The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-03-03
SUPERIOR TIMES.
SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN,.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE EAST.

GENERAL strike was inaugurated Feb. "a, In
the Maryland mines. Eight thousand men are
idle and there Is little prospect of a compromise
being effected
UNDER the laws of Vermont there Is no way by
which a man unable to ray fine for drunkenness
can escape imprison ment for life, except by the
pardon of the executive. Gov. Fairbanks has Just
pardoned one such victim, named Hobbs, who has
been IN jail for long time at st. Johnsbury.
SroKLEY, republican, was reelected mayor OF
Philadelphia, by 1000 majority. The democrat g
supported Caven, reform candi date.
WRESTLING match for $500 side at Utica, New
York, on the Goth, between Mclaughlin, Of Detroit,
and Cavanaugh, of Vermont, WAS witnessed by
1900 people. McLaug him easily in two straight
falls.
The operatives of the wamsutta Mills, New Bed
ford, Mass strike ag linst reduction of
wages.
The special committee of the Boston City Council
have made report in favor of reduction of
s95 900 per annum, by cutting down the salaries of
officials.
The accounts of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarrs
Goal Company, from January 1, 1877 I, have been
examined, and the result found that actual loss
had been sustained of s5,273 1851 in three years
THE suit of Henry A. Body VS.. S. j. Tilden for
accounting ana repayment on alleged pool trans
actions on Galena and Chicago stock in 1864 was
dismissed by Judge Sedgwick in the Superior
Court, special term, on the 10th.
IT is announced that the Erie Railway trustee
have obtained a majority of the assets of the
consolidated first mortgage bondholders. The re
construction scheme is therefore safe.
The New York Yacht Club is SO embarrassed that
it has voted to give up its New York and Staten
Island houses.
THE WEST.
The wool growers of Ohio, Indiana Kentucky,
West Virginia and Pennsylvania held a NEE ting at
Cincinnati, ON tAe 22d, ard decided to erect
capaciou5 storehouse at Steubenyille, o. for the
purpose of storing their product and assortin it
before placing it upon the market. They grang-
ers and will dispose of the stock directly to the
manufacturers.
The Mississippi is open from Winona to LAX e
Pepin.
Hon. d. E. BRASHAM, State Senator from Jeffer-
son county, md. died at indianapolis on the 20th
THs OHIO State Grange of Patrons of Husbandry,
assembled at cincinnati the Goth inst. About
2BO delegates were present.
The heavy packing house Of D. Kreigh & Co., of
Chicago, has failed. Liabilities not definitely
known, but supposed to be large.
AYASKroN, D. t. dispatch of February 18th,
says: :" rhe warm weather OF the past few days
has allowed many of our farmers to commence
sowing wheat. The Missouri river viii probably
open soon, making early nav CATION. Large mum
bers of emigrants to the gold mines are arriving
here daily"
A COMB NATION OF the distillers of the entire
country embracing nearly every importrnt estab-
ishment in the United Staces formed at Chi
oago the 10th, for the purpose of self protection
and for pooling their earnings. Their plan is to
deposit ten cents for each gallon Of taxable spirits
that Is manufactured and to divide the sum thus
accruing semi monthly among all dstillers in pro-
portion to the capacity of their several dstileries
A MORTGAGE from the Minneapolis s. Dubuque
railroad company to the Fidelity Insurance Trust
and Safe Deposit Company for the sum of $780,
600 has been hled for record with the register of
deeds of Ramsey county, MINI.
VICTORIA dispatch says news from the north,
Feb 16, stated that an Indian belonging to a tribe
near Kamscatt, has confessed that fifteen whites
and Indians reached the shore from the George d.
Wright, steamer from SHka, lost on the northern
coast three years sgo. The Indian says the unfor-
tunate people were murdered by the tribe and their
bodies thrown into the sea.