The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-02-25
AT HOME.

A FIRE IN East Midway, Mass, Sun
day, destroyed ST. Clements Church
and the school house opposite Loss
So, 900; insured for $1,000
A FIRE between two and three o'clock
Monday morning, destroyed William
Duggan's house, Oh Grand ST., Brook
Ign. The flames spread to three adj
joining houses, destroying them all
Loss $4,000.
CoUNT BISMARCK has recently took
occasion to repeat, IN an emphatic man
mer, his declaration Of July 18th, 1868,
that North Germany does not intend to
acquire any territory on this continent,
or the possession Of any adjacent is
lands.
The majority of the subcommittee
of the House Military Committee, which
recently visited West Point to examine
into the cause of the trouble among
the cadets, recommend the dismissal of
the entire first class except four, and
the censure of the officers.
A MANCHESTER special says: Last
evening two men named George Wood
and George Coleman, in the employ of
W. COwan, had an alteration, during
which the former struck the latter with
a cane in the temple, killing him in
stantly. Wood is sixty years old, and
has borne a good reputation hitherto.
He claims that Coleman attacked him
with an axe, and that the blow was Civ
en- i'll self-defense The deceased was
about forty years old An inquest was
held, and Wood is in custody on charge
of murder
On Saturday the mercury fell to 40
degrees below zero on Mount Washing
ton, and continued to fall till 3 a. IN.
on Sunday, when It was SO below zero.
During the night the gusts of wind
must have been more than one hundred
miles per hour. 1t was probably the
severest weather ever experienced, as
the temperature of seventy-six below
zero, the lowest record, when it was
comparatively calm, would be no COM
parlson to fifty nine below, accompa-
MED by q terrific wind.
In Cheatam county, Minnesota, some
nights ago, band of masked men took
Lewis Harra, colored, from his cabin
ana whipped him; then went to the
house of John Davis, near Kingston
SPRINGS, and gained admittance by
promising to harm no one. Sam. Fin
ley, an ex-federal soldier, John Davis
and his son Oscar were the main in
mates The party of ruffians then took
Finley out al said be had shot com
rade of theirs at Shiloh and must die.
They then fired at him three times
without effect, and concluded by beat
II, l.,
were also badly treated. Finley has
lived many years in Cheatham. Davis
recently removed thither from Pennsyl-
vanla. No arrests.
BETWEEN one and two o'clock z. NJ,
Saturday a messenger from the Chath-
am Bank, New York, had stolen from
his pocket a wallet containing notes
and drafts to the amount of over S23,-
900. The messenger does not know
when the theft was committed He
stepped into the post-office to make an
inquiry, and while in the lobby, some
person passing through the throng
rushed by and iostled him, and shortly
afterward he was jostled by two other
persons together. While passing along
Dey street, III little while afterward,
he discovered that bis wallet, contain
ing the notes and drafts, was missing.
Payment was Immediately stopped, so
that the bank loses nothing and suffers
no inconvenience, except the trouble of
obtaining duplicates of the lost papers.
ABROAD.
JUAREz viii be reelected President
of Mexico.
TIE smali-poxis raging in St. Johns,
New Brunswick.
A LONDON dispatch says that Queen
Victoria was never SO unpopular as at
present.
The scheme for the restoration of the
empire in France is said to develop
great strength III unexpected quarters.
INTENSE suffering is said to prevail in
Paris. Hundreds are dying daily OF
starvation. The food received is wholly
inadequate.
A BERLIN dispatch says that prepar-
ations are making for q continuance of
the war, in the belief that France will
not make peace. Funds are close in
consequence.
OF the one hundred thousand horses
originally IN Paris, 1000 have been
killed for food. Three thousand horses
exquisitioned by the government have
been given back to the omnibus COM
panies. Cabs have entirely disap-
peared
1T is officially announced that an en-
gagement took place at Naias, San
Gemimo, Cuba, and seventy-nine insur-
gents were killed and fifteen taken pris-
oners. The Spaniards had two killed
and eleven wounded. Five hundred
persons identified with the republic
surrendered recently.
GAMBETrA is losing popularity in
France: his decree disqualifying i'm
perialists from election to the constitu-
ent assembly is generally disapproved
of in many parts of France. A demon
stration in honor Of the Bordeaux gov
eminent, of which he is the head,
which took place in Bordeaux on the
9th, was tame affair