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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05

and officers started in pursuit. They over
took the carriage some miles out of the city
but found neither men nor property.
AN estimate of the losses to the revenue
on sugars for two years was sent to Con-
gressmen Woods committee ON the 3d.
The figures which are said to have been
prepared by careful statistician, shows the
whole loss to the government last year to
have been over $2,500,OO0. The special
agents have been ordered to prepare and
submit to the treasury department the re-
suit of their investigations in the alleged
sugar frauds. 1t is reported that the special
agents have discovered refinery in another
city where no samples of reports have been
kept as required by law.
FRANK HYDE, of New York, won the
Wimbledon cup at Creedmoor, on the 21st
inst, making 143 out of possible $50. He
also won the army rife match.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05
Chicago.

CHICAGO, September 28.-1:30 P. M
Wheat-Shade lower ct 8S1sc for seller Sep
tember $3.50 for seller October; 8S3sc for
seller November. Corn-Without impor-
tant change at 35Ac for seller September; ;
35R@3512c for seller OCTOBER 3615@36Mc
for seller November. Oats Steady; at 1879
for seller September; 1870 for seller Octo-
Der; 20Hc for seller November. Rye-At
45Hc cash; seller October nominal 47c for
seller November. Barley-At S1.09@1 .09L
for cash; Sl.10 for seller October; $l.13 for
seller November. Pork-Lower at $S.O2%
for seller October; $S.10@S.12H for seller
November Lard-Lower at $6.27@6.30 for
seller October; 1921 for seller November.
Whisky-At $1.07. Hogs-Receipts 10000
head; shipments 3,4O0 head; interiors and
rough mixed duh and lower; other steady;
light at $3.50@3.6O; heavy shipping at SO go
@3.90 for fair to choice. Cattle-Quiet; re-
ceipts so head.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05

about things Biblical and spiritual, COM
pletely nonplussing the reporter.
She was accompanied by two colored
men. They talked in an enthusiastic
manner about her. She said in her own
conversation that she believed in two
kinds of baptism. She spoke of the diff
ferent modes of salvation; how to reach
paradise; how to be converted from a
bad man to a good one, etc. Her say
ings were entirely original, and were not
spoken in hesitating voice, but in a
quick, keen, and forcible manner. As
young as she is, a negress, without edu-
cution in the principles she sets forth,
her power partakes strongly of the
marvellous.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05
Death in the Oil Can.

A man out on South Hill had reason
to believe that his superintendent of
cuisine was in the habit of using kero-
sine to start the morning fires. He
placed his suspicious in the form OF a
charge, which was Indignantly denied,
and proof demanded. He wasn't ready
with his testimony, and the case was
dismissed for lack of evidence. But his
suspicious increased, and he ordered a
secret investigation, and appointed him
self chairman of the committee, with
power to send for persons and papers.
He laid his plans with care, and the
next morning he followed his maid
servant down stairs at careful and re-
spectacle distance, and hid himself near
the kitchen door, where he could not see
nor be seen, while he could hear very
distinctly whatever was said or done.
The rustic of paper and the rattle of dry
light wood was succeeded by hasty steps
toward the closet in the cellar way.
Then he heard the gurgling of a liquid,
as though it was bubbling out of small
tin spout. He heard the can set down
and then the scrape of a match.
"H'm," he heard the maid-servant re-
mark. Then another match snapped,
and barely audible fzzle succeeded.
Grimly smiled the silent man by the
outer door.
"H'm," remarked the maid-servant, a
little petulently. Another match snap
ped and blazed up. Another sound as
of sizzling. The smile on the face of
the man deepened into grin.
DWELL, | never did," came from the
kitchen, and there was heard the sound
of more pouring on the light wood. An
other match and more silence.
DWELL did you ever?" queried the
queen of the range, evidently anxious to
obtain testimony corroborative of her
own experience, as set forth in her
previous statement that she never did.
The man sitting outside the door throt-
tied himself with both hands and softly
pounded the ground with his heels.
Something evidently excited him, and
when the next match snapped he caught
himself by he legs and bit fiercely into
the corner o. the door-frame in a frenzied
effort toswallow hollow groan.
"The old scratch is in the oil, / do be-
lieve," said a troubled voice in the
kitchen, and more pouring ensued. An
other match, another, another. And the
man crawled off behind the cistern box
and Rugged his knees with many insane
expressions and silent demonstrations Of
interest, when he heard the angry voice
inside the kitchen say:
"Plague on such oil! I'd like to pour
it all down VIII Darlings back"
Another match, and then a confused
sound of rafting and scraping, and a
fearful woman came to the door and
hurled an armful of soaked paper and
light wood out into the yard and kicked
an oil can after it. The smiling man
crept back up stairs unseen. Breakfast
was late that morning, and when the
queen of the kitchen was asked the cause
wherefore, she said somebody had left
the shed door open and all the light wood
was damp. And no man that ever filled
an oil can with non-explosive cistern
water ever looked half so innocent as the
man who sat at the head of the table
choking over a Graham muffin.-HaoCk-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05
About OStricheS.

