The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-05-03
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THE steamboat West Wind, with 800 bales of
cotton ON board, sunk near Fort Smith, Ark.
LIEUTENANT DENNIsoN, of the navy, commit
ted suicide at San Francisco on Friday.
DAVID GOODRICH, father of the murdered
man, declares that the pistol found by the
BODY of Charles Goodrich was not the prop
erty of the latter, as Goodrich's pistol had an
ivory handle, while that of the one found is
wood.
THE San Francisco. Arizona, Mormon Mis-
sion is moving rapidly. Seven hundred men
have been called for the purpose.
Hon. JOHN CHAPMAN, for several years ed
tor of the Salem (Mass.) Gazette, died i'll that
city on Saturday.
THREE boys, Michael Kelly, Frank Winnie
and David Whine. was drowned at Albany,
Sunday morning, by the capsizing of boat
i'll which they were sailing.
Moon and McCurtock confined IN Golconda,
(Ill.) Jail on charge of murder, escaped Fri
Gay night. 1t is rumored that Moon is want
ed in Iowa on charge of murder committed
four years ago. This is the second time with
in month that these men have broken jail.
GEO. BLISS, one of the oldest and best
known citizens OF Springfield, Mass, died on
Saturday night, aged eighty. From 1850 to
1872 he was President of the Michigan South
arn Railroad in 1894 prosidnn. Of .ho Obi
cago and Mississippi, and again from 1853 till
he retired from active business in 1860, Presl-
dent of the Michigan Southern. He was also
an active director of the Chicago and Rock
Island Road in its early history.
The Supreme Lodge of the World of knights
of Pythias is to meet again at Pittsburg on
the Sd Of April, 1874.
The Department of State has arranged for
the examination of applicants for consulates,
seventeen in number, under the Civil service
rules, to fill vacancies.
STRIKING miners burned several houses at
Coalburg, Ohio, Saturday night. The houses
belonged to the Mahoning Coal Company.
On Monday the pews in DR.. Hepworth s
new church in New York were sold at auction,
guaranteeing yearly income of s25 00O
FIRE in the vicinity of Bellevue Repub,
lean county, Kansas, destroyed many houses
stables, cattle, grain, etc.
DURING the terrible storm last week. in
Kansas, the house of Mr.. Crane, near Belle
vile, was destroyed by fire. The family took
shelter in the residence of M. Bennett. The
high wind carried off the roof of Bennett'e
house, tie gable end of which, together with
the floors, vent crashing into the cellar,
crushing to death Mrs. Bennett and three
children, and Mrs. Crane and three children.
One child of Mrs. Crane was also badly in
jured.
THE wheat throughout Northern Kansas
promises large yield
The Department Of State has received in
formation to the effect that six thousand ad.
ditienal square feet of space has been allotted
to the American department of the Vienna
Exposition, and that articles from the United
States, intended for exhibition, will be receiv.
ed until the 10th of June next
The Conrt OF Claims has rendered Judgment
against the United States in favor of ex-Sena.
tor Alexander Caldwell for $500, 500 on a con-
tract fer army transportation in Nebraska il
1866. The only other judgment rendered was
in favor OF Emily p. Sykes for 1882 in the
Mississippi cotton case.
FEARS are entertained that the Kiowas an6
Arapahoe tribes of Indians will enter upor
the war path during the coming spring, il
consequence of the failure of TIE Government
to observe its promise to release Santanta an6
Big Tree if the two tribes would surrender
their captives and the stolen property in thei
possession and go upon a reservation and be
have themselves.
FIRE at the Saturn Smelling Works, Sand,
Station, fourteen miles south of Salt LAX,
City, destroyed SIS, coo in charcoal and otbeI
property.
SUICIDES At Lemont, H., an unknown
Swede, recently from Chicago; at Moline. Ill.
Ferdinand Diffie two miles west of Papillon
Nebraska, an unknown German.
THE leprosy is spreading among the nativ,
population OF Honolulu and other places to al
alarming extent
A CURBsToNE broker named Chas. g. Hamp
ton has been arrested in New York, for havin.
in his possession $4,000 in Pennsylvania
Western Railroad securities said to have beel
stolen.
Ar Cohoes, n. Y, on Sunday evening, Mar
Gaffney fell down an embankment and becam
so badly mred in the mud that she strange,
TO death.
AN advance in Atlantic cable rates is nov
expected, instead of a reduction as some tim
ago announced to take place on the 1st
VESSEL has cleared from Philadelphia
which it is believed VIII be turned Into a gun
boat to aid in freeing Cuba from Sparisl
dominion.
JOHN ANDERSON, OF New York has given t.
Prof. Agassiz deed OF Perekey Island, to b
used for his natural history school,
HENRY FRoLICH was hanged at Syracuse, n
l., on Friday for the murder of Peter Schaffer
He made speech denouncing the Judge an,
District Attorney.
EIGHT freight cars laden with flour tobacco
etc, were broken open and robbed at Phlla
delphia Sunday night.
The public school war in Jersey City is be
coming bitter.
GEN. BUTLER is announced to be candidat,
for Governor of Massachusetts, and confident
OF election.
The Touring mills of Jno. Rarr, at Morris
H., caught fire on Saturday night, and were
entirely destroyed, together with the distil
lery adjoining, owned by the same party
Entire loss about $50 600.
DENNIS BURNS was found in a creek neal
Thornton, St. CalIr county, Michigan, on Sun
day. He is supposed to have been FOUL,
dealt with.
YOUNG lady named McCaffroy was thrown
from buggy and killed at Marshall, Michi
gan, Sunday evening, while returning from
church.
EXTENSIVE preparations being made fol