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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08
DOOMED OSHKOSH.
Another Terrible Conflagration in That
City.
al the Business Houses AMI Public Build
ings Burned-one-Third of the
City in Ruins.

On the 2Sth ult., Oshkosh was again
scourged with fire. The flames were
discovered about two o'clock in tle saw
mill of Morgan & Brothers, and spread
rapidly in every direction, burning over
one-third of the city. That mill and a
dozen other large shingle and saw mills
on SawduSt avenue, were destroyed to-
gether with millions of feet of lumber,
sheds and store houses.
a terrific northwest wind prevailed
and the flames and fire brands were
borne rapidly toward the business and
residence portion of the city, licking up
everything III their path The fire de.
partment labored valiantly but to no
purpose. One steamer was burned
while at work, and the others were soon
either disabled or DESTROYED. The city
then being at the mercy of the flames,
all hope of subduing the tempest of fire
was abandoned, and men, women and
children III the widest confusion and
most bewildering excitement sought
TO effect their escape. The fall
ing walls, the crash of buildings. the
roar of the flames, the shrieks of the
wind, which blew hurricane, mingled
with the cries of the excited people.
served to make scene which once seen
could never be forgotten. The entire
distance between High street and the
river, and between the lake and Saw
dust avenue, was swept over, not n
house of any consequence remaining
standing. This distance Is one and one
half miles long by half "A mile wide,
and includes the business portion of the
city, the sawmill and lumber yard dis
trict, and portion of the best resi-
dence quarters.
The number of buildings destroyed is
at least 800. All the printing offices
telegraph offices, churches, Harding's
Opera House, Milwaukee and St. Paul
depot and freight houses, and the banks,
together with all the business houses
on Main street and iutersecting streets
were burned. There IL not a dry goods
house standing on the Northside Main
street is a mass of ruins from Algona to
Cape street. Buildings were blown up
during the confiagratiOn, but all to no
purpose At the very height of the ex-
element, and when the very air seemed
full Of fame, the powder house explod-
ed with a deafening report which echoed
and re echoed far and wide. Three men
We're killed either by this disaster OF by
falling walls.
The flames We're stopped about SIX
o'clock in the evening having nothing
further to feed upon. As night set in
the city became infested with thieves
and robbers, who inaugurated reign
of terror only to end with the dawn Of
morning.
Great suffering must result from this
second affection. coming as it has Just
as the proud city was rising brightly
from the ashes Of its former destruc-
ton.
The loss by the first fire, nine months
ago, was 100000, and 800 people
were rendered homeless The loss by
the second visitation cannot yet be es-
timated. The lowest estimate, however,
places it at $3.50, 200.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08
A Tennessee Gave

The great Estanalle Cave, which ex-
tends under the eminence Southeast of
Athens known as Cleage's Ridge, is
literally filled with water which found
It's way down the gorge. No one in
our day has ever ventured far into the
dark and mysterious depths of the great
cavern, and little is known of it further
than the old tradition, now fading away,
that a party of DeSoto's men who
crossed the Hiwasse at the Savanna
Ford, where great battle was fought,
were pursued by the indians and took
refuge in it only to be walled out and
left to a ling ering death Had the vast
body of water now gathered in the
Estanalle Cave been added to the
creek when at its highest last week, we
are apprehensive that it would have
been good bye, John, with several Of
us who live IN the lower level of the
town.-Athens (Te,ua.) Post.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

A LARGE number of young shad were
placed in the Mississippi at St. Paul in
1872. One year ago the chamber of
commerce of that city offered So re
ward for the first shad taken from the
river. The reward was not claimed I'M
til few days ago, when a fisherman
caught fish near Dayton's Bluff, which
was pronounced to be genuine shad
The specimen has been sent to Prof
Baird, at Washington, for Identification,
and the fortunate angler awaits the de-
cision, meditating what disposal he
shall make of 50 much money-when he
gets 1t.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

CHAVEZ, a member of the gang of the
bandit Vasquez, recently hung in Cali
fOrnia, IS proving himself worthy sue
cessor of that desperate. Himself and
two comrades recently entered station
near San Bardino, andwith liberal dis
play of knives, pistols and rifles, went
through the station, securing all the
valuables, and then mounting, rode off
in true brigand style with the parting
salutation of "Adios, seniors! you may
be catch US
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

