The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-02-03

Porte has sent a confidential agent to Cehinge
to offer compromise.
THE Montenegrine official Journal announces
that the Porte is determined to declare war
and annihilate Montenegro. The Journal de-
clsres that Montenegro has preserved her neu-
trality. but ID unable to prevent individual sub
jects from aiding their brethren.
IT is stated that the European governments
have reserved their replies to the American
note on the Spanish-Cuban question until they
have exchanged views.
THE total number of delegates elected to
the Cortes is 406. OF these, thirty are sup
porters of Sagosta, ten clericals, one cantonal-
list and 364 ministerialist Senior CASTELAR, is
the only moderate Republican elected
LETTERS from Lima, Peru, announcing the
complete destruction of the town of Abancay.
by an earthquake, on the 4th of December,
state that between four P. M. of the 4th and
nine A. NJ. of the 5th, no less than thirty
earthquakes occurred.
The London Times Berlin special says that
the government will close the Ursuline Con
vent and school on the LIST of April next
Misc ellaneous
The Direct Cable Company has resumed
business in Nova Scotia
The stockholders of the International Ocean
Telegraph Company have considered plans for
an equitable basis for the consolidation of
preferred and common stocks, and referred to
the Directors with power, plan which recon-
mends the retirement of preferred stock and
the assurance in lieu thereof of three shares
of common for two shares of preferred stock.
no stock to be SO reissued until 80 per cent. of
the stockholders have given their consent in
writing
G. W. SIMPSON, the well known North Caro-
lima financier, shot and fatally wounded Adol.
plus Moon, at Raleigh, recently.
KENTUCKY, through her Legislature, has
thus far been unable to provide for represen-
tatlon at the Centennial. The bills for that
purpose have been rejecred by both Houses
IHE remains OF Gen. Gordon Granger passed
through Kansas City, January Is, on their way
to Lexington, Ky, for interment
| Work is to be commenced at once on the 40
mile gap between Memphis and Pine Bluff, on
the Little Rock Pine Bluff and New Orleans
Railroad.
The suspected murderer of ex-senator
| Offult, of Louisiana, has taken refuge in q
swamp which is surrounded by 200. armed men
The remains of B. P. Avery, late Minister to
China, arrived on the steamer City of Toxic
On January "a. A salute was fired from the
Notifications as the steamer passed in. A
committee took charge of the body and re-
moved it to an uudertakers.
| Crimes and Casualties
BURROUGHS, the Brooklyn wife murderer
/ hoo
asylum.
| HEsING and Rehm, the Chicago politicians,
have been required to give $50, 600 bail each to
answer charges Of whisky frauds
LOUIS CASTRO, New Orleans peddler, was
found dead in an old houee in Memphis, re-
Gently, with 8 considerable amount of money
In the clothing.
Mrs. LIZZIE REID of North Minneapolis,
attempted to commit suicide on January 25.
by taking morphine, owing to her unhappy
relations with her husband.
LUCIUs ". POND. of New York the man
whose wholesale forgeries have created SO
much surprise and excite ment withdrew his
plea OF not guilty, and was sentenced to ff-
teen years In the state prison There are still
thlrty-two indictments against him.
h. b. WINsLow, well-known Journalist and
politician of Boston, has mysterlously left the
city, with his family, charged with uttering
forged paper to the amount of 800. 900.
MAN named Michael Higgins, Of Cincin-
natl, few days since became enraged at some
children who accidentally crossed in front of
him while walking on the street, seized one Of
the lads, by the name of Steenfeld, deliberately
threw him into the catch basin of street
sewer. William Ruhr, who was passing,
jumped in and rescued the boy, although in so
doing he was almost drowned. The excite
ment among the people in. the neghborhood
Was intense, and Higgins would undoubtedly
have been mobbed but for his speedy arrest
and Imprisonment in the station house