The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-02-24
SUPERIOR TIMES.
SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE EAST.

TIE non-payment OF interest on the notes of A.
and W. sprague, Providence, r. l., and other
shrnkage OF values constrains the trustees to ask
for temporary injunction restraining the with
drawa Of deposits until the sccrung interest shah
make up the present deficiency, now estimated at
not more than or per cent.
FIVE thousand dollars worth of smuggled prunelln
were seized at New York city on the 18th inst
Many arrests Of merchants, middlemen, United
states Inspectors, and others are expected. The
government has been defrauded out OF vast sums
by smugglers, and the plot was one of the deepest
and best planned ever discovered by the officials.
THE engineers on t he Boston and Maine railroad
have struck, owing to refusal Of the company to
raise their wages.
TIE Mountain City Bank of Pottsville, Pa, has
suspended. The reason is the heavy withdrawal of
deposits The directors state that time is required
to realize on the assets.
ApAsroRAL letter from Bishop O'Hara, excom-
municating the Ancient Order of Hibernians and
directing the clergy to deny members of the order
the sacramento, read in all the Catholic church,
of Scranton, Pa, diocese, on the 18th inst. The
denunciation was unexpected and has produced a
sensation among members of the order, who for the
past three years have been in favor with the
church within this Jurisdiction. The Ancient Or
der has a large memb rship in Scra nton.
THE Maine legislature adjourned on the 9th inst,
after session of SO days.
A DISPATCH from Lowell says large meeting OF
capitalists has been held to organize new cotton
mill corporation to be composed wholly of owel
parties. The mill will be begun very soon, run
1000 spindles, and cost SO, 900.
THE WEST.
FROM Cheyenne 1t Is reported that Sitting Bull
and Crazy Horse want peace-and tobacco
Txrn dicfr ~ TTfoh {oh &c
IN March, will fix the day for shooting Lee, the
Mountain Meadow murderer
A BILL passed both houses of the Wy.
oming legislature, and will be approved by
the Governor, giving the Black Hills
United States court and assigning Associate
Justice Bennett there resident judge to take ef'
feet Immediately the ratification by Congress OF
the agreement with the Sioux Indians, ceding that
country. The legislature has made large appro-
priation for locating and improving three roads
from the Black Hills to different points the Mis-
souri, river.
GEN. Crook has returned to Camp Robinson to
Camp Sheridan, where he has been for several
days. Spotted Tail, chief of the Sioux, with a
body guard of 200 chosen warriors, has departed
q self-imposed mission to obtain an interview with
chiefs of hosties now reported to be massed near
the forks of the Tongue River, and counsel them
TO accept while there is yet time the terms offered
by the government, viz, to surrender their arms
and ponies. Spotted Tail expects to be absent
more than month, but will communicate with
Gen. Crook soon as he reaches the hostile camp.
The Indians think there is strong probability
that this movement will be successful in termi-
mating the war. Gen. Crook and staff departed for
Fort Laramie on the 18th inst.
DISPATCH from Kansas City says the cattle
drive will be much less than in former years.
PARTY of Indians attacked Chase's rancho, 80
miles north of Cheyenne, but were driven off.
TEE Indians made dash ON the ranches a short
distance from Crook city, the sth inst, killing
Thos. Waldron, of Montana, and wouRding another
man severely and succeeded in carrying away about
so horses. The man who was wounded killed one
Indian.
ANOTHER rich strike has been made just at the
lower end of Deadwood. Eighteen cents was taken
from one pan of sur face earth The claim is known
as the "New Discovery"