The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-05-11
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JOHN COOPER. a mulatto, who murdered
James H. Swing. a coored tinsmth, last No
vember, was hung in Cleveland on Thursday. !
JAMES E. CAsTERo, notorious hoTse-thlef
and stage-robber, was hanged by the vigilantes
al San Benito, California, on Wednesday
E. 2. SEWARD, brother of Secretary Seward
died on Tuesday of apoplexy, at his home at
Florida, N. Y.
Rev. FATHER JOHN FLAENIGAN, pastor of
st. Patrick's Church, New Orleans. died on
Monday, aged A years.
The Senate has confirmed Elisha Terre to
be Governor of Washington Territory Uice
Edward S. Solomon resigned.
CHARLTON LEWIS has retired from the man
agement of the New York Evening Post. He
Is succeeded by Park Goodwin
AT Indianapolis, on Tuesday, a man named
Chuck shot and killed his wife and then cut
ms own throat. He will recover
GEN. j. o. MCFERRAN. chief quartermaster
of the Division of the south, died suddenly at
his headquarters at Louisville on Thursday.
PowDER-MILL at the Dupont Works in
Delaware, blew up Friday afternoon of last
week, and badly injured two men, one of them
atallv
HE dead bodies of woman and newly
born babe were found Thursday morning,
in house i'll Jersey City. The woman had
evidently died in childbirth.
IT is stated that al eight-foot vein of coal
has been struck at depth of one hundred and
sixty five feet, about two miles east of Norris
Illinois.
On Saturday last, DR.. F. Fleischert, good
hearted German, from La Porte, Ind, visit
ing Philadelphia, was robbed of $25. 900 in the
La Pierre House, by some confidence men,
INTO whose company he had accidentally fallen.
The bill to extend the time for the compile
Copper Harbor, Mich, to Fort Howard at
Green Bay, Wis, has been approved by the
President.
The Central City elevator at Peoria, Ill.,, was
destroyed by fire early Thursday morning.
There were about 100000 bushels of grain
stored In the building. Loss on building and
machinery S55, 600 Insurance on building and
grain SlI0, 900.
In Jersey City, on Wednesday evening
German car conductor named Kent made
desperate effort to shoot another conductor
named Koch. The latter fell, feigning death.
though unhurt. Kent then shot himself, in
flct1ng a mortal wound.
Hon. A. J. WALKER, ex-Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Alabama, died at his resi-
dence IN Montgomery, on Thursday aged 90.
He was Eminent Commander of the Knights
Templars of the state.
\ MINER by the name of William Channel
aged about thirty-tive years. was instantly
min
day, by the falling of a mass of rock from the
roof.
HE Harrisburg Gar Manufacturing Com
panys extensive works in Harrisburg, Pa.
with all its buildings, were burned on Thurs
day. Loss 530O,OO0 with an insurance of
Sl35,uO0. Over 800 hands were EMPLOYED by
the company.
A BOILER IN John STEMS silk manufactorv.
III New York, exploded Friday afternoon.
man named Braddon was carried off apparent
~ lifeless. little girl was severely injured
and two or three other persons more or less
scalded.
SATURDAY morning, fire in Lebanon Nv.
destroyed four buildings. Loss S15. 900 in
surance $4,000. Lebanon has had ten fires in
sixteen months, destroying S1OO. 900 worth IF
property. The town has no fire organizations
The first of the new crop of India rice ar
rived i'll New York on Tuesday. This unusu-
ally early arrival Is owing to the rapid transit
which results from the Suez Canal, saving
nearly three months time.
y LONDON telegram states that the Govern
ment will not resign. They have agreed to
promise not to endow Catholic University in
Ireland This Will satisfy the secularists and
ultra Professionals. and secure a majority
against Fawcett's bill.
TELEGRAM from Hong Kong bringsi ntel-
lGence of a terrible marine disaster on the
emma coast. The French steamer Cavato
came into collision with the steamer Rova and
the latter vessel was sunk. Sixty persons who
were on board the Rova missing, and it is
believed they have all been lost
The prospectus of the American Atlantic
Telegraph Company Is issued. The company
propose TO lay 4 cable from Milford Haven. in
Wales, to Eye Beach, n. II. The rate for mes
cages VIII he fixed at Is. ID. per word with a
charge III gross, for the address, of 3s. This
late - about One-third of the tariff of the
present companies.
ALEXANDER ROBINSON, chief of the .Potta-
Watomies, whose name is associated with the
b tory of Chicago, died on Tuesday at the In
dIan reservation in Cook county, Ill, aged
IOU years. He was steadfast friend of the
whites, and padded the Kinzie family. the
Oldest pioneers Of that CITY, across the lake
from Michigan in 1918. He has lived on the
deserve for forty years, and leaves a son and
two daughters.
Don CARLOS has entered Spain at the head
OF ten thousand men,
IRE steamship Baltic left Liverpool on
thursday. with number of persons intending
to form colony 10 Nebraska.
MINISTER ScHENCK and his daughter visited
thnst's Hospital School in London, on Mon
oay' ana reviewed seven hundred of the BOYS
IN the Dominion House, Dr. Upper, in ans
"er TO question. said it was not intended IN
grant concurrent privileges to foreigners for
hsLlnG IN inland lakes and rivers Canadians
only would have fishing rights
BANCROFT, American Minister to Berlin
gave banquet Monday night in honor Of 7
:. b. Davis, agent of the United States before
the Geneva Board Bismarck and several
leading German diplomats were present,
THUNDER storm of unusual violence passed
over the midland counties of England on
thursday morning, doing great damage,
houses were unroofed, churches injured, and
several lives lost.
He eruption of Mount vesuvius has roach
cd an unwonted pitch of grandeur New
'ia'eFs nave formed, and streams of lava are
FoufnS down the mountain side in differant
directions
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