The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-08-23
SUPERIOR, WIS.
T E N E w S .
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NEAR Augusta, Arkansas, on Friday, ne
gro woman put her two children to bed, and
went TO church. When she returned she
found the house burned to the gr )und ard the
children persisted liz tie flames.
The crops Within radius of twenty miles
Of Washington were damaged by Tuesdays
storm.
SPECTATORS are eIietly buying all the bar
ley they can find in Iowa, in the belief that the
crop IS largely deficit.
The United States man-of-war Canandaigua
has arrived at Kingston, Jamaica, with seventy
of her crew sick with yellow fever
SUITS have been commenced against J. r.
Platte and A BOYD, New York importers, 10
re5over over 81 200 900 fer differentiation of
imports.
\ COLLISION by two tugs with an excursion
barge. Tuesday night en- the Hudson river
near Albany resuIte in one boy being fatally
injured aud three others b dIy.
Al indianapolis, Tuesday night, young
girl fourteen years old, named Ida shannon.
was fatally burned by the explosion of ben.
zine lamp.
FARMERS Anti-monopoly State Conyon-
$
day, at which the following nominations were
made For Governor, j. q. Vale, of Van Blu
rcn county observation-disclosures, Fred o.
Donnell, OF Dubuque Supreme Judge, B. ].
Hall, of Des Molnes county Superintendent
OF Public Instruction, Prof. D w. Pringle, OF
Hamilton. About onc-third of the counties OF
the state were represented.
The Republicans of Pennsylvania have NOM
mated Il. ". Mackey tor State Treasurer. and
Isaac Gordon for Judge of the Supreme Court.
The dwelling house of Mr.. Jordan, at Otta.
wa, Ont, burned to the ground, Wednesday
morning. His two children persisted in the
flames.
THOMAS CHISHOLM AUSTRIAN, an eminent
English barrister aud writer, died on Wednes-
day.
British vessel landed on Spanish soil q, :
GOO rifle, fifty hundred weight of ammunition.
and forty horses Tor the Carlists Subsequent.
~ the ship was captured by a Spanish man-ot-
war.
The Canadian Parliament was prorogued on
Wednesday. Much excitement prevails among
the members on account of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad investigation.
The cholera, III its most pestenial form.
has appeared III a neighborhood ten or twelve
lies east OF Makanda. Ills and about fifty
miles rom Cairo. 1t is said that family
named Ramsey, consisting of husband, wife,
and child, who recently fled from Indiana 10
escape the scOurge. We're stricken down with
IT. aud all were dead in twelve hours. Fonr or
five relatives who came to their assistance
were III few hours taken down, and soon
~ nj hat no ,Ia Of tl,,,c
are SO terrified that they are fleeing in every
direction
ALvAs ELMER, a fresco painter, employed in
decorating the art hall, exposition building
at Cincinnati, fell from the scaffold Wednes
day evening, and died shortly from the injur-
/ received.
Az unknown man about seventy years of
age suIc'dcd with laudanum at Chicago. on
tuesday.
REPORTS from Minnesota III the last three
days materially increase the estimates of the
aggregate yield Of wheat Operators agree
that the state surplus will exceed 25,O00 900
bushels.
TELEGRAM from st. Joseph, Mo, SAYS :
& The weather remains intensely dry here
through a district hundred miles wide from
centre The corn crop, which has already
been cut, IS short one-half. and if rain does
not tall within few days, what is uncut will
lie almost failure. Six weeks have elapsed
without rain "
Two WOMEN were killed and seven injured
by lightning, on mountain near Scranton
Pa, Tuesday.
IN Wllkesbarre, Pa, Tuesday, Mrs. S. E.
ioust died, aged los years She was born III
Baltimore.
THE Massachusetts, Republican State Com
mtttee nave appointed September 18th for the
state convention TO be held a Worcester.
ADDITIONAL reports from the scene of the
NawdSsett disaster now place the number lost
at y. The Supervising Inspector of steam
boats has instituted proceedings against the
owners OF the steamer or failing to procure a
special permit to carry more passengers than
her certificate of inspection allowed also for
carrying oXcursiCnlsts without a license
\ FURIOUS rain aud hail storm passed. over
portion of PENNSYLVANIA and Mar, land on
Tuesday, damaging crops, noes, etc. The
Lehigh aud Susquehanna Railroad suffered
great injury. At Moosie a landslide ycoe r, d
the track ion distance of about 100 yards to
q great depth, aud at several other points the
track was badly undermined. The Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal also suffered from the storm.
several breaks being reported and bars washed
away. 1t viii take ten days to repair a break
N the culvert Of the canal at Berlin.
:. +. SNITTH a member of the firm of Ben
ton Smith, at san Francisco, fell down
hatchway OF the ship Carrtr, AMI was instant
y killed.
JosFPH TIrCoMB has been nominated for
Governor by the Democrats OF Maine.
\ LEXINGTON, Ky. telegram states that the
trotung horse Sentinel was found dead in his
stable at Ash Grove Farms, Tuesday morning.
His owner, Erwin Thomas Nye, recently re
fused $50, 600 for him.
IHE town of Christiauople On Kalmer
Sound, Sweden, has been entirely destroyed bv
fire
JoHN W. YOUNG, the ex-clerk in the Chicago
post office who was engaged in forging posta
money orders, and who was arrested in Mas
sachusetts few days ago, escaped from the
officers having him in charge by jumping from
a tram near Edgerton, Ind
hrLvIS DUFF murdered his father-n-law
named Miller, near Edgewood H.. last sun
day DUH married MIler's daughter two
weeks ago against bis consent. stree when
they have had several quarre!s, one on Sun
day, resulting in the death of Miller.
IFNtS papers say the recent rains will make