The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-01-27

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amounts to $6,500,60o.
1T isrorobabIe that if the Turks refuse the last
proposals diplomatic relations between turkey
and Rassla win totally cease. ~
DIAz has again been victorious in Mexico. uen
| Outrage was shot conspirator on MONDAY.
| TELEGRAM from Paris announces that M. MAX
| Outrey has been appointed minister OF France 10
| the United States.
The directors of the Anglo-American cable COM
pany announce that the cable laid in 1855 was
| broken Saturday. The locality OF the 1auit Is
estimated to be 100 miles from Hearts Content.
THE Importation of American beef into England
has proved success. Sheffield butchers have been
4 compelled to reduce. the price of domestic beef
| 8 pence &c cents) per pound, in order to compete
| with American beef.
VIENNA correspondent of the Times says adj
vices received there confirm the impression that the
Porte will at the very last moment accept the COM
promise now ordered by the powers. The COM
promise will probably prove to be that the Porte be
| asked to accept the programme, not as somethIn
unalterable but only sort OF basis Tor discus
| sion.
THE Council of Ministers at Madrid have approx
Ted of the extradition treaty concluded with the
| United States.
TWENTY Socialists have been elected to the Ger
| man parliament.
1T is generally believed that the European pleni-
potentlaries will make fresh com muncation to
the porte finally summing up the intentions of the
powers, declaring this communication to be the
last, and demanding that categorical reply be given.
If an understandings then found to be impossible
the plenpotentiaries would quit Constantln opie.
ALL correspondents of London papers consider
the failure of the conference probable. he at
titude of the Turks is unyielding.
POLITICAL.
GEN. AUaUR replied to Packard on the 18th, de-
carng his intention of maintaining the statu quo
Hon. VIM. WINDOW was reelected to the Uni ted
States Senate by the Minnesota legislature on the
18th inst.
HON. THOMAS W. FERRY, received the unanim GUS
vote of the republicans in the Michigan legsla ture
on the 10th inst, and reelected to the United
States Senate for six years, beginning Mar CHI 4th
next.
| JAMES g. BLAINE has been elected United States
Senator for the long and short term by the Maine
legislature.
A. 81. GARLAND, Democrat, was elected Unite d
States senator by the Arkansas legislature the
| 18th.
The dispatch sent to Gen. Augur by Preside n
Grant, is said to be substantially a recognition of
the Packard Governme nt.
THE Senate and House committees counting
the electoral vote, have taken final acti yet;
! but hopes expressed that they will agree.
/ HE greenbackers met III Detroit on the 23d
inst, to consider measures to strengthen their or
ganization and propagate their principles more
actively.
SENATOR KEY wthdraws from the senatorial con-
| test in Tennessee
The House committee in Louisiana investigating
frauds in the presidential election i'll that state will
! conclude its labors Jan. IT,
/ The political muddIe at New Orleans is still I'M
changed and both parties awaiting advices from
| Washington. No collision has yet occurred, al
though there is considerable display of armed
men in the streets.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE explosion of five tons of powder demolish ed
three buildings of the Schagtcoke powder mill at
Troy, N. Y. The shock felt twenty miles
around. large quantity of powder on hand
! for the Prussian government.
! The steamer Colombo, of the Wilson line is now
overdue at New York 40 days. and it is the ge neral
impression that she has met the fate of the City of
Boston, and that her captain and crew have been
lost with her.
! s8lLLFUL forgery was committed in New York
/ City on the 10th, by which the Union Trust Co =,
was swindled out of $64, 900. The public are eau
toned against negotiating check No. 1882 for s95,
! 900 in gold on the Bank of New York, certified by
the bank payment having been stopped
By the explosion of boiler attached to tn resh-
ing machine on the farm of Albion Bradb ury,
Bloomington, Hennepin county, Mimi, the 10th
inst. John d. Layman, Lueius Layman, his son, and
George Bradbury, lad of 13, were instantly killed.
THE fouring mill of Davis and Beal, at Clear
water, Mimi, was destroyed by fire the night of
the 16th Loss SAT 900; in surance $21 900.
AN examination shows that John P. Bankson
who recently suicided in Philadelphia, was de-
fauter to the amount of 5 $50 900.
| THE Fishkll Bank defalcat ion will reach $780,
| 600 Arun on the savings bank drew out $50, OOO
but that institution is sound.
AT Dayton, KY, On the night of the 18th, Mrs.
Minnie Blagen arose from her bed took her ten
day old infant and proceeding to the river browne
herself.
On Friday, March 2, Edward Thames will be hang
edat the Cayuga county Jail, Auburn, N. Y. Thames
was convict in the State prison and killed one of
the keepers, June 10, 1876
GEO. KIRcK, German, of New York aged sixty
Cae. after many times threatening the life of his
We aid son. attempted, Satur day night to
execute his threats by shooting at them. The son
used an axe on his fathers head nhicting probably
fatal injuries. The at once surrendered him
self at the police station.
SAMUEL NORRIS and child, of Cranberry ark,
I'D, were burned to death at their residenc e, be-
Ing unable to escape from the build ing.
MOVEMENT of the ice in the Ohio river on the
18th and l4th inflicted immense damage on tn e
shipping interests. 1t is estimated that the loss at
Cincinnati will amount to 100000 At Pittsburg.
Pa, on the 14th the heavy ice from the Upper
Monongahela river caused ruin and disast Ell un-
equaied in the annals of Pittsburgh. The steamers
| Bennett, Chieftain, and tugs R. j. Grace Jim
Brown, Joseph Warne, Minnie Harris Relief, Alex.
Foster and Lion were sunk, and several others u.s.
tanned damage. large number Of empty and Goa |
laden barges were swept from their n oorin es and
lost. The loss will be $4,000, 600, and it is
feared that several persons have persisted in the
wrecks.
The schooners of the fishing fleet from Glouces-
ter, Mass, are missing, and it is believed thew have
been lost and The crew of eight of them peri shed
In breaking the iceg gorge at Cincinnati on the
18th, the new steamer Calumet, valued at 80 l. OO0
sank, and will probably prove a total loss. She
was insured for SIT ,o00 She had cargo for New
orieans-some 800 tons of goods-the greater part
OF which will be saved. The steamer Andes WAS
also sunk by the ice the same evening. Loss sa4.-
| 0O0
AT the coroner's inquest at Ashtabula o. James
Iomlinson, who planned the railroad bridge. testi
fed that his plans were altered, and that the main
braces of the structure were defective
D. b. BARNARD, of Albion, N. Y general agent
OF the Syracuse agricultural worLs\ xuoa L. =.