The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.

grand cross Of the order of the Red Eagle.
decorated with sceptre and crown. the
only Prussian decoration which Prince Bis
marck had not before received, and which
is said to have been only once before con.
ferred, namely, by Frederick William ",
on Minister Manteufel
A TELEGRAM from Constantinople saws
Russia is establishing second line of de
Tense at Adrianople.
The ship Fifeshire was loston the passage
from Madras to Liverpool, and TWENTY-FIVE
of the crew drowned.
A BODY of Bulgarians burned fourteen
villages in the district of Demetica.
The coming sugar crop in Cuba promises
to be excellent. Estimated yield will reach
900 tons.
a CONSTANTINOPLE correspondent states
that the Rhodope instruction has received
fatal blow by the assassination of Omera-
go, one OF its most influential leaders, by
Kara Yussuf, former leader, who had been
disgraced for plundering.
The telegraph lines for nearly hundred
miles around Vienna have been DESTROYED
by a snow storm. The snow storm at Wen
ma, on the 3D. inst, was very heavy. All
the railways and telegraph lines in that Sec
ton were interrupted. Thousands OF tele-
graph poles were Frustrated. The parks
and trees in the city were greatly injured,
The storm extended throughout Austria.
The failure is announced of W. w. Will
son q Co, printers, Alexandria of Dunbar
tonshire, England, liabilities S4OO. 900.
Failure throws out of employment several
hundred persons.
AN earthquake occurred in Salvador on
the evening of October 9th. In Jucuaha.
nearly every house was DESTROYED and
many families buried in the ruins Nueva,
Guadaloupe, Santiagode, Maria and China
MEGA are destroyed and the loss of life is Sc.
rlous IN each place. Other towns, which
suffered from the earthquake, are Guada.
loupe and Usulatara, the Caseriodel and
Arenal.
The Russian imperial yacht Livadia left
Llvadia on the I'd instant for Odessa. with
Grand Duke Sergins, son of the car, and
suite. The yacht was swamped during a
heavy gale, but all on board were safely
landed.
HE Arab tribes occupying the country
between Bagdad and Bassorah, have revolt
ed, and cut of communication between
Bagdad and Mosul. The government func-
tionaries have fed.
The municipality, at Marsailles, France.
has adopted, by vote of 26 to 7, motion
IN favor OF general amnesty to Communists
1T is stated that Great Britain has con-
Guided TO purchase Delagon bay, in southern
Africa, from Portugal, for So, 100000
ENGLAND's ultimatum requires the amer's
reply shall reach Peshawaur by November
20, otherwise the English forces will imme-
diately invade Afghanistan.
THE WEST.
The Rev. N. Accolti, of the Society of
Jesus, died at the college of Saint Ignatius,
San Francisco, Cal, on the night of the Sth
inst, aged 70
HENRY GREENBAUM, president of the de-
funct German National and Savings bank at
Chicago, was held in S25, 900 for embezzle-
ment, on the Sth, pursuant to action of the
grand jury.
VIM COTTON, of the minstrel profession,
died suddenly while ordering dinner at a
Cincinnati restaurant on the 8th inst
Cause supposed to be asthma.
The nOn-Mormon women of Utah have
issued an appeal addressed to Mrs Ruther-
ford B. Hayes, and the women of the United
States relating the denominations of poly
gamy, requesting that their address be pub
lished and circulated to arouse public
sympathy and asking the cooperation of the
Christian women of the United States in
urging congress to empower its courts to
arrest the further progress of the great evil,
and TO deluy the admittance of Utah into
the sisterhood until this is accomplished
EX-GOVERNOR FLETCHER, of Missouri,
has secured unconditional pardons for Mr.
Henrechhotfen, Bernard Eagle, John L.
Bernecker, A. NJ Everst and Henry Hardo-
way. These five pardons dispose of the last
of the men who were convicted as partiei-
pators in the st Louis whisky ring frauds.
All others convicted of this ofiense have
either been pardoned or the terms OF i'm
prisonment to which they were sentenced
have expired
GEORGE FOSSLER, a defaulting county
treasurer, came into court, at Canton, o., on
the 9Th inst, and pleaded guilty to the en-
bezzlement of $4,000 of the county funds.
The other count of the indictment will
probably be dismissed, and he will be SEN
fenced in a few days.
JAMES DoNAHUE, who was arrested in
Detroit, and brought to Chicago on charge
of swindling Henry Helberg out of $500,
and who was out on bail, succeeded to-
night in kidnapping Helberg. DOnahue is
believed to be the VIM. Murphy who is
wanted in New York for a crime committed
some three wears ago. This is his second at
tempt TO kidnap Helberg, who was princi-
pal witness against him.
DELEGATES from various divisions of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians, state of Cali
iornia, met al Oakland on the night OF the
2nd inst, declared vacant the offices of the
state delegate, secretary and treasurer, and
selected John Reeney delegate, j. c. Spill
lave secretary and WI. O'COnnelI, treasur-
CT, for the unexpired term. The meeting
endorsed as the only legitimate national
officers of the order in The United States.
?. Gibney, national delegate, P Campbell,
national secretary, and James Langan, ma
uonal treasurer.
WASHINGTON.
The Bureau of Education has received
news of the death of one OF the most dis
tlnguished Japanese educators, Yohinari
Holakeyama, president of the Tokia uni
versity and vice-president OF the education
delegation sent to the country in 1876 to
Bureau of Education our school system, and
10 publish an English translation of the
history of education in Japan.
GEN. PAINE, the new commissioner of
patents, has issued an order, with the