The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-08-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

The miners III the Black Hills have
been given until August 18th to vacate.
Foster Bro, carpet dealers of Brook
Ign, have failed. Liabilities S265, ZOO; as
sets 100000
favor of convention by from 10000 to
10000 majority.
In recent fight between whites and
Indians near Fort Peck the latter were
driven off with one killed.
The Galveston artillery company, the
oldest military organization in Texas, has
decided to attend the centennial next
July.
Nanny & Marshall. dealers in build.
ers and plumbers materials, Al Warren
street, New York, have suspended, with
liabilities said to exceed $4,000
Mrs. Taylor. crazy woman in Au-
guSta county, Virginia, cured a violent
headache by driving nail in her head.
The nail penetrated the skull but did not
kill her.
The election in Kentucky, Monday, was
as usual jug-handle affair, the Demo-
Gratis carrying the State by about the
usual majority. The fate of the proposed
constitutional convention is still in doubt
Thomas Boggs & Co, hardware deal
ers, and Paysant & King, wholesale gro
GERS, both of Halifax, N. S., are in fnan-
cial difficulty. with large liabilities in both
cases. More failures are talked of in that
city.
The commission to treat with the Sioux
indians will probably have to postpone
the treaty council until September lst.
SO far, the Northern Indians, from whom
opposition was expected, are here dis.
posed to sell both the Black Hills and the
Big Horn country.
The pork packers association Of Chi
cago are arranging to be represented at
the centennial exhibition. At the pre-
llminary meeting of the association for
this purpose, the number of hogs killed
IN Chicago this year was stated 10 be two
and half millions, and that of cattle
eight thousand. 1t was decided to spare
no pains or expense to make creditable
display of this branch of western enter
prise a. the centennial.
The Democratic Conservative State
convention of Mississippi, held at jack
sen the 3lst, was the largest assemblage
since 1861. The platform adopted recog-
nlzeS to the fullest extent the civil and
political equality of all men, and asks
the aid and assistance of voters of all
parties, of both races, in the establishment
of good government. Color lines are
wholly ignored. Hon. w. l.. Hanning-
way was nominated for State treasurer.
Late advices say no arrangements
have been made with the Union bank for
the redemption Of Duncan. Sherman &
Co. S letters of credit in the hands of
travellers. The negotiations pending since
the failure of the firm have
not been completed and there is
less probability of successful
result. Letters from Paris say over one
thousar d holders Of the firms letters of
credit have been heard from in Germany
alone. Many are utterly destitute and
have been compelled to apply for relief
to the local authorities or TO the Amor
can oonsuls. A woman teacher of
Massachusetts, had but thirty
francs when she heard of the failure
The American and English people where
she was staying subscribed sufficient funds
TO pay her expenses to Hamburg, from
which place she took steerage passage
home. Appeals for aid from persons
holding these letters come from all direc-
tons. A document stating these facts
and denouncing the house is preparing
for publication.