The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-23
THE N EW S.
miscellaneous.

Dy q not stove 1allnS upon him.
SENATOR MoRToN's pocket book, which was
stolen from him while getting on the at
Jersey City, has been returned minus $500.
CHARLES EDMUNDsoN, colored, fatally stabbed
another negro named Shilling Bowling, near
Fort Smith, Ark, a few days since. -.
POSTAL convention has been concluded
with Ecuador, going into effect Immediately;
letter postage to be twenty cents per half
ounce
THE City Treasurer, of Philadelphia, has
been found guilty of five counts in the indict
ment charging him with disappointing
$500, 900 of the city money
The proprietors of the designation houses
of Brooklyn are decamping, as two of their
number have been sentenced to six months in
the penitentiary.
THE total loss of the Chicago national banks
by fire ID 81 ,O05,00o, leaving them with a CAPT
tai unimpaired and the surplus of 81 300, 900
still available.
SHOOTING affair occurred at Sargent's
Bluff, Iowo, Wednesday evening, between Da-
vid Barton and William j. Miller, resulting in
Hiller's death.
Two severe shocks of earthquake were felt on
the night of the 9TH at Cedar City Iron county,
Otdu Ou luc u LILO OH duOUueI
shock occurred. A loud noise accompanied the
shocks.
MORGAN POWELL, general foreman of the
Lehigh Coal Navigation Company at Maunch
Chunch, Penn, was shot and killed ON Satur-
day evening. at Summit Hill, while on the
way to the Companys office, by an unknown
man.
The British bark Emily Lowrher, at Boston,
reports; Nov. 13, latitude A Q ongitude4O Q d,
made light ahead, which proved to be bark
on fire, and on moving down toward her found
that it was the bark Venus. Her crew had
been taken off by the brig Laura B., bound
for st. JOHN, N. B.
some of the prices realized at the sale of
the Clay collection of coins, in New York, on
Wednesday. were follows: cent of 1879
brought 81; a cent of 1894, 537; half dol
lar of 1897, $685. ce mt of 1909. S43. The re-
mainder of the prices were equally high.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad, which has been
blocked by snow, is now clear from Kansas
City to Cheyenne, and the Union Pacific mails
are coming over it from the west The
winds and sunshine have settled the snow SO
that there is no further danger of drifting.
ARTICLES of association of the Chicago, Con-
hnental and Baltimore Railroad Company have
been filed. The Indiana portion of the pro-
posed line will run through the counties of
Lake, Porter, Laport, Stark, Marshall Fulton.
Wabash, Walls and Adams a distance of 165
miles. Capital, S5,000000.
The bark Louda picked up thirty miles from
Southwest Pass, small boat containing three
Cubans who were blown seward by the storm
of November 18th. They were seventeen
days at sea, and several days without food or
water. Frank Chevestillo had died on the
boat.
In the Kdklux trial at Charleston, on Wed
nesday, Reverdy Johnson argued that Con-
gress could give the Federal Court no right TO
try violations of state laws. and showed that
the indictment put the prisoners in jeopardy
twice, VIZ. an act of Congress and the laws of
the state
CONFEDERATION at Hagerstown, Md. on
Wednesday evening, destroyed the agricultural
warehouse of Rollins & Burbank, the Episco
pal church, court house, and other buildings
Ali the public records were saved Several
lives were lost by falling tinbers of the court
house dome, and number of persons severely
injured. ~
A!SLT LAKE dispatch says: 1.-THE Presi-
dents message receives earnest commenda
ton from all classes. Even the church organ
approves portions of it, but makes no refer
ence to that upon Utah affairs The general
effect of the message is excellent among the
Mcrmons- Few now express any hope for
maintaining the practice of polygamy in the
United States"
SECRETARY boutwell, has given notice that
on and after the 7th eff March, 1872. the prin-
cIpal and accrued interest on TWENTY-FIVE
coupon and registered bonds, known as tie
twenty-second series of the act Of February
25th, 1862, will be paid at the Treasury
Department. The amount of these bonds not
converted and thus called in is twenty millions
The National Tax Convention nas adopted
resolution favoring a uniform tax on all
grades of manufactured tobacco of sixteen
cents per pound. Also resolution favorinp
the continuation of the bonded warehouse
system, In opposition 10 the recommendation
of Commissioner Douglass, who desires to use
the old drawback system
PRIVATE dispatch from Columbia. Tenn
says Eugene Greenlow, who. in fit Of mental
alteration few days since, severely wounded
his sister-n-law and mother with Ratchet
and then harikaried himself with a razor was
dying from the effects of his wound. He was
son OF W. b. Greenlow, a well known cam
talist of Richmond.
1HE Governor of Kentucky in his message TO
the Legislature is very severe on lawlessness.
lie says mob Is no remedy for ANYTHING. IF
a mop nfhcts death Oh any one, all who coun-
tenance the act are guilty of murder He
recommends additional legislation TO more
certainly reach unlawful organizations and
evll-disposed persons, imposing more STRINGENT
ana severe penalties on public officers for
failure or neglect to enforce the criminal laws
SAMUEL j. ANDERSON attempted to commit
suicide IN New York on Friday Anderson WAS
bookkeeper in the Comptrollers office until
snort time after the appointment of Green.
Anderson states that previous To his discb.raa
he furnished figures to the Committee of Sa4
enty as evidence of the guilt of Connolly.
Tweed * Co., and was promised commence
uon, out did not receive it. He, consequently
became impoverished. TO this he attributes
the attempt on his life
The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
company has got its new freight houses so far
advanced In the North Division of Chicago. as
10 De able to manage its freight business with
dispatch. The Michigan Central Railroad
company has now completed its freight houses
st the loot of Lake street, and is fully able to
handle conveniently all freight that comes
The company has now put under good substau-
tIol STATE roofs $4,000 square feet of floor SIR
face for freight purposes
Foreign
THE elections in Spain have resulted in favor
of the radical party,
DISPATCH from Halifax announces that the
schooner Achilles was wrecked at Mino's
Basin Ten of the crew were drowned.
THE iron ship Loeb Leven. of 1000 tons
which left Melbourne for London on the sd
of October, with cargo of wool, leather.