The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-03-08
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Mrs. BEcKHAM, of st. Louis, arrested on
suspicion of having poisoned Willie and Fred
hudson, has been released the Coroners in
quest having revealed the fact that the boys
died of bro-spinal-meningitis.
TEE new steamship Vaderland, the first Of
the Philadelphia and Antwerp Red Star line
arrived at Philadelphia Monday afternoon
she steamed at the rate of fourteen miles an
Lour.
A FIRE near New Orleans, on Monday de-
stroyed four buildings. John Toulande, Ce-
Icstine Bosquet and Paul Peters. were burned
- death.
The steamship Indiana the third steamer
OF the Philadelphia ar! Liverpool line, has
Teen for e month ready for launching, which
las been prevented by ice in the Delaware
Iyer. The steamer Pennsylvania, the pio-
reer of the line, will make trial trip early in
April.
GEORGE DRIVER, who murdered his divorced
wife i'll Chicago, several months ago, was on
monday sentenced to be hanged on the nth
Uf March.
i PASSENGER train ran into freight train
Lear Inglewood, five miles south of Chicago.
Wednesday evening, wrecking several cars.
killing old man, father of the conductor of
tae freight train, and injuring several others.
LAPoRTE HUBBELLs clock factory at Jones'
vile, Conn, was burned Monday night. Loss
$4,000 insurance S2i, 600.
y Mrs. SMITH, of BROOKLYN, left her two
children locked up i'll room, on Tuesday.
alone. While absent the house caught fire
and the children were burned to death Mrs
Ia VIZ fr;a IF ~,
iured IN jumping from one of the windows,
STATE Educational Convention of colored
men met at Louisville on Tuesday.
WOMAN named Louisa Peckham, of St
IgusI, has been arrested for poisoning two
boys.
The proposal of Phelps, Dodge & Co. to The
Treasury Department to pay S271 600 ia Iier
al duties imposed was made on the condition
that they be relieved from all claims of the
Government on them because of alleged fraud.
or otherwise for the past five years. Thi,
proposition the Government will accept or
lie condition that II firm shall be relieved
e Iiy from such violations of the revenue Law
rs have been covered by the reports of officers
who have had the present investigation il
charge.
SECTION hand named Hoffman was ru;
ever by hand car near Boone, Iowa, OF
Thursday last, and fatally injured.
NEGRO named Harvey johnson was fatal,
cut By another negro named Archv johnson
~ Louisville, Sunday evening.
Tony KRoTT boy employed in Halls SAT,
factory in Cincinnati, was killed instantly Fri
day afternoon by the bursting of an emer,
wheel, which struck him III the head. knock
Ing his brains out.
RAFFERTY,, the murderer of policeman
OMara, in Chicago, is to be hung on the I'll
If March.
On Tuesday, Lohn B. Shelter, a merchant
oi Detroit, fell, apparently dead, and the
body was arrayed for the grave Thursda,
hight the body remarked TO his son, who vas
watching with it, that he &c would be dead TO-
morrow, and rose to a sitting position anc
proceeded to give his reasons for such be
l'ef. Wednesday he was apparently as well a:
ever.
The Attorney General has sent to the Post
master General an opinion to the effect thai
tie section of the postal act which has been
Construed by the Postoffice Department as
warrantlng the collection of double the
amount OF unpaid postage is not in accordance
with the spirit Of the act The Attorney Gen
eTai plainly says that only the amount of un
paid postage can by lawfully collected.
IRE special message of the President OF
| tab affairs is bow to the hope of the poly
samists. The church organs are evidently a
loss what do.
A MOST extensive and interesting collectio,
OF specimens of mineral and other production
ot Utah are en- route for New York for tn
Vienna exposition. Their great variety, valu
and beauty Is expected to attract great atten
ton.
a DISPATCH from Logan, Utah. saws tina
Charley Benson shot and killed David Crock
ct, OF that place on Friday without cause.
HE ship American Congress- belonging [,
t,rinneh and Minturn sailed from New Yorl
tor London on December 7th and has no
since been heard from. She had a crew q
twenty-one men, and cargo valued at seven
~ thousand dollars. Her owners think she j
lost
SECRETARY BOUTWELL, on SATURDAY. Issue,
seven millions of five per cent to the syndi
cate, on receipt Of certificates and deposit
Of equal value and amount of five-twept,
honds as security for the payment One mil
Lon vas issued Friday on the same condi
tons. The treasury Will now issue bond,
daily to the syndicate as called for by them.
FLOOD occurred in the Monongahela river
ON Monday From Pittsburg the loss of sev.
al steamers and coal harges is reported
Several lives were also lost
LARGE numbers of notices have been receiv
Cd IN New York, by merchants in the Cuban
trade, which are supposed to have been an
oaYmously emitted by Spanish volunteers OF
havana, containing menaces against any inter
terence IN the slavery question in Cuba. The
merchants here IN the Cuban trade shortly
expect to hear revolution in Havana and
Cuba.
\ SPECIAL reports the arrest and falling of
enc Essex fer the crime OF incest with his own
laughter at Reading, Pa, on Thursday
ioHN VI. HoDGEs, a Wall street broker, on
Friday night fell down stairway at his resi-
dtnce on Fifth Avenue and broke his neck
\ DISPATCH from Toronto SAYS that Engineer
Kelly wa. thrown fifty feet in the air and kill
td, on Friday night, near Bonarenme station.
by the explosion of his engine. The fireman
was badly scaldel. A woman named Hapdip-
San standing near by, was fatally injured.
BROTHER of the late Clement l.. vallaudic-
liam, the Rev. DR.. George c., pastor of the
Episcopal Church of New Lisbon. o died of
consumption, IN CINCINNATI, recently, aged Sc
Years.
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