The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-09-08

Porter also made addresses. Gov. Young,
of Ohio, made the closing speech.
TUE notes stolen from the keesville N.
Y. National bank have been returned. The
money and bonds are retained by the rob-
bers.
FRED w. COFFIN & VIM. Roscoe Lyon,
paper dealers on Beekman street, Jailed on
the 9th; liabilities 100000; assets $l19,-
600.
The new Edison telephone was tested
New York on the Goth inst, over the extra
ordinary distance of 240 miles. Music was
transmitted distinctly.
THE New York Democratic state conven-
ton is called to meet at the Delavan House,
Albany, on the 18th of September.
THE British Rifle Team arrived in New
York city on the 25th inst, and were accord
ed hearty reception.
THE WEST.
THE government of the Mormon church
has passed into the hands of the II apostles,
ten of whom were present at the funeral OF
Brigham Young on the I'd inst. Two of them
James Smith and Orson Pratt are in Eng
land and it is not likely there will be anoth-
er president of the church appointed for
some time.
THE Iowa state prohibition convention,
at Oskaloosa, on the 3lst ult., nominated
Hon Elias Jessup, of Oskaloosa, for COVER
nor. 1t made no other nominations.
THE authorities of the Cincinnati, Halnil
ton and DAYTON railroad have issued cir
cular to their employees, declaring that on
and after Sept 1, 80 miles run shall consti
tute days work. Heretofore 60 miles has
counted as full day. Much dissatisfaction
is expressed by the employees that no in
crease of pay accompanies the increased
labor
THE Lawrence and Southwestern rail
road, extending from Lawrence, KS, to
Carbonate, Usage county, 80 miles, was
sold, on the Goth, pursuant to a decree of
the Circuit Court of the United States 1t
was bid off by Robert c. Carr, of st. Louis,
for himself and associates for the sum of
S4S, 335. The road was built seven year ago
at a cost of about $4,000 per mile. Mr.. Carr
is president of the Kansas Pacific railroad
company. Whether it is bought in the in
terest of that company is not known.
THE Illinois State Savings institution, at
Chicago, made an assignment to Abner Tay-
Tor, on the Goth. This bank has been estab-
lished some 20 years, and from the prestige
of its early reputation has secured the pat
ronage of a great majority of the poorer
classes, who deposit in saving institutions
here. The failure will fall with crushing
weight on these people, many of whom have
invested their all with that bank
BEN De BAR manager of De Bars Opera
House, st. Louis died in that city on the 2Sth.
THE Indians attacked party of settlers
at GriZer Basin, Montana, on the oath, Kill
ling seven men. On the Goth they met an
other party of whites and killed nine of them
1T is thought that Howe truss can be
thrown over the break in the railway bridge
at Council Bluffs. If it can be done trains
will be running over the structure inside of
four months.
THE Merchants Exchange Bank of San
Francisco, on the 18th, announced that it
would go into liquidation. The concern is
perfectly solvent, and will pay dollar for
dollar
A PARTY of twenty persons who left
Deadwood, a few weeks since, en- route for
the Little Missouri river, returned on the
18th. They report having been attacked by
the Indians on the Dist inst. Thos H. Carr,
quartz recorder of the Deadwood mining
district, was killed. Twenty-seven horses
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