The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-03-01


sums amounting to nearly 100000 He was
once postmaster
The Sebetha Hotel, at Siebetha, Kansas, has
been destroyed by fire.
The 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 NAGLE, drayman, was shot and killed
in Memphis, on Friday, by rough named
Pal Tobln.
Topeka dispatch says that Pomeroy's ho-
tel expenses, during the Senatorial contest,
were about fife II thousand dollars.
MRS SHAW, the fourth victim in the Shaw
poisoning case, is dead Professor Perkins
communicates the result of his analysis of the
stomach of the first victim. He finds core
sive mercury in sufficient quantity to cause
death. He promises to forward a report in
detail soon.
FIRE at Evansville, Indiana, destroyed
Blount's pillow factory and two other bulldogs.
The loss is $4,000.
Col. ANDREW DERoM, of Paterson, N j., a
prominent lumber merchant, has failed La
bilities heavy.
Hon THOMAS PARSONS, a well-known poll
tician, died in Rochester, on Monday.
Z. NJ. MAGEE, ex-Mayor OF Kansas City, died
on Monday, very suddenly, of heart disease.
The Secretary of the Treasury has revoked
the order calling in a hundred millions of
$40 bonds to be paid May It'll 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
LIST, go as to have the called bonds payable
| June 1st, to conform to the London subscrip-
| ton.
| CLEVELAND is to have an addition of five or
| six square miles of territory on the west
south and east, III order to make the bounds
more regular III shape. This gives Cleveland
an area of about % square miles and a popu-
lation of nearly 13O, 600.
The city council of Philadelphia has passed
5000 900 all to the centennial celebration.
Inc bill Tor 81 100000 Is pending in the Penn
sylvania Legislature.
| DETECTIVES have returned to New York with
William c. Murray, the detauting clerk o
Bloodgood, and his wife Murray is charged
with having embezzled in all $4,000. On ar
| irving III tic oiy Mrs. NJ. was searched and
81, 900 in gold certificates and 81 900 in green
backs were found on her person. Murray was
held in IS 900 bonds and Mrs NJ was dis
charged.
Reports are current IN Boston, connectine
Evans, recently sentenced for the Northhe l(
murder, with other terrible crimes, Including
the murder of the joyce children
TtIr hill int ba 20
the salaries of the Executive, Judicial ant
Legislative Departments of the Govern mem
provides tina. after March 4th, 1873 salaries
shall be fixed as follows: President of tn,
United States, 900; Vice President, 81
900; Justices of the Supreme Court, 500
Cabinet Officers, 80 goo; Speaker of TIL,
| House, SO 600; Members Of Congress, IS, 600
, his includes members of the Forty -thrt
Congress. Mileage is to be abolished and tn,
actual travelling expenses allowed.
| THE body of Rev. VIM. Storrs Vicar Gener
al of the Archdiocese of New York, is living j,
state at his late residence in Mulberry street
and will be removed to the Cathedral Sundar
afternoon. The funeral services take plac
Monday morning.
Mass was celebrated at Baltimore. on Fri
day, the anniversary OF the death OF Arch
bishop Spalding.
A FIRE at Evansville, Ind. Friday, DESTROYED
property worth 6,COO
The opera Of the Doctor of Alcantra,' = wa
performed Tuesday evening, in Washington
by company of colored singers, composed O
singers in st. Martins Catholic Church, o
that city.
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, on Friday, a woman
named Harrison jumped from third stor,
. window of the People Bank building, strikinl
upon the stone sidewalk, forty feet below
Her injuries, although very severe, are no
! necessarily mortal.
The Collector Of Internal Revenue of th
Detroit district reports that he collected, las
. year, 81, 346 3S5 on tobacco and cigars SIG,
. 604 on distilled liquors $50, O93 on beer, an,
s229,957 IN special taxes 81, 782, 039 in all,
INTENSELY cold weather is reported from
Europe. One hundred persons have bee,
frozen to death i'll England in three DAYS.
AT Leroy, Mich, Thursday, George NJ
Severance, well known farmer, had his hea,
split open by the swift revolving saw of
wood-sawing machine. Friday forenoon pre-
cIsely similar accident beiel Thomas Kepped
IN Detroit. Both deaths were instantaneous