The libel suit instituted by Miss lice
A. Early, of Rockford, H., against Mr..
Storey, of the Chicago Times, resulted
in the plaintiff being awarded $50, coo
damages. The Times, in its special cor
respondence stated that criminal init
macy existed between Miss Early and a
prominent citizen Of Rockford There
appeared to be no ground whatever for
the assertion.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

DONALDSON, the mronaut, lost his
mammoth balloon. with which he land
ed near Acton, n. J., few days ago.
He assembled from Philadelphia, and on
descending, the monster became I'M
manageable, and he was obliged to cut
the balloon loose in order to save the
basket and contents.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

ACCORDING to statistics of the depart
ment OF agriculture, the wheat crop as
a whole is far below the status of that
OF last year at this time There is an
apparent increase of about seven per
cent. in the area of winter wheat,
amounting to 100000 acres, though
that portion of winter killed and to be
replanted III other crops may be equal
IN the west to the enlargement OF
planted area. This increase is small
III the middle States. considerable in H.
hnois and Missouri. and proportion
ately largest IN the gulf states and in
Kansas, reaching 30 per centum in the
southwest.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

Two young men of SommerviIle,
Tenn, named Oscar Burton and Thos.
n. Doyle, were room-mates. Burton
was summoned before the grand jury
for carrying arms, and Doyle was a
witness. Burton then told Doyle that
he would not shoot any unarmed man,
but at their next meeting he must be
prepared. Next morning the two met
on the street, and Doyle fred four
shots into Burton's body, killing him
instantly. Doyle was arrested and held
to bail. The deceased was a desperate
character, and had killed two men.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

The tickets to the ceremony of i'm
posing the baretta upon Archbishop
McCiosky, were printed in purple and
Among others, forty archbishops and
bishops and 300 priests received these
tickets, also the president and cabinet.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

THE ST. Louis bridge has changed
hands. The great structure, in one
sense, could not sustain itself, and sue
cumbed to a mortgage. 1t is now own
ed by Enghshmen. Still the bridge is
there to comfort St. Louis. One would
suppose that after such a tremendous
amount oE Dragging over that bridge
that the people of that city would take
little pride in owning it.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

THE troops at Forts Hays and Dodge
left those points on the Goth In pursuit
of the / 900 or more Cheyenne Indians
who escaped short time since, and are
now reported to be on the war path.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

PREPARATIONS have been concluded
for the Saratoga regatta of the College
Rowing Assoc. alton, in July. Brown,
Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Har-
ward, Princeton, Yale and Amherst have
signiied their intention of sending
Freshmen crews, while Cornell, Dart
mouth, Harvard, Williams, Yale and
Bowdoin will furnish single scullers.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08
CURRENT EVENTS

An effort is to be made by the Baptists
of the State to establish Northwestern
Academy in Wisconsin, to cost $780,
COO
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

The Detroit Free Press announces
that Susan B. Anthony is III search OF
the man who described her as occupy
ing an improper attitude toward Mr..
TiIton, and adds that she proposes to
be amother-in law to him with al that
that name implies.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

GREAT goodness and great wicked
ness, sooner or later, are sure to be re-
warded.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

a classic is properly book which
maintains itself by virtue of that happy
coalescence of matter and style, that
innate and exquisite sympathy between
the thought that gives life and the
form which consents to every mood OF
grace and dignity, which can be simple
without being vulgar, elevated without
being distant, and which is something
neither ancient nor modern, always new
and incapable of growing ola. flames
Russell, LOUeN.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08
Misunderstanding in Scotland.

The Pail Mall Gazette says: 60 Were
no vera fnu, but we're gaily get will
be the impression of natives of Scotland
considering the following figures sup
piled by a correspondent: Scotland
spent last year fully seven millions on
whiskey for her own consumption. Al
the same time it appears from the
return Of the value Of lands and herlt-
ages in Scotland presented last year to
Parliament that the annual value OF
these was Els. sos, S04, and that these
figures represented. Gross annual
value Of the lands and herltages other
than those contained in borOughs Of more
than 10000 inhabitants, .e13, 516, S48:
2. Gross annual value Of lands and merit
agesiu said boroughs f5, 181, $50 togeth
er making, as above, ELS, G9S, 804- On
contrasting these details 1t appears that
the people of Scotland now expend on
whiskey alone more than One-haif of the
annual value of the lands and
heritages which are outside Of the nine
larger borghs IN Scotland, and more
by two millions year than the whole
value of these as contained within these
borghs.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

