The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-03-02

AhS VI thS 1ceh.
TIM subcommittee of the house COM
mittee on territories, on the 18th INST, re-
ported adversely to the full committee on
the pending bill, providing for the estab-
lishment of the territory of Pembna.
THE secretary of the navy on the eth
inst. officially announced the death OF ex-
secretary Gideon Welles, and ordered the
department to be draped in mourning.
Similar action was taken by the war depart.
ment in respect to the memory of ex-secre-
tary Conard.
THE committee on coinage, weights and
measures directed the preparation of a bill
to punish persons for passing notes eirculat-
ing as currency which may be defaced by
printing or writing upon them advertise
ments or otherwise, and also providing
against the DETACHMENT of coins. The
penalty on conviction is fine of 81 600 or
one years imprisonment, or both, at the dis
erection of the court.
THE president, on the 9th inst, appointed
as honorary commissioners to the Paris ex-
position, Lloyd p. Baker and Eugene H.
Meyer, Kansas; Thomas I'll. Buckler and
Robert Mclean, Maryland.
THE WEST.
HON. G. w. HoUGH, father of Judge War
wick Hough, of the state Supreme Court,
and a prominent citizen of Missouri, died at
his home in Jefferson City, on the 18th inst.
PETER MYERS, an insolvent banker of
Carthage, Mo-, has been convicted at Neo-
sho, of felony in the management of his
business. He was sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary.
CAPTAIN A. III. BUGHER, has been APP
pointed trustee of the Cincinnati Southern
railway, vice j. Schaaf, deceased.
DEPUTY United States Marshals have re-
turned from an extensive raid among the
illicit distilleries in southern Missouri,
made under the personalsupervision of Col
lector Carroll. A large number of stills and
mash tubs were seized. The party also cap
tured John Decker, the leader of band OF
kuklux, who have terrorized Carter and
Ripley counties, preventing the collection OF
the revenue.
GEO. fl. LAUGHToN, president of the
western commercial travellers association
and representative of a st. Louis agricul.
tural implement house, is missing. His ac.
counts all right, and his family, who are
living in Alton, ILL.,, are in good circum-
circumstances. The association and the
house by which he was employed are max.
ing strenuous efforts to discover his fate.
The Atna iron works, at Ironton, Ohio,
suspended payment on the 18th inst. The
nominal assets are largely in excess of the
liabilities.
THE following public requests were made
by Mrs. John Deshler, who died at Column
bus, O., on the 10Th inst: $4,000 to the
charitable board of the Presbyterian church;
$25, 900 to the Columbus Benevolent Socie-
ty; $1,000 to the Orphans Home at Hamil-
ton; $4,000 and the family residence, valued
at $4,000, for the establishment of a Co
lumbus art gallery, and 100000 for the
building and support of the Columbus law
library and lectures.
CAPT. ABNER O'NEIL, one of the most
uccessful river men on the western waters,
died at Steubenville, o., on the 18th inst.
THE body of Mrs. Jane Pittman, of Gin
cinnati, who died on the 18th inst, is to be
cremated, the lady having expressed a wish
to that effect before her demise.
INDIANS are again committing depreda-
tons in the vicinity of Deadwood.
The California legislature does not sane
ton subsidy for the Texas Pacific railroad.
The great cattle king of the west John
W. lift, died at Denver, Col, on the 9th