The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-06

In an affray at Elliotsville, Rowan county,
KY, on the Goth, between gang of fifteen
men, headed by one Fults, and Jake Brooks,
arising out of family feud, Brooks broth
er had his throat cut from ear to ear; Jake
was fearfully beaten. A number of others
were wounded.
AT Waltham, Mass, on the 27th., JAS
Larkin, while intoxicated, beat his mother
senseless with poker. Surprising her to
be dead he set fire to the house and jumped
into the river but the current bore him to
land, and ne was arrested. The fire was
extinguished; the mother, though severely
bruised, is likely to recover.
THE distillery of Jarvis Lord Co., near
Pittsfcrd, was burned on the 9th inst.
Loss 100000; insurance $4,000.
FIRE broke out on the Goth in the six
story marble front building, Nos. 261 to 267
Canal street, New York. The flames spread
with great rapidity and third alarm for the
fire engines was sent out, when, after two
hours hard labor the fire was got under con
troll Loss to occupants and on the build.
ing 100000. Insured.
BY an explosion of dynamite at Monte.
bella, short distance from Buffalo, n. Y,
on the Doth, Michael O'Rourke was killed
and John Lyon and Patrick Gilligan fatally
wounded.
| THE American Knife cOmpany's works at
Reynolds Bridge, Conn, was burned on the
25th inst. Loss about $4,000; insurance
$4,000.
GEORGE NJ. WEkNAN, Of Columbus, Ohio,
was shot and killed by his father, on the
night of the 25th inst., who committed sui
eide few moments later There had been
misunderstanding between the parties.
| THE most disastrous confagration in the
history of Philadelphia, transpired on the
25th inst. A large number of business
houses and private residences on Fourth
street were destroyed. Total loss in the
neighborhood of 81, 100000
THE room in the Washington House,
Washington, D. c., of John d. Bemo, an
Indian agent from the Indian territory, was
robbed of 81 800 in gold and silver which
Bemo had in trust.
THE English training ship for ordinary
seamen capsized in a snow squall off Dun
rose Head, on the Oath. Out of over 300
souls, but five were saved, and three of these
died of exposure soon after they were res
cued.
GENERAL.
| ABRAHAM MITCHELL, of Sedalia, Mo-, has
been rendered and accepted the position OF
general superintendent of the Missouri
Kansas and Texas railway, vice Il. B. Gar
ner, resigned. Mitchell has been connected
with the Illinois Central, as superintendent
from its first opening till very recently.
The Maryland house of delegates has
voted that the state is not responsible fol
the damages to property destroyed during
the strikers riots in Baltimore, it being an
occasion where the laws could not be en-
forced in due time to prevent the destruction
of property.
| LARGE contracts for quiDine recently
made in the American market are under
stood to be on the Russian government ac
count, and the price has rapidly advanced
| ARCHBISHOP LABAsHIDA, of the city oil
Mexico, has been created cardinal He
is the first Mexican cardinal ever appointed
! Up to late hour on the night of the 26th
nothing had been heard of Vance, the miss
ing ex-congressman. His friends are almost
certain that he has been foully dealt with
| Col. Vance has a case pending in the
Supreme Court, growing out of the imprison.
ment of a certain West Nirginian during
the war. This man has frequently uttered
threats against Vance's life, and an opinion
prevails that he has at last put them into
| execution.
! SIXTY-THREE bodies of victims of the
| Huron disaster, are on their way to
Annapolis for burial.
THE police commissioners of New York
! city have dissolved the police athletic club
in consequence of a disgraceful fight, on
the 23d, in front of the club rooms, Detec-
tives Muldoon and Adams and Prof. Miller
being the participants.