The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-02-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE EAST


les to railroads
THE Bates House, Herald office and several
other buildings were destroyed by fire at
Rutland, VT, few days ago.
AT Boston, on the 18th, the remains of
Bishop Fitzpatrick, who died ten years ago,
We're transferred from the cemetery to a
crypt in the new cathedral A requiem mass
was celebrated by Archbishop Williams.
TIE Buffalo, n Y, school board has
adopted rule that hereafter no married
women shall be employed as teachers in the
city schools.
DocKERAY, the American so long in prison
in Cuba and who recently escaped, arrived
in New York few days ago.
CHARLES r. lands, recently acquitted on
the ground of insanity, of the murder of
Carruths, the Vineland editor, has been pro-
nounced sane by Judge Reed, after his ex-
animation and discharge from arrest.
THE Parker Fraternity Society of Boston,
have voted to extend a call to Rev Moncure
d. Conway, of London, Eng, to become
their pastor. 1t is thought he will accept
and take the desk formerly occupied by
Theodore Parker.
A REDUCTION of SO per cent. will be made
in New York rents this spring.
THE New York Sunday Citizen announces
that the efense of the Sixty-ninth Regiment
from charges made against it in Sherman's
memoirs will soon be published.
Mr.. HENRY FRIEDE, of New York, has re-
covered $4,000 damages from the Third
Avenue Railroad Company for an injury
received through the carelessness ola driver.
A BILL has been introduced in the New
York Legislature compelling street railway
companies, under heavy penalty, to provide
fourteen inches of comfortable seat for each
passenger
WEST.
AN Omaha dispatch ofthe 18th says: ''There
is themost competent and reliable official au =
thOrity fOrthe statement that the Sioux, Chey-
ennes and Arrapahoe Indians have been,
and areyet making the most extensive prep
aratiOns possible for an outbreak in very
few weeks They have been purchasing
large quantities of ammunition and arms
wherever they could get them, going as far
south as the Indian Territory for this pur-
pose. 1t has been known for some weeks
past that the best fighting men had deserted
the agencies and are rowing III the Big Horn,
Powder River and Tongue River country
concentrating and arranging their forces on
this war. There are at the agencies and on
the reservations only those who are too in
firm or disabled to be of use, and the families
of those warriors who have left. So far as is
known, the Indians will be likely to strike
the frontier settlements. Unless something
is promptly done they will do terrible work
before they can be Overpowered.
\ DISASTROUS wind-StOrm passed through
Washington county, Ind few days ago,
unrooting as far as heard from six barns,
demolishing seven dwellings, besides
numerous outbuildings. The wife and two
children of Thomas Nicholson, farmer,
received severe, injuries by the overturning
of his house. and Joseph Denny lost nearly
1000 fruit trees Some of the farmers suffer-
ed great loss in live stock. The money value
of property destroyed is said to be very large
A CHEYENNE dispatch of the 14th says $50
men left here, to-day, for the Black Hills.
The party who came in recently reports that
during eight days of his trip from Gustav he
counted 1S5 wagons en- route for the Hills.
and will start this week. The incoming
trains bring scores of gold-seekers daily.
r. w. JENNEY, publisher of the Flint
Democrat at Flint, Mich, died on the 18th
inst. Mr.. Jenney had for forty years been
connected with the Michigan press, and was
one of the earliest journalists in the country.
A BILL has passed the Montana legislature
substituting the Northern Pacific Railroad to
the amount of SO, 600, 900, the Utah North
ern narrow-gauge to the amount of 81, $780,,
600, and received the governors approval.
Both bills come before the people on the Sd
of April.
THE prospects of holding the Democratic
national convention at Chicago are improv-
ing. The Democrats are urging that ST.
Louis is too hot, and within two days the
feeling in favor Of Chicago has perceptibly
increased. So says a Washington dispatch.
WASHINGTON.