The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-12-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES

GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.
JOHN TOMAS & Co., chemical manufac-
turers, Jarrow-on-Tyne, with paid.up can't
tai of 10000 have failed; assets will
probably realize p per cent Young, Listen
Co. ship owners insurance brokers and
sail makers have also failed. Liabilities
100000. Wilhelm, Preston & Co., of Ham
burg, one of the largest houses in the China
trade have suspended. James Forest &
Co., cotton spinners, of Blackburn, have
failed. Liabilities estimated at SIS, 900.
A DISPATCH from Thull states that the
Afghans are rapidly massing on the hills
commanding the Ghuznee and Cabnl roads
THERE have been violent storms through
out Central Italy, and the damage caused
by them is almost unparalleled. Travel on
all railways between Rome and the north is
interrupted.
IHE vatican, 1t is said, has decided on q
complete separation from the Ultramontane
party in the German reichstag.
The French budget committee reduced
the estimated expenditures of the next
budget 25,000,000 francs. The estimate for
the army is 549, 900, 900 francs, an increase of
100000 francs
GENERAL LoMAKINE's Russian expedi-
ton, marching from the Caspian sea in the
direction of Merov, Turkistan, by constant
hghtng, reached the upper Attuck valley,
a Russian corps, 5000 strong, also stands
on the road 20 Balka and Herat.
A TELEGRAM from Berlin states that Ger
many will occupy the whole Samoan archi-
pelago.
A PARIS correspondent states the car
has personally written in reply to Minister
addIngton's recent circular, declaring his
hrm intention to adhere to the treaty of
Berlin. This is considered a very hopeful
sign of peace, and also an indication of the
declining influence of Prince Gortschakoff.
A DISPATCH from ST. Petersburg saws the
Golos considers Lord BeaconsfeId's speech
pacihc, though it shows that the basis of his
policy is still enmity to Russia.
The Paris exposition was formally closed
on the afternoon of the 9th inst Receipts
since the opening -, 653, 746 francs
THE WEST.
COMPETITION in eastward bound passen.
ger rates, which it is asserted. have been
secretly cut for three or four months past,
have finally forced prices down to the low.
est figure known for years. At Cincinnati
on the 18th instant the Atlantic and Great
Western announced New York and Phila.
delphia tickets at $1O0 each, Pittsburg 81. 70,
with fares to some common points in Ohio
at nominal sum. At st. Louis the Van
dalla line cut rates to New York from S15
to $40 was Immediately followed by the
Wabash railroad.
AT GAINESVILLE, Ohio, early on the morning
OF the l4th instant, a policeman on the
bridge had his suspicious aroused at the
movement OF patty in a wagon and order
ed them to halt, but the driver whipped up
his horses and escaped. The officer procur-
ed assistance and followed them some four
teen miles, when the whole party Jumped
from the wagon and escaped to the woods
The vehicle was found to contain the bodies
OF four prominent citizens who had been
buried in Woodlawn cemetery during the
preceding week. Policeman Still received
pistol wound from the men in the wagon
during the chase.
DoDD BROWN & Co., the collapsed St.
Louis firm have accepted a compromise of
5213c on the dollar.
The ninth annual convention of the
Womau's Suffrage Association met at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 14th inst, with dele
gates from thirteen states present. The pro-
ceedings on the 14th were mainly of a business
character, and reports by state delegates,
showing the progress of the work in their
respective localities.
The national and international conven-
ton, held for the purpose of extending our
treign trade, especially to encourage a
reciprocal ade on the American continent
between Canada, the United States, South
American states, Mexico and Cuba. met at
Farwen Hall, Chicago, on the 18th instant.
Over three hundred delegates were present,
nearly every city in the Union being repre-
scented.
Two hundred and sixty-six miners were
discharged from the Consolidated Virginia
mine, Of which 1913 had been employed on
1850 foot level and 5S from $50 level
There are but three men left on each shift
on each level, to keep the works in order.
1t is said that the cost of extraction of ore
ttoo great to leave margin at present.
HENRY w. LARKIN, formerly one of the
proprietors of the Sacramento Union, died
at San Francisco on the 18th, aged 80.
JUDGE MEYER, of the Common Pleas
Court, at Canton, Ohio, on the 18th inst.
sentenced George Fessler, defaulting treas
urer of Stark county, to twelve years in the
penitentiary at hard labor, and to pay fine
OF 100000 and costs of prosecution.
n. B. JUDD, at one time chairman OF the
Illinois Republican central committee
collector of the port of Chicago, and minis
ter to Berlin under Lincoln, died at Chicago
on the 18th inst, aged 66 years.
\ SPECIAL from Winnipeg says a war
has broken out between the Sioux and
Blackfeet and Assiniboines Indian tribes.
Serious trouble is feared.
THE EAST.
A SUIT instituted by Peter Marie, Frank
A Otis, George Fearing, n. A. Cowdrey,
Robert L. Cutting, Jr., and Jacob Cromwell
against Cornelius X. Garrison, for So, 600,-
600 damages for the alleged violation eff an
agreement by Garrison for the reorgauiza-
ton of the Pacific railroad of Missouri, was
argued in the Supreme Court at New York