The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-12-07


wages. The strikers number two hundred
men and fifty apprentices, whose wages ag-
eregate about $4,000 per week.
THE horse disease is spreading through Hi
nois and Wisconsin.
THE BODY of a man was found on Monday,
near the railway track, few miles below
Peoria. H., almost entirely cecomposed.
Nothing was found by which he could be in
Identified, except railway check for trunk
at Rock Island.
one of the Adams Express cars was burned
at Newark, Tuesday morning. The loss is
about $4,000, only portion of which was de-
stroyed.
On seaching the ruins on the site OF Hixons
& Co.'S store, Washington street, Boston, Oh
Wednesday, small bundle Of charred human
remains were found. 1t Is possible to identify
the remains, but it is known that two men
persisted in the flames at that place.
pa LETTER from Denver, Colorado, gives an
account of great excitement caused iii that
place and at Black Hawk on Friday and Satur
dav. bv the discovery that Benjamin Erlanger,
an old Russian Jew. and proprietor OF the
Denver Savings Institution, had absconded
with about ten thousand dollars of his deposi
tors cash About five hundred poor deposit
tors are the losers, among whom are about one
hundred servant girls who had entrusted
their hard earnings to his keeping.
MIR. BRAssEY, Member of Parliament from
Hastings, England, who arrived in his steam
Yacht, was introduced to the President on
Tuesday by Secretary Fish.
The police of New York have been informed
| that Knowsby Hall. the seat of Earl Derby, was
robbed of a considerable quantity of jewelry
on October 25th.
A SALT LAKE despatch says that W Orms-
bee, prominent LAWYER from Wisconsin, part
ner of United States Attorney Bates, died sud-
denly Tuesday night at the Walker House.
The suspension Of stanfeld, Wentworth g.
Co., dry goods commission merchants of Bos-
ton and New York, and f. & A. Hawley, bank
ers and brokers at Boston, is announced.
THE Grand Lodge of knights of Pythias of
Missouri, met III st. Louis on Tuesday morn
| ing. Ten city and eighteen state lodges were
| represented In the evening procession of
| 600 Knights paraded the principal streets,
making fine appearance. The parade was
| followed with banquet ana ball
| In Pittsburg, on Monday evening fire de-
stroyed the warehouse of the Citizens Oil Re-
finery, together with three hundred barrels of
| refined oil.
| TEN thousand working girls were thrown
| out of employment by the Boston fire.
A SPANIARD named Caggi was found dead IN
Ryerson street, Brooklyn, Monday night, with
bullet wound in his breast.
THE following telegram was received in Bos-
| ton on Tuesday.
THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON, November II.
g To Gen. B. f. Butler and Thomas Russell,
| Collector, Boston
1.-The President authorizes me to say that
| every possible means of relief and aid will be
afforded TO the citizens of Boston bv the
! Government, and should circumstances ap-
| pear to demand action by Congress, such ac-
| tion.wlll be recommended by him.
(SIgned) GEo. S. boutwell,,
Secretary of the Treasury "
The insurance IN London companies upon
property in the burnt district of Boston is
| $4,000, 600. 4 commission is to be sent to Bos-
ton by the london companies to investigate
the original cause Of the eontlagration. as a
subject OF general Importance to insurance in
teresjs.
r. c. MCCORMICK has been reelected to Con-
gress from Arizona, without opposition.
AT Detroit, on Tuesday, William Smith was
found guilty of the murder of Denuison Miller,
OF Greenfield. The crime was committed one
year ago, and Smith voluntarily confessed to
its commission
The authorities of Memphis have made a
| raid upon the gaming houses
A SEGRo charged with attempting to outrage
2 lady, was taken from Jail at BIandyiIe, XIV,
on Sunday night by mob, and hung.
Abroad:
CHARLES SUMNER left Liverpool on Thurs.
dav, for New York in the steamship Baltic.
ADvICEs from London state that Tom Kim
| ney has accepted the challenge of Billy Ed
wards, who is now in England, to fight anv
light weight in Great Britain Both men go
into training Immediately.
PRUssIAN official journals continue to init
maze that the Emperor will secure majority
i'll the Upper House of the Diet by appointing
| sufficient number of life peers, ii necessary.
to carry the country reform bill.
A SPECIES of dropsy has attacked number
of diseased horses throughout New York. 1t
is surmissed that the swelling is caused by
poison lingering in the system.
IN the speech of the German Emperor to
the now Prussian Diet, reduction of the in
come tax is promised the relations of the
state to religious societies are alluded to as
subject of legislation; the country reform
bill will again be submitted, slightly amended ::
the necessity and expedience of measures are
demonstrated.
THE City -four mills on Thames street, Lon
don, England, were destroyed by fire last Sat-
urday night. Loss $3.50, 900.
The, foreign governments which were re-
quested by Great Britain to cooperate in the
movement now being made in this country
for the suppression of the East African slave
trade, have sent replies expressing their SYM
pathy with the cause, but declining to unite
the active measures contemplated by Eng
land.
THE American feet will winter in the Medi-
terranean. The flagship and corvette will
remain at Marseilles, and other vessels of the
fleet at Toulon and Vile Flouche
The Russian Imperial Foreign Office is
about to conclude treaties of commerce with
the three principal states OF Central Asia, viz
khokan, Bokhara and Kashgar.
DISPATCH from Hong Kong says the teIe-
graphic cable between that city and Shanghai
has ceased to work. The cause of the inter
ruption is unknown.