The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-02-22
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drowned himself.
The steam boiler in Geddes' rolling mill at
Syracuse, at noon on Monday, exploded Sc
yerely njuring one workman and slightly in.
juring seven others. The boiler was new and
the cause o. the accident is unknown. The
building and machinery were damaged to the
extent of 5000.
EARLY Friday morning fire broke ont in
Louis Rohror's stoneware factory, at Menasha, |
Wis, destroying the whole building, together |
with the stock. The loss is about S6.c0O-in.
surance g, 900.
NJ. c. EDGAR, clerk in McKay's dry goods |
store at GAINESVILLE, Wis, has disappeared with
quantity of goods purchased for the firm in
Chicago.
Two FATAL railroad accidents are reported
from Missouri-a boy named Oscar Neiman
and an unknown man run over by trains and
cut to pieces near st. Louis.
IT is stated that Senator Pomeroy has con-
cluded TO ask the Senate to investigate the
charges of bribery made against him at the
late Senatorial election in Kansas. He Will be
present in the Senate on Monday, and will
make a personal explanation of the event at
tending the CANVASS at Topeka. and then wind
iS
allowed this opportunity to vndicate himself
HE Committee on Ways and Means has de-
cided to continue the stamp tax on bank
checks, drafts and orders. The impression is
abroad that this tax is about to be abolished
The action of the committee settles the doubt.
Tom NAoLE, drayman, was shot and killed
IN Memphis, on Friday, by rough named
Pat Tobln.
TOPEKA dispatch says that Pomeroy's ho-
tel expenses, during the Senatorial contest,
were about ffte thousand dollars
The Secretary of the Treasury has revoked
the order calling in hundred millions of
$40 bonds to be paid May 7th This Is done
because of information from London that the
SUBSCRIPTIONS there to the SIS are made pay
able June LIST. The call will be renewed March
iSt, so as to have the called bonds PAYABLE
June LIST, to conform to the London subscrip
ton.
CLEVELAND is to have an addition Of five or
sir square miles of territory on the west
south and east, ID order to make the bounds
more regular ID shape. This gives Cleveland
an area OF about % square miles and a ponu-
lation of nearly ,o00
HE city council of Philadelphia has passed
an ordinance making an appropriation OF
100000 aid to the centennial celebration.
The bill for 81, 0O0000 is pending in the Penn
sylvania Legislature.
DETECTIVES have returned to New York with
william Z. Murray, the defaulting clerk o:
Bloodgood, and his wife. Murray is charged
with having embezzled in all $4,000. On ar
rIylnS III the city Mrs. NJ. was searched and
Si,UUj IN gold certificates and 81, 900 in green
backs were found on her person. MURRAY was
he'd IN $1,000 bonds aud Mrs. NJ. was dis
charged.
LEO CANAAN, of Chicago has been sentenced
t. ten years imprisonment for robbino the
mails.
REPORTS are current III Boston. connecting
Evans, recently sentenced for the North field
murder, with other terrible crimes. including
the murder ofthe joyce children.
lHE Dill introduced in the House TO adiust
the salaries of the Executive Judicial and
Legislative Departments of the Government
provides thai alter March 4th, 1873. salaries
snail be liked as follows: President of the
United States, 5000 Vice President, sln
700; Justices of the Supreme Court. $40 ooo
Cabinet Officers, SO 600; Speaker of the
house' $4,000; Members of Congress, $4,000,
ms includes members of the Forty.third
congress. Mileage is to be abolished and the
actual travelling expenses allowed.
HE body of Rev. VIM Storrs, Vicar Gener-
a. OF the Archdiocese of New York, is living in
state at his late residence in Mulberry street
and viii be removed to the Cathedral Sunday
afternoon. The funeral services take place
Monday morning.
MASS was celebrated at Baltimore, on Fri
day, the anniversary of the death Of Arch
bishop Spalding.
\ FIRE al Evansville, Ind, Friday, DESTROYED
property worth SC, COO
The opera Of the g Doctor of Alcaptra >, vas
performed Tuesday evening, in WASHINGTON
by company Of colored singers. eomnosea of
singers IN st. Martins Catholic Church. Of
that city,
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, on Friday, a woman
named harrison jumped from a third story
"lhoo" 81 the Peoples Bank building. striking
upon the stone sidewalk, forty feet below.
Her injuries, although very severe. are NOT
necessarily mortal.
LIE Collector OF Internal Revenue of the
Detroit district reports that be collected last
year, 81, SIT, 5s5 on tobacco and cigars s116
ovi or distilled liquors $50, 093 on beer. ana
$500 IN special taxes; 81, 7S2, O39 in all.
AT Leroy, Mich, Thursday, George NJ
severance, well known farmer had his head
sPlt oped by tie swift revolving saw Of y
Nooo-saWin8 machine. Friday forenoon a pre-
clSeIy similar accident befel Thomas Kennedy
~ Detroij. Both deaths were instantaneous
LEE Boston Journal, which has been SIM.
porting Mr.. Dawes for the Z. S. Senate 10 suc
teed ~. Wilson, has come out IN favor Of
secretary Boutwell,. The Secretary has nov
tAe support OF majority OF the Republican
papers IN the state, and there seems to he mo
doubt OF his election
MI. WEIGH was run over and killed bv tbe
tars at Moline, H., on THURSDAY.
JAMES WATKINS was accidentally shot and
la'"Iy wounded hy a saloon keeper named
OFT, at Pana, H., on Thursday.
1HE Westminster Church, on WASHINGTON
avenue, Detroit was sold to Bishop BURGESS |
to-day with the house adjoining. for a new
o~tuolc church. The prlce was s4S. 600.
SAMUEL B. STOKES, of the Windsor po,t;nx
hfm OF Neyix & Co.. is missing. ana is CHARGED |
with dedication
PREPARATIONS for the celebration of Mardi |
dfas festivities have been made on an extern |
siNe scale by the Mystic Order of Meppbis
Inc Exposition building, the new Memphis
lheater the Grand Opera House. and all the
large halls have been secured Railroad and
steamboat tF6S VIII furnish excursion tirLete