The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-05-03

trict of Columbia.
The Court of Patents has extended pateut
of W. E. Lockwood, and represented by the
Union Collar Company, of New York city, for
paper collars and cuffs.
The Pension office is now prepared to re-
ceive applications under the lte law, from
such of the Indians as served in the late war
in the Union army and sustained injuries en-
titling them to pensions.
MINISTER Jay and Thomas McElrath, in al
dition to being instructed to examine fully as
to the charge of the sale of sites for restaur-
ants on American ground of the Vienna Expo
sition. have just been instructed to extend
their examination to the charge recently
made of the sale Of commissionershlps. They
have power to suspend any commissioner thus
implicated. The power of removal rests with
the President.
BIDS were opened in New York, on Monday,
by the purchasing committee of the Board of
Indian Commissioners for the annual supply
of annuity goods The prices were lower than
ever before offered the government.
The Chicago Evening Journal celebrated
its thirtieth anniversary on Tuesday.
DESTRUCTIVE contlagration occurred IN
Owensville. Bath county, Kentucky, Monday
night.
AMONG the passengers by the steamer West
phalia, from Hamburg on Tuesday, was NJ j..
Cramer, United States Minister resident at
Copenhagen.
An Albany dispatch statas that the SENATOR
from New York city have agreed to .loan the
exhibition company 100000 in bonds of the
city of New York and take mortgage on the
| block bounded by Ninth and Twelfth streets
and Third and Fourth avenues for the pay
ment of the bonds.
| A MEETING was held in Philadelphia, on
Tuesday, for the election of Centennial
Board of Finance. Among the directors OF
the board elected are Benjamin F. Allen, o!
Iowa, A. D. Bullock, of Ohio, and C. G. Wash
burn of Wisconsin.
AN exploring expedition, to operate in
Southern Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and
Northwest Arizona, leaves from Salt LAX e
Denver, Santa Fe and st Wingate, in May and
June. All the explorations will be west of the
hundredth meridian. Extensive preparations
are being made. A military detail is being
arranged to escort portions from the princi
pal points of the Union Pacific Railroad in
| perfect order.
The battle flags of the Second, Third
Fourth and Fifth Regiments, Delaware Volun
teers have been presented to-. the Historical
Society of that state.
The Mohammedans in Servia plotted {
| general massacre of Christians, but were pre-
| vented by military precautions.
| PRINCE ALBRIGHT, a nephew of Emperor
William, was married on Saturday to Princes,
Mary of Saxe-Ottenburg
SAN SALVADOR has been destroyed bv earth
quakes eight times during one hundred anc
fifty years, but the authorities will rebuild thu
city on the same site.
The library and cabinets of the physician
and chemists belonging to the Sem mary o
Corona, Spain, were pillaged by a mob las
week.
CARLIsTs recently stopped diligence in thu
Province of Corona, Spain, shot all the passen
gers and seized the mails.
The railroad between Constantinople anC
Adrianople has been completed.
The Shah of Persia left Teheran on Satur
day for Europe. The whole population
ure, and his Majesty received a most touching
farewell from eight thousand of his Iowa
subjects.
A DISPATCH from Algiers says four insurgen
Arabian chiefs have been executed at Constan
tinople.
The French Atlantic cable has broken TWEEN
ty-three miles from Brest.
A DISPATCH from Paris announces the dealt
of Tag lioni, the danseuse.
The Prince Edwards Island Government
having been defeated in the recent elections
has resigned.
THE Dutch have suspended operations be
fore Atchn, as the monsoons have rendere
the receipt of supplies from seward pre-
carious.
The French mail steamer Cambria wa
wrecked last month off the Brazilian coast
OLD CATHOLICS, in a meeting al Bonn, Ger
| many, resolved to proceed to the election of
l Bishop at Cologne on the 4th of June
MOB at Frankfort attacked the brewerie
? and beer saloons on Monday. The riot Taste
several hours, and was finally quelled by tn
military.
THE railway between Constantinople an
hul idHop'e hdS oteI Completed, ana trains ar
2 running.
THE ship Alardus, of and from Hamburg
1 with number OF emigrants, has arrived 9
Melbourne, Australia. During the voyag
l thirty-two passengers died, and the Captai
committed suicide.
} OF the $500 900 obtained from the Bank O
England by the Bidwell forsers, ali but s39, 90
have been recovered.
PIELTAN, the new Captain General of Cuba
i. arrived at Havana few days since larg
crowd was present to witness his disembarka
ton, but not cheer was uttered
THE Dutch have lost seven officers an,
thrty-eight men killed, and thirty five officer
and three hundred and eighty three me-
wounded during the campaign in Sumatra.
FRED. RoLA, United States Consul at Man
camilla, was drowned on the 18th instant on
fishing excursion.
TWELVE persons were killed and fort
wounded during the riot at Frankfort on Mon
day.
BARON ITAJUBA has been presented with ty
cases of silver plate by the United States Gov
ernment FOR his services as member of tn
Geneva Board of Arbitration
PROTESTANT Easter services were held il
Cuba last Sunday, for the first time.
Gypsy Congress.