The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-05-05
FRESH NEWS ITEMS.

harry Dickerman, an Ohio Contra
brakeman, was crushed to death a
Cleveland.
Six of the eight men who recently
robbed Mr.. Brilliant of 200 in the
City OF Mexico have been caught anC
! IS 0E1G recovered.
Decline in business led to the dis
charge of $50 men from the Pennsyl
vanla Railroads S car works at Fort
Wayne Ind.
The anniversary of the birth of Gen
Grant was celebrated at New York
Pittsburg, Council Bluffs, Washington
| and other cities, on the 9th inst.
+. ID. Wilburn, of Lincoln, H., who
was worth $4,000 three years ago, rar
through it all and forged note for $44
it IS charged, to get more, for which of
fense he was committed to jail.
Mrs. Hattie Green has at last agreed
to the reorganization of the Houston &
Texas Central road, and has surren
dered her proxies for $1.250,O00 mort
gage bonds to the reorganization com
mlttee.
A cyclone toyed with the city of Pratt
Kas., on the 26th, demolishing a mum,
Der of houses and killing one woman
Many others were hurt.
Fire at AZ Walker Street, New York
on the night of the 26th destroyed
property valued at $4,000.
At Mobile, Ga, on the 26th, Jury
awarded $25 600 damages in favor Of G
Hall, brakeman on the Louisville 4
Nashville road Hall was knocked from
train by a low bridge and lost foot
4 fire in the Atlantic Machine Works
-. ID l. -.
$4,000.
Heavy frosts damaged early fruit and
vegetable crops in Virginia, on the
night of the 18th.
Work on the pipe line between Hunt
ington, Ind, and Chicago is being rap
idly pushed.
The Pan Handle road has made cut
OF 80 per cent. In rates between Chicago
Louisville and Cincinnati.
Emma Smith, aged 16 wGs burned to
death in Green County, o., on the Goth
her dress catching fire from stove.
A veterinary surgeon III Washington
was fined $50 in a police court foi
docking" the tails of two horses be-
longing to the British legation.
Two men were killed and seventy,
five cars wrecked by the collision Of two
WoodDurne station, Pa, Oh the 26th.
Silver is reported to have been dis.
covered in the vicinity of Bismarck,
Oak.
The weather is so cold in Virginia
that it is thought fruit has been ruined,
Woman suffrage was defeated in the
house of the Massachusetts Legislature.
The street railway of saltwater
Mimi, was sold at receivers sale ior
100000.
The 250th anniversary of the founding
of New Haven, Conn, was celebrated
on the 25th.
Henry Wood, Son & Co.'S chemical
paint mills at Lake Crossing, Mass,
burned on the 25th. Loss, $3.50, 900.
Nicholas Bonner, half crazy farmer
near Ada, Mimi, shot his son dead
while the latter was trying to protect
his mother.
Thirty saloons in Manchester, n II.
were raided, on the 25th, by com
mittee of 200 for the suppression of the
liquor tariff.
A party of men at a mining camp
near Baraga, Mich, tr1ed to thaw dyna,
mite by a cook stove. Two funerals
viii result
The burned out portion of the Cal
ument & Hecla mine was opened on
the 24th. The examination was not
thorough, but no traces OF fire were dis
covered.
Red Leary," the notorious bank
burglar, died in New York hospital on
the 24th, from wounds received at the
hands of companion named Train a
few days previous.
A dispatch of the 24th says the Vati-
can has issued a decree condemning
boycotting and the 'plan Of campaign"
in ireland.
me 4 1en4ellniaI IL alose ot. "' pu.te, Modt, ~
of $4,000. Jennie NJ. Ledden WAS
burned to death and Frank Lincoln,
assistant postmaster, died from injuries.