The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-11-22
At Large.

Cassian county She brought down twelve
miners and SIS, 900 III dust. The excitement
is intense. One party took out 1897 IN eight
honrs rocking. Parties who came down on
the California intend returning early in the
spring Miners winterng on the S.icken
have bought up all their provisions, so that
large supply will be required in the spring.
TEE General Missionary Committee of the
Methodist Episcopal Church is now holding
its fifty fifth annual session. The Treasurer's
report showed receipts for the past year OF
s767, 233, aud expenditures, S725, 169 The
treasury is i'll debt III New York $40, 900, while
Cincinnati has on band s62, 600
STEPHEN P. WARDwEuL, cashier Of the Com
mercial National Bank OF Providence, con-
fesses to a defalcation of about $3.50 The
money was lost some years since III specula-
ton.
The annual meeting Of the Peace Society OF
Pennsylvania was held recently in Philadei-
phia. resolution was adopted protesting
against any at thai might involve the coun-
t,y in war with Spain.
CAPT BRowN, Of the Fifth Cavalry has Just
returned from a scouting expedition in Tor to
Basin county, Arizona, after Ind ans who are
on the war-path. He killed 46 Indians on the
scout.
The trial of Harris, III San Francisco. mate
OF the Sunrise, for cruelty TO sailors of that
ship, has commenced III the United States Cir
cult Court, before a jury. There are 100 dis
tinct charges against him.
A RELIEF fund is being raised in Iowa for
| the destitute homesteaders in Osceola and
r II - tbo,- ~,
men who served in the late war of the rebel
| lion.
McDoNoUGH, Chief of Police of st. Louis,
was, on Wednesday, acquitted Of oppression
iii Office. The jury Were out twenty hours.
AN officer Is at Omaha with instructions to
provide for the removal of that portion Of the
Modoc tribe now near Fort Mcpherson to the
Indian Territory, without delay.
On the 18th instant Judge Andrew e. Mil
| Ter, of the U. s. Circuit Court for the Eastern
District of Wisconsin, resigned his position,
after having filled 1t for thirty five years, since
| Nov. Sth, 1858. Judge Miller was appointed
| Judge OF the Territorial Court by President
| Van Buren,, and was rcapponted to the posi-
ton he has just resigned, by President ames
Is. Polk. He has served, IN his judicial ca
pacity, under ten Presidents. II is stated
that this is the longest Judicial service III the
| country with the exception of that of Chief
Justice fancy, who was appointed by
Jackson and served until Lincoln's time.
Judge Miller is II years of age, and a thor
ough Democrat. Naturally, during his long
career, nc has rendt red many decisions which
have attracted general attention for their
knowledge and research of the law. His sue
cessor has not yet been determined upon, but
the name Of Hon. Winfield Smith, ex-State
Attorney, is prominently mentioned.
THE Board Of Supervisors of San Francisco
have passed an order granting to II. J. Booth
& Co. twenty acres OF land in Central Basin
Mission Bay, ostensibIv for the purpose Of
| building an extensive navy ward
| TIE New York Herald in view of the recent
Vmginius outrage, declares it to be the duty
of President Grant to declare at once the ex-
| steacc of a state of war in Cuba and to recog-
nlze the beligerent rights of the Cubans
! J. FRED MEYERS, of the Emigration Inqr Try
Commission reports upon the priyations o
emigrants, calling attention to the crowded
condition of the emIgrant ships The law re
latlng to this being disrcgarded, the report
recommends the adoption OF IS feet to eacl
| passenger.
POSTMASTER FnLEY, of ST. Louis is said tc
| be dlscharginG his subordinates who refused
t. sign paper sanctloning his levy for politi
| cal purposes.
/ OFFICIAL adylces received from san Fran
cisco by DR.. Lindeman, Director of the mint
state that Chinese merchants in that CITY VIII,
had made shipments of trade dollars to nativ,
correspondents in China, report premium o
three per cent 1t IS also stated that the Kind
cr Director OF the Imperial Mint of Japan, anC
who Is now III san Francisco regards the trad,
| dollar the finest and most perfect silver
com he has ever seen, and that its success il
Eastern t0rientaI markets can only be ar1cs
ton OF time.
BETWEEN 200 and 800 glass blowers at New
! Albany, Indiana, have held a consultation
whether they would accept bare living wages.
and declined to 30 to work. Tie blowers say
they agreed to work at ID per cent less than
| Plstsburg prices. which are one-third les.
than their old prices, and this is the best they
can do