The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-11-02

Montgomery !; Treasurer, Capt. Robert A. Rip
ley /; Executive Committee, Gen. Geo. F. Ship
ley. Col. A. w. Bradbury Capt. H. F. Carter,
Capt. Godfrey. and Brevet Major Gould.
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAMS authorizes an
emphatic denial of the statement that be in
tends to retire from the Cabinet after the
| Presidential election. HIS withdrawal from
the Oregon Senatorial contest was for the pur-
pose of remaining in his present position; and
it should be stated as fact, based on good
authority, that Col. Bristow, Solicitor Gener-
| al has no ambition to be Judge Williams sue
| cessor, it being known that he will soon retire
| from that office to engage in other pursuits.
| The delegates to the National Board of
Trade were treated to an excursion about the
bay by the New York Chamber of Commerce
on Thur sday afternoon.
! YOUNG man named James H Catlin was
instantly killed, on THURSDAY, at the Court
House in Cleveland, by falling over stair
railing to the basement, distance of forty
feet.
GEO. W, NEAsKERN was accidentally poison
ed in Cleveland, on Thursday, by his wife,
who administered oxalic acid, installing it for
| EPSON salts.
A DoUBLE-TEAM race at Prospect Park, New
York, on Thursday, was won by Honest Allen
and George Wilkes, beating Phmpton and
Darkness in 2:31, 2:34H, and 2:43h. The
race of two mile heats, 81, 900 purse, for horses
that never beat 2:35, was won by Commodore.
| Time 500 and 5:04h.
! JUDGE 1NGRAHAM, of New York, has decided
| that persons watch comes under the title of
necessary articles which cannot be taken bv
| creditors.
| CALEB CUSHING expresses himself eminently
! satisfied with the award of the Arbitration
| Board, not so much for the money value of the
award, he says, as for the points settled AS
| TO the English claims for damage to property
| Of British subjects counterbalancing the Ala
bama claims, he says that such claims will not
reach 100000. Cushion did not go to Eng
| land but in France, where he was, the genera
| opinion seemed to be that the United States
had gained great victory.
| DURING the absence of Mary Mccormick
| from 2l3 Boerum street, Brooklyn, a child of
| three years obtained matches and set fire to a
| crib containing an infant, which was burned
| WEDNESDAY afternoon, as Jas. w. Woods, a
clerk in the Old Colony Railroad office in Bos-
ton, was passing from the paymaster's room to
the Treasurer's office, the same floor, and
but few yards distant, he was knocked down
and robbed of $4,000. The robber escaped.
THE jury in the case of the wife-murderer
Check, of indianapolis, have brought in a ver-
dict of guilty of murder in the first degree,
with the dea tn penalty attached.
| JOHN l.. MARTIN, receiving teller of the
Crate sville National Bank, has been arrested
at Bethlehem, Pa, charged with embezzling
| funds of the bank to the amount of S26, O00
A MAN supposed to be John E. Raspe, of
Virden, H.. was found in dying condition on
the Short Line train on its arrival a Dayton
from Cincinnati at midnight Tuesday night.
| he had been shot through The head.
! PRINCE NICHOLAS, of Montenegro, has sent a
Geographic dispatch to the Sultan, promising
to punish those of his subjects who recently
had an encounter with a party OF Turks at
Leposa.
| JONATHAN HILDRETH was killed and A. T.
Sigler and John Doyle seriously injured by a
smash-up on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st.
Louis Railroad, thirty-four miles out of CHI
cago. All passengers.
Abroad:
A PARIS dispatch sSye that the public feel.
ment over the coming Investigation concern
ing the late war with Germany. 1t is believ-
ed it will be developed that the war was the
result of the rash, headstrong policy of the
cabinet than in power.
REV. JEAN HENRI MERLE D'AUBIGNE, the
celebrated historian Of the Reforna ton, died
suddenly on Monday, in Geneva, 70 years of
tage.
The French Government has resolved to
support, in the approaching session of the
Assembly, motion for the appointment of a
commission to investigate acts of the Oliver
and PalIkao cabinets preparatory to the i'm
parchment of the imperial ministers on a
charge of having provoked the war with Prus-
STA.
In riot at Sandiego, Chile, between the
metropolitan police, one person was killed and
many wounded. The rinsleaders were ar
rested.
The fire at the palace of EscuriaI, in Spain.
was not So destructive as at first supposed.
Not book, manuscript, or picture has
been injured The church and palace, with
their priceless contents, are untouched. King
Amadeus Will defray the total expense of re-
pairing 1T out of his private purse.
The LC ndon Board of Public Works voted
almost unanimously in favor of removing tolls
on Waterloo and other toll bridges acr SIS the
Thames River. A conference with the Govern
ment for carrying out this measure will short
ly be held
PRINCE NAPOLEON has appealed to the Pro
curer General of France for redress against
the Minister of the Interior, the Project of
Police and others who took part in his expul-
sion from France. The appeal is made in
| accordance with the provisions of the penal
| code.
SENATOR SUMNER visited Gambetta on Fri
day, and expressed the warmest sympathy for
the French Republic. Gambetta was deeply
impressed by the interview
HENDERSON, the American arrested by the
Cuban authorities on suspicion of being in
league with the insurgents, has been released
| by order of the Captain General
In Costa Rlca plot to overthrow the Guar
dlas Government during his absence, was DIS
covered and defeated by Porto, the acting
President
/ THERE is a considerable Discrepancy il the
option statistics of NJ. About and those Off
| clally published at Strasbourg. NJ. About
estimates the total number who lave signified
their intention, or at least desire to remain
! Frenchmen, at something over 10000. The
actual registration Of Alsace and Lorraine
amount to nearly 164 633, not fourth of whom
/ validated their optlOn nv em iuration