The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-05-24
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new company.
A sEvENTY-FIvE thousand dollar fire oc-
Cured in Culvert, Robertson county, KY, on
Monday.
JAMES FITZPATRICK, while drunk, murder
ed John Thomas at Memphis Sunday night.
JosPH ORMsBY, of Ormsby & Co., jewelers.,
was robbed of $4,000 worth of jewelry at
Rochester, N. Y, Monday.
JOHN. G. DEMMIcK, a lawyer of New York,
committed suicide at his residence in Bloom
ingburg, on Saturday, by shooting.
A DISPATCH from Portland says five Indians
attacked the house of Jas. Harrison, eight
miles from Walla Walla. He refused to give
them tobacco. The Indians knocked the door
down. Harrison defended himself and daueh-
ter with a hatchet. He knocked two down
and was struggling with the third, when his
daughter came to the rescue and knocked the
indian down with an ak. The neighbors heard
the outcries and came to the relief of Harri-
son. They got three of the Indians into jail.
Two escaped.
DANIEL PRATT, pioneer manufacturer OF
Alabama. died at his home in Pcattville, on
Tuesday, aged 70.
JUDGE PIERREPoNT, of New York, has been
appointed Minister to Russia.
The Church of the Ascension (Episcopal),
at Baltimore, was burned Monday evening.
Loss $50, 900.
BENJAMIN +. CAMP sues the New York Tri-
bune for $50, 900, for calling him SO Chronic
dead-head."
IowA's candidate for Chief Justice is Asso-
ciate Justice Miller.
BOILER at the Pendleton car stables, in
Cincinnati, exploded Monday afternoon, kill
ing horse, and scading and injuring two
men. The boiler shot up fifty feet in the air
and plugged back and fell on the roof.
PREPARATIONS are rapidly making for the
jubilee in Chicago the first week in June
The leading features is a series of monster
concerts led by Gilmore. The public bodies
unite in Committee of Reception. The Gov
ernors of Illinois, Iowa and Indiana respond
to the invitation to be present as guests.
The friends of Secretary Delano and Minis
ter Schenck are speaking of each asst proba
BILE successor of Judge Thurman, of Ohio, il
the United States Senate. The Conserva tive
Democratic element repr, sented by Thurman
however, is believed to be strong enough t.
return him.
The President appointed E. W Henderson
of Wisconsin, agent for the Chippewa Indians
OF Lake Superior, La Pointe agency E.
Lewis, OF Illinois, agent for the Pueblo In
dians OF New Mexico Joseph A. Leonard, O
Minnesota, Register of the Land Office a
Jackson, Miss; William McMicken, of Wash
lngton Territory, Surveyor General of the
United States for Washington Territory
Ebenzer Douglass, of Rhode Island, agent
for the Chippewas, of Minnesota.
THREE more graves have been found on the
Bender farm in Kansas. Nearly all the bodies
of the dead were indecently mutilated. Il is
considered certain that the little girl was
thrown alive into the grave as no marks O.
violence were found on her body.
A CONVENTION of railway master-mechanic:
is in session at Baltimore
The German patriots of the revolution il
1S6849 celebrated the event at New York. OF
Tuesday.
MosT OF the cotton mills of Woonsocket. R.
l., started on Tuesday with more or less O.
their former force.
MEETING of lawyers in Des Moines. Iowa
on Tuesday, recommended Justice Samue
hllci suCCGsSOr OF Judge Chase.
COMMODORE DONALDSON has been detached
from the command of the naval station al
Mound City, ILL.,, and placed on waiting orders
IHE prospects are that, after an exchange
OF diplomatic negotiations for three years, the
Po tmaster General will be able to secure a
treaty with France reducing the postage to
eight cents. The pre- sent r. te is about twenty.
four cents to France direct
The Secretary of the interior has decided
that the st. Vincent extension of the st. PAM
and Pacific Railroad Company is entitled to
the lands IN controversy between that COM
pany and the Northern Pacific Railroad Com.
pany at the point where said roads intersect
each other near Glyndon, Minnesota.
iHE telegraph announces that Senator
Cameron Is making determined effort TO Sc
cure the removal Of Mr.. Douglas. Commits.
sioner of Internal Revenue
ONE TIE oUsAND Chinese arrived at San Fran.
cisco on Tuesday.
John WATSON. Chicago grain operator. has
failed for $3.50, 900
A scAFFoLD at Mercur University building.
Macon, Georgia. fell on Tuesday. killing four
men, ana seriously injuring another
IHE annual reunion of the Amy of the
Potomac was held at New Haven. Conn ON
Tuesday.
NOTWITHSTANDING the concerted atten,pts To
SHOW that the now consolidation act would not
reduce the expenditures of the Internal Rev
epue Bureau, 1t is now evident not only that
the promised saving of the million dollars
VIII be effected, but that the passage of the
consondatlon act will reduce the expense one
million i've hundred thousand dollars.
ANRDEw L. BERGGRANp, a Norvec;a, IN
chicago, cut his throat with a razo he has
been helpless for some time with tumor in
his side. '""'oi III
1t is now confidently stated that the mis-
slons to st. Petersburg and Yeddo will be fill
ed by ex-Senators Nye and Cole. in the order
OF tnelr names. The appointments will likely
De announced before the expiration of the
present week
Philadelphia 16; Washipcton4
WEDNESDAY morning. in Union TOWNSHIP
crawford county, Indiana, Mrs Mary f. Scott
mighty respected lady, in taking a portion of
head-dress from drawer. disIodred her
husbands revolver, which discharged in fall
ing. The ball entered the back portion of her
head, killing her instantly.
WEEKLY paper IN tna interests of the col,
ored people Is to be established at Topeka
Kansas.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, on THURSDAY. the
BODY OF an unknown man was found in the
canal, II betnS dressed in winter clothing. No