The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-12-07
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the ruins OF the Boston fire. Wednesday.
There is no way of Identifying them except py
patches of clothing. The remains OF the
mother of Mrs. Martha Hutchinson have been
found among the ruins of Messrs. Shreye,
Crump & Co.'s store. Miss Hutchinson saved
herself by jumping from window. search
continues for other bodies.
SALT LAKE CITY is excited over the arrival
Of more diamonds from the diamond fields In
Western Colorado.
APAcHEs living in San Pedro, Arizona bot
toms, are dying of consumption and scrofuia
II a rush between two classes. Saturday al
ternoon, in the third story Of Columbia Col
Iege, a student named White fell over the ban
isters, and was fatally injured. The faculty
Of the college and authorities are making an
inyestisation with a view to punishment OF
the leaders of the rush.
WHILE the roof was being raised on the
Few passenger depot at Jackson, Michigan,
Friday afternoon, the scaffold gave way, pre-
cipating men and tImbers on to the ioist be-
low. Eleven men were seriously hurt. Thus
far two have died, the foreman, Davis, and a
Mr.. Williams.
The dead body of an unknown man with his
head terrible crushed with stones, and deep
stab in his neck, was found Saturday after
noon, some elk miles below st. Louis. Two
men were arrested on suspicion, but SO far the
affair is shrouded in mystery.
A FIRE occurred at Fort Smith, Ark, on
Thursday last, destroying property to the
amount of one hundred thousand dollars. The
Z. S. Court rooms, marshaIrs once, post othce,
and thirteen business houses, besides private
dwellings, were consumed.
The residence of John Watson, one mile
from Titusvllle, Pa, was entered Friday even
ing Immediately after dark, by five masked
men who, after binding each member of the
family, compelled Mr.. Watson to open his
safe, from which $4,000 were taken, after
which he was likewise bound and the robbers
made their escape. The unfortunate ones
were not liberated until midnight. No clue.
ADvICEs from New York state that among
the well-known trotters who died of horse dis
ease are Western New York, G. F. Fox, Son
tay; Lottery, and VOORHEES, Abdallah. Nc
no ed running horses have died. Many have
been attacked, but are doing well.
THE wife of Joseph Whitman died at Newark
\. J., on Saturday, from an overdose of chic
roform administered by DR.. Fredolona, a
prominent German physician, in the process
Of resetting a disocated shoulder.
Four children of Patrick Cunning, of Bloom
field. n s., died Thursday and Friday, from a
mysterious disease, resembling poison.
POULTRY are said to be dying on the banks
of the Susquehanna, in Pennsylvania. by thou
sands, from an epidemic disease which appears
general.
TESTIMONY was given or Saturday before the
Commissioner appointed by the Supreme
Court to the effect that over $40, 600, coo worth
Of property have been given for nothing in
franchises to street railways in New York
city
THE steam canal propeller VIM. Baxter with
two hundred tons, arrived at New York on Sat
urday in five days and seventeen hours from
Buffalo.
FIEsDIsH attempt was made Friday, by
dsposting three heavy cross ties across the
Hudson track at Waltham bridge, to throw of
the Boston express. Fortunately they were
not fastened securely, and were displaced by
the locomotive.
II has been ascertained that at least thirty
tour Apaches were engaged in the Loring
massacre. Thirteen of them are known 70
r5IuuaHs OF the camp Dale Creek reserva-
ton.
The large furniture store of Bailey & SrAth.
m Lawrence, Kansas, was burned last night.
Loss $4,000 Insurance $1,000.
CHARLES KING has been arrested in New
York, charged with embezzling sixteen thou
sand dollars while manager for the firm of
Corcoran & Co., at Rio
HE Royal Geographical Society has senta
letter OF thanks to James Gordon Bennett.
il, for the part he took in the discovery of
Livingstone, and has voted Stanley Victoria
medal of 1878.
The silk ribbon weavers in New York estab-
Lshments are on a strike, resisting a IS per
cent. reduction Of wages.
DIssToN's sawfaotory, in Philadelphia, was
burned on Friday. Loss $4,000.
The Cunard steamer Malta, from Boston for
Liverpool, broke her shaft off Halifax on We'd
nceday, and was lowed to that port for re-
pairs.
The latest and lowest estimate of insurance
losses by the Bostoni fire gives the total
amount at SIS, 572, 800 distributed as follows