The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-08-25
WASHINGTON.

IT is now stated that it is no part of the
arrangement that the Canadian government
should send a commissioner to act njointlv
with those from the United States to treat
with Sitting Bull.
THE secretary of the interior has appoint
ed John Mcneil, of st. Louis to act with
Gen. Terry as a member of the Sitting Bull
commission.
IN the absence of the president the execu-
tive mansion is almost altogether deserted by
visitors.
A DISPATCH from the United States min
lister to Greece asserts that the United States
can now and henceforth control, to large
extent the grain markets of Europe. He
says Russia has been our only competitor in
this trade. Under the most favorable cir
cumstances for Russia the United States has
had the advantage of that great cereal-pro-
ducing country. Anticipating the future
course Of this trade British capitalists are
now building six of the 1argest-szed iron
vessels for the transportation of breadstufs
from our shores on English account
THE government declines to interfere at
present in the matter Of the seizure at New
York, of the steamship Denmark, the sub
ordinate officers of which were caught snug
Cling silks.
BRIGADIER GEN. TERRY has notified the
secretary of war that he will act as a men,
Der of the Sitting Bull commission.
On the 14th inst. the cabinet authorized
Gen. Terry and a civilian in the government
employ, to represent the United States in
treating with the Canadian authorities for
the return of Sitting Bull to our domains.
IT is understood that the cabinet, at their
meeting on the 18th inst, considered plan,
which has the approval of the secretary of
war and the general of the army, to raise the
regular army to $4,000 men. 1t is also under
stood to be in contemplation to recommend
the building of 10 gunboats, especially
adapted to harbor defense against invasion,
and also for use in defense of the govern
ment property on the water-sites against
mobs, etc.
BY collision on the Pennsylvania rail
road near Uniontown, Pa, on tie 18th inst
Engineer Riley was killed, the fireman
fatally and several passengers slightly in
jured.
Two children of +. NJ. LaveIey were
burned to death on the 10th inst at Flush
ing, N. y, by the explosion of kerosene
lamp.
FULL particulars of the burning of the
Royal oil well at Smiths Ferry, o., were not
received until the 14th inst, owing to the
distance from the telegraph. 1t appears that
the fire originated in the forge in the der
rick, which communicated with the oil and
gas. The following persons were injured by
fire, their clothing being saturated with oil:
w. l.. Rayl, owner of the well, and Charles
Ammon, burned terribly both have since
died; Mr. McClinton and son John. Rayl
and Cready cannot live; some hopes are en-
tertained of the ultimate recovery of Nc
Clinton and son.
BY the explosion of a boiler in -four
mill at Groyeport, o., on the 14th inst, a
man named Allen and boy eight years old
were killed
A PILE-DRIvER boiler on a fiat boat ex-
ploded at Boston on the 14th inst, killing
one man and wounding four others.
SIX persons were injured between an ex-
cursion train and a freight train at Hoosic
Junction, VT, on the 14th inst.
CADET NoRTHUP, of the third class, West
Point Military Academy, was drowned while
bathing in the Hudson, at Newburg, n. j.,
on the 18th inst. Deceased was from the
West
THE yacht Pamlico was overturned in a
squall at Chicago on the 18th inst, and four
persons drowned.
NEWS has just been received of the total
loss of the steamship Etcn at Los Who's, near
Valparaiso on the 18th of July. The loss of
life is estimated at about one hundred per-
sons
GENERAL.
THE following communication was receiv-
ed at Detroit, on the 18th inst, from Prof /
James c. Watson, of the Michigan University I
observatory at Ann Arbor: "On the night |
Of August Sth, found in the constellation of I
Capricorn planet hitherto unknown. On /
account of the smoky and cloudy weather l
did not succeed in observing it accurately |
until last hight. 1t is now in the right +
ascension twenty-one hours and fourteen
minutes, and in declination fifteen degrees /
and forty-seven minutes south. 1t shines /
ike a star of the tenth magnitude, and is +
moving west and NORTH
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