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


about $4,000, was induced to take as collat-
eral security secOnd-mortgage bonds of the
company for $95, 600, which are of no market
value whatever. The stock,book of the
Seneca Sandstone Company showed that on
one day certificates of stock for 200 shares
each were issued to o. S. Grant, Gen Dent,
Surgeon Gen. Barnes, William II. Seward,
E. B. Washhurne, Caleb Cushing, and b. B.
French. The witness did not know any,
thing as to the payment for this stock He
only knew that the certificates had all been
delivered to William s. Huntington, then
cashier of the First National Bank.
FOREIGN.
THE Liberals in Parliament have decided
to resist the purchase of the Suez Canal, and
Gladstone has induced Bradlaugh to address
country audiences in favor of the scheme.
thus manufacturing sentiment.
A TERRIBLE steamship disaster occurred off
Dover, in the channel, on the 18th. The
steamer Franconia ran into the steamer
Strath Clyde, of Glasgow. The boiler ofthe
Strath Clyde burst, and she sank immedi-
ately. Fifty-twO of her passengers were
drowned, five had been landed at Dover.
and forty-one Others are reported to have
been saved
4 FIVE hours fight took place between
the Carlists and AlfonSistS near Etario on
the 10th. The Carlist position was carried
and they retreated with heavy loss
SENIOR JOSE DE PAsADA HERRERA has been
unanimously elected president of the new
Spanish chamber of Deputies.
FERNANDEZ RICE, formerly minister to
Spain, of Portugal has arrived in London,
having been compelled 10 leave Madrid by
an order of the government.
ROBERT HENRY HURST, Liberal who was
elected member of the British House OF
Commons, in December last for Horsham,
Sussex, has been unseated in consequence OF
sending letters to voters, promising to pay
their railway expenses to the polling place.
Justice Quain, of the Court of Queens
Bench, declared that this was bribery, and
that the election was therefore void
A LONDON special from Vienna says letters
from Belgrade announce the triumph of the
war party i'll Servia.
PRINCE BISMARCK has thanked the United
states and the American Minister at Picking
for supporting the German claims for the
punishment of the Chinese pirates who
plundered and destroyed the German schoon-
or Hannah
Won ARNIM's son is hopeiessly i'll, and the
Count will be permitted to return to Berlin.
His sentence of imprisonment will be trans
muted into a money fine
DURHAM, England, University has declined
to send a crew to take part in the Centennial
regatta.
ADvICEs from Sclavonic sources represent
that Herzegovinian refugees on Austrian
soil have declined the invitation of Monktar
Pasha to return to Rome. The Insurgents
refuse to be satisfied with Count Andrassy s
reforms, and are resolved not to submit to
Turkish rule
The governor of the PHILIPPINE Islands,
with force of 5000 men, has started from
Hamilton to punish pirates.
CRIME.
MICHEL MURPHY, already twice sentenced
to be hanged in New York, for the murder
of Matilda Hujus, in the summer of 1874
was again sentenced to death on April I.
SEARCH is being made for the money and
securities stolen from the bank at North
ampton, Mass. If it is unsuccessful, it is
cody stated that negotiations will beopened
with the robbers they to return the securi-
ties, receive the $40, 900 cash and be ,uaran-
teed immunity from prosecution.
Mrs. BUSHNELL is on trial az Grand
Haven, Mich, for the alleged abduction of a
child of Mrs. TrOtter The latters husband
is also missing. The trial creates great in
terest in the best society of the place.
BEN BOYD the notorious counterfeiter
was sentenced, in Chicago on the 10TH to 10
years III the penitentiary
CLIFFORD WHITE, a prominent lawyer of
Boston, has been arrested for having $50, 600
In bonds stolen from New York some time
since He purchased them for 10 cents on a
dollar, and used them for collaterals.
RUBENsTEIN, the murderer of Miss Alex
ander in Brooklyn, has been sentenced to
be hanged fhe oath of next month. He pro-
tested his innocence when sentenced.
MASKED robbers attempted to rob a train
on the Pan Handle road, near Urbana O.
q few days ago. The engine was taking wa
ter at the time, and owing to the prompt
action of the conductor in firing on the
thieves, they were scared off
GEORGE G. SMITH, formerly president of
the National Loan and Trust Company and
Treasurer of the State Insurance Conranv,
both of Chicago, has been arrested in New
York on complaint of Homer Cook. as
signee of the State Insurance Company,
charged with having unlawfully converted
some $3.50, 900 of the assets of that corlpa-
ny without the assent of the directors.
LETTER bag, stolen from a train on the
New Orleans and Mobile road, Feb. Z has
been found in a swamp near the latter place
1t had been robbed of most of its domestic
letters, and others were badly damaged by
water. All letters upon which directions
were ineligible, have been forwarded to
their destination. The others are held for
Identification.