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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
Disastrous RlaZes.

The Catholic, Servian and Jewish districts
and the commercial quarters of Seraiiyo,
Bosnia, were destroyed by fire on the 8th
inst. Over thousand Buildings were burn.
ed, including Catholic and Servan churches,
and 10000 persons made homeless. Dam.
age enormous.
A blaze at Orilla, Ont, on the 9Th inst,
burned about twenty buildings in the heart
of the town. 1t extended from the corner
of Message and Peter streets to Grifins store
On the west and up to and including the
Albion hotel on the south. Loss 800, OCO.
Kusterers' brewery at Grand Rapids.
Mich, was scorched $4,000 worth on the
9th inst.
Chatenois, near Strasburg, was half
burned on the 9Th inst. Two thousand
peasants are homeless. Loss one million
marks.
The German theater, owned by DR..
Highway, cofner Vine and Mercer streets.
Cincinnati, suffered about $1,000 damage
by fire on the 4th inst.
The town OF Volcano, West Va, was laid
in ruins on the 4th inst. Everything is q
total loss, the oil from exploded oil tanks
running through the streets setting fire to
everything infammable. The total loss
will reach $751; Go, With an insurance of
about $4,000. The prospects for rebuild
ing the village are not favorable.
The government store, warehouse and
stock, at Fort Meade, about twenty-five
miles north of Deadwood, burned on the Sd
inst. The fort was built year ago and was
in command of Gen. Sturgis. The stock and
buildings of Fanshaw & Co., post traders,
also burned. Loss estimated at $50, 900; in
surance $500
At Houlton, Maine, on the Sd inst, fire
destroyed seventeen buildings, entailing a
loss of $4,000; insurance $12, 200.
Letter &, Appleton's grist, saw and plain
ing mills at Black Creek, Wis, twenty-five
miles east of Green Bay, was totally destroy
ed by fire On the I'd inst. Loss $4,000.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
AFrtxhtful Tumble.

On the 9th inst, while six masons were
on the scafolding of the dome of the new
Music hall, corner of Randolph and State
streets, Chicago, sixty feet above the
ground, the entire scafolding with
premonitory crack, fell through
the floors to the ground floor,
where a five hundred pound iron plate,
that was being placed in the dome broke
through the timbers and crushed into the
cellar. Four of the workmen went down
with the frail timber, and were terribly in
jured. Their names are: Christian loft,
Franz Miller, John Schultz and Otto Hoss.
mann.
LATER.-Two of the injured workmen
died On the 9TH inst. The others win re-
cover,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
UnfaithfuI Servants.

Samuel j. French, money order clerk in
the postoffice at Auburn, NY, was arrested
for ritling letters on the Sth inst.
Edward P. Paige, formerly chief clerk
of the Vermont Central railroad freight
Office, at Burlington, VT, has been arrested
on charge of embezzling $l7 200.
Francis S. Maybin, Philadelphia insur-
ance agent, has disappeared. tits rumored
he failed to meet accommodation paper to
the amount of $4,000.
James w. Walsh, for seven years letter
carrier in Detroit, Mich, was arrested on
the I'd inst, charged with robbing the mails.
Walsh made a full confession in writing.
he made it practice of
rifing registered letters, etc., for the past
two years.
Chevallier Juthonville, for more than
thirty years a cashier in the Canal bank of
New Orleans, is a defaulter for the sum
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
Death on the Rail.

Five persons were killed aud eleven seri-
ously and forty slightly injured by railway
accident between Nancy and Vezelize,
France, on the 18th.
On the evening of the 4th inst, train
an into team containing Pierre Goudreau
and two lsdies-Rose Martin and Celina
Morin-sll French, and of Lewiston, Meat
the crossing in Lisbon. All were instantly
killed. They were returning from we'd
ding excursion.
During storm at Doylestown, Pa, on
the Goth, the accommodation and Bethlehem
express collided on the North Pennsylvania
branch of the Reading railroad, completely
wrecking both trains and severely injuring
q number of passengers.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
THE MARKETS.
Reported by CHANDLER, BROWN & Co., Commissto
Merchants, Milwaukee and Chicago
New York.

