The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-07
r HE N e w S 4.
Miscellaneous.

SUCCESSFUL NOIhlHS oluci.
SENATORS Sumner and Wilson both oppose
the nomination of Gen. Butler for Governor
By the Republicans of Massachusetts.
Two men, named George and Macarthur,
were last week suffocated by foul air arising
from blast at the bottom of well in Hudson
City
THE entire southern portion of the Claren-
don Hotel in New York has been engaged as a
city residence of the Russian Grand Duke
Alexis.
BARRY, who killed his wife at Pittsburgh on
July ID, was acquitted on the grounds of in
sanity, and will be sent to the Dixmont Luna
tic Asylum.
The furniture mandatory of j. r. Hoff-
man 4 Brothers at Fort Wayne, was burned
on Thursday morning. Loss 81, 900; insur-
ed $4,000
SIX hundred pound twelve inch rlf1ed gun
burst at Fortress Monroe on Wednesday, dur
ing the trial of new kind of powder No
person injured.
BLACKSMITH named John Taylor, was
murdered at Tolono, H.. Saturday night, for
between $500 and $500 in money which he had
upon his person.
Gen. ALFRED PLEAsANToN, late Commission
er of Internal Revenue has been elected
President of the Terre Haute and Cincinnati
Railway Company
ALL public work in New York city has been
stopped IN consequence of the Tammanv COM
pllcatlon and four thousand men are thrown
out of employment.
HE failure of the new Customs treaty with
Germany Is imminent. The German plenito-
tentiaries object to the aItera lions in the text
made by the Assembly.
Gen. MCCLELLEN declines to accept the Of
ice OF Comptroller of New York, because he
would thereby, under the existing circum-
stances, become contestant for the position
MARTIN BRAwDY, young man, was sentenc-
ed to the penitentiary in Pittsburg. for a pc
rod OF three years for stealing IS cents from
beer saloon. His character is notorjopsIv
bad.
a MERCHANT named Steinberg, under arrest
at East Saginaw, for forgery, shot and killed
himself i'll his cell Sunday morning. He
loaded his pistol with nails from his boot
heel.
SECOND LIEUT.. FENNo, tried at st. Paul for
embezzhnS public funds, was found guilty and
sentenced to be cashiered, to refund 81 500
and to imprisonment for five years in the Peni-
Tertiary.
TUESDAY morning all the visiting KNIGHTS
Iempiaf, accompanied by a number of Knight.
OF Baltimore, proceeded to Mount Vernon TO
see the home OF Washington aud hold Masonic
services at his tomb
II the four cared race at Ouebec ON Wed
nesday, the Quebec and Renforth crews start
ed, the Renforth's winning by two minntas r.
the single scul race Kelly was first C,ba,oher.
second, and Perry third
a GREAT fire occurred IN Virginia Citv on
Wednesday, involving loss of $3.50. 600 nnon
winch there Is insurance to the amount of
S9oO,0Q0 Many persons were injured bv fall
ing walls, but none killed outright.
YOUNG German, formerly a book-keener
III dfy-6oods house in New York CITY, was
arrested IN Dubuque, on Friday last. on an
oluer tele8raphed from the Chief of Police of
ne" York He Is charged with forgery.
YIN saturday night Of last week ten masked
men went to the house of Anderson Moore
colored, III Drew county. Ark. and took Tob,,
heo6h' colorea, away. He has not been heard
OF since, and 1t is thought he was murdered
a CITIZEN of Dubuque purchased ten kegs
Vi "hat he supposed to be nickels at the rate
OF nifty cents on the dollar paving therefor
hVe hundred dollars. On reaching homo and
opening the kegs he found all but one filled
with sand.
JNo WILLIAMS, Alfred Discarrenk, and NoeIa
dhdS Madison Hampton all colored. we're
hung on Saturday, in ST. James parish T, a for
the murder of Frank MenIeats. on Nav IN
lhey were executed on the spot where the
murder was committed
LON CASTER, one of the prisoners who
broke from the Nevada State Prison. WAS re-
captured, and another tracked and severely
wounded. The main gang are pursued bv the
oiooPa ION larson. III Is believed the bulk
of them will be recaptured.
OMAHA CITY has refused to deliver RI +bo
Union Pacific Railroad Company $3.50, 900 Of
her bonds, which she agreed to give for the
location of the bridge where the same is now
1on5 puliI one also refuses to execute a
deed for the local depot grounds.
PAMPHLETS have been issued bv the Catholic
bishops OF Switzerland upon the dogma of Pa
PAL 1n1aiIibillty. The bishops insist upon the
validity OF the decision adopted by the Ecu-
memcal Council upon the infaIHbilitv of tbo
rope, the supreme head of the Church.
coURr-MARI1AL has Eeen appointed to trv
Paymaster Hodge. Among the officers de-
tailed for the court-martial are Major General
George G.. Meade, Col. d. ckatt IN
spector GeneraD, COL. Israel Vodges rFirs4 Ar.
tillery), and Col. n. ". Brown. Assistant oav-
master General "S
LIE ilttst'rG Post proposes sixteenth
amendment to the Constitution. which removes
disability from citizens of foreign birth from,
being eligible to the Presidency. and oivas
Carl SchTz an even chance with Fred DONG
lass. 1t Is the intention to push the matteer
with earnestncsS.
BOY seven years of age. belonging to the
strong woman of O'Brien's Menagerie. died at
otoonNlle, \. Y, last Ihrsdav night. from the
e1ects of starvation. The woman honobt tba
Clilld IN rams for 800 to perform with her in
tne lnenaSene firing of him at StoonvilIa
she tied his hands behind his bacI, AMI sb,It
am up IN room where he starved to death
IhR kepuohcan State Convention of Mime
sofa met on Wednesday. and nominated the
following ticket: Governor Horace Austin
Lieutenant Governor, w. II. Yale. of Winopa
both by acclamation): Secretary If s+a+a 9
/: Jenneson, of Goodhue county: Treasure.
Mn' Aeager; Associate Justice. :. ! II Nc,
m " l; G ana ); NJ Berry Attorney General. F.
Foreign
NEWCASTLE is inundated with foreign work
men.
QUEEN VICTORIA suffers from rheumatism in
her foot
IHE Princess of Wales will soon return
from the continent