The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-31

Private Land Claims and District of Colum
bia, and Williams occupies a place on the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, where he has
been for two Congresses.
The senate committee on patents have
set apart the 10Th inst, for the hearing of
arguments on a general revision of patent
Office laws.
The house committee on banking and
currency has decided to recommend the
passage of Ewing's bill repeating the third
section OF the specie resumption act of Jan.
uary II, 1875. The committee IL divided as
follows: In favor of the bill: Buckner,
Ewing, Geates Hartzell Bell, Fort and
Philips, :; opposed, Hart, IIardenbergh,
Chittenden and Eames, T. The minority
argued that time should be allowed for dis
cussion of that measure.
! The president has nominated John
Walsh, of Pennsylvania, envoy extraordi-
nary and minister plenipOtentiery to Great
| Britain. Hei a merchant of Philadelphia
and brother Of William Walsh, late of
the beard of Indian commissioners He is
about y years of age and has made large
fortune in the sugar importing business
tie is better known to the public as presi-
dent of the board of finance at the late CEN
tennial exhibition, and one of the most
active promoters of the success of the ex-
hibition.
HE whole Mexican question is to be re-
ferred to Congress. The President will
probably send a special message upon the
subject, in which, it is understood, he will
| conhne himself to a recital of the facts re-
ported to his administration concerning
| Mexican affairs
THE WEST.
HON. EDWARD PIER the first settler upon
the site where Fond du Lac, Wis, now
stands, died on the I'd inst. He had filled
many responsible offices in the state and
county.
AT San Francisco Cal, committee of
citizens has been appointed to solicit sub
serlptions for the benefit of the destitute
people OF the city; also TO organize free
labor exchange, and otherwise consult the
interests of the unemployed.
MEssRs Ives 4 PORTER, proprietors of
the Bates House, Indianapolis, Ind, filed a
voluntary petition in bankruptcy, on the
LIST inst.
SENATOR MORTON died at indianapolis,
Ind, at ) zoo o'clock on the afternoon of the
LIST inst
AT a meeting of railroad men at Chicago.
on the 3lSt ult.. some forty roads were repre
scented by the general managers and general
freight agents. Propositions were submitted
looking to an equitable division of the west
bound tonnage among the different connec-
TONS or the trunk lines, but no agreement
was reached
A PASSENGER train on the Utah Central
railroad, coming south, when near FARMING
ton, | tab, on the 30th ult., was lifted from
the track and turned upside down bv the
wind. Two passenger cars and a baggage
car were turned over Goals from the
stoves scattered through the ears, but the
fires were put out before damage was done.
Several persons were badly hurt but are ex-
pected to recover
ADVICEs from Stka state that the revenue
steamer Oliver WOlcott arrived on the eth
inst, few days previous to the grand now
WOW of Sitka Jack and his tribe. The citi
zens think the timely arrival of the cutter
was the means Of preventing the Indians
curing their drunken revelry from murder
ing the whites. There is much alarm among
the citizens, nearly all of whom are too poor
to abandon what property they have and
leave the country.
y JOINT union depot will be erected at
Denver, Col, 10y the Denver and Rio
Grande, the Denver, Park South and Pacific,
and the Colorado Central railroads