The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-06-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Miscellaneous.

| tons Durthen.
REL, satisfied that neither the Cana
dian or Manltoban government is goinp
to take any Legislative action on his
case, has returned to his old parish.
and is arranging to run for the local
parliament at the next election.
A WEALTHY Englishman, a brother Of
the American Consul at Maracaibo, has
been arrested at that place, put in irons
and thrown into prison, and it is be-
Tieved he Will be shot. The arrest is
aid to be unwarranted.
! A PIGEoN-sHooTING match for the
championship badge and one thousand
dollars, between Ira A. Paine, of New
York, and Captain Bogardus, of Iii
nois, will take place on Tuesday at
Fleetwood Park, near New York.
JUDGE McCUE has decided, in the &C.
ton of Cole & Murphey against the
Central Bank of Brooklyn for $4,000,
the amount of their deposit when the
bank failed, that the directors are liza
BILE for the loss sustained by the depos-
itors.
The East
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Nicholas Fish, of New York,
for Secretary of the Legation at Berlin
A REUNION of the soldiers of West
| Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
| Maryland will be held in Wheeling on
the 18th and Goth of October.
IT is proposed to extend the system
of weather reports and storm signals
now In use in the United States to Can
ada, the maritime provinces and British
| Columbia. The lighthouses in the diff
ferent parts of the Dominion are to be
used as stations.
CONSTABLE SHALETTs, of Gettysburg,
| Pa, was killed on Thursday last by a
deaf and dumb man, named John Sti-
yer, whom he was endeavonng to ar
rest.
! VICE-PREsIDENT CoLFAX was taken
suddenly i'll during the session of the
Senate on Monday. He is rapidly re-
covering.
NILSSON will sing at two concerts in
Chicago IN June next, the net proceeds
are to be divided between the different
Swedish Churches, and distributed for
other charitable purposes among the
Swedes of that city
A MAN named Alex Rain was found
dead III his room, in Chicago, on Tues
day, having committed suicide by tax
ing laudanum.
! CoPIoUs rains are reported through
out Central Illinois.
The Germans of Cincinnati are about
to erect a new theater, to cost, lnclud-
ground, $3.50, 900
THE White Stockings defeated the
Forest City Club of Rockford, Mon day
score Is to 6.
The south
]. MILTON TURNER, of Missouri, min
lister resident and consul general to LII
IBERIA, as arrived in Washington to re-
ceive his credentials and instructions.
BISHOP PERCHE hos returned to New
Orleans from Rome.
THE cornerstone of the free bridge
which is to span the James River, at
Richmond, was laid Monday with great
ceremony.
A NUMBER of Louisville families have
been poisoned by eating cream puffs
from a confectionery. No fatal results
are reported.
Crimes md Casualties.
/ JOHN DoNAHoE, of Buffalo, died at
Evansville, Ind, Tuesday, from the
effects OF pistol shot by Bob Blakely.
The officers are after Blakely.
A TELEGRAM from Indianapolis states
that young man committed suicide
by drowning, near that place, Tuesday.
A LAD named Phillip Fallwich fell
through a hatchway in Chicago on
Tuesday and was instantly killed.
GEO ScHGDLER fell through hatch
way, and two painters from scaffold,
In Cincinnati, on Monday-all three re-
ceiving fatal injuries.
Al st. Louis, on Monday, VIM.
Woodhouse padded skif into the
middle of the river, jumped from
it, and was drowned He leaves
a wife and six children in poor
circumstances
AN accident occurred to the accom-
mediation train going east on the l. b.
and w railroad near Bloomington,
H., Friday night, whereby several pas
sengers were seriously injured, and two
probably fatally.
VIM j. BROOKS committed suicide at
Washington by shooting himself
through he head with a derringer
Brooks was in the presence of his aft
anced. He had been drinking for some
time, but had promised to reform. He
was conversing on the subject, when,
saying he would kill himself, he sud
denly drew the pistol and committed
the deed.
Obituary.
Col K d. CoNINGHAM, y. S. A.,
died at Wilkesbarre, Pa, Friday even
ing
Rev. DR. WALTER CLARK, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church OF B1ffa-
10, died at that place Tuesday.
The famous lion conqueror, Prof
Langworthy of Van Amburg's manag-
erie, died at Tecumseh, Mich, on
Monday, of dropsy.
THE Exchange Hotel at Alliance,
Ohio, was burned, on Tuesday, with
two adjoining buildings. Loss $40, 600;
insurance $1,000.
SUNDAY morning the carpenter shop
and vitriol factory owned by Mayor
Kalbfeisch, of Brooklyn, were com
pletely destroyed by fire. Damage,
$50, 900; no insurance.
THE Delaware Flax Mills, at Della
ware, Ohio, were burned Wednesday
afternoon. The fire spread so rapidly
that sixty operatives, employed on the