The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-08

of the Oath destroyed nine buildings Loss,
sc, 900: insurance, $4,000.
DR.. j. C. Cook was shot dead in his
house at Columbia, s. c., on the 23d, during
a quarrel with his brother-in-law, Charles
Martin, aged 20.
The Globe planning mills, Minneapolis,
Mimi, owned by A. NJ. Woodward, were
burned on the 23d, probably taking fire from
sparks from a locomotive. Loss, on the mill
and lumber, about$22, 600; insurance, $4,000
THE pleasure steamer Empress of India,
with a party of about eighteen persons on
board, became unmanageable and capsized
over dam on Grand river, at Gait, Ont,
on the 22d inst. All the passengers were
plunged into the river below. As yet only
one body has been recovered, that of Harry
Jafray, of the Gait Reporter newspaper.
Among the missing are Edward Wren, Ttos.
Elliott, Fred Kane, John Frazer, Jas. Mont
gomery, one of the proprietors of the boat,
Andrew Jackson and David Scott.-Later.
There were seventeen persons on board,
nine of whom were saved.
THE entire western portion of the city of
Denver, Col, was flooded by terrific rain
storm on the 3d. Seven bridges were
swept away, and large amount of property
destroyed. An unknown man, asleep in a
freight car. was drowned.
A KANSAS Pacific freight train, containing
eighteen cars, passed through the bridge
across Kiowa, burying with it John A.
Baker, engineer, and Frank Selden and John
Piatt, firemen, whose bodies have not been
recovered.
NINETEEN business houses in Clarksyille,
La, were destroyed by fire on the 22d inst.
Loss $4,000, with scarcely any insurance.
AN explosion of gas occurred on the 21st
inst, in the new wing of the Sydney mine
at Halifax. Six men were taken out dead
including Mr.. Greenwell, chief overseer.
| A PARTY of revenue men have just com
pleted fifteen days raid in Hickman,
Perry, Hardin, Wayne, Giles and Lawrence
counties, Tenn. Nine illicit distilleries
were destroyed and several arrests made.
A HEAVY hail storm visited sections OF
West Virginia on the Goth inst, doing much
damage.
THE Corning, Cowanesque and Austrian
railroad car-shops at Corning, N. Y, burned
on the Goth. Loss $50, 600; insurance, sos,
| 600.
AT Mitchellville, KY., on the 18th inst.
two white men entered the house of John
Groves, ESQ.,, prom inent citizen, overpow
cred Mrs. Groves and ravished her person
The populace are out en- naasse securing tn.
country.
GENERAL.
THE New York Grand Jury, have ordered
indictments against the board of health o
New York City, and the board of aldermen
Against the former for wiIlful neglect in is
suing permits to offensive manufactures
and against the latter for neglect of duty il
issuing permits for street distractions.
THE Pennsylvania legislature adjournet
sine die, yesterday.
THE Bennett polar ship will soon sail TO
Havre, where a temporary crew will b
shipped, when she will leave for San Fran
cisco. Bennett hopes the expedition viii
sail for the north in June, 1879. 1t will g
by the route through Behring's Straits.
FRANCISCO PERALTo rode 3O5 miles in
hours and 81 minutes, at Fleetwood park, OF
10 seconds, the quickest ten miles % min
utes, II seconds.
THE Grand Lodge of Knights of Honor
in session at Nashville the past week, cleo
ted j. III. Cummings, of Boston, suprem
dictator, and selected Boston as the place o
the next meeting.
JUDGE RIGHTON, of Louisiana, has re
fused a manddn,us to compel school boar,
to admit colored children to the schools.
THE Presbyterian convention at Pittsbur
passed resolution on the Goth asking news
papers to draw it mild in their accounts O
criminal doings.
GUsTAvE r. FABRE, hardware merchant
| Montreal, has failed. Liabilities 500, 900
assets nominally more.
In glove fight at New York, on til
night of the 18th inst, between Nike Done
van, of Chicago, and Professor Mcclellan
of New York, Mcclellan was lady punish
ed. Seven rounds were fought, in fiftee
minutes, when McClellan's second elaine
a "foul," which the referee would not allow
They then withdrew their man, and the re
cree awarded Donovan the fight and stakes