The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-01-21
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summary OF Late NEWS.
THE total number of deaths in Chica-
go during the year have been T. 24, or
286 less than the previous year.
THE Apaches are active, committing
many murders, and running off large
herds of cattle in the vicinity of Tue
| son, Arizona.
MICHAEL DUIGNAN, laborer, during
a quarrel with his aged mother at Eliza
bethport, n. j., shot her dead Thurs
day. He has escaped.
The Assistant State Cattle Commits
sionel' of New York, Thursday reports
1000 head of diseased cattle in Ouch
ess county. He states that the milk
business of the county is seriously
endangered.
The Fish Creek Stage Station, sew
enty-6ve miles south of Helena, Mon
tana, was burned Thursday night.
Nine horses, including the race-horse
Missouri, thirty tons of hay, and four
sets of harness were burned.
VIM. LENTz struck man named Val
entine in Purdy township, seven miles
from Evansville, Ind, Wednesday, with
an axe, cutting his left hand in two
places, from which he bled to death on
Thursday. Lentz has thus far escaped.
JOHN BELL CROCKETT, grandson of
David Crockett, was found murdered
on his trading boat, at Brady's Land
ing, five niles above Memphis, on the
Avly CIV
was horribly crushed with an iron bar
lying near. The boat had been plum
dered.
| A NEW steamer for the Upper Fox is
| to be built at Oshkosh this winter to
fill the place of the Berlin City, burnt
few weeks ago. The new boat will be
about the size of the Berlin City, and
VIII be designed especially for fast
travelling.
| A BLAST of sixty thousand pounds of
powder was successfully exploded n
the Blue Point Gravel Gold Mine, oil
| Thursday afternoon. GOld-bearlng
earth, 200 feet square and rs feet deep,
was lifted twenty feet and completely
shattered. 1t was the greatest mining
blast ever fired in California.
| VIM. WOODS, a worthy and industri-
Gus negro, living near Dewitt, Ark,
was called to his door last Thursday
night, while e. dance was going on at
his house. On opening the door he was
fred upon by some assassin and in
stantly killed. There is no clue to the
murderer.
A FREIGHT train from Lelly, Ochoco
and De Land, en- route to Camp Good
win, about thirty miles east of Tucson,
was attacked by large party of Indi-
ans. After shap fight, in which Mar
tin Rivers was killed and two others
wounded, the Indians got away with
the oxen. The wounded men were
| brought to Tucson.
A WASHINGTON special dispatch Of the
Doth says: The funeral of Mrs Corco-
ran occurred this afternoon, and was
attended by large assemblage of her
former friends. At The same hour APP
pointed for the funeral, 3 O'Clock, the
wife of Secretary Belknap breathed her
last, and another brilliant ornament of
Washington society passed away. Mrs
Belknap was a Kentucky lady, with
whom the Secretary became acquainted
| during Une war
DR.. DAVIDSON, a planter, who had
been gambling at Bremond and Kosse,
says the Calvert (Texas) Tribune, be
came drunk, and was very boisterous
and pugnacious. In his riotous career
he became involved in difficulty with
a gambler by the name of Reese, whom
he shot and mortal1y wounded. The
deputy sheriff of Limestone county,
Mr.. Hall, attempted to arrest Davidson,
who resisted and shot at him, when he
was shot and killed by the sheriff in
self-defense
! Mr.. FoRTEsCUE has been appointed
| President of the British Board of
Trade, and Marquis Hargraves Secre-
| tary for Ireland.
A PROCLAMATION has been issued by
the Prussian Government placing I'M
der blockade ali ports of France now
occupied or hereafter captured by the
| German forces
The Conference of the Powers on the
Eastern question has been indefinitely
postponed, as France has refused to
take part, and the absence of one of
the signators of the treaty of Paris
would render the meeting useless.
THE wounds of Gen. Prim, inflicted
| by would-be assassin while he was
proceeding homeward through the
streets of Madrid, are not dangerous
| There is great indignation in the city
| at this attempt to assassinate him.
THE Prussians have lost heavily in
battle and from sickness. In the north
and northeast of France the villages
are encountered with German wounded
A great number of German soldiers are
suffering from opthalmia. There are
Is, 900 sick and wounded German sol
diers at Chalons- sur Marine
KING WILLIAM telegraphed to the
Queen, on the Doth, that the lombard
ment of Fort Akron silenced the enc
my's guns. The railway station at
Noisy was shelled, and the French ar.
tillery at Bondy dislodged. The Prus-
sian loss was three men. The garrison
of Fort AKRON fed to Paris.
THE investigation into the causes of
the loss of the Captain resulted in an
order from the Admiralty for the fol-
lowing alterations in the British iron
clad navy: A reduction in the length
and weight in the masts, and the use
of concrete for ballast introduced into
the cellular bottom.