The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-06-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Miscellaneous.

on a charge Of stealing a chain.
THE superintendent of the insane
asylums of the United States held
cession at Tronto Thursday.
BURGLARS robbed the dwelling of
Chas. B. Day, in Peoria, Ill, of a gold
watch, $50 in money, and 500 worth
of silver ware
RECEIPTS from Internal Revenue
sources the first six days In June of the
present year, compared with the same
time IN June, 1870, show a falling off
of nearly s5,0O0,0O
THERE IS high official authority for
denying the truth of the various dis
quoting reports which have recently
gained currency, to the effect that the
War Department apprehends a general
Indian war this summer. 1t is also
denied that General Sheridan is to be
ordered East to command the Division
Of the Atlantic.
The East.
The Athletics defeated the White
Stockings, Is toll.
THE Forest Cities of Rockford, the
Pastimes of Baltimore, II to 5.
COLLECTOR Murphy, of New York, is
soon to be succeeded by Fenton Re
publican.
AUGUST BUSCH, retired New York
merchant, committed suicide by taking
arsenic.
The Bank of Johannesburg, n Y,
has failed. Liabilities $500 assets,
scarcely anything. Cause-speculation
by the officers.
The New Hampshire House of Rep
resentatives elected VIM. Ii. Cove,
Democrat and Labor-reform candidate,
Speaker by one majority, over James
@. Adams, Republican.
The wheat harvest has commenced
in the vicinity of Leavenworth, Kan,
The crop was never better
LEAvENwoRTH is excited over pro-
posed narrow guage railway to Den
yer.
MExIcANs are In the habit of cutting
down the telegraph poles on the Santa
Fee line to repair their wagons.
The Illinois soldiers reunion at
Rock Island was grand affair There
were between ten and fifteen thousand
people present at the proceedings.
General Logan was the orator of the
day.
AT Piqua, Ohio, last week, Rev w
[. Fee picked quantity of potato bugs
off his vines and placed them in a tin
can; then pouring boiling water into
the can, he stood over it to watch it's
Christian effect on the enemy, but soon
became very Ill and 1t was concluded
the vapor had poisoned him.
TIE Alabama AMI Chattanooga Rail
road Company, has been placed in
bankruptcy.
Hon. WILLARD WARNER, OF Alabama,
has formally declined the appointment
of Governor of New Mexico.
A. j. JONES, who was recently ar
rested at ST. Joseph, Mo-, for forging
the signature of Thomas A. Scott.
President of the Union Pacific Rail
road, to free pass, has been sentenced
to three years Imprisonment.
Crimes and Casualties.
GEO. A BAToH elder, Secretary of
Dakota Territory, is a defaulter to the
extent of $4,000
THE Marquis of Gallifet was assassin
ated in Paris by the widow OF one of
the Communists who was shot by his
order
GEO. II. HOLDER, member of the
Suffolk bar, implicated in the fraudu-
lent divorce case of James versus James,
at Boston, has been sentenced to four
years imprisonment.
The agitating house of Alexander
Scotield & Co. S refinery, at Cleveland,
exploded on Wednesday with great
violence. The agitator contained ], 100
barrels of oil, which instantly ignited,
and great confagration followed, de-
stroying the entire premises. Loss
$4,000. Adam Kehr, carpenter en-
ployed in the works, was instantly
killed. HIS body was burned almost
beyond recognition. Three others
were seriously burned.
JEAN GEORGES KoHLE, the distin-
guished German navigator, died in
Bremen on Tuesday, in the Gath year of
his age.
MAJOR GENERAL CHARLES MUNDY, of
Florida, formerly of the Army of the
Potomac, died suddenly at the Toombs
in New York, Sunday night, from ex-
haustion resulting from intoxication.
GEN T. J. RoDMAN, distinguished
ordnance officer of the United States
army, and who has for several years
past been in command of the United
States arsenal and other government
works at Rock Island, died at that
place on Wednesday, He graduated
from the Military Academy at West
Point in 1S41, and has been continu-
ously in the army to the time of his
death.
A FIRE In Commerce street, Philadel-
phia, Tuesday, destroyed property
valued at $4,000.
THE steamer Geo. Weems was burned
at Baltimore on Saturday Loss $780,
900.
HoLLowAY's shoddy-mills, in West
Philadelhhia, were burned Tuesday
afternoon. Loss $4,000.
A CoNFLAGRATIoN in Philadelphia de-
stroyed thirty five dwellings on Mar
shall, below Girard avenue Total loss
SIS, 900
A LARGE number of business houses