The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-11-23

New Haven, Conn, together WIN adjoining
buildings were destroyed by FIRE on the 9TH
inst. Loss 100000, insurance sl25,ooo.
THE dead body of D. B. Abraham, propri-
etor of livery stable. on West Lake streeI
Chicago, was found on the night OF the 9th
inst, lying in the middle of the road, near
the corner of Jackson and Green streets.
From letter on his person, it is believed
the cause was murder.
HICKORY RIDGE colliery near Shamokln,
Pa, has burned, throwing about 200 men
and boys out of employment.
A YAwI-BoAT named Julia was washed
ashore on Stony Point, Lake Ontario, on
the 4th instant. On 1t was the body OF
man, dashed to the seat and bearing the
marks of violence. The hands were also
lashed together.
THE schooner ]. P March was totally
wrecked at Good Harbor, Little Traverse
bay, Lake Michigan, on the 4th. Captain
Debbidge, the mate steward, and the stew
ards son were lost.
JACOB LAZARUS, bookkeeper for Louis
Finkelmeir, jeweler, New York city, dis
covered to be a defaulter, was found dead
in bed on the 4th inst, having shot himself.
THEODORE MUsTERMAN, farmer, is I'M
der arrest at Chetopa, Kansas, charged with
numbering a Mr.. Hunt and wife. Hunt was
shot through the right eye, and Mrs. HUT
through the left The latter revived suf
fciently before she died to state that Mus
terman committed the deed.
A PORTION of the Green knitting mill at
Amsterdam, N. Y, was consumed by fire on
the Sd instant. The falling walls crushed
the Schuyler & Blood mill adjoining, bury
ing three men in the shattered machinery.
Charles Luton lost leg, and two others
were slightly injured.
GENERAL.
WHILE Governor Hampton was hunting
near Columbia, S. c., on the 6th inst, his
mule became frightened, and the bride
breaking, the governor leaped from the sad
die. By the fall the governors right leg
was broken in two places the bones prortud-
ing and his ankle was badly hurt
THE liabilities of Dodd, Brown & Co., of
St. Louis, are $1,7OO,l1O; actual available
assets, $3.50, 500.
| On the 9TH inst. there were thirty ocean
steamers in the port of New Orleans, and
sufficient tonnage to carry a quarter of a
million bales of cotton.
! THE annual meeting of the Women's Ma
tional Christian Temperance Union con.
vened at Baltimore, Md, on the 9th instant.
One hundreda and eighty delegates were pres
ent from nineteen states, including all the
New England and Middle states and most of
! the western states.
DISPATCHES from Kansas say the great
three-story barn of John Taylor, in Dickin-
son county, some miles from Abilene, had
burned The barn was filed with grain,
agricultural implements, lumber wagons,
and twenty-five head of fine horses, all of
which were destroyed. Loss $4,000; no
insurance. Mr.. Taylor, the owner, was
formerly of the firm of John Taylor & Co.,
of Cincinnati, but for several years has been
a very extensive farmer.
The following members of the new Mae
Donald administration, Canada, have been
reelected by reclamation: Hon. S. L. Til.
ley, minister of finance; Hon. DIR. Upper,
public works; Hon. Jas. Macdonald, JUS
tice; Hon. ]. H. Pope, agriculture, and Hon.
John OConner, president of the council.
The convention of stone cutters of the
United States and Canada has protested
against the further continuance of the con-
Vict labor system.