At a public sale of ostriches at Mid
dleburg, III South Africa, twenty pairs OF
breeding ostriches realized an average of
nearly 81, 900 erpair. The lowest price
given for a single couple was $3.50, and
as much as 81 ,425 was paid for one pair
OF birds. Commenting upon this the
London Colonies says:
We believe even these prices have
been exceeded iii the case of well-known
breeders When it is remembered that a
few years ago ostriches could be procured
in South Africa for the catching, and
were purchased for mere trifle for eXhi-
bition purposes in this country, whereas
at the present time a live ostrich does
not exist in London, the Importance of
the birds on the ostrich farms of Cape
Colony, may readily be realized. Even
the Geological society of London does
not possess single specimen of the At
rican ostrich. The late birds exhibited
ia Regents Park were poisoned by the
idiocy of the visitors who, amused to see
the birds swallow stones and other hard
substances, used to throw coppers into
the paddock, the consequence being that
the birds were killed by the verdigris
thus engendered in their crops. Even
the eggs of the birds, once commonly
collected as cur;osities, are now hardly
obtainable, being reserved for breeding
purposes. And while such keen compe-
titi0n exists for the birds themselves,
their produce is also eagerly sought for.
At a recent sale of ostrich feathers at
Port Elizabeth, a parcel of selected
bloods" realized the fancy price of
f67 los. per pound, or about l5s for each
separate feather.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05
a Dumb Dog.

Mr.. Darwin might turn to some ac-
count story which is told in the Ger
man papers about the manner in which
an intelligent dog adapted himself to
his condition. A deaf and dumb lady
living in German city had as a COM
panlon younger woman, who was also
deaf and dumb. They lived in a small
set OF rooms opening on the public cor
rldor OF the house. Somebody gave the
elder lady little dog as present. For
sometime, whenever anybody rang the
bell at the door, the dog barked to cali
the attention of his mistress, The dog
soon discovered, however, that neither
the bell nor the barking made any i'm
preston on the women, and he took to
the practice of merely pulling one of
them by the dress with his teeth, in or
der to explain that some one was at the
door. Gradually the dog ceased to bark
altogether, and foc more than seven
years before his death he remained as
mute as his two companions. When
expression by sound was useless, it fell
with him into absolute disuse.- London
Examiner,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05
4 COMMERCIAL traveller from s

A COMMERCIAL traveller from San
Francisco, named Lyman Carpenter, re-
Gently missed the trail on mountain in
Mendocino county, and despairing of
tlndlng his way out, committed suicide
to avoid the suffering of lingering
death. That is the statement which he
made in letter that has since been
found, giving directions for the settle.
ment of his affairs His body was found
In a river with stone tied to it and a
bullet wound in the head. The package
containing the letter also embraced his
account books and valuables.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05

FARMERS who have plenty of apples
of first class quality this year are out of
sorts because they cannot get any price
for them, while last year when "apples
were apples" they had none to sell, and
there is some discussion of the means of
making trees bear in the old years. One
proposition is to pick all the fruit from
trees as soon as the blossoms set. This
will, it is said, throw the trees into bear
ing next year, and it will then continue
to bear in the odd years. The work of
plucking the fruit from a young tree is
not great.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05