NEW YORK, August 9-3 100 P. Motion
Quiet at II $40 for middling uplands
Flour-In buyers favor; receipts $4,000
bbls; sales 5000 bbls; extra state at $3.50;
extra western at $4.30@465; rye -four very
firm at So. 40@3,90. Wheat-Spring steady !;
winter irm and quiet; receipts ,235,OOO bus !;
sales 1e, 900 bus No. 2 red seller October at
$1.0e. Rye-Quiet and firm; Coo for No. 8
western; Csc Tor state. Corn-A shade
easier and quiet; receipts 10000 bus sales
$1,000 bus; prices unchanged. Barley
Dull and nominal. Oats-Firm; receipts
81 900 bus; sales $4,000 bus at 331z@35c for
mixed western. Pork-Steadier and un-
changed. Beef-Quiet. Lard-Firmer at
S575E. Butter and Cheese-Unchange
Whisky-At $1.07. Sugar-At 6H@7c.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16

1t is stated that of the 2,6O8 emigrants
who left Switzerland last year quite
80 Fer cent. came to this country
Most OF these persons are skilled me-
ehanic, and the impulse that drove them
from home probably was the depression
OF important Swiss industries beneath
the competition from this country. One
thing the protective policy tends to do is
to draw hither dextrous workingmen
from all parts Of the world.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
The Indians,

The Indian agent at Flat Bend agency,
Montana territory, reports the massacre of
eight Nez Perces by party of supposed
eros Ventres.
Gen. Terry, commanding the department
headquarters at st. Paul, Mimi, has re-
ceived dispatch from Gen. Miles, dated
Camp on Rock Creek, July IS. Major
walsh, of the Canadian mounted police,
accompanied by Sioux chief, Long Dog,
came into camp and stated that Sitting Bulls
whole camp, FIVE to eight thousand people,
comprising several hostile tribes, had moved
north to Swan lake, about eighty miles
rom the line where they had determined to
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
The ZuIus Go TO Pieces.

A Cape Town dispatch says: Chief Morisi
has submitted the present trouble with
Basutos, therefore it is settled, but much
discontentment still exists. 1t is feared
there will be a severe famine next year in
Zululand, ss it is now seed time and no
land is being sown, while much seed has
been destroyed and many cattle seized.
King Cetywayo when leaving the battlefield
of Ulundi told his chiefs to look to their
own safety and seek terms of peace IS best
they could. His army is broken up, the
nation dispersed and the king a fugitive.
Zululand will probably be divided into
three or four separate principalities, each
under the rule of an independent noble.
Cetywayo's brother, Cham, will receive his
own territory under this arrangement.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
THERE is no printers strike in Oh

THERE is no printers strike in Chi
cago, but the papers there have serious
provocation. One Of them was recently
made to allude to the holy of holes .
as the baby of babies" and another re-
terred to the panic-stricken citizens of
Memphis as g the prairie-chicken citi-
zens." This is almost as bad as the work
OF the telegraph in sending Taylor's
Heart of Leal! Can this be dying?"
over the wires as "Heart of Leadl Can
this be lying?" or the New Haven
paper which, in publishing a sermon.
made the clergyman cry, "Is there no
barn in Guilford?"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
Fatal Exnl0Sf0na-

At Albany, N. Y, on the 9th instant,
while the engine Sacramento was being
guaged an explosion occurred killing Thos.
Smith, Frank Murphy, machinists, and
John Mcintyre, fireman. VIM. Harlow,
fireman, Wynant Crannel, engineer, and
Robert B. Miller, were bruised and scalded.
One of the boilers in Montague, Potter &
Co.'s mills, at Turn er's Falls, Mass, ex
ploded on the evening of the I'd inst, kill.
ing Daniel Leary and wounding two other
men.
On the I'd instant, at Duralgo, Spain, a
powder magazine exploded, killing fourteen
persons.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
SuffOcated I'm a Wa 1t.

At late hour on the night of the LIST
inst, Mrs. John Howe, wife of a prominent
business man of Cincinnati, and her servant
Anna Brown, fell through floor into
vault at their residence in Covington, and
before they could be rescued, both were
sufocated. Mr.. Howe, hearing their cries,
ran out and jumped down to their relief,
and was taken out insensible, but was re-
suscitated by vigorous means.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16

EX-MINIsTER SToUGHToN, in an
interview, says that it cost him double
his salary to live in st. Petersburg, and
1t cost American ministers is much to
live in Paris and London. At Berlin
the minister could live easily within his
salary, because at that the Prussian cap
ltal there were no entertainments; but
1t was different at the capitals men
toned. He says that the actual work
required of the American minister at St.
Petersburg would not occupy one week
in q wear
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
Love on q Peanut Shell.

