The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-09-27
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the failure of Jay Cook q Co., the well-known
bankers. The immediate cause of the failure |
is said TO have been large advances to the |
Northern Pacific Railway. The announcement !
of the failure caused panic in the market for
railway shares, and prices of some stocks fell
ten cents.
RUN on The German Savings Bank, at
Leayenworth, Kansas. exhausted its available
funds and its doors were closed.
FROM report just issued 1t appears the
American Bible Society consists of l., 125 life
directors and ECO life members. The receipts
for the last fiscal year were s737 1881, of which
SO, 7S9 remain uhexpended. During the fifty
seven years Of its existence it has published
29,9S2 30 volumes in thirty-6vc dialects and
languages.
THE Rio Grande has overlooked its banks,
and the upper country is inundated. There
an almost unbroken sheet OF water from
Brownsville to the Gulf. The corn crop is
destroyed. The Rio Grande and Point Isabel
Railroad track is washed away Tor over SIX
miles
3 ECIAL from Fort Garry says Gordon
Gordon, who fed from Fort Garry for the
Rocky Mountains, some weeks ago, has been
captured 500 miles west by a Manitoba de-
tectiye, and His Lordship' now finds himself
behind the bars at Winnipeg"
NE Pittaburg Stock Yard Company's bull
ing at Fort Wayne burned on Tuesday
evening. Loss $4,000.
HE steamship Great Eastern has arrived
at Portland, Ne. Her failure to repair the
cabe OF 1868 depresses TIE stock, and it is
said, no further reduction in tolls is probable.
BLOOMFIELD MooRE's paper warehouse. in
Philadelphia, vas damaged by fire to the ex-
tent OF $50 900, on Tue day evening.
RAILWAY collision occurred near Column
ba, $. c., Wednesday. smashing both engines.
killing two men and iniuung three others.
JAMES ENGLISH, William Spikes, alias Henry
Davis, John Radfor and Geo. Harrington
were arrested, Tuesday evening, on board
canal boat, ID New YoEk, while counterfeitinc
three und five cent pieces. large quantity
oi spurious com, moulds, &c, were captured
English and Spikes have each served i've wears
N Sing Sing prison for counterfeiting.
REV. De. PADDOCK was, on Wednesday, So
lennE consecrated Bishop of the EpisconaI
diocese OF Massachusetts The ceremony took
place IN Grace Church, Brooklyn, which was
crowded. Several Bishops and large num-
her Of persons participated in the service.
The New York and Oswego Midland Railway
IS financially embarrassed.
a SAIL boat, having on board five persons
leit Sodus, on Lake Ontario, tor Rochester. ON
Monday morning. That afternoon the boat
cdHslzed and three of the occupants were
drowned. Tuesday afternoon the other occu
pants were found chngmg to the upturned
boat and rescued
ANNA DICEI<-nN
hayden aud party, walked to the summit of
Long Ieak, Saturday, the 18th, making the
ascent III three hours and ten minutes
y FIRE at Mauistee, Mich. Wednesday af-
teernoon, destroyed the business places of
Gardner and Bixly, jewelers. Russell Bros.
harness dealers; Jas. ComerhiI!. harness
dealer +. johnson, shoemaker VIM. Baer.
tailor j. Bnrdlck, barber. Insurance Sl2.
600
He statlstci2n of the Department Of Aerl-
culture, after a careful revision of the monthly
returns, gives the following as the present
status OF the cotton crop. The indicated in
crease OF area Is a little over ten per cent. The
condition OF the crop is lighter than IN Sen
TENDER last wear in Arkansas, the same in
tennessee and Louisiana In each of the
othef cotton states worms have been more
abundant, yet their rayages have been disas.
tfous or sweeping but in few cases.
\ MAsTAD N skeleton has been discovered on
q farm eight miles from Richmond. Ind near
New Paris, Ohio About quarter of q ION of
bones were oNhumed, which, according to ac-
hnowedscd proportions of In e animal. inai
'''e thiS one To nave been very large, proba-
UiS seven feet ihSh and thlrty-cight feet long
One tusk unearthed is twelve feet long and it's
weight l5o pounds. They hope to get the en-.
tre skeleton.
III veterans of the Mexican war celebrated
the anniversary OF the capture of the CITY al
Mexico IN New York, on Monday. Delega-
tons were present from Baltimore, Wash.
ihgtou, Philadelphia ana other cities.
IHE Broadway Hotel in Lexington, XIV. was
burned Saturday evening. Loss s14 900
DIsPATCH from HAVE announces tbo
death, near that city, of the Duke OF Kron-
sercs, husband of Queen Christine or Snain
\ NUMBER of emigraats who left England
ior Brazil have returned bringing dolefnI no
counts OF their treatment. They declare that
totS nave experienced great hardships ever
since their departure from their homes. and
th1t the promises made by agents of the Bra
ziilah Government, we're fagrantly broken.
a MISPLACED switch Sunday night threw the
evening tram from Saratoga, while ENTERING
Albany from the rack, and the engine tom
der and baggage car went down an embank-
ment INTO Patloon's Creek. Tue fireman was
billed, and the engineer, baggage master and
another employe injured
EN-CTFY TREASURER SPRAGUE. of BROOKLYN
has been arrested on the charge of malteas
ance in Office
NtNDUN. france, was evacuated by the Ger
uau troops Saturday morning. immediately
after they had let, the streets were filed with
rejoicing residents, and numberless French
flags were displayed from the buildings.
FIRE IN East st. Louis Sunday night. com
tAmcd the Touring mills of Henry Schaffer 4
Bros, SIX tenement houses, a new bouse
saloon and stables belonging to the mill. The
mn contained 200 barrels of -four and 500
bushels OF grain. The estimated loss is SEQ
uuu- insurance, about $50 900.
HE vault containing the remains of Chan
eellor Livingstone, at Red Hook, n. Y, was
tfo&en open, two collins destroyed, and the
SILVER handles and pilates stolen
DISPATCH has been received at the British |
Aamrafs office from the commander of the |
British steam sloop Dolphin, announcing the
capture IL the Indian Ocean, near the I've
he'to islands, of slave ship, upon which
'hree had been horrible suffering The small