The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-02-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Special deposits held
for redemption OF
certificates of deposit 53,I4o,o0O
Total in Treasury 2o,71s,s47
nah. less cash in Treasury ,oOo, ,572
Decrease Of debt since oo,- ro,o.. 069 1862
Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Com
panies, interest payable in lawful
money:
Principal outstanding 64623. 5l2
Interest accrued and not yet paid 323, III
Interest paid by the United States.... 94018, 923
mails, etc. Observation-Disclosures. 7,OO4, 55S
Balance of interest paid by q, S.. 27,Ol4,37O
THE EAST.
TIE will of the late Arnnah Huntington, of Bon
ord, P. O., native of Vermont, leaves a 1902 900
und for the benefit of the common schools of that
state.
THE National Tube works, of Boston, claim to
have paid $4,000 duties imported iron, and re.
ceived 10000 drawbacks since they commenced
business.
THE coroners iary in the case of the Broo klyn
theatre calamity, have rendered a verdict. They
say that of the 21S victims of the fire two we're
burned to death, and the remainder suffocated.
There are numerous suggestions for the prevention
of fires in the future.
SILVER coin is quoted at par In New York.
IT Is discovered that the National tube works To-
Gated at B0sto n have swindled the government out
of $500, 900.
NEW YORK warehouses, jan 20, contained $685.
$40 bus of wheat, 2544, 1853 bus. of corn, 956,57S
bus of oats, bus. of rye, 7Gs,7S5 bus of bar
ley, 4029 1856 bus of malt, and IL ,673 bus of peas.
THE town of Ellenvile, in Ulster county, New
York, has met with sore afiiotion. The proprietor
of the glass works there has failed with liabilities
of 000 and the 9th his glass works burned.
Four tanneries ia the town have also been closed
owing to the deprivation of railroad facilities thus
throwing large number of people out of employ
ment.
DR. MAY father of one OF the late duelists, was
questioned by the grand jury in the New York, as
was also James Kearney Warren, banker. At the
close of the e1ami nation, the grand jury was no
wiser as to the duel than before. This is probably
the last attempt IN the matter.
THE liabilities of Jacob Hermance, of Elenvle,
n. Y, who has made assignment, put at
$780, large quantity of goods in his store has
been replevined by New York merchants Her.
nance was reputed one of the wealthiest men in
Ulster county.
CHARLES E. APPLEBY, of Glen Cove, L. l., has
been appointed receiver OF the Metropolitan Fire
assessed enough to pay all the liabilities full,
leaving sufficient to repay the stockholders at least
eighty cents on the dollar, and perhaps in full
BALDWIN l. KHdBALL, of the New York stock ex-
change, suspended.
In New York movement is on foot having for
it's object effort to bring about through the in
tercesson of committee of disinterested arbiters
between the states and their creditors, readjust.
ment of the debts of several southern states
In default.
AGAIN the Irish rife association has challenged
she American marksmen to a match for tie cham
pionship, to take place in Ireland the coming
season.
PROMINENT bankers merchants and shippers OF
New York held conference lately on the subject
of municipal virtue. Resolutions were adopted
urging reform in the administration of the city gov
eminent.
THE WEST.
Hoes dying in Indiana of lung fever.
SEVENTEEN thousand tons of ice have been put up
in Leayenworth, Kan.
THOUSANDS of Texan and Kansa as cattle have died
during the past few days along the line of the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, from the effects
of the late cold weather and scarcity of water.
REPORTS gathered from reliable sources from the
wheat-growing counties in Northwestern Iowa,
Southwestern Minnesota, Southern Dakota and
Northern Nebraska, show that instead, as has here
tofore been the case of Their beng large stock in
farmers hands, there is not sufficient marketed
for seeding and what viii be required for home con-
sumption till the next cropis raised.
TIE feeling in favor of Inglesias in Lower Cali
forna is almost unanimous.
G. j. MCDONALD, of whisky fraud fame received
an uncon ditional pardon, Jan. 80, and was imme-
dately released from the penitentiary of jefferson
City, Mo.
The Touring mills of Minneapolis, Mimi, have
all practically shut down with fifty to sixty thous-
and bushels of wheat in store and one million bus
of wheat on hand. There is no demand fer -four
and it has been found expedent to let up on grind
ing.
MAJ. MARsToN, Indian agent of the civilized
tribes IN the Indian territory states that leading
men OF the civilized tribes favor the project of
sending the north ern Sioux to the territory The
motive for this view of the subject is believed to be
one OF policy, as they think that if all the Indians
east of the Rocky mountains were concentrated
here, it would be a strong argument against Sec
tonalizing the territory, making state OF il and
extnguishing the Indians right to self government
WONDERFUL archaeological discoveries have been
brought to the surface near Davenport, Ia
VIM. KAyNEn was hanged lately at ALBANY. Ore
gon, for the murder of S. w HAYES
IHE exhibit of the earnings of the st Iopis
Kansas Olty and Northern railroad, show the NET
earnings to be 81, 209 .es-an increase of s675
o5S.8S over last year
HE schooner John Bright, from Tahiti brings
news of the total loss of the British bark Berdab
When bound out of Tahiti she struck a reef. Her
owner, is j. c. Ross, of Quebec.
PROPOSITIONS TO go out of business and wind nm
u.
be submitted to the stockholders OF that institu
tion. The Mercantile is of the heaviest bank.
ing corporations in st. Louis
RAILROAD meeting was held on the 24th at Du
ouque, Iowa, for the purpose OF turthering the in
terests OF the Sioux City, northern branch of the
Pacific railroad, and its extension to the Black
Hills.
TRAIN OF nfteen wagons and twenty men were
captured on the way from the Black Hills by Crazy
Horse Indian butchers, and the entire com PAW
massacred.
LiSfoRTH, KELLOGG Co., importers OF hard
ware and agricultural implements of San Fran els.
co. have suspended. Liabilities about $780, ooo At
meeting OF the creditors it was ascertained that the
ssets were 500, eoo
FOREIGN
PARIS correspondent writes that the Russian
Afmy is III terrible state of suffering, the men
dying Ike sheep with the murrain.
HERR BARTH, az eminent German explorer com.
United suicide in Loando. Portugal, recently,
CABLE dispatch reports that England ard Aus