A Hartford fruiter upon opening 8
bag OF peanuts recently found a pea
nut with tag attached on which was
written: "Open the nut and take out
the slip of paper; give it to the prettiest
girl IN your place and request her to do
as the nat says. The writer is a man of
means and connected with large
establishment in Norfolk, Va, Inside
the nut was slipon which was written
F." Whoever finds this nut give it to a
pretty girl and request her to write to
T. o., box, 123, Norfolk, Va, for mutual
benefit: Am a young business man.
NeW Haven Palladium.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
A Texas Matinee.

Palapinto county, Texas, was the scene of
bloody and decisive battle between a
sheriff's posse and the Jones gang of horse
thieves, on the 9TH instant. Larkin Jones
was killed, John Jones wounded, and Enoch
Jones and two other thieves captured.
Jack Morris, who was left to guard the
wounded Jones, assisted the latter to escape,
for which Morris was arrested. Twenty-Five
masked men overpowered four guards of
the Palapinto jail, obtained the keys under
threats to burn the jail, and shot Morris
dead in his CELL
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16

CONSIDERABLE excitement has been
caused in Lyons by discovery which
purposes to give to fax all the qualities
and appearance of silk. 1t has long
been known that silk is soluble, not only
IN powerful acids, but also in soda and
chloride of zinc, and it is said that these
qualities are made use of in the new
process. A company is being formed
with capital of $6,OOO,OOO for the
manufacture of the new textile.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
The Death Roll.

Alexandra Hass, an eminent French nistor.
ical and portrait painter, is dead, aged 70.
DR.. D. Adere, one of the oldest citizens
of Cairo, ILL.,, and well known from his con-
nection with important political offices be-
fore the war, died on the 9Th inst.
Samuel S. Foss, 40 years old, and proprie.
tor of the Woonsocket (R. H. Patriot, died
on the 9th inst.
Keith Johnson, the leader of the expe-
dition to explore the head of Lake Nyassa,
died OF dysentery on the 2Sth of June, at
Berobero, $50 miles inland from Doressa-
laam. The expedition will be continued by
Thompson, scientific assistant of Johnson's.
Chas. Fechter, the actor, died at Quaker.
town, Pa, on the 9Th inst.
Captain Charles B. Church, prominent
man of Memphis, Tenn, died at Blount
Springs, Ala, on the 9Th inst, of paralysis.
L. L. Morris, well-known Dutch come.
dian, died at Cape Girardeau, Mo-, on the
5th inst.
James Madison Porter, son of former
secretary of war, and Past Grand Master of
the Masonic Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania,
died at Easton, Pa, on the Sd instant.
Col. Thomas ]. Treadwell, of the ord
nance department, died at New York city
on the I'd instant.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16

HE Russian government is now en-
gagged in digging a ship canal from Cron-
stadt to st. Petersburg, with an intent
to give the latter city chance at mari
time trade. The waterway is to have a
depth of twenty feet, and the promise is
that it will be so far completed by this
time next year that ships of large size
can go up to St. Petersburg.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
milwaukee,.

MILWAUKEE, August $500 P. M.-F1our
Very quiet and prices unchanged; good
to choice spring at $425@4.50; standard
spring at $3.70@4.00. Wheat-Dul but
firmer; No. 2 cash at S6H@S7c; No. at
78Kc; No. at 731le; No. seller Septem-
Der at 86A@871sc; seller October at S6A
@S64c. Corn-Dull at 3334c. Oats-Tame
at 235sc. Barley-Steady at CSC for seller
September and 46c for No. 3 cash. Rye
Quiet at 49c. Pork-Steaay at $3.50 for
cash. Lard-Quiet at $5.40 cash.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
Chicago.

CHICAGO, August 81 80 P. M.-Wheat
Firm and higher; No. red at o3Ac; No.
spring at ne for cash and seller August
85c bid for seller September; S5Ac for seller
October Corn-Firmer; 33Ac bid for cash;
1890 for seller August; 81 for seller Sep
TENDER. Oats-Weak and easier at 2311c
for cash; 235sc for seller August. Rye-At
49Kc. Barley-Nomina. Pork-Eirm and
higher at $500 for cash and September;
1926 for seller October. Lard-Strong and
higher at S. 40 for cash $40 bid for seller
September; 1915 for seller October. Whisky
AT S1.O4. Hogs-Receipts $500 head
light, scarce and firm, &c higher at So S0@
3.S5; shipping heavy at $3.25@3 so; packing
at 3D. OOGI3, 90,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
Never Been Signed.

