The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-02-09


the east side of the island, where the storm
struck with greatest violence, fairly sweep
ing everything before it, About half a mile
east from the big hotel two shanties were
upset and two women and three children
killed. Three tidal waves followed in quick
succession, and the bodies were carried te
the sea. The tide was FIVE feet higher thar
at any other point. The brig Tucker, will
cargo of coffee valued at $4,000 is tota
loss at Asbury Park, n. j., and the schooner
Ella Haynes, salt laden, foundered with al
hands on Long Island sound.
The signal service observer at Kitty
Hawk, N C., on the 31st ult., report to til,
chief signal officer as follows: "The steam
ship Metropolis stranded on CurritucE
beach, three mics south Of Currituck light
house, and is total loss. There were two
hundred and forty-eight persons on board
and only about fifty are saved. The steamer
was bound for Para, Brazil, with laborers
for the new Brazilian railroad.
A SHAFT eaved in and killed three men al
Dubuque, on the 31st ult.
A FIRE in Philadelphia, on the evening oil
the 3lst ult., destroyed the wholesale dry
L. -. L.
Smith, on Chestnut street. The total loss is
estimated at S355,0OO.
AT New Orleans on the 30th ult., family
OF four, named Lambert, were fatally
poisoned by eating oysters fried in corn
meal, in which arsenic had been put to kill
rats.
ED. MURRAY, an Irish sketch artist, with
Healey's Hiberntan Minstrels, was drown
ed, at Evansville, Ind, on the 30th ult.
JACOB REICHMAN was fatally stabbed. in
brewery in New ork, by Theobald Flusk
while in drunken quarrel, on the 3Oth nit
Miss ELLA GITTINAs, of La Harpe, H.,
daughter of a wealthy farmer, died at the
Moore House, Burlington, Ia, on the Doth
from the effects of an abortion. Jacob
Paul, French quack doctor, has been ar.
rested for having committed the deed.
A DISPATCH from Pittsburg gives an &C.
count of the arrest of Frank Lynch, while
about to commit suicide by jumping from
a railroad bridge over the Allegnany river
After his arrest he confessed to the officers
that on the 18th of December he murdered
his little son, by throwing him into the
river, and that his present attempt at sui.
eide was the result of the prickings of a
| guilty conscience
DR. CHARLES O. MORTON, who was ar
rested in Toledo, o., about ten DAYS ago,
| for the crime of body-snatching, but was
sent to the pest-house on the statement of
several physicians that he was suffering from
smallpox, escaped on the 29th, while the
guards were at supper.
A FIRE on the fourth floors of lis and III
Worth street, New York, occupied by dry
goods and carpet commission merchants, in
| tlicted loss of about 800, 900.
j. II. RATCHELDER, of Rutland is charged
with uttering forged paper to the amount of
100000 or $4,000 on the Brandon National
Bank
SMITH, section foreman of the st. Paul
and Sioux City railway at Wilders station,
Mimi, was fatally shot by an unknown party
on the Goth.
A GANG of burglars, while at their work
in Cincinnati, on the 25th were disturbed
by some police. The burglars opened fire
and killed officer Kunkel. The murderers
escaped.
THE entire centre block OF the village of
Towsontown, about miles from Baltimore,
Md, was burned on the Doth. Loss $50, 600.
THE barn and outbuildings belonging to
Col McDaniels were burned at Princeton,
N j., on the night of the oath. Loss 81
/ 600.
/ JOHN W. CAER, of Mound City, ILL.,, sui
cided at Cairo, on the 25th.
WASHINGTON.
LEAvITT BURNHAM has been appointed
land commissioner of the Union Pacific
railroad, In place of Davis, resigned.
HE third assistant postmaster general
has tclegraphed to the postmaster at New
York that the trade dollar not being legal
tender, he is not obliged to receive them
! The secretary of the navy has examined
the training-ship Saratoga. He found the
hull sound, but the timbers of the upper
works rotten. Twenty thousand dollars are
required to repair the ship.
The president has appointed the follow
ing gentlemen as commissioners to test the
! gold and silver coinage of the United States
tor the year 1877: Professor Charles w.
Elliott, of Massachusetts; Professor Thomas
Egleston, jr., of New York; Professor Rob
/ y
Snowden, of Pennsylvania; Hon. j. Il. l..
! Curry, of Virginia; Rev. S. A. Bronson. OF
Ohio; Charles NJ. Walker, of Indiana
Hon. Newton Bateman, of Iowa: Charles
Beardsley, of Iowa, and Hon. John w.
Twiggs: of California. The ex-officio com.
mlssioners are the Judge of the United
State district court for the eastern district
OF pennsylvania, the comptroller of the cur
rency, and assayer of the assay office of
New York. The commission will assemble
at the mint, at Philadelphia, on the 18th day
of February next
The senate finance committee, on the
18th, authorized Senator Allison to offer,
with its sanction, as an amendment to the
silver bill, his provision for an international
money conference, to fix a common ratio
value of gold and silver. The determine
ton of this ratio, is not, however, a condi-
ton precedent to the provisions of the bill
On the contrary, the bill, if enacted, is to
go into effect Immediately, and the confer
ence, II agreed to, will be held subsequently,
HE popular subscription to the four per
cent. loan aggregated about $6O0,00O on the
2Sth, making total subscription to date of
about s., 100000 Eight banks were desig-
mated as depostors in addition to those al
realy engaged in receiving deposits under
the recent circular of the department.
A CONVENTION of state agricultural So
cletles will be held at Washington on the
third Tuesday of February
THE WEST.
1HE Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of