The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-22


on the 9th inst.
THE secretary of the treasury has issued
call for the redemption of five million 500
bonds of 1865 consols of 1865
A LARGE delegation of tobacco manufac-
turers of the Western and Middle states,
favoring reduction in the tax of from "a
to 16 cents per pound, met on the 4th inst.
and had interviews upon the subject with
various members of congress.
SECRETARY EvARTS announced at the
cabinet meeting on the 4th, that Russia had
States government to take part in the inter
national congress for the purpose of fixing
bi-metallic money standard.
THE senate confirmed John F. Hazelton,
of New York, consul at Genoa, and Chas.
N. Murphy, consul at Moscow.
A COMMUNICATION from the secretary of
the interior was laid before the house on
the Sd inst, recommending that the revised
statutes be amended so as to allow execu-
tive departments to pay ordinary advertis-
ing rates for the publication of all official
advertising. The rate prescribed by exist
ing laws, namely, forty cents per hundred
words, is, in the opinion of the secretary,
insufficient to secure first-class circulation
THE EAST.
GEO. T. HATHAWAY, late of the Border
City Mills, New Bedford, Mass, was ar
raigned on the 9TH inst. on an Indictment
for embezzlement, perjury, etc., and pleaded
not guilty. Bail fixed at 100000.
AT Philadelphia, on the 9TH inst, Alex. B.
Sayer was found guilty of the murder of his
wife in November last.
GOVERNOR PRESCOTT, of New Hamp-
shire, was inaugurated on the 9th inst, and
delivered his annual message.
The New Hampshire legislature began it's
annual session at Concord on the 9Th inst.
Augustus A. Woolsen was chosen speaker
of the house.
THE trustees of the Rhode Island Institu-
tuition for Savings have been authorized by
the court to wind up their business.
THE annual national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic began at
Springfield, Mass, on the 4th instant, and
was well attended by distinguished members
from all portions of the country.
DISPATCHES from the principal mining
points in the Pennsylvania coal region in
dictate a general resumption of mining OPP
erations with a full force of workmen.
JUDGE ". f. ALLEN, of the court of ap.
peals, died at Oswego, n Y, on the Sd inst.
THE grandchildren of the late William
B. Astor, by order of the surrogate of New
York, are to be allowed $4,000 year until
they attain their majority
MAY closes with a record of ninety-five
failures in New York city, the total liabili-
ties being more than So, 500,0 900, and the as
sets less than 81, 100000.
THE WEST.
THE Illinois prohibition convention in
Decatur on the eth inst. had about one hun
dred delegates. G. T. Simpson, of Carroll
ton, was elected president, the Hon. Jerome
K. Comm, of Decatur, was nominated for
state treasurer, and the Rev. w. S. Posi-, of
Belleville, superintendent of public instruc-
ton.
THREE companies of the Fourteenth in
fantry leave Salt Lake for Fort Halliday,
on the 18th inst. News has been received
there by scout from Csmas Prairie, con-
hrming the news of an Indian outbreak and
murders.
On the 9th inst, the body of James w.
Shaughnessy, a well-known young Milwau.
keean, was found in Lake Michigan The
young man left his home in the morning
apparently in good health, and the cause of
his sudden taking off is a source of deep
mystery.
MANCEL TALCOTT, a prominent Repub-
liean politician, and an old citizen of Chi
cago, died on the 9Th inst.
DISPATCHES received from Gen. Crook,
confirms the late news of the revolt of Ban
mock Indians, but aggregates the number of
savages at four hundred.
PROF. JOHN C. CHRISTIAN, assistant su-
perintendent of public schools in st, Louis,
Mo-, suicided at Denver, Col, on the LIST in
slant, while laboring under fit of tempo
rary insanity. Prof Christian is we'll known
in Cincinnati, having been member of the
school board of that city for some years.
JUSTICE HARLAN, of the United States
supreme court, was in court in Chicago on
the Sd inst, and will remain about month.
Lawyers and court officials gave him a pleas
ant impromptu reception in court.
THE remains of 1870 soldiers arrived at Fl.
Leavenworth on the Sd inst, from Fl.
Harker, and were buried in the national
cemetery, with military honors.
TRRIFIC cyclone passed over Richmond,
Mo-, on the 31st ult., leveling to the ground
over half of the buildings in the town.
Over one hundred houses were totally de-
stroyed, and the loss to property will reach
$3.50. 600. A whole block was cotonletelv
swept away and the debris scattered for
miles. The storm came from the southwest,
passed to the northeast, and was preceded
by heavy rainfall. Trees were uprooted
and carried through the air like feathers, as
were also fragments of houses, and in fact
everything that the storm struck, TIL Shaw
House, large brick hotel was demolished
and the inmates buried in the ruins Fiji
teen persons were killed and forty wounded
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
By the capsizing of yacht off Duxbury
Point, near Plymouth, Mass, on the 9th
inst, Henry s. Holmes, his son Arthur, and
David Brown, Jr., were drowned
Two negroes ambushed and attempted to
murder doctor, named Archer, at Bayou
Sara, La, on the night of the I'd inst. They
fired volley at the doctor, but he escaped
serious injury, his clothing being riddled.
The populace turned cut and captured the
miscreants, who confessed, and they were
soon left dangling between sky and earth
LOUIS ?. DOVER, private in company c.,
Fourth infantry, was killed by the bursting
of a saw at Fort Fetterman, on the 9TH inst.