The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-01-06

Portland, Oregon.
New YORK is to have twelve additional
steam fire engines.
WILLIAM BROWN stabbed and killed his wife
in Lynn, Mass, or Saturday.
The Democrats of Georgia have nominated
Hon J. ". Smith for Governor.
THE number of deaths from yellow fever at
New Orleans this season, was twenty-three
The Hope Spice Mills at Cincinnati, were
burned on Wednesday evening. Loss $50. 900.
The Agricultural Bureau says the area in
corn was greater in 1871 than in any former
year.
The Grand Duke Alexis placed 81. 500 at
the disposal Of Mayor Castor for the Door CT
Boston.
The first meeting Of female suffragists ever
held in Baltimore, took place on Wednesday
evening
MAURICE Oily beat Cyrille Dion az billiards
in New York on Monday, making the astonish-
ing average of 125.
THE furniture store of B. S. Harsel, was
destroyed by fire on Saturday evening. Loss
from SIS, 900 to $50, 600.
AvoNIA BoSNEY, an American girl, II years
Of age, made successful debut as Amina, in
" Somuambula,' al Anessandria Italy.
The Union Pacific Railroad is still blockeded
with snow. Passengers who left Omaha GA
Friday at Laramie Station on 95nesday.
THE statement of the receiver of the Ocean
Bank, shows the liabilities to be ST.
$4,000; assets, $4,000, 900. Of the latter
S1,603, 900 are good.
LATE advices from officers in charge of the
Apache Indians state that over one half Of
these Indians have come into different camps.
and are now at peace.
JOHN r. DUFF, a clerk in the Memphis post
Office, drew the capital pIlze of S35, 900 in the
Louisville Library Lottery. The second prize
was won in Virginia City.
The statement of the defunct Eighth Ma
tIonal Bank of New York, on Saturday showed
the following assets: Legal-tenders 1856, 300
deposits 1854, 400; circulation $3.50, goo.
GRAND jury has been ordered empaneled
in Chicago, TO investigate the charges of bri-
berry which have been preferred against mem
bers of the Common Council, and other city
officials.
The United States survey steamer Hassler
with the scientific party Of explorers, sailed
from Boston on Monday, upon its voyage
along the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North
and South America
FIRE at Spring Lake Mich, on Tuesday
night, destroyed the residence and hardware
store of A. Bills, the residence of Capt Berchs
and the millinery establishment of Mrs. Kelly.
Total loss 81, $50 available insurance. So
600
AT his own request, and by direction of the
President, Brig. Gen B. ". Brice, Paymaster
General, Is relieved from active service. and
his name viii be entered on the list of retired
officers of that grade to which he now be
longs.
A WASHINGTON special says official advices
are that Gortschakof has ordered Catacazv TO
leave America after accompanying the Grand
Duke as far as ST. Louis, and the legation will
be placed Ii charge of Baron Dautz, as its
secretary, TIL the arrival of the Charge
dAffares, who leaves at once.
Roy named Van Vie. aged II. son of
respectable family, died at Madison, Wis. on
Monday morning, after having persistentlv
Gorged himself with rat poison for three or
four days. The last hours of the youth were
HeadfUAy painful. Tired of life was the rea-
son given for the rash act
HORACE SPRAGUE, residing at Whites Cor
ners, few miles outside of Buffalo, killed his
little son with Ratchet and seriously wounded
his wife about the head with the same ingtru
ment, al a late hour Tuesday night. The rnTr-
deTer IS under arrest. He is said to be insane
HEAVY freight train. coming east on the
Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad. ran off an
embankment near St. Mary, Indiana. Wodnes
day afternoon. instantly killing John O'Ne,u
engineer, ana u. Griffin, fireman, and making
q complete wreck Of the engine tender and
fourteen cars and their contents, includine 15O
hogs.
LIE Countess Ida, wife of Don Fernando of
Lisbon, Portugal herself a native of the
United States, has sent, through Hon HamIl-
ton Fish. Secretary of stare. sixty pounds
sterling fer the benefit OF the Chicago suffer
ers. \ draft has also been received of one
thousand pounds from Dublin Ireland 70 lie
appLel to the same charitable purpose. This
makes total OF four thousand five hundred
pounds from that city.
MoRkMEF IN the caisson of pier No. 6. Of the
blldoe across the Missouri River at St. Josepb
found magnificent specimens of AMETHYST
garnet and gold bearing quarts. which were
IN tie stratum of gravel everything the rocky
bottom, at depth OF forty-three feet below
low water. THIS gravel bed is evidently an
cId oosJoin OF the sea. Work on the bridge Is
progressing rapidly. The sinking of tie seq
ond per commences next week.
IHG final games III tie Cleveland Chess
Concert were played on Friday. and in the
evening the distribution of prizes we're made
rs follows: First prize, 800, G. H. MzckeD-
zle, New York; second prize, $50, II. Hosmer
Chloago; third prize, $40. T. H. Elder.
l}etIoi,; fourth prize, s35, Max Judd. Cleve,
lAad NTH prize, $50, +. Ware Jr Bostnp
siAyh prlze, $50, II. d. Smith. Michigan; sew
enth prIzs, SIS, Il. Harding, Michigan.
ICE" Liverpool, London and Globe" arc
the :" North British and Mercantile" two o.
the most responsible of all the foreign insr-
a9ee companies, have taken decided stanf
y ohPosihon to the further erection of fran
oad9laSsln the ruined portions of Chicrco
theY are determined TO assume no more frame
KS at any price, and from present apDear-
atcc Il IS possible that both the livprnoo1
LONDON and Globe and the North British and
L,eit9uIlle VIII remove their agencies fro,,,
SlhcaSo altogether They fear Another wood,
q city ana repetition of the terrible scene
~ oc'ooer Ii Io also rumored that several
eth insurance companies have decided 10
@uoASa the-r chicago agencies toward the com.
IH'ilc0i.lenl OF the new year. From the feeIino
i1'iuo,ie insurance mon with regard to woode n
p1talASs: It IS feared that the rumor Will
prove TO be too true.
Abroad.
IHE Ex-Empress Eugenie has arrival a,
SouthamI ton.
PRESIDENT THEIRS has promised deIeca-
ton Of Protestants that RELIGIOUS eouaIitv
sIali be maintaine in France.
ENGLISH merchants, when the iIuesa of
the Prince of Wales was alarming, bought