The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-05-12


States .................... Oh, III olo
Interest repaid by transpOrta-
ton Of malls. ............... 6,737, Az
Balance of interest paid by the
United States NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1000 oot
THE EAST.
THE heaviest mill failure that Western
( Massachusetts has yet seen, is that of HaI-
vey, Arnold & Co., of the North Adams
Print Works, shutting up their mill, that of
/ Gallup, Houghton Il Smith, and f. II. Ar
mold & Co, at North Adams, the Williams
town Manufacturing Company, at Williams
town, the North Pownal Manufacturing
/ Company, at North Pownal, Vt, and the
Arnoldsville mill at South Adams, total of
six mills with aggregate liabilities of prOba-
| bly, 81, 100000, and assets mostly unstable
property, costing probably 81, 500, 900. The
mills ran in all over 1000 looms on print
goods, and 800 people are thrown out Of
employment.
OUR United States Minister to Austria
Orth, and family, are going to Egypt.
A SPECIAL says: "Of the $500, 900 shipped
on board the wrecked steamship Schiller,
I $500, 600 has been recovered.
BISHOP AMEs presided at the Methodist
Episcopal Conference this morning (the 4th
inst.) The committee on reception of fra
ternal delegates was announced, and COM
mittees on temperance, pastoral address, and
! American Bible Society," were ordered APP
pointed.
4 IT is currently reported among the differ
ent railroad offices of New York city, that
on and after the 10th inst, there would be
a reduction Of the passenger rates from the
interior of this State and also the West of
/ from fifteen to twenty-five per cent. from
the presenttariff.
a SUBCOMMITTEE of the House Committee
on Naval Affairs, sitting in New York have
taken testimony in connection with the
Brooklyn Navy Yard affairs. Startling dis
closures were made by some witnesses. The
report will contain some astounding facts,
and it is rumored that several parties are i'm
plicated.
JOE Goss, champion pugilist of England,
has challenged Tom Allen, of New York
to fight for the championship Of the world
and $1,000 or more 2 side.
THE Utica On. " Herald having publish
ed the names Of certain delegates to the Ma
tional Democratic Convention as in favor of
the nomination of HOratio Seymour, and
against Tilden, the former writes to say that
he could not accept a nomination, even in
the improbable event that one should be
rendered, and that he knows many of the
delegates mentioned are Tilden's earnest
supporters, while some of them would not
be in his (Seymour's) favor, even if he was
a candidate.
A LARGE number OF prominent citizens of
New York have organized an Independent
Republican party, having for its platform
planks specie resumption, non-partisan
civil service, retrenchment and economy.
Hon. James z. Mott was elected President.
RANDOLPH WoOD, of the firm of Wood
Dialogue & Co., well-known shipbuilders Of
Philadelphia, committed suicide on Satur-
dav evening the Goth, by shooting himself
through the heart, at his residence on Wal
nut street. Great pressure of business care
is supposed to have caused the act.
THE tribunal appointed by the Committee
of the Bar Assocasion to investigate the
charges made against Charles O'Conor in
connection with the Forrest will case, met
in New York on the oath ult Ex-Gov Dix
presided. A letter from Mrs. Sinclair de-
MED that she bad ever made or wished to
make charges against the professional in
Y of OConOr. Mr.. O'Conor him.
self in reply to the charge that
he had extracted orhorbitant fees said
that for nineteen years service in
Mrs Sinclair's case he received $4,000
After the introduction of a few witnesse S
for O'Copor, he handed to the Charm an
papers connected with the case and left the
matter in their haads to abide by their de-
clSlOn.
THE WEST.
SUPERVISOR MUM has seized the malt dis
tillery OF J. Walsh, 105 West Lake street,
Chicago, it being ascertaned that he had
shipped 80 barrels Of whisky not properly
stamped to Milwaukee Walsh saws he can
explain the matter.
FREIGHT rates east from Chicago are grad
ually weakening in the absence of fixed
prices, and it was stated to-day that large
number Of engagements have been made at
10 cents per 1000 pounds to New York.
The Democratic convention of the Fifth
Congressional District was held at Defiance,
Ohio on the 4th, zen A. d. Rice, of Pat
nam county, was renominated for represen-
tatlve by reclamation. Resolutions favor
.uncondlt' onal repeal ofthe resumption act,
gradual withdrawal of national bank paper,
and IN favor of ex-Gov William Allen for
President
A DIVIDEND meeting of the creditors of
the Great Western Insurance Company will
be held at Chicago on the oath inst.
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