The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-03-30

large column of vapor rises from the sum-
NIT and reflects the fire beneath. Vast
quantities of lava are thrown upwards, and
the sight is magnificent.
WASHINGTON.
THE grand jury have agreed upon the in
dictment in the case of Hallet Kilbourn. for
refusing to answer questions regarding the
so-called real estate pool before the select
committee of the House.
GEORGE II. PENDLEToN, before the Judicial
ry Committee, swears that he never paid
General Belknap or any member of his fam
lily any money out of the Kentucky Central
r. r. Claims; the longexpected Caleb p
Marsh also arrived from New York in time
to testify that instead of being summoned
to Washington by Secretary Belknap to
make arrangements in relation to the sale
| of the Evans post-tradership, he had been
summoned by note from Mrs Belknap;
that he first saw the Secretarys wife when
he arrived; and that the first remittance was
sent to Mrs. Secretary Belknap
THE President has appointed John A.
Bentley, Of Wisconsin, to be Commissioner
of Pensions, vice Gill resigned.
THE Foreign Relations Committee re-
ported back the nominations of Richard
II. Dana, Jr., to be Minister to England,
| with the recommendation that it be not
confirmed.
The messengers sent by the Attorney Gen
eral to Montreal, have returned and re-
port that theiMarshes both agreed to return
under promise of full immunity from
punishment.
CRIME
DoCKRAY, the Cuban refugee, has been ar
rested in New York, on an indictment found
by the U. S. Grand Jury at Jacksonville,
Fla, charging him with embezzling St, 900
while collector of the port of ST. Johns in
| 1870.
| JUDGE BARRETT New York, in the suit of
Washington A. Roebling, agent of duncan
! Sherman & Co., in the Supreme Court, has
refused to vacate the order of arrest against
| the defendant He says the members of
the firm had made an examination of their
condition, which ought to have disclosed
that their liabilities exceeded their assets by
| 100000, and the consequent futility of
any negotiation to place their business on a
sound basis, and it was their duty to have
stopped at once.
In the case of John Larkin, who recently
resigned the treasurership of Midland coun-
| ty, Mich, which he had held for nineteen
years, and was then found to be defauter
investigation by the board of supervisors
has ascertained the fact that his accounts are
short $4,000. Criminal proceedings have
! been commenced against him
On Tuesday, the 18th of March, the trial OF
George E. Crozier, prominent member OF
the Baptist Church, residing in Penn Van
| Yates county, NY. commenced, on charge
of wife-poisoning. Last week he was SEN
| fenced to be hanged on Monday, May 5.
| Two young boys were arrested in st. Louis
on Sunday, the 10Th, charged with robbing
| store in New Orleans. Greenbacks to the
amount of 81, 900 were found in their posses
| sion.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
! THE Camden Co. On. y y bank closed its
doors on the odd Liabilities, $4,000; as
sets, $50, 900.
! Mr.. WRIGHT, the United States Grange
| Commissioner, has returned to England,
after an extensive tour on the continent
ANNOUNCEMENT is made that Bayard Tay-
lor is to be the Centennial poet.
A TRAIN of eighteen cars left Montreal
for the Centennial Exhibition, containing
the greater portion of the goods from the
Montreal section.
By the storm at New Orleans, six barges
were wrecked, and their cargoes destroyed,
valued at $4,000.
THE late SANTANA Bay Company, in New
York, has come to grief, and their office
furniture was yesterday sold by the sheriff
RUBENsTEIN, the murderer of Sarah Alex
ander, of New York, has been reprieved
until his case is reviewed in the Superior
Court.