The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-02-17

June find that the steamship Adriatic sunk
her and that the captain of the steamer
should have reported the matter at once TO
the British consul on her arrival at New
York, and left the bows of the -Adriatic I'M
touched until they had been inspected by
the consul. Saving this the captain is ac-
quilted of blame and his certificate restored
to him The first and third officers are cen
sured for Withholding information.
a TERRIBLE explosion in the Jabin mine,
IN Belgium, killed 166 miners.
a THEATRICAL performance has been given
at Drury Lane Theatre, London, for the
benefit of the Centennial fund. The pro
ceeds were nearly 50, coo
LATEST Paris adviceS say the government
anticipates that 2S3 Republicans will be
Deputies, and that the Conservatives. in
Guiding the Monarchists and Imperiaiists,
Will number from 220 to 283.
The dispute in regard to territory between
Paraguay and the Argentine States has been
submitted to President Grant for arbitration
THE Senate of Finland has voted 600, OOC
marks for the construction of canal from
the White Sea to the Baltic
CRIME.
PIPER, the murderer of Mabel Young, in
Boston, has been convicted Of murder in
the first degree.
Mrs FLORA r. BALDWIN, the wife of a
wealthy citizen of Carthage Ohio, recently
committed suicide by taking poison. Do
mestic unhappiness is supposed to have been
the cause of the act
THE trustees of Dartmouth College have
/ accepted the proposition of the heirs of the
late treasurer Of the institution, Daniel Blas-
dell to compromise the latter's detalcation
for $4,000
LIEUT.-Gov. DAVIS, of Mississippi, is to be
impeached for accepting bride of 5000 for
pardoning Thos. H. Banontine, charged
with numbering Ann Thomas.
WHTsKY frauds have been discovered at
New Orleans also and on the 10th three
stOrekeepers at Carries distillery We're in
dicted and placed under 5000 bonds each
JOHN BOND alias Jack Barnes for ten
years rOustabOut of Louisville was fatally
stabbed in front of a saloon few days ago
by John Tienan, a stock trader. Each was
drunk, and there seems to have been no
cause for the stabbing
Mrs. UPPER, the Iowa woman forger, is
said to have been subject to insane fits in
her youth.
II an ARRAY in a saloon on Wilson street,
Chicago, on the 18th, aman named Ed. Camp
bell was shot dead by John Heach There
was a woman in the scrape.
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been arrested and given bail, charged with
being the principal in a plot to steal the rec
ords in the revenue office at Milwaukee
Jonas and his accomplices were to receive
$50, 900 for the job from the crooked whisky
men.
MISCELLANEOUS
New MEXICO is to be admitted as a state
THE Convention of Railroad General
Ticket Agents has closed its session at Louis
vile. The fare TO the Centennial has been
reduced % per cent.
Hon REvERDY JOHNSON the distinguish
ed advocate, and formerly Minister to Eng
land, was found dead in the grounds of the
executive mansion at Annapolis, Md, on the
10th, Mr. Johnson was the guest of the
governor, and had just dined in company
with other distinguished guests.
~ the BabcOck trial at St. Louis on the
10th, the treasurer of the whisky ring swore
that he at one time mailed two letters for
Collector Joyce, one to Babcock and
and the other to Avery, in which were $500
each. That he saw Joyce place the money
in the letters.
THE great fire in New York on the Sth de-
stroyed property to the value of over s., 600,
600, or about the same aggregate loss as the
fire of July, 1874, in Chicago.
JEFF DAVIS publishes a letter in reply to
BIaines speech on the amnesty bill OF
course he denies all the charges Of cruelty
to prisoners made therein.
An Adventist paper in New Hampshire
called the Herald of the Morning, says the
prophetic periods ended February II, 1875,
and the resurrection of the dead in Christ
has begun and may go on, with no physical
or natural demonstrations, until the Spring
of 1873. Then :" the Gentiles" are 10 be
granted space of forty years, during which
the kingdom of God Will be set up
NINE lawyers are employed to defend Bah
cock III his trial for completely in the
whisky frauds 1t is said the President may
be summoned to st. Louis as witness
A MAN proposes to light Chicago streets
with oil for $4,000 a year. 1t now costs for
gas $500, 900 yearly.
Two women have been indulging in a
walking match for $500 a side in Chicago
The great Roman wrestlers, Louis Carteron
and Jules Rigal, have entered into match
to wrestle in st. Louis. The match is for
$500 side
Heaps of Trouble.