIVE years sentence
for maklng false entries in the books
OF the German Bank, at Washington,
OF which they were officers.
William Meyer, living near Erie.
Pa, returned from work on the 5th
to find his wife, whom he had lett ap-
parently Well in the mornin,, wing
dead on the door, with a 2-year-old
babe el3sped n her arms The mother
had been dead for several hours.
The jury IN the Maxwell case at St.
Louis, returned a verdict OF murder in
the first degree at noon on the 9TH,
after betn4 cut about eighteen hours.
Fire t Scottdale, Pa. on the night
OF the p, caused loss OF $4,000.
hight business houses were destroyed. 4.
William S~hTart zendrube, a fireman.
was seriously injured by a fall.
The town Of BOte, in Hungary, has
been destroyed by fire. Three hundred
houses were burned and three lives
lost.
The Providence, r. l., Base Ball
CLUB has disbanded. 1t is 81, 500 in
debt
At Reading, Pa, Frank Fable shot
and killed his brother Charles during
quarrel and then shot himself.
AZ opelousas, La, on the 4th, Al
fred Taylor, colOred, was hanged for
aSsaultlng q white woman in Febru-
ary last.
The Beech Greek Railroad has been
sold to w. K Vande. bilt, for 81 ,3OO,-
600, subject to mortgage for So
0GO, 600.
Several ladies have been arrested at
Laconia, n. H, charged with stealing
Memorial Day offerings from a ceme-
terry.
ExTreasurer Simpson, of Otoe
County, Neb was arrested on the4t
charged with embezzIing $4,000 OF
county funds.
In a raid OF Apaches near Magdale-
na, Mex, ten persons have been killed.
one OF whom was George Sheppard.
an American.
Gov. Bate, OF Tennessee, has com.
muted the death sentence OF Allen
Herbert who murdered Henry Ed
wards, to Imprisonment for life.
The bones OF a mastodon were un-
earthed by ditch diggers on a farm
near Goshen, Ind Done OF the teeth
weighed four and hall pounds, and a
shoulder bone forty-four and three
fourths pounds.
Harry Durham. aged Is, fatally
shot Mrs. Hiram Waite at Oswego, \.
y, on the Sd inst. He then blew his
own brains out. Durham boarded
with the Waite family.
On the afternoon OF the I'd inst,
while hand-car containing FIVE sec
ton men was crossing q high trestle at
wheeling, w. Va, one of the men fell
IN front OF the car, throwing the whole
party 70 the ground, a distance OF
thlrty-tive feet. One man was killed
and the other fOur were badly hurt.
-Four men were caught in a cave-in
at Col. Salter's mine, near Leadville.
Col. on the 2d. No hope is enter.
tanned o. rescuing them alive.
4. ". Hooper, county Judge OF Mon.
roe County. Ark, was sentenced on
the 2d INST, TO two years in the state