GEN. JAMES G.. BLUNT, of Kansas, has
been convicted III tie Z. S. Court of
attempting to swindle the North Caro-
lima Indians. His plans contemplated
the payment to himself of 10 per cent of
$3.50, 600 of the funds OF these Indians.
He in fact obtained $40, 900 out of $50
600 before the money left Washington,
and 90, 900 acres of land. The Indians
have recovered their lands through the
courts, and, by recent congressional
legislation, have had restored to them
the balance Of the 500, 900 which Blunt
had nearly appropriated. A motion to
arrest judgement has been made, and
ex-senator Carpenter employed TO
argue it.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

The Syracuse Journal publishes n
story about the Tweed case, which, if
true, is important. 1t declares that the
Court of Appeals has decided to release
he convict, on the ground that the
cumulative penalty inflicted upon him
was illegal. The judge who passed
sentence had no power, under tie New
York statutes, it is claimed or quibbled,
to condemn the great thief to series
of terms If imprisonment for different
crimes of ' hich he was found guilty.
Tweed can therefore be held only for
the first term of sentence, and so must
psoon be set free, according TO this re
port.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08

II man does good, heaven will be-
stow upon him hundred blessings.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08
Ninnebago County.

An Oshkosh Adventist was blissfully
awaiting a sight of The New Jerusalem
on the 10Th, and long haired brother
of the same persuasion made love to
and eloped with his wife.--Governor
Tilden. OF New York, has been invited
to deliver the annual address before the
Northern State Fair in Oshkosh, Sept.
2S.-Navigation on Lake Winnebago
opened on the 21st of April.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08
Dunn [ ounty.

INDIAN AGENT RICHARDSON has Just
finished payment to the Menominee In
dams OF their annuity. Payment was
made to 1924 persons, after deducting
a national debt The Agent has lately
surveyed the Meuominee reservation.
and finds that extensive trespassing has
been committed upon the pine within
its borders. He proposes to push due
prosecution.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-08
DONALDsON'S ADVENTURE.

Commissioner of Aglicultl
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-07
THE ALDINE AisrUNsON.

The Union owns the "riIina suf all J. E1EDlSE
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-07

In anticipation of the arrival in
New Orleans OF General Sheridan.
the Itcdyu'se OF that city discharges
voIley OF abuse and SANDER at his
head. 1t charges tnat to him more
tnan amy other man, louisiana owes
Its presant negro government. 1t
Is upon TINS pretense that the Pic
ayu,se assaiis him in coarse and
brutal language; but its editorial
disclose another reason for mallg-
nant hate equally potent with the
dloIoyal Soutnorn, manly, General
Snerldan's magnificent service in
the Union army. The editorial
closes with the following burst of
rage: I'VE know him (oneridan) for
the man who desoiate the valley of
the Shenandoah, and brougt the fire
and sword and famine among its
people"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-07

The Treasury Department sent out
'Ne other day to the collec ors of Gus
IONS circular which makes import
ant changes in the regulations regard
ing the goods brought into ports OF
Ae United States. Heretofore goods
nave been brought into port and left
10 general order, virtually under the
control OF the collector, bat without
''"I' and frequently these goods
we're left in vessels or in yards for
weeks and months before duty was
F'1 on them. The department 5
new cucnlar- instructs collectors 70
lace officers IN charge Of such goods
+. c'r-nes, and to charge the owners
7 c'hslgnees the amount Of the ex-
uses 3. incurred for such guarding or
'.s,a' care up to the time of pay
I. Of duty or proper warehousing
Y such goods.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-07
TER MS.

