The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-29
Miscellaneous News Items.

Miscellaneous News Items.
A yellow fever patient in Savannah,
was married in his bed on Thursday Of last
week.
The Chicago Exposition is in full
blast, and attracts great crowds. Thirty
thousand people were present one day during
| the current week.
The United States Steamship Frank
lin left Gibralter yesterday Tor Vigo to en-
bark William NJ Tweed and his companion,
Hunt, for the United States.
There are 900 cases of yellow fever
at Brunswick. The people are in a most DIES
titute condition, without food, physicians or
| nurses. A dispatch states it is impossible to
txaggerate their irighttul condition OF atsirs.
ditlng newspapers in New Orleans
is a lively business. A few days ago one editor
! killed his assailant, and now the editor OF the
Bee has had thump on the head with big
cane. The city editor came to the rescue
with big pistol and terminated hostilities.
The school question is being vigor
ously agitated in New Jersey One hundred
and fifty Catholic children have been with
drawn from the public schools at Bayenne,
and six parochial schools established. The
same is being done in other parts of the
| State.
| A family moving from Prairie du
| Chen to Winona in a skiff encamped on an
island near In Crosse on Friday night Dur
ing the night the child died OF exhaustion
| Upon inquiry it was found they were in very
destitute circumstances, without food or
money
There is no epidemic in Charleston,
S. c. There have been four SCATTERING yellow
fever cases traced to persons who commune
Gated with the quarantine and refugees from
| Savannah. The fever shows no signs of
spreading.
The superintendent of general re-
| cruiting has been directed to forward three
| hundred recruits to the department OF the
South AS follows: 150 for the Second Infan-
try, at Atlanta; so for the Third Infantry at
| Holly Sprlngs, Miss, and 100 for the Six
teenth Infantry, at Huntsville, Ala.
The Savannah benevolent associa-
ton, formerly the metropolitan fire company
| have Re solved to ask aid from abroad for the
| sick and destitute. All contributions, wheth-
| er OF money, provisions or clothing, a ,dress
| to J, w, EStell, president OF the Metropolitan
Benevolent Association, will be acknowl-
| edged.
| Windsor Castle was struck bv me-
| teoric stone, on Thursday, September 6, be-
| tween Henry the Eighth's Gateway and the
Garter Tower, and portion of the stone par
apet was knocked off. The stone is said to
have been of the size of small cannon ball.
and to have exploded on striking the castle
with a noise like that of shell and shower
OF sparks.
| terrible accident occurred on the
Pan Handle railroad, on the 22d, about IL
miles from Columbus, Ohio A passenger
train swinging around corner, at the rate of
| forty miles an hour, was thrown from the
track and four cars went down a high en-
bankment, killing four and wounding over
thirty. The accident is supposed to have
been caused by rapid running around a cor
ner.
a four year-old boy, son of Mason
Sage, of marlborough, Vt, was lost in the
woods last week, and had a play spell with
two black bears. They came up to him as
he sat on the grass in an opan glade and
smelt of him. He patted them on their
heads, thinking that they were dogs, and
| they then walked away into the forest. Their
footprints disclosed that they were the '.dogs"
the boy told about encountering.
a Boston letter says that, the re.
striction against the Old South churche be-
ing used for religious purposes is ONLY 30
| years, as there was some doubt as to the le
gality of perpetual stipulation of this sort.
| OF course, the money has only begun to be
|
| in such manner as to be held for public pur
chase, but cit would be premature to speak
of the arrangement in advance OF such state.
ments as the committee may see fit to make.
| The new Indian Commission of which
| Bishop Whipple and DR.. Daniels of Mime
| tonka, are members seems likely to prove
an utter failure. The object of the Commits
sion was TO negotiate peace treaty, disarm
| the hostile Indian, and secure the Black Hills
country. The Commission is at Red Cloud
| Agency, but at last accounts the Indians re-
fused t" meet in Council, and the prospect
was that the Commission would have 70
abandon the field.
The gang Of horse thieves which
have so long infested portions of lie Sueur.
| Waseca and NlcOlett counties, has been mar
TALLY broken up by the convictions at LIE
Sueur of two OF their number and Sentenced
to three years in the penitentiary for stealing
wheat. One OF the gang says when Frank
Conway was under arrest tor horse stealing
year ago his lawyer demanded Zee of $500
and Conways pals stole wheat and marketed
tuntll the requisite sum was secured. The
farmers, consequently, haye the expense of
the defense OF the man who stole the horses
Schenk' S Little Emma" is about to
torn an alliance with British noblernan not
altogether unconnected with one of Baron
Grant speculations. The engagement is re-
ported OF Mrs. Hicks, a wealthy widow of
New York, who has passed several seasons in
London, to Lord Henry Gordon Lennox,
brother OF the quadruple duke of Richmond
Gordon, Lennox, and Aubigny Lord Henry,
1t VIII be remembered, was not long ago
moved to resign his Office in the Disraeli gov
erpment as chief commissioner OF works. by
reason OF his indiscreet dealings with a tram.
way company.