The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-02-24

Fonrx Yarmouth and Lowestoft fishing vessels,
With 200 persons on board, are missing. Vessels
are searching for them.
AsPEcrAL to the Standard from ALEXANDRIA an
nounces Egyptian troops are again defeated near
Massowah.
EARL RUSSELL has given notice TO the British
house Of lords that he win move that England shall
cease all diplomatic intercourse with TURKEY, On
he ground that that nation Is still barbarous ana
unworthy of rank among tho enlightened people OF
Europe.
p1sPArcz from Calcutta, reports that gun
powder explosion occurred at Adhemaoad, by
which Atty persons were killed and one hundred
wounded.
The king of Spain has signed the decree dissolv-
ing the Senate and ordering tree elections,
RUSSIA earnestly desires peace between Turkey
and Servia.
Four thousand men have left Belgrade for Glad
ova. The Serviaps are concentrating all their
forces IN that quarter.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
TIE total net loss by the operations of Louis R.
Laun, at New Orleans, who obtained advances on
forged cotton orders, viii amount to $4,000.
THE store of William sterres Co., lace I'M
porters New York city, robbed of 900 worth
Of goods on the night Of the 14th.
THos. MCCAIN, Company D, Fifth Cavalry, shot
and fatally wounded George Hunt, Company K,
same egiment, at Sidney, Neb, on the 18TH
URBANA. o., suffered loss of $4,000 by Are OF
the 18th inst.
SCHoPPER's brewery, at Columbia, Ind, wa
burned on the 18th inst. Loss, $4,000.
A MAN named Weldon attempted to assassinate
Gov. Kellogg at New Orleans on the 18th. Kellogg
received a slight wound In the knee. Parties who
were present at the time drew their revolvers and
fired at the would-be assassin, wounding him
seriously.
EXTRACTION of VIM. J. Sharkey, the murderer,
who escaped from the New York city prison in
1873, while under the sentence of death, is to be
again demanded from Spain, under the treaty just
made with that country. Sharkey has been under
surveillance ever since he left Havana. When last
heard from, he was acting interpreter for Amer.
leans in Madrid.
GEO. SEWERT shot and killed his brother Charles,
in a fight at Pittsburg On the 10th inst
THE president and cashier of the Farmers and
Mechanics national bank of Hartford, Conn.,, are
charged with embeZzlement and classifying accounts
and have been placed under arrest.
CAROLINE LAMBERT, aged 101, burned to death al
Omaha on the 18th,
A FIRE at Dardadelle, Ark, on the 18th, destroyed
property valued at s75,90O: Among other buildings
destroyed was that of the Independent Arkansian,
newspaper published at that place.
A DISPATCH from Carterville, Georgia, says Lieut.
Mcintyre, of the second infantry, was killed in
Frog Mountains by Illicit distiIlers, an ambushed
attack upon the government force having been
made by distllers, thirty in number, under cover
of the night.
R. 7. TAYLOR the defaulting Franklin, Ind,
bank cashier, has been found in state of insanity
without any of his ill-gotten gains.
PETER TERHUNE, scale inspector for the Penn
sylvania railroad company, was run and killed
by the cars, at Cleveland, o., on the 9Th.
WILLIAM COOKS, farmer in the township OF
Beverly, Ont, shot his daughter, "A years of age
in fit of passion; then blew his own brainr out.
Ex-DETECTTvE JAMES WHITE, trial in the
United States district court at Cincinnati, charged
with procuring illegal votes to be cast at the Octo-
Der election was found guilty and remanded
for sentence.