The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-29


Johnston, is threatened with impeach-
ment for misfeasance and malfeasance in
office, the specifications of which are that
he abused his office by not only permit
ting, but ordering the police force to en-
gage in the political contest at the spring
election, when he was candidate for re-
election, and for drawing public money
and using the same for political pur-
poses.
The commandant of the Pensacola
navy yard has been ordered by the Secre
tary of the Navy to take whatever action
he may deem proper for the security Of
the yard and the safety of the people
under bis command. The commandant
had previously advised that the navy
yard be closed, and that the officers and
their families leave themselves. There
are twenty nine cases Of yellow fever at
Barrancas.
A negro of Battle Greek, Mich, named
James Calvin, bnt generally known as
''Nigger jim has confessed, after being
arrested, to an attempt to rape little
white girl, not eight years old. Jim is a
suffering, ignorant, fellow, but a sort of
musical prodigy, and has been petted
4
Der he was always allowed and made it a
habit to be constantly playing with
young girls.
In May last a negro hackman named
Lew Thompson, brutally beat and out
ragged Young lady residing ct Iuka
Miss, while waiting for an escort at the
depot in Memphis. Thompson was ar
rested the 10Th, and Immediately
arraigned for trial. which ended
in his being sentenced to the
penitcntiary for life. This verdict caused
great excitement, eliminating on the
night of the Dist in party of disguised
men going to the Jail and taking Thomp-
son ont and hanging him.
BaptiStc Kaye, a Frcnchman, is under
arrest at Green Bay, WIS, for breaking
the leg of William Lenz, Il German, the
deed being committed with hammer as
Lenz lay asleep, and in revenge arising
fcom a bitter quarrel between the two
men about the Franco-Prussian war.
Singularly enough In their wordy quar-
rel, the Frenchman talking French and
the German talking German, neither one
could understand what the other was say
ing.
PERSONAL
The President has selected Senator
Morrill, Of Maine, Senator Howe of Wis
consin, and Hon Wayne McVeigh of
| PENNSYLVANIA as additional commissioners
| to investigate alleged Indian frauds.
1t is explained from Washington that
the Presidents only desire in requesting
Attorney General Pierrepont to suspend
his request for the resignation Of District
| Attorney Fisher, was that the latter
might have an opportunity to fully reply
to the complaints against him in the adj
ministration of his office, and that there
will be no further intervention by the
| President. Mr.. Fishers son resigned
his position as assistant in the office the
2lSt.
The commission to inquire into Indian
| Agent SavIlle's conduct, having cOmplet ed
| their preliminary work in New York
| have gone to Omaha and will from there
90 to Cheyenne, Fort Laramie, the Red
| Cloud Agency, the Spotted Tail Agency.
| and if necessary to other Indian Agen-
! cies. The powers of the commission have
been extended, and they will take into
consideration the entire question of
frauds in the Indian Department.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
The schooner G. G. Triumph, owned in
| Milwaukee, and which originally sailed
from that port, has arrived at Oporto,
Portugal, from Quebec, and there been
| chartered for trip to Brazil.
The contest fer the principal chief of
Il II. "a.
quent bloody encounters between the OPP
posing factions. On the 38th an ARRAY
occurred twelve miles from Fort Smith,
in which three men, Sylvester King, VIM.
Sanders and James Cady were killed.
A South Boston foundry is finishing
the largest breech-loading rified cannon
ever made. 1t weighs, finished, SO, $50
pounds, and required for casting 10000
pounds of metal. It's proof charge will
consists of an elongated conical pointed
shot Weighing 600 pounds, with from sc
to 20 pounds of powder.
The list of German exhibitors at the
Philadelphia Centennial has been off.
cially closed The number of those who
intend to exhibit in the art department
is 800. The large manufactures on the
| I1illHt anu III w tSb Jlldlld anu OdAOnN
will be specially represented. An Impe.
rial Commissioner has been appointed tc
obtain more room for the German de
partmcnt in the exhibition building.
Robert Whiteside, a convict in the Hi
nois Penitentiary at Joliet, became insane
some time since, and was transferred tC
the insane asylum at Elgin. He was &C
companicd there by DR.. T. d. Baird, tn,
hospital steward. Since his transfer he
has succeeded in escaping on one or two
occasions, always endeavoring to reach
Joliet, with a view of killing DR.. Baird
He was seen in that city on the Goth, bu
up to midnight had not been discovered
/, by the officers searching for him.
On Sunday the 18th, at Moline, H., {
wire-walker attempted to carry a MAJ
named McEdary across the wire OF hi.
back, the height above the ground being
80 feet. When half way across, two mel
named Stauback and Newcome caught
the ropes which were used to steady the
) wire and tried to shake the man off IL,
!, was obliged to drop his pole and catch thu