The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-05-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Miscellaneous

treasury Will purchase $4,000, 900
bonds, and sell $4,000, 900 gold.
THE American Steamship Company
advertise for proposals to build four
tirst-class iron steamships, to be of
from ), 600 to 3, $50 tons burthen. The
bids Will be opened on the 1st of Au
gust.
A DISPATCH from Boston announces
the death of G. B. Wood, of the Bos-
ton Daily Advertiser Mr.. Wood was
a journalist Of the most versatile and
brilliant powers, and had high repu-
tation in the profession.
Mr. AND Mrs RICHINGs- BERNARD
have been declared bankrupts on their
petition. The total amount of their
liabilities is $4,000, including nearly
$4,000 due to the estate of the late
Peter Richings, of which Mrs. Bernard
Is executrix.
The East.
6 JOHN Donovan, wife and child, and
boy eleven years of age, were suffocated
by coal gas in Albany.
THE German gunboat Meteor, now in
New York harbor, is the vessel that de
featod the French vessel La Benet near
Havana.
JAMES T. CoNovER has retired from
the editorship of the Detroit Advertiser
and Tribune in order to assume the
duties of the ministry of the Episcopal
Church.
The employees of the Mckay Iron
and Locomotive Works, at Jersey City,
are on strike to recover back wages
Many have received nothing since
January, and threaten, if not paid, to
attach the property of the concern.
THE directors of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company have approved
the proposition to lease the Morris
Canal, from Phillipsburg to Jersey
City, and directed its submission to the
stockholders for vote upon the ques
ton.
The officers and men drowned In the
Niagara river, on Thursday, all belong
ed to the United States army, and were
stationed at Fort Niagara, on the Amer
lean side. The correct names of the
officers lost are George Ashbury, of Il
linois, and James Campbell Morrison,
Jr., OF Cincinnati, Ohio, both iieuten-
ants III the 1st regiment of artillery.
The West
BENJAMIN LOMBARD has sued the
Chicago Evening Mail for libel, placing
his damages at so, 900.
THE Stage Company viii put on a tri-
weekly line from Fort Ambercrombie
to Pembiua this season, to accommodate
the increasing travel.
THE debt of Chicago Is S14, All, 900.
The expenditures last year were S12,-
030, 900, and the receipts S13,007, 600
The amount in the hands of the Treas
urer is 81, or, 600
Mr.. JAMES HAwLEY, the Record, of
MankatO, says, is now engaged in getting
up machine of perpetual motion, and
IS very confident of success. He in
tends having it completed before the
first of August.
The south.
VIM HENRY HARRISON, Holden Re
publican, has been elected Mayor of
Raleigh, n. G.
the damage to the sugar crop by the
Bonnet Care crevasse at twenty thou
sand hogsheads.
A PERFECT deluge Of rain fell at
Meridian, Miss, on Thursday last, do
ing a good deal OF damage to railroad
and other property. The Mobile road
is broken between North and South
Meridian
Two men, named Patrick Doyle and
John Montgomery, were crushed to
death III a gravel pit near North Bend,
on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad,
Thursday afternoon.
Grimes and casuaIties.
Two fatal shooting accidents are re
ported from Illinois.
PEACE jubilees were IN order among
the Germans throughout the country
yesterday.
THREE men were injured at Indian
apols, on Monday, by the caving in of
a sand bank-one fatally.
THE bark Merrimac was run down i'll
Boston Bay the Cunard steamer Alepho,
outward bound. The crew were rescued,
and taken to Queenstown.
THOMAS K. EARLE, of Worcester,
Mass, was arrested at Salem, on Mon
day, and held to bail in S13, 900. on the
charge of attempting to kidnap his
children from their mother, who had
previously obtained divorce from him.
Clifford, his accomplice, was held in
So, 900.
TIE New York Tribune's account of
the abduction of a young girl of respec-
table parents, and her confinement in
a fashionable bagnio, has caused much
excitement. 1t is reported to be reg
uiar business in New York for men of
wealth to offer certain sums of money
to PROGRESSES to secure virtuous Young
ladies whose beauty has excited their
lust. The young ladies are then
drugged, carried TO dens of
nfamy, and ruined. 1t is said that
such cases are constantly occurring
With the knowledge and connivance of
certain members of the police and i'll
liciary.
Obituary.
THE father of Governor Hoffman, of
New York, died on Friday at Sing Sing
JOSEPH BOXER, from Columbus, Ohio,
ulclded at Tucson, Arizona, on the
9th.
SAMUEL w. COLLINS, President of the
JOHNS Company, and widely known
throughout the country as a manufac-
urer of edge tools, died in Hartford,
sunday evening, aged 68 years.
Foreign.
The troops of the Commune are said
Ot to exceed 81 600