THE late "Hank" Smith, police COM
missioner of New York, in Tweed's
palmy days, and favorite member of
the ring, was supposed to have left an
estate of half. million. The recent sale
of his assets shows the way in which his
ill-gotten wealth was sunk. A batch of
notes, whose face value was $500, was
knocked down to the highest bidder for
$3.50. A lot of fancy stocks, whose par
value was $26S,O0O, was knocked down
at so. The " fortunes so quickly
made by the old ring generally vanished
almost as quickly.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05
Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE, September 28.-3 100 P. NJ
Flour-Dull choice spring extras at 3450@
AIS; extra choice at $l871a@5.00; common
at $4.00@425. Wheat-Tame No. at 96c;
No. 2 at 90@90Mc: No. at 7513c No. 2
seller October at 904 @91Hc; seller Novem-
Der at 92@93c seller December at 93@93 re.
Corn-Dull at 35Mc. Oats-Quietat 10 re.
Rye-Tame at 45Kc. Barlev-Strong at
$1.0S for cash. seller November at SLIP;
seller December at $1.15; No. 3 at SIC. Pork
Dull at 1925. Lard-Dull at $3.50. Hogs
Quiet at S3.50@3.70.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05

A NEW YORK letter to the Buffalo
Courier says Mr.. Charles O'Conor CLOCKS
quite as well as before his wonderful
battle with death, when the doctors gave
him up and he took the fight entirely
into his own hands. Mr.. OConor was
always delicate in appearance and is 50
still, but IS the issue of his contest with
death proved, he has constitution of
wonderful elasticity and recuperative
power. He is now entirely out of ac-
tive practice, but he occasionally acts as
counsel in important cases, combining
himself exclusively to an examination
of the law, and never appearing in
court"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05

PRESIDENT WHITE, of Cornell, says
the French exposition is a greater sue
cess than most people imagine, but its
most pleasant feature to him was the
American exhibit. He says Americans
and French Republicans were greatly
concerned about the troubles attending
the late presidential election in the
United States, the latter fearing the
effect of a second civil strife here would
have on their own republic. He thinks
Bismarck made a mistake when he I'M
dertook to suppress Socialism in Ger
many. The better way was to let it die
out of itself,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05
THE MARKETS.
New York.

NEW YORK, September $500 P. M
Cotton-Unchanged Flour-Dull; receipts
$4,000 bbls; sales 10000 bbls. Wheat
Dull; receipts las, 900 bus; sales $1,000 bus /;
No.. 2 winter red seller October at $1.07N
Rye-Steady western heavy; state steady
Corn-Shade lower; receipts 10000 bus; sales
10000 bus at 4SH@5Oc for western mixed
Barley-Quiet. Oats-Quiet and steady !;
receipts $4,000 bus; sales $4,000 bus at 27@
&c for mixed western; white unchanged.
Pork-Heavy at 1896. Lard-Quiet and I'M
changed. Whisky-At $1.0S@l.09. Petro-
leum-Crude at SIC; refined at 10c. Coal
Firm. Leather-Steady at 20@21 re.
Wool-At 29@45c.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05

Mrs. MACKEY has been a great pur-
chaser of jewels at the exhibition in
Paris. She has bought parure of dia-
monds, consisting of a diadem, brooch
and pendants, bracelets, ring and ear
rings. The parure is ornamented pro-
fusely with blue sapphires and termi-
mates with a handsome pearl. The
center sapphire is valued at 100000
francs, and the entire parure at $4,000
francs. Also necklace of brilliants
terminating in briolet drop valued at
$4,000 francs.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05
WASHINGTON.

