The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-02-17
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In Troy n. y, on Sunday, an infant sou OF
Henry T. Clark was killed by his brother. aged
three wears, who threw piece Of slate at him.
The child killed was nine months old.
The Presbyterian Church at Ludlow, Ky,
just across the river from Cincinnati, burned
on Sunday 1t is total loss and valued at
about $4,000. The cause was g defective flue
BEIIINGHAM BAY coal mines, in Washington
Territory, are on fire, the flames consuming
the houses, ETC., outside the shaft The sea
viii be turned in to extinSuish the flames.
JERRY VAUGHAN shot and killed Charley
Francis, in a personal encounter, at Little
Rock, Ark, on Monday. Vaughan ar
rested. Both are coIored men.
THE saddle tree and furniture factory of
Herman Wetter. in st. Louis, was burned on
Monday evening, bat no definite information
Of the LOSSES or insurance could be ascer-
tanned.
The movement from various quarters in
favor of Henry Wilson for Wee President is
assuming considerable strength The same
is true in regard to the use OF the name of
Jas f. Wilson, of Iowa, in the convention.
An insane freshman named Powers. com
mitted suicide at Manchester, ILL.,. on Satur-
day, b. throwing himself under a freight
train. Ills body was horribly mangled. The
evidently insane
IT has been determined to drop the name
. Tammany" from the title of the society, the
nlmes of the general and ward committees.
and from the building now known as Tam
many Hall. The name to be substituted il
Columbian.
L. ZIMMERMAN, aged 10, in Cleveland. on
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self with a pistol, the ball passing through
his breast and killing him instantly The cause
Of the act is unknown.
The spoke and hub factory belonging to
the Defiance Manufacturing Company, at De-
fiance, Ohio, was destroyed by fire on Monday
Less, S350.000 insured for $10.0 The fire
was caused by sparks from the arnoke-stacI
The factory will he rebuilt immediately
The japanese embassy start east from San
Francisco en- a special train on Wednesday
morning. They will remain a day or two Of
Sacramento, visit the silver mines of VIRGINIA
City. Nevada, then Salt Lake leaving there
for Omaha soon as the Union Pacific i
declared open.
l. }. DALEY. federal soldier, was on Mon
day convicted of voluntary manslaughter in
sho ,ting and killing 4. b. McNeaI. alias Jobn
jefferson 70
racks, last October. he was sentenced 10 ten
years IN the penltentiary. The trial took place
at Louisville.
HE jury III the case of Mcdonald Cheek
for the murder of his father-in-Iaw. Thomas
Harrison, near Lawrenceburg Ind. rendered
verdict Sunday afternoon. in BrookyIlIa of
murder IN the first degree, an sentenced him
to be hung. This was the second trial. and thp
verdict was similar to the first
TIE annual regatta OF the New-Hamburo
Ice Boat Club took place at Poughkeepsie on
Friday, over twenty mile course The
thahtom won the prlZe IN the first class boats
The Whit won the prize in the second cjass
set OF furs-ln 30 minutes y seconds.
AN alteration occurred last "Wednesday
night, at stage station nine miles from New.
ton, Kansas, between an empIoye of the
Southwestern Stage Company and \ man
named Taylor, which was amicablv a4ranoad
bnt subsequently the stageman fired at Ta9Ior
nut mt and killed man named Merrill. a friand
q Iayiors, whereupOn Taylor shot and killed
the staGeman.
ADYIcEs from North Carolina state that the
Conservative caucus nominated Gen. Mat "
Hanson, Democrat, for United States Senator
70 MI the vacancy caused by Yauce,s resiona
tIon. This Is equivalent to election. The Re
plbllcan state convention meets at RaIaiob
Apri 18th, and the Conservative convention AT
Greensboro, May list.
The Falls of Minnehaha have been purchased
hy George Lincoln, Of Minneapolis. Mr.. Lin
cola has secured loo acres, embracing the
tails and their vicinity, and designs erecting 4
oommodious hotel, three stories high. at =
cost oil 1%o.oo0 improvements will also be
made IN the ground aud the locality of tine
Fails converted into a magnificent PLEASURE
park.
tp"IN .. LEACH, who shot and killed his
Wlte and a young lawyer named Brown at
coi',water. Mich, i'll 1867, and who WAS saaf
to solitary confinement for life, died in the
Michigan State Prison at Jackson, lat weak
agea fifty years HIS wife was VISITING the
lawyer Office to commence PROCEEDINGS for a
divorce against him, and few moments after
he tired the fatal shots.
SEVERAL prominent friends Of the President
~ Congress are urging him to take prompt
acton with regard 70 alleged abuses in the
New York Custom House, and TO remove all
parties who are tainted with suspicion. thereby
renewing himself from odium and breaking IN
the attempt Of political capital being made bv
the Democrats
The second pier of the St. joseph bridge
ocross the Missouri River was safely landed ON
the bedrock Thursday, at the depth OF sixty
feet below high water. For the past few DAVIS
the progress has leen slow owing TO the
e3lssoB meeting with three-feet stratum, of
water bearing gravel, This gravel bed contains
specimens OF rich gold bearing quartz. anne
fhNst, WINE stone and otherrelics of the glacial
period.
tHE following gentlemen have been ap-
pointed by the President as members OF the
Board of Visitors to the West Point Military
Academy in 1872: Hon. Louis s. Lowell of
Michigan Rev. Charles Hodge. of Princeton.
~ y; Gen. IL. L. Read, of Iowa: Hon. w.
Clatim Ex-Governor of Massachusetts: Fred.
hacorellish, of san Francisco: Prof. 6. II
Looms. Of Pennsylvania; Col James Scud-
Ger o. tennessee. Three others are to be
pointed y the Speaker of the House and
two ~ the Vice President
Foreign.
APEoTcsT against the pending education bill
s'ened by tifty-one bishops, has beensent To
he French Assembly
INTELLIGENCE has been received of the total
destruction, by an earthquake. of Sclavach a
town of Asiatic Russia. trans Caucasian
The shocks were very protracted, and manv
lives were lost
ADvIcss from Havana state that the Spanish
gmeoat Astulo has captured an English
schooner aud crew. The schooner was towed
to Manzanilla. Its reported that the schooner
had already landed coatrabaud of war on the
Island when captured.
DISPATCH from barcelona saws that strin-
gent measures have been adopted for the pre-
Nention of further riotous proceedings. 1t
appears that the crowd who assembled on