The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-11-01

| cate in London last week, in charge of clerks.
DURING the year the number of domestic
letters sent to the dead-letter Office has been
4,133, 1928 foreign letters received from foreign
countries, 26S, 420, Total, 4 ,402,3 4S.
! In contradiction to the many reports con-
corning his forthcoming report, the Postmas-
| ter-General states that he has not writer. a
single line as yet OF it. He states that he will
devote some portion of it to the recommended
ton of postal telegraphs, and the postal
savings banks.
| YELLOW FEVER is Increasing rapidly at CO.
lumbus, Tenn Calvert kilograms report nine
deaths in twenty -four hours from the disease
two deaths and seven cases the past twenty
Tour hours. Business is almost entirely sus-
pended.
In the recent fight between the Sioux and
Poncas, Ponca squaw came upon skulking
Sioux, and by dexterious movement drew
knife across his stomach, causing the Indian
to double up. AS the red came forward, she
| grasped his hair, and with another active
movement relieved the Sioux of his scalp.
RECENT advices from Illinois and Iowa in
crease the previous estimates of damages
done by the frost to the corn crop in those
ADvrCEs from South America report that the
insurgents of Enetreraries have been signally
defeated. whole battalion mutinied against
the rebel leaders, Lopez and Jordan and have
submitted to the federal authorities.
The sale of TIE Steele in the streets OF Paris
has been forbidden, on account of its having
published M Gambetta's recent speech in
Perigueux. NJ. Bourdelette, Deputy Mayor
of Perigueux, has been suspended during two
months from exercising his Office, for having
allowed Nj. Gamble tia to speak at a banquet,
last Sunday, without making any protest
THE total amount spent by the Chicago, AL
ton and st. Louis Railroad Company, conse-
quent upon the Lemont disaster, will exceed
the sum of S125,000.
| HE post-office at Augusta, Eau Claire
county, Wis, was burglarized Wednesday
night and 1920 in currency and postage
stamps, and several drafts on Chicago, were
stolen from the safe, which was blown open.
The contents OF the office were undlsturbed.
No clue to the burglars
A PRIVATE dispatch from Calvert, Texas,
says The fever here is worse than at Shreve-
port. Seven per cent. of the population have
) died.
A CRAZY man named Lloyd Bell, nearly
chopped off Owen Gillen's head while he was
sleeping on bench at San Francisco, Thurs
day,
, The Protestant Orphan Asylum at Memphis
appeals for aid III providing for orphans under
t It's charge-victims of the fever.
g The last issue of tho postal cards show a
g marked Improvement on the paper finish. and
s printing. The daily orders ate very large,
amounting from halt to a million day. On
} Saturday last $500, 900 were issued to post
: masters. All orders are filed now as soon as
: received.
The American and Mexican Claims Commits
: sion have named Sir Edward Thornton to act
Q as umpire. He has accepted the nomination
: provided his government will consent TO his
Y acting in that capacity, which consent he has
asked.
3 The Internal Revenue office is now con-
r Quoted at all expense OF $4,000, 600 per year
4 less than under the former laws. The Com.
: missioner is satisfied with the law as it is, and
therefore will make no important recommend
a alton to Congress concerning it.
: DIR. LINDERMAN, President OF the Mint i.
S IN receipt of information from Carson City,
. Nevada, which shows that the trade dollar is
e going into pretty general circulation there,
: especially at The mining regions. For nearly
all he silver brought in the miners take the
g trade dollars, and use them as a circulating
e medium.
y AT Dexter Park Chicago, on Thursday.
5 Goldsmith Maid. Gloster and Bashaw, Jr..
6 trotted for purse of S., 1000, mile heats. The
i Maid won III straight heats Gloster second.
q Time, 2:23h, 21S, 2;22A. The weather was
misty and untavorable ; the track i'll fair con-
t dItion.
e JOSEPH CoRwIN CLOUD, the champion oars
: man, who some three months ago started
s from Philadelphia on a trial 10 row to New
0 Orleans by canals and rivers, died on Tuesday
last, three miles above Plauquemine. Cloud
1 was foud on Monday in his boat, the Jennie.
y IN an almost exhausted condition, and died
s the next day. His diary shows that he had
\ been suffering with what he terms "heavv
$ shakes four or five days before his death.
: The tremendous storm of Tuesday and
: Wednesday at Salt Lake City, did great dam
r age to fruit and shade trees, and broke the
t telegraph wires In number of places.
On Wednesday night a stock train on the
Chicago and Alton Railroad ran off switch at
, Normal, IL The caboose, filled With nassen-
gers, and two cars of stock were ditched.
Five men were injured, two severely, an one
+ of them, stock dealer of Kansas City, named
5 Baker, 1t is feared, fatally, and twenty head
I of cattle were killed.
/ THE American House, Minneapolis, was
s burned, Thursday morning. Cyrus GRAY was
burned to death, ard it was thought there
, was another victim.
2 The car and draw houses on the Eastern
| Railroad bridge over the Charles river, Mass
} were burned Tuesday morning; also five cars.
? REGINALD HOBART wagered $4,000 that he
| could row on the canal from Maiden He d to
Westminster bridge, distance of fifty miles
IN twelve hours, through eleven locks He
won the wager, with three hours to spare.
JUDGE WELLS, of the Massachusetts, ST.
preme Court, on Thursday, fined the proprie-
: tors OF the Saturday Evening Express twenty
five dollars for contempt 10 publishing an ar
ticle tending to bias a jury in pending suit.
G. BIRD, GRINNELL & Co., of New York.
were declared bankrupt on Thursday. Their
liabilities said TO be $40, OOO, 600, and assets
ST., 0GO, 900.
The suspension of VIM. Hoge & Co, bank
ers, and VIM. Whltemore, broker. of New
York, are announced. Also, the Suspension
OF Gillespie, Trowbridge & Co., tea dealers. of
New York.