The secretary of the treasury on the 9th
inst received an anonymous communica-
ton from Boston inclosing $500, to be
placed to the credit OF the conscience fund.
Gov. HAMPTON having requested that the
state authorities be allowed to collect United
States internal revenue taxes in South Caro-
lima, on account of the great difficulties ex-
perienced by the revenue officers in the
performance of that duty. Commissioner
Raum, to whom the matter was referred
replies that the proposition cannot be en-
tertained.
The president has appointed Thos. B.
Ellis, of Brooklyn, Indian agent at Fort
Berthold agency, d. T., L. NJ. Kelly, of
Elgin, ILL.,, at Los Pinos agency, Col, and
Jos. A. Stephen, of La Porte, Ind, at Stand
ing Rock agency.
HON. ELLIS SPEAR has rendered his resiq.
nation as commissioner of patents, to take
effect October 81. Secretary Schurz has not
yet formally accepted it, but will do so and
grant the usual thirty days leave of absence.
1t is understood the position has been
offered to ex-Congressman Halbert E. Paine.
of Wisconsin, but he has not accepted.
THE president has returned from his
western trip. He expresses himself much
pleased over his receptions, private and pub
lie, and is particularly gratifed with the
evidences of the restoration of prosperity.
THE secretary OF war having received in.
formation to the effect that the Howard
Association of New Orleans has some $500
600 on hand, and that they are not in need
of funds there to relieve the yellow fever
sufferers, has ordered an investigation in
regard to the matter, and has also suspend
ed his order of rations for the relief of per.
sons suffering from fever
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05

THEingenuity of the New York liquor
dealers, in avoiding the law by turning
their places of business first into hotels /"
and next into pharmacies" having
proved only temporarily successful, they
are at their wits end what dodge to
adopt next. The Philadelphia Times
suggests that, as the law allows spirits to
be sold for manufacturing purposes, they
next put up the sign =" factory" and
plausibly argues: A mill is factory,
even if it be gin-mill. If questions are
asked as to the description of goods turn
ed out of such factories, the supplement-
a! sign may be displayed, 'Drunkards
made here And if this should not
prove satisfactory to every critical OBJ
server, still another might be erected =
to wit, Samples of our work inside ;"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05
An Incident at Memphis.

Annie Cook the woman who, after a
long life of shame, ventured all she had
of life and property for the sick, died
yesterday morning at Z o'clock of yellow
fever, which she contracted while nurs-
ing her patients. If there was virtue in
the faith of the woman who but touched
the hem of the garments of the Divine
Redeemer, then surely the sins of this
woman must have been forgiven her.
Her faith hath made her whole, made
her one with the loving Christ whose ex-
ample she followed in giving her life
that others might live. Amid so much
that is sorrowful to an agonizing degree,
so much that illumes the graces of a com
mon humanity, the example of this
brave woman stands by itself, singular
but beautiful, sad bat touching, the very
expression of that hope the realization
of which we have in the words, 4" mas
much as We have done it unto the least
of these, my servants, ye have done it
unto Me-" Out of sin, the woman, in
all the tenderness and trutAfulness of
her womanhood, emerged, TRANSPORTED
and purified, to become the healer, and
at last to come to the Healer of Souls,
with Him to rest forever. She is at
eoce.-Memphis Appeal.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05

THE New Zealanders are about to
spend a considerable sum of money in
acclimatizing the humble-bee, so as to
assist the agriculturists in cultivating
clover, and thus fertilize the plants as
they fly from one to another. For this
purpose, therefore, the humble-bee is
needed, but so far the nests sent out have
been destroyed. Attempts to acclimatize
the common bee in some hot climates
have SO far proved useless. After a short
period they quit the hives, and cannot
be enticed back.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05

SPEAKING of the harvest of cereals in
Europe, French paper says that in
Italy it is fair, in England, Spain and
Holland good, in the Danubian provinces
and portions of Turkey not the scene of
war, magnificent, and only fair in Rus
STA. The editor says that no advance in
the price of bread will be necessary, and
with their usual importations neither
man nor beast will suffer for the want of
food
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05

AN extraordinary explosive called
tonite or cotton-powder, the product of
gun-cotton and nitric acid, treated in a
peculiar manner, has been recently in
vented, 1t is cheaper than gun-cotton,
and weight for weight it is thirty per
cent. stronger; and it occupies the same
space as dynamite-the power of which
it surpasses, without its terrible danger
and only two-thirds the bulk of gun
cotton. Yet, strange as it may appear,
a cartridge of tonite is no more likely to
catch fire from flame than a piece OF
soap, which it very much resembles.
When actually set on fire it burns as
slowly and harmlessly as a torch, its
great explosive powers being manifested
only by use of a illuminate.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05
FOREIGN.