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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-07

MERCHANT TAILOR
ING, AT DELLER'S EN-
POR1UM. -Kei constantly
on Land a full assortment or
all the leading styles Of
CLOTHS and Cassimeres. All
work done in the most dura-
BILE and fashionable manner,
and a good fit warranted in
every case. Our stocl- Of
Ready-Made Clothing is the
most extensive in the city, and
at least lOper cent. the lowest.
Call and examine for YOUR
selves. XXlII-l7,s
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-07

No charge for postage
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-07
TANEN IN,

JANEsvlLLE, Wis.,, Dec. 29.-Las1
night, between l. and | o'clock, two
Young women ran out OF building
on Yves: Milwaukee street, aud cried
"mnrder" at the top of their voices
The cries woke up two young men
who slept in the First National Bank.
They were on the street in a mo-
ment, when the women told them
that man in the millinery shop in
Church block was bent on poisoning
himself. Immediately they went to
the roont. in the second story of the
building, and found Young man
living on lounge. lie seemed to
be in very stupid condition, and
said nothing when they entered.
They presumed he had taken tn"
poison. but in a moment or two he
arose and called for glass of milk
It was procured and handed to him,
and in an instant he took a dose of
five grains OF sulp|ate of morphine,
and then washed it down with the
glass of milk. At this critical mo
Inent a physician was called for, whe
administered powerful antidotes, and
used every possible means to conn
teract the fatal effects Of the NOR.
phine The young man refused TO
take any medicine, sayirg that he
preferred to die; bat sufficient force
was used to compel him to take the
antdote. They laborcd with him
until t o'clock this morning. when
he was taken to hotel. where he is
in comfortable condition, and will
recover. The mans name is Beard.
lie is proprietor OF a drug and gro.
cerv store in Fort Atkinson. Wis,
where he has a wife and family. He
has kept company with one Of these
women named Mrs. Matte Wells for
some months, during which time, it
is stated, he has spent over $1,000
upon her, buying her an elegant
piano, paying her grocery bills, etc.
Mrs. Wells, the young woman who
is the handspring of this attempted
tragedy, came here from Grand
Rapids, Michigan, and in company
with another woman. has kept open
mouse. She is beautiful and tascnat-
ING. and won his affection and sc
cured a good portion of his money.
When he was there last night, and
learned, to his surprise, as he says.
her real character, it SO affected his
mind that he concluded to take his
own life, and hence took the poison
lie made will previous to taking
the morphine, and bequeathed most
OF his property to the woman who
was the cause of the rash act She
exercised complete sway over him,
compelling him to do her bidding in
every respect. The city marshal
went to the so.called millinery shop
this moring, and gave the women
notice they must leave town i'm
lnedlatclv.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-07

Cold weather in the northwest
tuesday. AT Chicago the thermom,
e'ers ranged from % to 12o below
zero, according to location /; at Breck
enndge. Mimi, 90 below: at Mad
lscn, Wis, "a below; at St. Lonis,
D. below. Even as far sonth as
memphis the thermometer marked
ony 10 above zero, and at New
orleans only 80 : above.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-07

My wife, Wary Ann po~el having lrfg my bed
and hoard without just cause progocaton TIL. Is
70 notify All a.ausa harbJritg or ereding nv :. q
vile. as vii mol pay any deuts VI her cVntr acting
after this dale.
WILLIAM W POWELL.
Linden, Wis Dec. 2is,, i,,4-52sS.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-07
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-07

DELLER sells Ladies Hats of the
latest styles for one half the price
CHARGED by Milliners.
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Yankton daily press and Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1875, 1875-07-22
Sporting News.

+ CHEsiER, July; ? % at IS p. N.
the swimming match for the cham
pionship of the world between soy]c
'and5,Johnsontwas beauny Excursion
trains and steamboats, filed with pco-
pie were arriving all forenoon Bet
ting is two 10 one in favor Of John
son, the present champion.
ClucAGo, July 2l.-Thc first race
at Dexter Park, 22;::34 cl;.ss,. $500
premiums, divided among lcrly-threc
eight started. Young America won,
Frank Reeves secbnd, h6gto Saxon
third, kitty Strntton fourth; time
2.:33t 2:3383t !, 2:3! !, 22::2e9, 2:294. Second
race was a running race, mile and re
/ peat, purse $500, 3 year olds, five
started. Ara,hus wonin | 40, ~ ].
l5:5lE. rhirilrace, 2:23 class, purse
$4,000, FIVE started. Cassct.i won
Brother Jonathan, second, Bella third
Randall fourth, Cody Star distancea
time, ;2::26iI, 2 2:225a % I, 2::254 2:5s.
BASE BALI
| BosroN, July 2l.-Bos;ons, ~; ST
Louis-Rrowns, g..
4 HARrFoRp, July 2l.-Basc ball
! Hartfords, 4; Chicagos l.