Latest from Abysrinia states the treaty
of peace between King John of Abyssinia
and the khedive of Egypt has never been
signed by the former. The king has or.
dered $4,000 men to take possession of the
various districts. Egyptian garrisons con-
sist of 200 men at Massawah and 200 at
Semitic, but Colonel Gordon has left Khar.
town with 5000 men and twelve cannons
for Semitic
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
THE HEBREWS at BABYLON
BY ALEXANDER CLARK.

The river flowed /; the willows stopped
The lonely Hebrews crOuched and wept !;
The people Knocked the mouTneIs dropped
Over the memories they kept.
No child of Israel smiles or sings
Or smites the harp with cunning hand
We will not speak the sacred things
OF home, here in the strangers land.
Remember Zion once a again |
Remember Zion, Lord /" they cry;
Repent thee, Lord, and turn our pain ln
Silent the broad bright waters lie,
Silent the shining armament,
Silent the towers in glory set,
Silent red Edom in his tent
Sleeps but the Lord will not forget !
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
Western Itenss.

Fort Buford special says: Sitting Bull
was present and directed the fight with
Miles on the 18th, and one of his brothers
was killed.
Mexican troops are pursuing the Indians
who have carried off $50 horses and killed
many persons during the past week.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16

The British revenue returns reflect
the times. manufactured tobacco
fell off nearly two million pounds; tea
increased by six and a half million
wine decreased one and half
million gallons; brandy, nearly one hun.
dred and eighty-two million gallons. The
of tea and cocoa has largely
and steadily increased of late years.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
A valuable Pearl.

Master Morton S. Roberts, son of J. A. G.
Roberts, of Cincinnati, recently found a
large pearl in mussel shell in the Miami
river, near that place. On the 9TH inst. he
received $3.50 for it from New York, where
it had been sent for sale.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
Epidemic.

President Plinkett of the Tennessee state
board of health, received dispatch from
John Johnson, superintendent of quaran-
tine at Memphis, announcing that the local
board at Memphis had declared the fever
epidemic and warning all absentees against
returning to the city.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16

TEXAS is seven times as large as Ohio,
but they don't appear to make half as
much row about official positions. The
fact is, when a man talks too much with
his mouth in Texas they hang him up to
dry or skewer him with sudden
streaks of daylight.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16

of $4,000. Eighteen months ago, dis
crepancy was discovered between the ac-
count of the Canal bank and their New
York correspondent. The bank made the
amount good, but the matter was only
brought to light by recent investigation.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
EaiIHHGS.

C. Hyllested & Co., New York, cotton
brokers, have failed. Liabilities it is
thought are not over $4,000.
The Exchange Bank, of Canada, doing
business at Montreal, suspended on the 18th
instant.
Lorrain & Co, merchants, London and
East Indies, have failed. Liabilities f42-
600.
Bush fires are raging in Bedford, Hinch.
enbrook and Olden townships, Ontario. In
the first named family named Patterson is
missing, and many farmers made homeless.
George Wall d Co., of Colombo and Lon
don, have failed. Liabilities 100000.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
Death I'm a Mime.

Water burst into the Ludwig Gleuck
mine at Zaboze GOLFERS, Prussia. At last &C.
counts two corpses had been recovered and
eleven more were supposed to be in tn e pit
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
VARIOUS TOPICS.

The discovery of enormous deposits OF
iron ore of the best quality among the
farms on the Ohio river, about eight
miles from Pittsburg, has caused big ex-
element in that region.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
Killed af a Raru Raising.

Joseph Wighton and VIM. Richardson
were killed and nine persons seriously in
jured by the falling of timbers at barn
raising at Durham, Ont, on the 8th inst.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
More Hard Luck tor English Farmers

The severest storm for many years ragged
on the night of the I'd inst. The storm was
attended by fall of hail stones, some five
inches in circumference. The damage to
glass around London amounts to thousands
of pounds sterling. In great part of Bed
fordshire the hay crop is completely swept
away and many cattle drowned. Newman
ket and neighborhood are flooded. The
rainfall in Buckinghamshire is estimated at
seventy tons per acre. Damages by floods
and lightning are also reported from Cam
bridge, Norfolk, Guilford, Lester, Bath and
Monguth. The storm was terribly severe in
the valley of the Thames. Immense injury
is done to growing crops. Damages by rain,
hail and foundations are irreparable this
season The loss OF live stock is serious.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
Poisoned.

