The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-09-06


| formerly Congressman from his district
| THIRTY cases of pictures for the Cincinnati
exposition have arrived there from New York
and Boston, many of them pictures from Gou-
| pill and other artists, valued at 1850
| THE accident to the emg,ant train on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near Cameron.
Sunday, was not SO serious as at first reported.
-Four passengers were severely, and some
| eight or ten slightly injured, bnt none are be-
lieved to be fatally injured.
CHAe. STARK, wealthy citizen of Manches
| ter, N. IT,, and grandson of General John
Stark, committed suicide Monday night. Aged
2.
ABRAM BENSON, convict, while trying to
escape from jail at Auburn, N. Y. was shot
| and FILLED.
| The Hon. Coles Bashford, Governor of Wis
consin in 1855-'57. and the hero of the famous
| Bashford-Barstow gubernatorial imbrocho
has decided to remove to San Diego, Cal He
has been Secretary of Arizona Territory since
| 1868, but his family have resided in Oshkosh.
Wisconsin.
| The wife and six children of a colored man
| named Willis, were burned to death In a house
| near TitusvIlle, Pa. on Friday.
VIM. BALL and John Godfrey had ali alterca
| ton near Oskaloosa, Iowa, on Tuesday, i
| which Godfrey was MORALLY wounded.
| The Massachusetts Republican State Cen
| trail Committee have decided to change the
| time for holding the convention at Worcester,
! to Sept. 10th, as the hall was engaged from
| the 18th to the Gath.
| TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR fire occurred at
| Waterford, Racine county.
| MICHAEL BRoDERICK murdered one of his
| sons and severely wounded another, in New
York city, the other day.
| TIE cholera has broken out in the province
of Bornia, Turkey.
Miss LUCY ANN BELMONT, aged 60 years,
died. at Tacoma, Kansas, on Thursday, of
voluntary starvation, having refused food for
twenty-eight days. A sister of the deceased
died the same way a few years ago.
at Philadelphia the other day, the body of
Thomas Munce, wealthy farmer of Wash
| ingtou county, Pa, was found in the dissect-
| ing room of a Medical University 1t was
| taken from the river on the Sd Of July, aud
sold to the faculty by parties connected with
the Morgue. The discovery was made by
| hiitlllS lnt watch VI uSNcdSOu III At pawn Vi
nee, where it had been pledged by one VIM.
McEwcn, who was the driver Of the coroner's
wagon.
| Abroad.
The Bank of England forgers have been
convicted and sentenced to penal servitude
for life.
| DEMONSTRATION OF trades unionists at
Edinburgh On Saturday was participated III by
| Is 900 men.
| CHOLERA Is raging IN Hungary, and fifty
per cent. of the cases prove fatal.
| SIR SAMUEL BAKER and party have reached
Cairo, returning from the expedition into
| Africa.
| On the 800, 600 medals awarded at the Vienna
exposition 400 go to America.
| SHAKsPEAREAN documents just discovered
contradict the theories of Shakespeare's bust
ness connection with the theatres.
STORM unprecedented in severity prevailed
Sunday and Monday night OH the English
| coast.
The weather throughout England is fair,
| and favorable for crops.
A GUNPowDER explosion at Osaka Japan
killed n.any persons.
| CARL WILHELM, composer Of the famous
German war song, The Watch on the Rhine
died on Tuesday, at bchwalkelden.
| GREAT conhagration occasioned at
Antwerp, Monday night, by stroke of light
ming, which set fire to one of the largest ware
houses IN the city. This, with the surround
ing buildings, was soon wrapped in flames
and the entire block destroyed. Loss $780,
900.
THERE has been very severe engagement
between the insurgents and troops near San
tiago de Cuba. The loss is heavy on both
sides. Tie Spaniards admit losing sixty killed
and it is reported General Burrel, former Gov
ernor Of Matanzas, is among the number
| AN inundation of Guanajuato, Mexico, from
a waterspout, has occurred, and q great
amount of property has been destroyed, and
a number of lives lost.
| THE feet under command of Admiral | ,obos
which commenced to lombard Carthagena,
has been compelled to withdraw out of range
of the guns of the insurgents, on account OF
| inferior armament of the vessel. They can
not cope with the artillery of the forts.
BISHOP RUNKENs, the newly ordained old
| Catholic prelate in Germany, has issued pas
| toral letter, IN which lie renounces the special
privileges sometimes claimed for the Episco-
pal office, and inculcates the duty of obedi-
ence to secular authorities.
| The International Patent Congress has
concluded It's sttnSs. As to the desirability
of encouraging aud elevating invention by
granting patents, the Congress wa, unani-
nous, but there was a protracted debate on
the compulsory granting of licenses by the
patentees. The principle was opposed by
American members, but was finally carried,
after ten days discussion, by % to II.
| The Duke Charles Frederick August vii.
liam, of Brunswick, died Of apoplexy at Gen
eva, on Wednesday, aged SO years.
| A VIENNA special says the distribution OF
prizes was very tame affair. There was only
about three thousand persons present. The
| Archduke Charles Louis made a congratulate
~ address on the successful termination OF
the Exposition, after which list of successful
| competitors was read.
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When 1 was a little baby, gals would