The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-03-30
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snow in the mountains has caused numerous
wash outs along the Pacific Railroad.
TIE carpet yarn mill of the Wilton Manu-
acturing Company. at Wilton, N. H., was
burned on Wednesday. Loss $4,000.
ELIAS, the proprietor of the alleged bogus
Geneva Watch Company, has brought suit
against the New York Tribune for libel, claim
ng 0,00O damages.
Mrs. JANE MADDEN has recovered $4,000
against the Staten Island Ferry Company, for
the death of her husband by the Westfeld
explosion last June.
A SACRAMENTO dispatch states that Captain
Brennan and four sailors of the schooner
Minnie Bell were drowned in attempting to
land at Point Sal, Cal.
JUDGE RIcHARDsoE, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, and J. p Bigelow, chief of the
Lean Division of the Treasury Department,
returned from Europe on Friday.
CAPTAIN LAHREBUsH, the veteran English
officer and opium consumer, was treated by
his friends in New York. on Saturday, to his
usual birthday breakfast. He is now LOT.
MAGNIFICENT banner from the nuns of
Kenmare. Ireland, valued at $1,000, will be
presented to the st. Patrick's Mutual Alliance,
Cooper Institute, on the 18th inst
SEVENTY FIVE thousand dollars confiagra-
ton occurred at Lincoln, Ill. on Thursday
evening last. Thubey's jewelry store, Brewer
Hall. and Houston's block were burned
WIN. SIMPSON a dealer in obscene publica-
tons in New York. has been convicted and
sentenced to pay fine of $1,000, and suffer
Imprisonment for one year in the penitentiary.
has been chosen President of the American
Bible Society. The Society will expend 500, 900
for missionary work in foreign lands this year.
A THEATRE, to be called the MaguiresOpera
House. will soon be erected adjoining the
Sherman House, Chicago, which will seat
LOO people, the cost of which will be about
$50 600.
REV. EDWARD S. SULLIVAN, rector of the
Trinity Episcopal Church, in Chicago, is soon
to depart for Europe to solicit funds with
which to enable his parishioners to rebuild
their place of worship.
IN the harbor-master's investigation, in New
York, on Saturday, of the witnesses stated
that he would give $25, 900 for the privileges
enjoyed by one of the harbor- masters, of
whom there are eleven in the city,
Con-. w. III. DANA, United States Navy. died
at the United States General Hospital, at Bos-
ton, on Tuesday. He belonged in Ohio, en-
tered the navy in May, 1850, and was ap-
pointed Commander April 9th, 1862
HE steamers Abeonia, Kate Robinson st.
Charles, hrgosy. Major Anderson, Champion
and Belle Vernon were destroyed by fire at
Cincinnati during Wednesday night The total
loss is estimated at 5000 000
JULIA CONNOLLY, aged eleven years, is diving
from hydrophobia in New York, having been
bitten by mad dog three weeks ago. Six
other children were bitten by the same an
imal, which has since been killed.
JOHN HARRISON, Jersey City carpenter un-
able to obtain employment in Chicago, arrived
home nearly frozen and starved to death. hav-
ing concealed himself in a grain-car and been
six days and nights without food or drink.
AT Perryville fifty miles from the terminus
OF the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad. a
desperate murdered merchant named Fisher.
after having robbed HIM Of 5000. The muir
derer has been captured.
LARNER d WERNFR's saw mill situated at
Moline, Mich, was blown up ON Monday
Three men, named James Lavery, J. Staffer,
aud Frederick HUFF were killed. and five
others INJURED, some of them quite seriously
The water was allowed to get too low in the
boiler.
The hook and ,,~r>~- establishment of Bow
en-, Stuart u Co., in Indianapolis was DESTROY
cd by fire on Monday evening Loss sac. ono
On Monday evening, Colonel Lonham,
prominent lawyer of Paris, Tenn, was shot
and Instantly killed in difficulty at Henry
Station, Tenn.
FOUR men named Richard Barry, John Her.
rick, John Barrett and Mike Shea, boarders
with William Hennasy, in Boston. were as
phyMated IN their sleeping room during We'd
Iesday night. Barry is dead, and the others
cannot survive.
DETA CHMENT of federal soldiers made a
raid upon illicit distilleries in Coffee and Lin
coin counties, Tennessee, and in Jackson
county. Alabama, breaking up nineteen dis
tliieues capturing large amount of property.
and i've prisoners.
The whole of Stewards block. on Rldeau
street, Ottawa, was burned on Saturday night.
Tie insurance companies lose as follows
Phoenix, $1,000; Hartford, $4,000; Queen,
$1,000; Lancashire, $1,000; North British,
$1,000: Western, $4,000; Etna, $4,000.
a YOUNG man named John Wallace was shot
and killed by Mr.. Harvey, in Saline, Kansas,
on Monday night. Wallace was on spree.
and ma e noise before Harveys door, where
upon the latter shot him. Harvey had to be
guarded to prevent q mob from hanging him
He Is now IN jail.
y SERIOUS affray occurred in Winona on
Saturday evening, in the saloon of Tm Reuss.
on Second street, between C. g. Muller and
Robert George, two well-known grain mer-
chants. in which George was struck upon the
back of the head with billiard cue, break
ing his skull, and laying open two of the ar
tegies.
JACOB ARBERG, said to have resided in
Wheeling, W. Va, was discovered attempting
to smuggle gold and silver watches and lew
clry III a case purporting to contain piano.
on the steamer Holsatia, from Bremen, on
Saturday. The contraband articles were
seized.
TIVE new English war vessels have been
launched during the past two weeks.
HE Queen has approved of the grant of y
pension TO the widow of Mark Lemon
THE Russian fleet, with the Grand Duke
Alexis on board, sailed from Havana for Rio
&c Janeiro on Tuesday.
ADyICEs from Port au Prince state that the
hVe lncendiaries Who recently ATTEMPTED to
otirn the capitol. have been sentenced 70
death.
LIE Prlnce and the Princess of Wales have
gone 10 the south of France.
1HE conoltlon of the French National Treas