The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-02-03

says: g have not employed troops on slight occa'
sions, in any case where 1t has not been neces-
sary to the enforcement of the laws OF the United
States. In this have been guided by the consfifu
ton and the laws which have been enacted, and
precedents which have been formed under It,"
THE resignation OF w. J. Murtagh, as msmoer OF
the police board at Washington D. O., has been &C
cepted by the president, and Ira g. Kimoail ap-
pointed in his place.
THE House Judiciary Committee have agreed to
report bill that any woman who shall nave peen
member of the bar of the highest court of any state
or territory of the supreme court of the District OF
Columbia tor the space of three years, ana snaH
have maintained good standing before sucn court,
and who shall be person of good moral character,
shall, the motion and production OF sucn record
be admitted to practice before the supreme court.
The Senate railroad committee have had under
consideration Senator Gordon's bill for the settle
ment of the treasury accounts with Pacific railroads,
and have so amended it as to require the companies
to start a sinking fund at once, with $l.Oo0,OO0
paid, and not less than s7Oo $50 annually until the
whole amount is paid, with interest at per cent.
FOREIGN.
The Pera correspondent OF the London Times,
writing under date of January 49, states that Mid
hat Pasha intimated to Ignatief that upon the
breaking up of the conference he would enter into
direct negotiations with Russia.
PRESIDENT DIAz has banished Cortina from the
republic of Mexico.
DE1AHANTY, home ruler, is elected to parlia-
ment from Waterford, ireland, over the liberal
candidate.
The Chinese are suspicious of Russ las movement
along the Chinese frontier, and commerce ial rela-
tons between the two countries are off.
IN
several provinces with no political significance.
THE porte will publish manifesto to Europe,
eri.i,,n account of the proceedings Of tho DON
ference.
THERE is great famine in the peninsula of Corea,
in Northeastern Asa and aid has been asked of the
Japanese government.
THE marquis of Salisbury has left Constantinople
for England.
CABLE special says: "The German government
possesses ample proofs of the existence of large
monastic conspiracy in France to endeavor to gain
the power IN that country for purposes hostile to
Germany"
The Moscow Gazette, discussing the result
the conference concludes: Europe has
lowered her prestige by her compliant hui
NOR. as the porte has refused the proposals,
Europe must now enforce her original demands,
instead of the modified scheme of the conference"
TRAVEL on the railway between Shanghai and
INSTRUCTED and workmen assaulted. Chinese dis
like to all material improvements causes the dis.
turbances.
TIE London Times on the failure of the confer
ence, says: Tt is not to be assumed that the decs-
ion for peace or war will necessarily be made at
once. Perhaps the dissolution of the conference
marks the beginning Of new phase In which west
ern powers will be for time inactive, and the
three imperial courts will once concern themselves
with the business" The Daily Netos says: i" With
the break Of the conference ends the old-fashoned
policy which accepted Turkey as the heredtar y re-
fponsibiity of England Henceforward Turkey
must patch up its credit the best way it can, and
fight its own battles.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
GOVERNMENT detective has captured at St. Louis
over 100 finely executed plates for the manufacture
of spurious ba nix notes.
Two children lost their lives in burning build
ing, at Hamilton, Ont, January "a.
THE dissecting rooms of the medical colleges of
Cleveland, o., being stocked up by body
FIFTEEN miners lest their lives in burning col.
iery near Bolton, England, January %.
Two murders at Memphis, Tenn, on the 23d
inst. Detective Pride was shot by a burglar, and
one colored man shot another account of quar-
rel over woman.
A MAN named Ames. living near tke Platte river,
murdered his wife, after she had saved his life from
a mob. His sister-in-law poisoned his child, and
the pair attempted to escape but were captured and
killed, and their bodies burned. Ames infidelity
with the sster-in-law was the cause of the fou
murders.
CHARLES COLLINS, chief engineer of the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern railroad suicided
on the goth. 1t is supposed that anxiety on ac-
count of the late accident at Ashtabula made him
deranged.
Mrs. CoNNoRs, huckster woman, was assassin
ated at Memphis, Tenn, on the 10Th, at about p.
NJ, while trundling wheebarrow of vegetables
from Poplar street market to her residence near by
on Washington street. The assassin crept up be-
nlnd her and cut her throat, severing the jugular
vein, causing death in twenty minutes. The mur.
derer escaped.