LONDON, September 2S.-12 80 P. M
Liverpool wheat market opens quiet; white
wheat depressed, whilst there is good de-
mand for red. Floating eargoes steady.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE Missouri car company suffered loss
OF 100000 by fire on the night of the Goth
inst.
AT Providence, r. l., on the night of the
Goth, while Walter NJ. Green and family
were at the Opera House, the house was
robbed of diamonds and jewelry valued at
$4,000.
MRS. ANNA MITCHELL, colored, was brut.
ally murdered near Troy, Ohio, on the 9th.
The body was horribly mutilated, some
twenty cuts being afflicted. The husband
is the supposed murderer, and the motive
jealousy.
The whaling bark Legal Tender, which
has arrived at San Francisco from the Arc
tic regions, reports the bark Florence Haw-
anan, and the brig W. H. Allen stove by ice
off Point Barrow. The bark Sea Breeze,
when last seen, was leaking badly. The two
first are probably total loss. Crews are
all rescued. The fleet had gone eastward.
MAN named Green had both his arms
blown off by the premature discharge of a
cannon at Monmouth, H., on the 10Th.
Z. w. PHILLIPS, of Delavan, Wis, a
prominent citizen and noted sportsman
suicided by hanging, on the Goth.
JAMES RUSSELL, a negro rapist, was
lynched by the citizens of Murfreesboro,
Tenn, on the Goth.
IN Marion, Ala, on the night Of the oath,
over eleven business houses burned. Loss
900.
The body of an unknown man was found
hanging to tree, in the western suburbs of
St. Louis, Mo-, on the 10Th. Evidently a
case of suicide.
By boiler explosion at the School Slate
Factory, at Allentown, Pa, on the oath in
slant, Frank Kennel, engineer, was instant
ly killed, ex-constable VIM. Hunt badly
wounded, several others injured, and the
engine house and wash house completely
wrecked.
Hon. ADDISON LAFLIN, ex-member of
congress and naval officer of the port of
New York during Grants administration,
committed suicide at Fitchburg, Mass, on
the oath, by hanging himself in the garnet
of his house.
SEVERE storm in Indiana, on the 25th
instant unroofed houses, blew down the
new Presbyterian church and played havoc
generally, at Lebanon, Ind, 80 miles north
of indianapolis, Damage may reach $4O,-
600. No loss of life reported.
LEONARD SIHLER. a Toledo, Ohio,
butcher, who had been drinking heavily for
two weeks past, shot himself through the
heart, with revolver, in a saloon, on the
morning of the 3d. producing instant
death.
THE body of woman and newly born
babe was found in the woods near Indian
| apolis, Ind, on the 22d. The remains were
Identified as those of the wife of VIM. Mer.
rick, livery stable keeper. Merrick was
| arrested. The inference is that, by the aid
| of accomplices, he murdered the woman,
and, in the struggle, the child was born.
THREE little children-Joseph Toney,
Charles Steps and Polly Brooks were killed
at Kansas City on the Goth, by the caving in
of gravel bank.
CHRIST. PRETEN shot his wife and then
himself at Cincinnati Oh the 21st. Cause,
domestic difficulty. Both are dead.
THE office of the Kansas City horse rail-
way company was robbed on the 21st of
81, 900 in money and $21 900 in bonds.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-05

THERE will be at the great interna-
tional dairy fair at Gilmore's Garden,
New York city, commencing December
1, under the auspices of the American
Dairyman's Association, the Northwest
ern Dairyman's Association, and the
National Butter, Cheese and Egg Asso-
citation. There will be an extensive ex-
of dairy products and implements. Ten
thousand dollars in premiums will be
awarded for the best butter and cheese
exhibited. Any desired information
may be obtained by addressing Colonel
L. NJ. Littler, secretary of the general
executive committee of the international
Dairy Fair, New York city.