The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-05-26
visit Cincinnati to attend the celebration of
the Golden Jubilee of Archbishop Purcell.

THE decree of April 10, suppressiDg GER
tain custom duties and imposing tax of
thirty per cent. on incomes, has been re-
voked for the present. It's provisions were
found to be too complicated to yield the
immediate returns required by the treasury.
The taxes suppressed by the decree are
again in force, and will be Immediately col
lected for the quarter from April to June,
inclusive
THE Vienna Presse announces that the
Emperor has ordered the court-martial
against Count Kalowrat, wro killed Prince
Auersperg in duel stopped by virtue of
his right of pardon.
THE Standards Vienna dispatch says the
Herzegovinians have declared, through
their representatives at Celtipje, that they
will not accept the rumored armistice, be
cause it would give the Turks an opportuni-
ty to bring up reinforcements.
MADRID dispatch to the Times says Con-
gress has passed the article of the constitu-
ton on elementary education. The article
is of distinctly retrogressive character
Under it education will be neither free nor
compulsory.
kish troubles, agreed upon by the three
Chancellors at their late conference in Ber
lin, has been communicated to the guaran-
teeing powers. While maintaining Count
Andrassy's note as basis, it comedies the
consideration of the reforms demanded by
the insurgent leaders. The French and
Italian Ambassadors have given official mott
fcation of the complete concurrence of
their respective governments in the results
of the conference.
THE German iron-clads Deutschland, Kai-
ser Kron Prinz, and Frederick Karl, and the
dispatch-boat Pommerania, under Admiral
Batsch, will go to SaloHica next week. The
gun-boat Nautilus, bound from Malta to
Port Said has been ordered to proceed to
Constantinople.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
J. G.. SANDERS, of Cheyenne, and two
others were killed recently on Sand Creek,
near Custer. They were out prospecting.
All were scalped.
In the Mum whisky trial on the 18th, the
prosecution rested its case and the defense,
after an Intellectual attempt to have Mum
| testify in his own behalf, introduced several
witnesses in rebuttal, and finally called
| Hon. J. d. Ward to contradict Rehm's testi-
mony.
JOHN O'CoNNoR, of Louisville was SEN
fenced on the 18th, to the penitentiary for
| life. He has been one of the most des-
/ perate of ruffians, and committed numerous
crimes, the last of which was the assassina-
ton of Abram Anderson, of Taylorsville.
A GALVESTON News special from Browns
vile, of the 18th, says: Capt. McNeeley,
who has been stationed for some time with
his command of Texas Rangers at Santa
Marie, about forty miles from here, yester
day broke camp and left, it is said with
orders to report at Laredo, Texas Wher
near Edenbery, he struck a band of cattle
thieves as they were in the act of crossing
the Rio Grande with cattle. He killed two
and wounded one of the thieves, and cap
tured some horses and cattle
FROM advices received at La Crosse, it il
reported that the heavy rains of the 18th
caused considerable damage IN the vicinity
of Bostwick Valley. Five highway bridge
on Bostwick creek were carried off. Thu
pletely inundated, and the crops have sus
tanned serious injury.
THE house of Daniel Mings, near ORES
den, n r., burned on the 18th, and tire,
children, aged fourteen, eight and fv
years, persisted in the flames. Mings was
widower, and left the children alone in tn,
house Their bodies were found lying clos,
together, the arms of the elder about tn,
younger ones.
A FEARFUL runaway occurred the 10Th, OF
Main street, Oshkosh. A horse attached t.
a carriage, containing Bradley Doty ant
two prominent young ladies, Ida Webste
and May Edwards, ran away, throwing tn,
occupants out, badly bruising them, ant
breaking Miss Edwards leg.
OFFICIAL information has been received
at the governors office of the assassination
of Alfred Rush, a colored member of th'
House of Representative from Darlington
county, South Carolina. Rush was riding
with his wife in buggy when he was sho
from ambush, one shot taking effec
through his head and another through hi
heart. A reward has been offered by tn,
governor.
The two negro prisoners, Paul Campbell
ard Prince Robertson, convicted of thu
murder of Mrs. Cochrane and daughter a
Eden Effingham county, Ga were hanged
on the 18th, at Springfield, Ga, in the pres
ence of 5000 people. The condemned mer
were guarded by thirty armed men. Bott
were indifferent, and vehemently asserted
their innocence. Robertson died easy, from
strangulat1on. Campbell died hard. An
other prisoner sentenced to be hanged a
the same time, was granted a new trial.
GENERAL.
GENERAL AUGUR has been intrusted by
the government with discretionary power
in complying with any request of The
State government of Louisiana for the pre-
servation of order by the United States
troops
SENATOR TwITCaELL, one of the victims o.
the shooting at Coushatta. La, is still alive
and hopes of his recovery are entertained
though he is in very critical condition.
HENRY G. Bowen was on the 18th formal
ly expelled from the Plymouth Church.
THE Louisville Races have very success