The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-01-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

CRITICAL condition, anOtner has leg DrOk6n
in two places, and several other boys and girls
are more or less seriously injured.
TIE Bowdoin College Boat Club has de-
cided TO remain IN the Rowing Association and
will send q crew 10 Saratoga.
vEhy severe shoek of earthquake wss felt
at midnight Saturday at Oheno III Maine.
JOHN KELLEY has been re-chosen Chairman
of the Executive Committee of TamNany
Hail. New York
THE New York Sun says it is rumored that
Fitz John Porter will be appointed Snperin-
tendent of Police of New York, with salary
raised to $4,000.
AFTER hard fight in the national Republic
al executive committee, Cincinnati has been
chosen as the place of holding the national
convention, and Tuesday the 18th of June, the
time.
COMMODORE STEPHEN DECATUR, U. s. n,
died suddenly III Boston, a few days ago, of
bilious collie. He was born in New Jersey and
appointed TO the service from New Hampshire
in 1929, sailing in the frigate Constitution, of
glorious memory.
The West
A CONVENTION OF the authorities having the
care Of tie poor iii Michigan ls soon TO DO
held at Detroit for the purp csc OF deciding
upon some method of making trouble for the
Grand Army of Trarnps. which, like the lice Of
Egypt, swarm everywhere.
The Grand Council of Royal and Select
Masters OF Michigan met al Detroit on Janu-
airy II, and heard the address of Mr.. Mans
field, NJ l. G.. NJ, giving an account of his
labors during the year, and the dispensations
he had granted.
a GRAND temperance crusade under the
auspices OF the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, is in progress in Dixon, Ill.
n. s. MURPHEY, President Of the Milwaukee
Sentinel Co., late law partner Of ex-senator
Matt. II. Carpenter and Mr.. Chittenden, editor
Of the Commercial Times, INDUCED in little
hand to hand conflict in Milwaukee, few
days since The reason assigned is the per-
sonal abuse Of theIimes Oh Mr.. Murphey.
A GRAND pigeon shooting match took place
at Fort Wayne. few days ago. Overman, Of
Fort Wayne, carried off the honors, killing 40
birds out of H.
MORE whisky indictments at Milwaukee,
eight i'll number, including eissert, ex-depu-
ty collector, who is said to have received
81, 500 per month from the crooked business,
for three years past.
Louis SHAW, who recently defeated Carter,
the billisrd champion of Ohio, has challenged
William Burleigh, of Chicago, for the cham
pionehip Of the Northwestern and Southwest
orn States FORREST, $500.
Warrington
ANNOUNCEMENT 10 made that our govern
ment has already received from several Euro
pean nations replies to it's circular note in
regard to affairs in Cuba, trans mitted to
them early in December. There replies are
all said to be Of highly satisfactory charac
ter. Secretary Fish, during an interview
with the Committee on Foreign Relations,
said that all late communications received
from Madrid have been of friendly charac-
ter. No open questions now exist that are
likely to give us any trouble in settlement,
and Spain evinces disposition to fulfill all
her Obligations to the United States.
II is reported that the Centennial appropri-
alton Is likely to pass the House The amnesty
debate does not appear to have injured the
prospect of the Centennial
GEORGE s. BANGS, of Chicago, who recently
resigned his position as superintendent of the
Railway Postal Service, has been nominated
Assistant United States Treasurer at Chicago.
Is
Feb. % and Washington as the time and place
Of the meeting Of the Democratic National
Committee.
SECRETARY CHANDLER har called attention in
the Cabinet to the cases Of number of Union
soldiers displaced by the House, and asked the
help of his associates il providing them places.
The Texas Border Committee has appoint
ed a sub committee to examine the informa-
4; II
raids from Mexico, etc.
GIN. G.. P. I. BEAUREeARD has written
letter TO Congress asking that his political
disabilities be removed, in order that he may
accept an appointment on the Levee Board of
Commissioners Of Louisiana.
new resumption bill has been introduced
in the House, by Mr.. Schleicher. of Texas
It appropriates all the gold i'll the Treasury ex-
cept an amount, equal to one-third of the goli
certificates outstanding, to pay interest, cur
rent expenses, and redemption Of greepbacbs.
Foreign
TIE London Times Berlin special says that
the government will close the Ursuline Con
vent and school on the LIST of April next.
DISPATCH from Vienna asserts that Monte
negro has purchased $1,000 more muskets;
that bargain was made through Russian
agent and the arms was paid for in Russian
money.
VIENNA telegram says only one Russian
merchant Of Odessa, not twelve, as previous
ly reported, has been transported to Siberia for
selling arms to the Turks
In Turkish official circles it is expected that
England will accept Andrassy's note.
AN Ultramontane newspaper at Brussels
says Louise Lateau is dying. She is the peas
ant girl who some time ago, attracted crowds
of pilgrims by the exhibition on her person of
the alleged miracle Of stigmsti.
GERMANY's preparations for her display at
the Philadelphia Exhibition have been COM
pleted with the exception OF the appointment
of members Of the German jury and compila-
ton Of catalogues. Herr Bactel, Inspector Of
buildings, has gone to Philadelphia as technical
Assistant Councillor of the Exhibition Com
mission, for the purpose of managing, in con-
junction with the remaining German Com
the installation and decoration of
the German section.
Miscellaneous
Hon. JAMES B. BECK Las been elected Sena-
tor from Kentucky for six years, commencing
March 1877