4 family of seven persons, named Mo-
nette, residing at Port Wan, Quebec, were
poisoned on the 4th instant, from eating
bread which had been standing in the same
place with Paris green. Three were dead at
last accounts
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
GElInWrQpE.

The steamship Louis David, from Ant
werp, for Naples, was wrecked during fog
off Ushont, France; q persons drowned.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
FOREIGN.

LONDON, August 9.-12 80 P. M.-Liver-
pool wheat market opens slow; spring
quoted at 8s@8s Cd floating cargoes steady |;
on passage quiet; good cargoes mixed
American corn, off coast, 23s Sd. Arrivals
off coast for orders, wheat, small.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
There Is Room for More.

One hundred and thirty cutters and fami.
lies arrived at New York on the 9th inst,
and SO German and English cutters are ex-
pected later. Sheffield men say there are
$4,000 men there to do the work 1000 men
can do.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
Neck Broken.

Henry Rhineback, of Pittsburg, dived
from the bathing landing at Martha's Vine
yard, Mass, on the 9TH inst, and had his
neck broken by striking on the bottom.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
Drowned.


George P. Rogers and Walter P. Slicer,
both of San Francisco, were drowned by
the upsetting of boat while fishing in
Lake San Andreas, Cal, on the Sd inst.
Lewis Mayer, of Philadelphia, and Joseph
c. Jones, of Coshohocten, were drowned
while bathing at Atlantic City on the 4th
inst. An unknown man was drowned while
bathing at Cape May.
A boat containing four picknickers and
two Italian musicians, capsized at La Crosse
On the night of the Sd inst. John Thorson,
a Miss Hanson and one of the musicians, a
Milwaukeean, were drowned
Two dock hands, William Fitzpatrick
and Edward Ryan, engaged in fight on a
stairway of building near Clark street
bridge, Chicago, on the I'd inst In the
scutie both were precipitated over the rail-
into the river and drowned.
A boat capsized on the Wisconsin river,
near Lone Rock, on the I'd inst, and Miss
Alice Ketcham, of Richland, was drowned.
Charles Emmerick, a carriage painter, and
John McGleen, a teamster, were drowned by
the upsetting of skif in the river opposite
Clinton, Iowa, on the I'd inst.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16

Eggs-At 8@14Lc. Petroleum-Crude at
@6c; refined at 6Ac. Tallow-At $40
5 13.16c. Coal-Dull and nominal. Leather
Very firm. Wool-Choice dull and weak;
medium firm.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16

HE streets of London, England, have
been recently placarded with an adj
vertisement stating that " the art of
begging is exclusively taught in six
lessons by Professor Lazarus Rooney, who
oegs to inform the public that he has
founded college for theoretical and
tactical instruction in mendicancy."
Among other practical appliances for the
profession the professor announces that
he keeps on hand artificial wounds and
sores, assorted braces of twins, trained
dogs for blind men, crutches for cripples.
and surgical bandages for wounded i'm.
posters. Information is afforded respect.
ing the most lucrative streets and
neighborhoods.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
NEWS IN brief.
KILLED INV lightning.

Samuel Croy, resident of Grafton, West
Virginia, was found lying dead beside tree
that had been struck by lightning.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16

The man who finds a pocket-book
with cash in it doesn't look at a paper
for three weeks.-Puck.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16

THE commerce of the world for 1875
amounted to 1885, 26O,O 10000. In the
same year Europe and America, with a
population of 373,00O,OOO, had COM
merce valued at SLIP, 82S, 900, 900,
while the trade of the rest of the world,
with population of $4,000, 900,
amounted to only 1872, 431, 100000. Itap-
pears from the table prepared by Prof.
human Spallart, of Vienna, that in the
years 1858. the total value of products
exchanged among the various nations of
the two hemispheres amounted to the
enormous sum of 81, O69, 98S, 100000. In
1928 the aggregate had risen to 81, 1877
COS, 100000, an increase of 81 per cent
in five years.