The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-29
WASHINGTON.

| THE president has nominated Reuben T..
Fenton, New York; w. s. Groesbeck, Ohio,
and Francis A. Walker, Connecticut, United
States commissioners at the international
monetary conference.
CHAIRMAN WHITEHoRNE, of the house
committee on naval affairs, has presented a
report to the naval committee recommend
ing that measures be taken by the depart
ment of Justice for the indictment of ex-
secretary Robson, ex-naval contractor
Hanscom, and ex-engineer Wood for mall
feasance in office.
The attorney general has decided that it
is lawful to transport goods by British or
other foreign vessels from Chicago or Mil
waukee to points in Canada, thence through
Canadian territory by rail, and by either
foreign or American vessels to Oswego, Og-
densburg, Chicago and Milwaukee, being
considered ports the northern frontier
within the meaning of the provisions of the
treaty of Washington and the regulations
| hereunder.
THE senate committee report against the
confirmation of Leonard, u. s. district at
torney of Louisiana.
BY vote of IS to "a, on the 10th instant,
the senate authorized the present legislature
of New Hampshire to elect United States
senator for the term beginning March a,
1879.
A sToREKEEPER OF distillery in the
Austin, Texas, district, having been mobbed
and forced to resign, the internal revenue
commissioner authorized the collector to use
the troops and arrest the proprietor of the
distillery. The collector says it will take
ten men fourteen days to make the arrest.
HE bill providing for the payment of the
award made by the fisheries commission at
Halifax under the treaty of Washington,
which passed the senate on the Sth inst
provides that S., 500, 900 in gold coin be ap-
propriated out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, and placed
under the direction of the president, with
which to pay 20 the government of her
Brlttanlc ma esty the amount awarded by
the fisheries commission lately assembled at
Halifax, IN pursuance of the treaty at Wash
ington, if after correspondence with the
British government on the subject of con-
tormity of the award to the requirements of
the treaty and to the terms of the question
thereby submitted to the commissions the
president shall deem it his duty to make
payment without further communication
with congress. The second section of the
bill authorizes the secretary of the treasury,
in order to comply with the terms of the &C ),
to issue and sell at public sale at not less
than par in gold coin, coupons of registered
bonds of the United States authorized by
the refunding acts of 1870 and 1877.
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REV. Z. Z. BURLEIGH, the noted aboli-
zionist, who was badly injured in a railway
accident at Florence, Mass, recently, died
at Northampton on the 18th.
THE failure of Chas. Scott & Co, white
goods dealers, New York, is announced.
Liabilities S250,000, nearly all of which is
due abroad.
MAX STRAKOSCH was arrested at New
York on the 18th inst, by deputy sheriff.
on charge of breach of promise and seduc-
ton preferred against him by Miss Clemen-
tine Smedley of Chicago, the damages being
laid at $4,000. Strakosch was held in
$4,000 bail, which he promptly furnished.
Strakosch pronounces the prosecution an at
tempt at black mail.
The net profits of the Western Union
telegraph company for the quarter ending
June 80 are estimated at $867,01S. A divi-
dend OF l u per cent. has been declared
THE Combination rubber company of New
York, has failed. Liabilities $4,000.
VIM. CULLEN BRYANT, the venerable poet,
died at New York on the 18th inst, from
the effects of prostration by heat at the un-
yelling of the Mazzini statue at Central park.
REV. GEO. F. SEYMOUR, LII. D., of the
General Theological Seminary, was conse-
Grated bishop of Springfield, ILL.,, at Trinity
Church, N. Y, on the 18th instant Over
100 clergymen, the faculty OF the theologic-
al seminary, nine bishops, and a vast con-
gregation assisted at the ceremonies
DENNIS alias "Bucky" Donnelly, the
Schuylkill county Mollie Mcguire was
hanged at Pottsville, Pa, on the 18th inst.
for the murder of Thomas Sanger, mine
boss, in 1873. The execution had been
twice postponed by the governor.
MURPHY, the temperance advocate, con-
verified 672 people in eight days, in Worces-
ter, Mass.
The examining committee of Plymouth
| Church, New York, met on the 10th, and re-
solved to drop the name of Mrs Tilton FROM
the roll.
JAMES ROWLAND & Co., doing buslnes
as the the Kensington iron and steel works,
at Philadelphia, Pa, have called a meeting
OF their creditors with view to the arrange
ment or winding up of their affairs.
Two men sailed from Boston, Mass, on
the 7th inst, in boat 10 feet, inches long,
and feet, inches beam. They are bound
for Havre, France, and carry 60 days pro-
visions.
GENERAL.
AT Burnley, $500 looms, employing 1000
operatives, have resumed work within the
past two days. AT Blackburn, the media
ton committee of operatives, interviewed
the head of the masters association, who
promised to reopen the mills imm ediately
If half of the operatives would resume work
at the reduction. At large meeting of
weavers at Blackburn it was unanimously
reduction.
BISHOP POTTER has sailed for England
to attend the Lambeth conference
A DELEGATION of Virginians, headed by
General JOS E. Johnson, was in Washington
on the 18th instant, in the interest of reduced
tax on tobacco.
RIOTERS Quilted flour store at Quebec on
the 18th, appropriating about four hundred
barrels of flour. Their cry was "we must
have bread to eat, or we will starve."