The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-06-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Miscellaneous.

IHE New York Tribune prOnOunces
Ludlow street jail disgrace to the
city and civilization.
S. f. PIKE has bought the right of
patent of the Whipple & Dickerson
method of using raw petroleum in gen
Grating steam, instead of coal.
CAPT MArTHEwsoN and DR.. Mexican,
of the Inman steamer City of Durham,
were drowned in Halifax harbor, Sun
day, by the capsizing of small boat
The New England Woman Suffrage
Association held meeting at fremont
Temple, Boston, Monday evening.
Julia Ward Howe presided. Addresses
were made by Mrs. Isabella Beecher,
Rev. G.. Haven, Julia Ward Howe and
Lucy Blackwell. The attendance was
small.
AN appeal has been issued for SUBJ
stantial aid to the families of the VIC
tins of the recent coal mine accident in
Pittston, Pa.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was oc-
casloned among fishermen and others,
on Sunday, by the appearance of a fin
back whale, thirty feet long, in Fire
Island Inlet, New York Bay.
THE seventh national camp meeting
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
will, as last year, be held at Round
Lake, Saratoga county, New York, and
the exercises will commence on Tues
day, July 4th, and close Friday, July
18th, 1871.
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The steamboat Far West, was attack
ed by Sioux Indians while en- route for
Fort Benton Fortunately nobody was
hurt.
The White Stockings defeated the
Stars of Brooklyn to /. The Hay
makers suffered defeat at the hands
of the Pastimes of Baltimore-25 to %.
The White Stockings defeated the
Eckfords by a score of 10 to 5. The
Forest City nine, of Rockford, were
worsted by the Boston Reds-score 25
to II.
The German Peace Jubilee process
sion at Chicago was ten miles long, and
occupied upwards of three hours in
passing a given point. At Albany,
Buffalo, Galena, Philadelphia, and
other points, demonstrations of magni-
tude took place.
JUDGE RICHARDSON, Foreign Agent
for the sale of United States bonds,
Will take but one person, Mr.. Bigelow,
as chief of the loan division, whose
duty it is to examine bonds that are to
be exchanged, and to see that no coun-
terfeits are redeemed.
THE Superior Times of Saturday has
news of Thursday from the silver mines.
New mines are being discovered daily,
and the indications are that the deposit
of silver is beyond comprehension.
The Times is informed that fifteen bar
rels of ore Melted $4,000. Silver Is
land is literally alive with miners.
The south.
4 SHOCKING affray is reported to have
occurred between a party of whites and
blacks at Hopetiield, Ark, on Sunday,
which resulted III the death of John
Rayner, colored
The railroad bridge at ST. Charles,
Mo, has been successfully tested, and
is pronounced the finest structure of
the kind on the continent. The ex-
treme length of tins bridge and the APP
proaches is $3.50 feet the bridge pro
per, 2,179 feet number of spans, Z;
ranging from 3G5 to 322 feet in length.
All the piers rest on solid rock, and
range In height from rs to 145 feet, ac-
cording to the depth of the rock under
the river.
Crimes and Casualties.
A NUMBER of cases of sunstroke oc-
CURED in New York, on Tuesday, of
which four proved fatal.
DIR. BLACKBURN, of Chillicothe,
Ohio, has been indicted for murder in
the first degree, for the killing of Mary
J. Lowell.
The examination of Peter Schwab, of
Butler county, Ohio, charged with
stuffing the ballot-box at the Schenck-
Campbell election, resulted in his CON-
mittment for trial
ELLERY DANIELS, late cashier of the
Webster National Bank, Boston, has
been indicted in the United States Dis
trict Court for embezzling its funds to
the amount Of s., 900.
THURSDAY morning an explosion took
place in one of the hot blast furnaces
of Kingsland's iron works, South ST.
Louis. Owen McCabe had his left hip
and right ankle broken; Frank CORN
ley had his leg broken John Hegnor
his arm broken, and four other men
were badly bruised. The explosion
was caused by an accumulation of gas.
The 5000 Hambletonian stallion,
owned by Mat. Suttle, of Peterson, n.
j., is dead.
A GERMAN named Louis Koelle died
of hydrophobia in New York on Mon
day. He was bitten fortnight prevl-
Gus to his death.
REV. GEO. E. PIERCE, ex-President
of the Western Reserve College, died
at Hudson, Ohio, on Saturday, aged
seventy years
Pa, and well-known as a successful
speculator in oil lands and the owner
and originator of the famous town and
wells of Pithole. died at Belfast, Ire
land on Thursday.
A FIRE at Worcester, Mass, on Mon
day, destroyed two blocks owned by
Messrs. Webster & Gibson.
A MAIL CAR was burned on the Grand
Trunk Railroad, near Newcastle, last