The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-06-02

wears prosecution of the whisky ring, the
raid having begun the first week in May.
The last returns of money for property
seized and in process of condemnation ana
sale are necessarily slow. The final collec-
ton of at least million more that is now
being proceeded against is assured:
Value of property seized. 5OO, 900
Value of assessments 4OO, OoO
Suits in official bondS.................. ZoO,VOO
Total ........ .......................$31o O, 600
From the above sources, the cash turned
into the treasury to May 1, 1876, amounts
to 5000, 900.
THE total expense to the Treasury De
partment in detecting frauds and preparing
cases for the court has not exceeded $25, 600.
/ THE President has nominated James 5.
Rutan, of Pennsylvania, to be Consul at
Florence Italy, vice Writ Sykes, withdrawn;
Geo. W. Patton, u s. Marshal for West Vir-
/ GINA Robert P. Richardson, postmaster at
St. Joseph.
THE Committee on Foreign Affairs have
concluded their investig alton of General r.
! c. Schencks connection with the Emma
Mine speculation.
On the 22nd the President sent to the
Senate the following nominations: Ed
wards Pierrepont, of New York, Minister to
England, Alphonso Taft, of Ohio, now
/ Secretary of War, Attorney General, and J.
Donald Cameron, of Pennsylvania Secre-
tary of War. AS soon as the Senate went
into executive session the nomination of
Mr.. Pierrepont was referred to the Commit
ee on Foreign Relations, that of Secretary
- +la It'd hot IF
Cameron to the Committe on Military At
fairs Senators Cameron, Edmunds, and
Logan, the respective chairman of those
committees, soon thereafter made favorable
reports on the nominations, which the Sen
ate confirmed without debate, the reception
of the nomination from the President, their
reference, the reports thereon and final
action occupying less than an hour. Judge
Pierrepont will take immediate steps to de-
part for England, and Judge Taft will take
charge of the Department of Justice without
delay. Judge Pierrepont will probably ar
rive in England before the termination OF
the correspondence with the British Gov
+ eminent on the Winslow extradition case.
FOREIGN.
THE steamer Pandora which last year
made voyage to the Arctic regions, for the
purpose of discovering memorials of Sir
John Franklin has been refittcd for another
voyage to Smiths Sound, to bring to Eng
land any dispatches deposited there by Cap
tain Hare's Arctic expedition. She has al
ready sailed from Portsmouth.
THE Projects and Police have seized Roch-
Efforts newspaper Droas De L Homme
IT is reported that 1000 Bulgarians rose
in Instruction on the 23rd inst
A MEETING of cardinals has been held in
Rome, at which the Pope was present The
position of the Church toward Spain was
considered. 1t was resolved that relations
with Spain should not be formally sus-
pended on account of the adoption of the
liberation clause in the new constitution,
but that the nuncio at Madrid should be
granted indefinite leave of absence
AT the request of the Attorney General
Winslow has been further remanded for
eight days. There is probability that the
government will take measures in the IN can
time to bring the case before the Court of
the Queens Bench.
THE four Greek sailors of the ship Len
ME, who murdered the captain, mate and
second officer, and who were convicted on
the 9Th inst, have been executed at New
gate.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The Union Hotel and adjoining stores at
Tomaque, Pa, were burned on the Goth.
Loss, $50, 900.
THE execution of Thomas A. Piper, for
merly sexton of the Warren Avenue Bap-
fist church, in Boston, took place at Charles
street Jail on the morning of May 26th
Piper was convicted last February, on a
second trial, for the murder of Mabel
Young, aged years, in the lower church,
on the 23rd of May, 1875 A crowd outside
OF the jail hailed with applause the an
nOuncement of the execution.
TIL fastest mail train jumped the track
at Albany, n. Y, on the Goth, and the en-
gineer and fireman were killed.
The HOllingworth paper mill, at North
Gretland, Mass, was burned May 26th.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $50, coo.
The Brittian Block, corner Of California
and Davis streets, San Francisco, was par
TALLY destroyed by fire on the 25th. The
| occupants were HOIbrook e Co. shin
I budIIdleIS, =. o. ATlHur ~ Sons, wagons, and
offices in the upper stories Loss about
S300,000; insured mostly in Eastern COM
panies.
a PAINTING of the Duchess of Devon
shire, by Gainsborough, lately purchased
for So $40, was recently cut from its frame
and stolen.
AT meeting of the delegates from "A
wordngmens societies, in Paris, it was de-
cided not to accept the government appro-
priation for the expenses of visit to Phil
adelphia, to the Centennial, subject to the
condition that the government shall select
the delegates.
q WEEK ago country merchant of Abbey
Vile county, S. c., named Harmon, and his
wife, were found murdered in their bed.
The murderers, four in number, were ar
rested, and on the oath they were taken
from the Sheriff and shot. Three hundred
persons were present at the execution, and
one hundred shots were fired.
a FIRE occurred on the oath, at the Key