The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-21
NEWS In BRIEF.
THE EAST.

PETER ToIANs, ivory merchant of New York,
has failed. Liabilities $126, GOO
WESLEY HOOKER, of Ithaca, u, Y. has prrcbased
an interest in the Daily Despatch of Erie.
HE coroner's jury in the Jewett explosion case
lays the whole blame of the tragedy on Orville I.
Jewett.
The proposed investigation of the New yorr
Custom House will begin at once. 1t will not he
directed against individual officers but will be con-
quoted with the sole aim of ascortaining the man
ner In which the business of that institution is
conducted the efficiency with which The revenue is
cohected, and the character of the public service
there.
NEW York and Philadelphia have sent nearly
seven million pounds of fresh beef to Great Britain
during the month of March,
1HE steamer Amerique which stranded near
seanright, N. j., has been released and taken TO
New York for repairs. 1t was difficult lob of
wrecking.
SAMUEL j. TILDEs riding in carriage in
New York city on the 9th inst, when the horses
ran away. Tilden leaped o1t of the vehicle escap-
ing without injury.
AT meeting of coal producers and carriers at
New York city on the 9th inst, the report of the
committee was agreed to that coal be advanced on
June 1, SO cents per ton. 1t being deemed impru.
dent to make general advance owing to the large
amounts contracted for April and May delivery
the tonnage agreement heretofore reported was
unanimously adopted. No contracts fer coal de-
liveries beyond May 81 at fixed prices shall be
made.
DUBING January, February and March, GA per-
sons were reported missing in New York city, and
Al IN Brooklyn, making total in the two cities of
los. Of this number "a were found through the
agency OF officers and detectives, 80 returned to
their homes and gave explanation of their absence;
A. in,
were found dead, having committed suicide or been
murdered, and 80 are still missing
IHE settlement between the heirs of Cornelius
vanderbilt has again been brought up on account
OF the difference between Wm H. and Cornelius J.
Vanderbilt. Ali the heirs, with the exception of
Cornelius, had agreed to accept 81 OOO and Will
liam H. had agreed to a settlement on this basis
oorhehus d., however, made claim of $4,000, 900,
and his sister, Mrs. LATTE, refused to make any
settlement until Cornelius J. was satisfied. Mean
while the will has been admitted to probate.
THE WEST.
FAMILY named McGraw, living in Vernon
Iswnshlp, Dubuque county, Iowa, were left
heirs to an estate of 1924, 100000. relative of
theirs, while young, served his time in a British
regiment in India, and afterwards engaged ia the
opium trade and accumulated immense wealth.
After he died his executors advertised for the heirs
and the McGraws have taken legal steps to have
themselves identified
JoHNG CASPER has been appointed secretary of
Asizona and Jacob B. Baseman associate Justice of
the supreme court of Utah.
ONE OF Spotted Tails braves has given up a seal
ring which belonged to Leut Riley, who was killed
in the Custer massacre. secon envoy has been
sent to Crazy Horse to find out whether lie intends
to come in not.
John TpArv nrauidapt of +t,a Dol, T,1o,
Railroad company, has resigned.
NICHOLAS SLAADEN, under bonds on a charge of
setting fire to his residence in Chicago died on the
18th inst, of apoplexy.
The Baptist Womens Missionary Union of the
west, embracing in its districts the United States
between the Allegheny and Rocky Mountains, con-
vened In Dayton, o., the 18th inst in the First
Baptist church; IT'S delegates were present.
By direction of the president the secretary of
war has ordered that United States troops now in
garrison in Alaska be withdrawn and the territory
turned over to the control of the treasury depart
ment
ORDERS have been issued by the Indian bureau
to provide ratons for 1900 hostile Indians recently
brought in by Spotted Tail. These Indians come
in on the same terms other hostiles Their arms
| and horses will be taken from them, but in other
respects they vii be treated the same Indians
who have remained at the agency.
DISPATCH from Portland, Oregon says Prof
Taylor, OF the university of Chicago, and Lieut..
Wood, of the United States army, have sailed on
tn steamer California for Sitka. Their object is
20 ascertain the height of Mount St. Elias, Alaska
which has never yet been ascertained.
Gov PLLsBURY of Minnesota has set apart April
26th as day of prayer for the annhilation of the
grasshoppers.
| DESPATCH from Lincoln, Neb., dated April g.
says: Reports from the west indicate that though
some grasshoppers Matching, not SO many
batch as was expected, and farmers are not
frightened. immigration is already rolling in
For the past two weeks the sutro tunnel has
passed through stringers of quartz giving law as
says. On April 6, the whole face of the drift was
in solid quartz 1880 feet east of the Savage shaft
The quartz resembles the Comstock quartz in it's
crystalline character, and its ore assays are said to
average S34.
The Kansas City Journal of Commerce Of the 7tb
contains sketch of the Bender butcheries in
Sabetha county, Kan, in 1875, for which the Keifer
family were recently arrested Arkansas 1t is
positively stated that none of the Benders are now
| living; that the old man, wife, son and daughter
were captured oy band of vigilants and lynched
while attempting to escape from Kansas The
statement is bas I'D the con ession of one of the
| party who participated in the lynching. All the
facts in the said to have been in the DOS
session OF Gov. Osborne and Senator York brother
of DIR. York, one of the victims, ever since the &C.
currence
FOREIGN.
JOHN OOoNNoR Power is credited with an in.
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