The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-04-15
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AT HOME

MosT of the five hundred Chinese
laborers from the Alabama railroads
will go on to the Louisiana plantations.
THOMAS RINGsDoRF, agent Of the
Htna Sewing Machine Company, OF
Indianapolis, was shot and killed III the
drug store OF Robert Benjowsky, at
Shelbyville, Indiana, on the 25th. Ben
iowsky is charged with having com
mitted the murder
THE Meridian Miss Mercury says
| the investigation into the recent riot at
that place Hfhas brought to light a
chain of circunlstantial evidence point
ing SO strongly to VIM. Sturgiss, late
Mayor of Meridian, as the incendiary of
the night of the 4th, as to crown every
other theory of the confagration. He
stands before the world as an incen-
diary and the fermentor of the riot in
which Judge was shot on the Justices
seat by a negro He is, besides, under
indictment for felony, which would
send him to the penitentiary.
| TWENTY square miles Of wood land
on the South Shore Of Long Island,
were burned over on the 25th, and
thousands of dollars worth of other
property destroyed, the total loss being
not less than hundred thousand dol
lars. The fire begun near Amerik, and
burned westward to Oakland, passing
close to several small villages, which
were only saved by the great exertions
of the inhabitants. No lives were lost
| or dwellings burned during the entire
progress of the fire.
| IL, e Al. l.
session of the Arkansas. Legislature, are
said to have been of disgraoeful ma
tl1re. Whisky flowed freely, cigars were
circulated members became intoxicat-
ed, and several drunken brawls occur
red-without serious results however.
A DISPATCH from Memphis says that
several large crevices have occurred in
the Mississippi River ievee in the up
per parishes of Louisiana, which Will
lntiict great damage upon some of the
most productive portions of the low
lands of that state.
F. X AcKERMAN committed suicide
at St Louis by taking arsenic.
WAITER WATTS recently from the
State of New York, was crushed to
death at Kansas City, ON Thursd ay
last, while coupling cars.
CHRISTIAN & DEBALDo's extensive liv-
cry stables III Wheeling, West Virginia,
were destroyed by fire on the 26th
Loss S25, 900.
AN old man named Brlndle and wife.
each seventy years Of age, have been
arrested and lodged in Jail in West
mOreland county, Pa, charged with the
murder of German peddler at New
! Stanton, four years ago. When AZ
rested, Brindle was attempting to sell
goods known to have been IN the pos
session of the peddler
ABROAD,
/ MENosTI GARIBALDI has been ap-
pointed COMMANDMENTS Chief of the IN
surgent National Guards.
SIGNS Of disaffection are becoming
manifest among the adherents Of the
revolutionary Central Committee in
Paris. Five hundred of the National
Guards have been disarmed
THE Montmartrists aud Garibaldians.
with two guns. invaded the Place de la
Bourse, on the oath, and, making q
charge upon the guns IN the hands of
! the LOYAL Nationals. demanded their
surrender They met with both refu-
sal and repulse.
/ REVOLUTIONARY uprlslngs are feared
in Marseilles, Lyons and Bordeaux
! The Montmartrists have increased
their vigilance They stop all railway
trains bound to Versailles and seize all
ammunition found in the cars.
FROM Uruguay it is reported that
Gen. Lopez Jordan has again been de
/ feated and his army r0lted