The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-07-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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| CHAs. e. DEWEY, prominent lawyer
of Rutland, Vt, and member of the
! last Council of Censors, died at the
Hartford Retreat for the Insane or
June 26.
The commissioners of the new CAPT
/ tai at Albany have refused the demand
/ of the stone-cutters employed on the
| editice for the same wages, $3.50 per
/ day of eight hours, as they are now re
! ceivin2 for ten hours
Wm. DOUGLASS. owner Of the yacht
| Sappho, challenges any yacht on the
! Atlantic coast TO sui With an elght-knot
! breeze, twenty miies to wlndward and
return, for five thousand dollars or
set of colors Ii is said that LorrI-
/ lards yacht Wanderer will accept the
challenge
The managers of the Cincinnati Ia
/ dustrial Exposition, TO commence on
/ September 6, have issued circulars Of
classification and premium lists. The
classification is more extensive and per
! feet than last year. The premium list
! embraces 274 gold, silver, and bronze
medals, besides special premiums for
raw cotton.
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BASE ball-AthIetics ), Mutuals 4
Forest Citys of Cleveland, -, Pas
times, 9.
GEORGE FRANCES TRAIN, George
Smalley, of the Tribune, r. NJ. Corw1n
and wife, aud James Girard, have
sailed for Europe.
The New York 5aengerfest resulted
! oh ct No
made up by the city societies.
MICHAEL MCLAuGHIIN, OF Philadel-
phia, who shot James MCGEE III that
city about a year ago, has given him
! self up to the authorities.
EY-MAYoR CAHooN, Of Richmond,
/ has been found guilty of cdmphclty III
| forgery, and sentenced to two years
Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
THE Connecticut Senate has passed
resolutions appropriating $500, 600 for
new state house in Hartford, and au-
thorizing the city Of Hartford to appro-
pirate a sum not exceeding 81, 100000
I toward the same.
Ar Brady's Bend, Pa, half dozen
men We're working about Il new oil well
/ flowing at the rate or thirty barrels per
! day, the gas ignited from 4 lamp and
/ a loud explosion followed. Richard
/ Steele was fatally burned; Frank Da-
Wis, Christ. Miller Thomas Rankin,
/ Miller Brown, seriously.
/ The west.
/ Ir is reported that gold has been dis
! covered near Richmond, mi.
! \ WARRANT for S154, 273 has been is
! 1, - - an ant
4 on account of war claims OF that state.
/ Mrs +. STARK was burned to death
! III Cleveland, ON Tuesday evening, by
/ the explosion of Il coal oil lamp.
! REVENUE officers seized the tobacco
/ factory of Busher q Miller, III CIncln1
natl. Thursday, upon charges of fraud
THE First Battalion, First Regiment,
/ \. q. c., made a forced march from
| Sacramento on Sunday, reaching Sutler
Greek, Amador county, that night, tax
ing the riCtous miners by surprise No
resistance was offered.
The south.
/ CIRCUMSTANCES indicate that the out
rage on the Moody family, near Orleans,
/ Ky, Sunday night was the result OF a
/ family feud, and that the assassination
of the whole family was coolly planned.
REv Do. BEIslAl IrLowy. a we'll
/ known Jewish rabbi, who has ofliciated
III Rochester. St. Louis, New Orleans
and CINCINNATI, was thrown from his
/ buggy, Oh the way from Lebanon to
Fosters Crossings, Ohio, where he re
/ sided, and SO injured III the spine that
/ he died
Grimes and cas,snEtics.
I |, l.,
stage coach on Friday last, and secured
considerable plumber.
/ IT is stated that the defalcation of A
4 A. Robinson, of Henry Walsh grocery
establishment in New York, will reach
at least $40, 600 1t is believed that
/ Robinson, who is thought to have lost
! the money in stock speculations, has
! committed suicide.
THE La Grange County (ind. } muir
derer Barnes, is sinking rapidly from
/ the effect OF his self-inhicted pistol
shots, and is not expected to survive
much longer
! Mr.. BULLS, Republican nominee for
/ Lieutenant Governor OF Iowa, was
/ thrown from Gulky at DEBORAH, on
! June Both, had several ribs broken and
was otherwise badly iniured-his physi-
elan fears fatally.
Fires.
/ THE tannery, brick building, and
| stables at Battle Run, owned by Deford
! & Co., of Baltimore, were destroyed
! by fire Friday afternoon. Loss, $50, 600.
/ Insured.
! The brass founding establishment Of
! G. Pope & Co., and an adjoining build
/ ing occupied by H. Welser, IN Buffalo,
were destroyed by fire on Thursday
/ Loss SO, 900; insured.
/ The storehouse of Messrs. Ewing
! & Co., together with two or three
/ adjacent business houses, n Victoria,
/ Knox county, H., were destroyed by
fire Tuesday night.
Obituary.
| Rev SAMUEL ]. MAY, a UnIversalist
| divine, died in Syracuse on Saturday
evening.
! BIsHoP LUERs, Roman Catholic
! Bishop Of Fort Wayne, died in Cleve-
land, Thursday, of apoplexy, aged As
/ years.
/ EDWARD S. LEADBEATER City Treas
urer of Detroit, died Friday evening,
! after an illness of a few weeks. He
was serving his third term In Office, and
was a faithful aud popular officer.
/ The wife Of Mr. S. O. Griswold, a
prominent lawyer of Cleveland, was
/ found dead in bed at her elegant resi-