The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-01-27
SUPERIOR TIMES.
SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE EAST.

THE EASI.
j. MILTON TURNER, American consul general
and resident minister at Liberia, in suit against
the proprietors of the Aston house, New York, for
damages under the civil rights bill, for refusing to
entertain him the 18th of October last was award
ed s.
RAILROAD freights are again 10o per Dbl higher
on -four and cents per 100 pounds on grain and
fourth class.
THE suspension of Orrin Benedict & Co., hat
manufacturers of New York, with liabilities at $780,,
900, throws out of employment $50 operatives in
their factory at Bethel, Conn.
EDWARD HANLoN and Boyd of Newcastle-on
Tyne are to row for s., 500 in the spring.
A REPORT states that Freddy May said Jimmy
Benefits bullet did not come within ten feet of
him; another report equally reliable states that
Dr. Allen Smith has been attending him in a duck
ing house on Gunpowder Greek an still another
that May is dead.
The amount of grain in New York the 18th:
Wheat. s,464 645 bushels corn, 2,952194 bushels +;
oats 050 495 bushels; rye, 343,29S bushels; bar
ley, $40, LOG bushels; malt, 429084 bushels; peas,
10 304 bushels.
The HorLd says Jeanette Bennett Mr. Rowland
Robbins, and Mr.. Benefits private secretary,
sailed in the City of Richmond, on the 18th, with
Mr. Bennett Paris is understood to be the destina-
ton of the party. Dist.-Atty Museum, Of Carroll ne
county, Md says the Bennett May dueling ground
was about 400 yards from the Delaware line, neal
AIaryden. His informant tells him May was hit,
and was attended by DIR. Allan Smith, OF
Baltimore; that the patient in a duck1ng-
house on Gunpowder Greek.
LUCILLE WESTERN died at the Pierpont House,
Brooklyn Jan. IL, of congestion of the lungs, the
result of cold contracted during recent engage
ment at the Walnut street theatre, Philadelphia.
THE latest rumor is that Jim Bennett and Miss
May were married after the duel, and are their
way to Europe.
THE freight blockade caused by the east
ern roads between Detroit and New York is breed
ing famine in some articles of merchandise at the
former place. The Great Western, Erie and New
York Central each hold thousands Of cars loaded
with freight, bound both ways, in consequence OF
which Detroit merchants are about run ashore on
certain goods.
THE WEST.
IT rained at intervals at San Francisco, the
18th. Storm dispatches faom the interior note
similar weather over the greater portion of the
state, and most cheering reports as to crop pros
poets provided the rain continues.
A TELEGRAM from Tongue River Cantonment
says that on Dec. II, five prominent Sioux chiefs
approached the post about with flag of truce.
When within a few hundred yards of the post, an d
before their approach was known to a single Of
hcer soldier of the garrison, they were pounc ed
upon and killed by the Sioux scouts who belong to
the post. Gen. Miles indignant beyond meas
ure at the bloody tragedy, both eco unit of its
atrocity and bv reason of the possible importance
of their mission
The following received at military headquar-
tiers at Chicago the 10th:
ST. PAUL, Mimi. Jan. 10.-Adjutdnt General, Di-
pisiOn Mlss0urG-A dispatch received from Col.
Miles, via Bozema, states that on the 18th OF Deem
Der three companies of the fifth infantry, under
Lieut. Frank Z. Baldwin, struck Sitting BuIs
camp or Redwater aud defeated him, with the loss
of al the property in tie camp, and sixty mules and
ponies. The Indians escaped with little besides
what they had on their persons.
(signed) ALFRED II. TERRY,
Brigader General.
CALIFORNIA is being refreshed by showers, after
the longest known drouth on record.
In the United States court at Chicago on the
18th, John j. Blair Of the Delaware and Lackawanna
railroad and other persons and co operations filed
bill for foreclosure of mortgage of 600 900 the
Chicago and Pacific railroad
A HEAVY snowstorm prevailed tn roughout the en-
tire west the 18th inst Railroad trains were
blockaded and travel generally suspended.
JOHN A. LITTLE, prominent physician of Della
ware O., died on the 14th inst.
AFTER advertisement, continued since 1874, it is
asserted that the Southern Minnesota rail-
road will positively be sold by John Y Page ster
in chancery at public sale, in ST. Paul. Febr uary 9.
LATE arrivals at Cheyenne from the newly dis
covered mine in the Black Hills, Battle Greek,
say that the creek staked out tor nearly 20 miles,
but Will not be worked any extent until spring
One company OF five wheeling dirt ha if a
mile and realizing $40 day for each man. Several
very large and valuable nuggets have been foun
on the stream. The quartz mills running to
their greatest capacity, and their owners real
iZing large returns.