The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-11-01
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Nine, situated about half way between Mar.
quette and Escanaba for s104 GOO. The mine
has produced considerable GRE, which has
been smelted at Wyandotte 1t has been pur-
chased by joint stock company.
HEAVY frosts are reported III Tennessee and
Arkansas.
A CONSIDERABLE number OF cotton mills IN
Rhode Island are running en- short time.
Some are stopping to make repairs.
NINE canal boats were lost in the storm on
the Hudson, few nights since, involving a
loss of two hundred thousand dollars.
GAIT PosT's planning mill, in Oswego, was
burned Sunday night Loss to the firm and
other occupants, s4O, 1000; insurance $4,000.
JAMES LICK, wealthy citizen of San Fran
cisco, proposes to the Academy of Sciences to
epdow an Astronomical observatory, to be es
tablishe6 at some point on the Sierra Nevada
Mountains, 10, 600 feet above the level of the
sea. The plan is taking definite and tangible
shape.
RAIS-sToRM caused much damage in New
York and Pennsylvania on Monday. At
Uirardyille, Pa, two children were drowned
by the submerging of a vehicle in which they
were driving home with their parents.
MONUMENT to Philip Embury, founder of
Methodsm III this country, WAS unveiled on
Monday at Cambridge, n. Y, in the presence
OF large concSurse OF people. Bishops
Kane, Simpson and others, made addresses.
a FIRE at Topeka, Kansas, on Sunday night.
destroyed the Commonwealth block, occupied
10y the Commonwealth newspaper, Kansas
Evanse heal, and the Kansas Monitor printing
.T,Sl,, III HOO ,lor
Waryen,s hardware store and DR.. lifts. The
to tai loss is estmatnd at 100000 insured for
about so, 900.
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Railroad Company have reduced the wages of
employees about ID per cent, which took effect
Monday, October 90, i'll consequence of de-
creased business of the road as one of the re-
suits OF the financ al stringency.
SSow fell at Cincinnati on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court of Indiana pronounces
the liquor law constitutional.
The froshet along the Oswego and Midland
Railroad, through Sussex county, was the most
severe ever known there. Thousands of acres
Of land were overlooked, the water In some
places coming to the tops of the fences.
SIX canal-boats were sunk in the storm OF
Sunday night on the Hudson, three from the
steamer Alexis III tow, and three from the
Syracuse. All were heavily laden. The loss Is
estimated at $4,000.
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS were shipped on Tuesday from South
ampton for New York. and s195, 900 from Liv.
erpool.
THE Cunard Steamship Company have de-
ternlaed to withdraw their vcssels from the
East Indian service et an early day, and estab
lish daily line between Liverpool and New
York
MISS FRAME, a young Quaker lady living
near SprnGdale, Cedar county, Iowa, cut hel
throat and attempted to sever the arteries il
her wrists Monday night while laboring I'm.
der sulclum ...aria
The Superintendent of the Philadelphia
mint reports to the treasury that private par
ties IN Chicago have sent $50, 900 in silver bars
10 he coined III halves, quarters and dimes
Tins ls the first amount received from private
parties IN great while. These bars will fur
nlsh change to the amount of $50, 500.
IRoN and coal operators in the Mahonine
Valley report very serious situation. The
local banks are unable to aid them, and man,
are paying their men with three or six months
paper, drawing per cent. interest. Unless
relief comes speedily the majority of the Goa
mines and iron mills III the Mahoning regior
viii have 10 shut down.
SILVER is now paid out to limited extent
IN Washington. Linderman, Director of the
Bureau OF the Mint, says silver will be in gen
erai circulation on November l. All the mint!
~ the country have been ordered 20 work tc
their full capacity in coming silver.
In regard to the Treasurer's safe robbery in
Andrew Jackson county, Iowa, on Sunda,
night, the evidence shows that the parties
possessed the combination of the safe
card was found ON the floor with the figures
on the back which opened the lock In add
ton 70 the $4,000 money taken, several thou
sand dollars Of bills paid by the Treasurer
were taken. 1t is said the late county seat
fight has been responsible for the robbery
but yet no clue is obtained.
AT a meeting of the Western Bar Iron Asso
cIaton III Pittsburg, on Tuesday, it was re.
solved to reduce the iron $40 of cent. max.
ing the present card 8 $40 cents PEI
pound. Under the existing arrangement as
regards wages, this Will canse a reduction OF
from "a to l2h per cent. in the pay of all
skilled workmen in iron. reduction was
also made OF 10 per cent. on the wages of IN.
classified labor, such as engineers, tiremen.
roll hands, laborers, etc. Laborers who have
been receiving more tnan $3.50 per day will
now receive 80 per week, The employees who
have been working under wnat is termed the
sliding scale will be obliged to submit to q
similar reduction.
THIEF named Moses Williams, confined in
the State Prison at Joliet, H., processes TO
know who murdered Hon. Sharon Tlndale at
Springfield, H., in April.
TRAIN on the PENNSYLVANIA Central Rail-
road ran over horse near Greenwich Point.
Tuesday forenoon, and eleven freight cars were
thrown from the track. The engineer was
killed and the fireman badly scalded.
Tue liquor recufying and distilling estab-
hshment OF T. II. Corning & Co., of Cleveland.
was burned on Thursday also the oil. still Of
MorehouSe 4 Rockefeller. Loss sI25,OOl.
TIE National Board of Trade adopted a
recommendation that memorial be prepared
praying Congress 10 revise the bankrupt law
Of 1867
The Comptroller of the currency is out with
a statement TO the effect that, he will in his
next annual report TO Congress urge the recall
OF the law authorizing the withdrawal Of five
million dollars of National Bank currency
rom tue Eastern States for distribution
amongst the Western States, they not HAVING
heir just proportion. At the same time he
VIII recommend that the National Bank notes
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