The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-04-28

THE silver bill, as reported from the Sen
ate finance committee, allows the holders OF
bullion to exchange it at market value for
| the new dollar at their face value or TOR
United States notes at par. The proposed
| limitation of the issue of silver dollars to
$50, OOO, 900 has not yet been Incorporated In
the bill, but the bill is still subject to
change by the committee.
FOREIGN.
THE second attempt to relieve Nicsic has
signally failed, and the Turks are in full
retreat. The insurgents gained very de-
cided advantage, and beat back the enemy
with considerable loss. Several insurgent
columns are pursuing, and it is believed
Mukhtar's army will be destroyed.
! AUSTRIA has initiated fresh negotiations
with the great powers as to the proper
course to be pursued if the present attempts
for pacifcation of the Turkish provinces
prove fruitless.
MONTENEGRO has declared war against
Turkey.
In lillian and Bagdad, from March % to
April 1st there were 3l1 new cases of plague
and III deaths. The plague has made its
appearance on the left bank of the Tigress.
THE maintenance of a complete agree
ment between the three northern powers Is
affirmed 1t has been decided not to take
any further steps in the Eastern question
without previous understanding amongst
| themselves and with three other guaran-
| teeing parties.
THE Haytian Consul at New York has re-
ceived cable advices from Kingston that the
revolution in Hayti is triumphant. Domi-
nique, the late President, has fed. Vice
President Rameaux and Lorqueta, the gen
eral in command of the government
| forces, have been shot Biron Cannal, who
was exiled from the country, is now in Port
au Prince and it is presumed will assume
charge of the government
THE three Northern European powers
| have intimated to the Porte that if a massa-
ere should follow the arming of the Mo-
hammedan population, military expedi-
ton, composed of Austrian and Russian
troops, into Turkish territory, will certainly
be undertaken. The Russian representative
at Vienna has informed the Servian Minis
ter that the servians need fear no foreign
Intervention. The insurgents have received
considerable money from Russia.
THERE has been further fighting between
Egypt and Abyssinia, an it is alleged that
the Egyptian army is in great difficulty.
King John demands the abandonment of
the country and the ceding of Massowah
and Hamaseen as Egyptian territory, and
Massowah port of communication.
Further fighting will probably be preferred.
THE loss of the Victoria from Shields for
San Francisco, appears to be beyond doubt.
She had besides Captain Jones, whose body
was found, IS hands and pilot, all of whom
were undoubtedly drowned.
WHILE Messrs. Britt and O'Shaughnessy
members from Limerick were on the point
of addressing large gathering of the Home
Rule party, (Monday, the 17th,) party of
Nationalists numbering few hundred,
armed with stones, bludgeons and knives,
attacked the Home Rulers, and destroyed
their musical instruments and banners. The
different trade guilds and societies of the
Home Rulers numbering about 4, 900 people,
rallied and drove the Nationalist into
public house which was completely wrecked.
Over 100 persons were wounded in the riot.
The Nationalists are Fenian organization,
and took this course to show their disap
proval of the policy of the Home Rule
leaders in the present session of Parlla-
ment.
THE election of NJ Rouher having been
annulled, Prince Jerome Napoleon an
nounces himself a candidate for the vacant
seat in Versailles.
THE ship Scraps, with Tie Prince of
Wales on board arrived at Gibraltar Oh the
18th
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
OK the goth the large brewery of Helms
Bros, st. Louis, with refrigerator, were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss $125,O00 including
$500 barrels of beer worth $4,000, and
1900 tons of ice, valued at $4,000. Insur-
ance, $25, 900.
JOHN r. DoLAN, convicted for the murder
of James II. Noe in August last was hanged
on the Dist in the Tombs.
On the Goth, the jury in the case of Fred
erick Meyer, charged with the murder of
August Dom, returned a verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree The murder
was committed in Meyers saloon on Third
avenue, Pittsburg last February.
TIMOTHY BABCoCK's brick gas-ftting and
machinery shop in East Rock Island, H.,
was burned on the 10Th. 1t was occupied
by the Fleming Brothers. The building
was total loss and valued at $4,000; loss
on patents $4,000 on fixtures and ma
chinery $4,000 insurance $1,000.
DAVID R. YOU'VE, for forty years a resident
of Louisiana, was run over and fatally in
jured on the 10Th, by g. W. Levi, chief of the
fire department, while the latter was riding to
a fire. Young is 70 years old, and has been
cared for since the accident, at Lewis ex-
pense.
THE crevasse at Delhi, Tenn, the 18th,
caused great alarm at Friars Point, and all
citizens at that point turned out en- masse to
try and repair the break in the levee, which
is reported 100 yards wide, and the water
pouring through with fearful force at last
| accounts, and overlooking plantations on
Moon Lake, and will find it's outlet through
the Coldwater and Tallahatche rivers.
THE celebrated DR.. Worms, who beat the
hotel-keeper, Newman, of Chicago, out of
/ S. 1000 on a bogus Indian-supply contract,