The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-05-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE EAST.

the revolution, was dedicated on the lit
inst.
w. STEENBURG, clothing manufacturer
of New York city, has failed. Liabilitie.
/ $4,000.
AN effort is being made by the creditors c
Rothschild & Hermann, dry goods impor
ers, New York, to throw the firm int
| bankruptcy. Their liabilities are niue
greater than were at first supposed, bein
/ 1926, 9S2; nominal assets, $1S1,034.
NJ SLITTHEIMER & Co, ribbon manufat
turers, of Patterson, n. J., have been adiud
Gated involuntary bankrupts. Liabilitie
100000.
EX-PRESIDENT GRANT left Newcastle
Del, on the steamship Indiana, on the 18th
bound for Europe. a large number of pee
pie saw him off,
NEW white whale for the New Yorl
aquarium arrived in that city on the lot
inst, from Quebec, and was successful
transferred to its new quarters
A STATUE of Fritz Greene Halleck was un
yelled in Central Park, n. Y, on the 15tl
inst. The ceremony took place before
large assembly. President Hayes made
speech presenting the statue to the city O
New York.
The general council of the Reforme,
Episcopal church, in council at PhiladeI
phia, adopted resolutions on the 18th, pro
vlding for the extension of the church int,
Great Britain, and recognizing the propri
ETY. OF ministers calling upon any communi
| cants to read regular service.
The complaint in the suit of Cornelius ]
against William III. Vanderbilt was serve,
on the 18th inst. The plaintiff gives an ac
count OF the proceedings before the Surro
gate IN the matter of the probate of wha
was put forward as the will of the late Com
modore Vanderbilt. He asserts that he ant
his sisters had serious objections to the pro
pate OF the instrument, and were preparin,
to press their objections The defendan
promised to pay $1,000,0O0 if they woult
withdraw their objections, and plaintiff say!
he consented and the objections were with
drawn and the will admitted to probate
Now defendant refuses to pay the million
lhe second cause of action is on an agree
ment made like the above, March II, 1877, b,
the defendant to Mary A. Labau, to pay the
amount mentioned, and the third cause o
action is on a similar promise made to Sam
uel Sinclair
The rifle contest at Creedmoor resulted
IN victory for Brooklyn. C. Z. Blyden
burg, of the Brooklyn team, made the
largest score, 202 out of possible 225.
THE WEST.
JUDGE DILLON of the United States cir
cult court in session at Des Moines, Iowa
decides that the east half of the Union Paci
nc bridge at Council Bluffs is subject to tax
alton by the local authorities on the same
bases as private property.
COL. EZEKIEL JEwETT, an eminent scient
ist, and for many years curator of the state
museum at Albany, n Y, died on the 1Stf
INST, at Santa Barbara, Cal, of typhoid
pneumonia.
REPORTS from Camp Brown, w T., of tn,
10TH state that Snake Indian scouts hav.
discovered a hostile camp on Bad Water
about - miles northwest from Brown, on tn,
west side of the Big Horn range. They re
port fifty or sixty lodges. Capt j. Mix, of tn,
I'd cavalry at Camp Brown, with portion o
his command and Shoshonc Indians unde
Tom Cosgrove Will move against them.
THE Illinois extension of the Indianapo
lis, Bloomington and Western railroad ha
been ordered sold.
GOV. EMERY, of Utah, has written lctte
to the secretary of war requesting tina
Camp Douglas be provided with five com
panics of infantry and two of cavalry; tina
Camp Cameron shall have two full com
panies of infantry; that one infantry com
pany shall be quarted at st. George: tina
another shall be sent to Logan, in Cache
valley, and that the company at Fort Hal
shall be retained and REINFORCED,
WILLIAM VANCE, son of David Vance
living near Lexington, H., died recently al
Laramie, Wyoming. He was connected
with the Quartermasters Department and
had for some years been under Gen. Crook
IN his Western campaigns. He was aged 2S
GOLDSMITH MAID and Rarus had tria
OF speed at San Jose, Cal, on the 10Th inst.
best three in five The Maid won in three
straight heats. Time 2:4013, 2-16I, 2:193l
The second heat was the fastest in The
state, beating Occidents time half a second
WASHINGTON.
HE commissioners of the District O.
Columbia have deposited $3S4,9l4 in the
treasury of the United States for payment