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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-12-11
Work of The EI3tIses.

The Beckwith house, Oshkosh. Wis, brick
fOur-story hotel built IN 1876 took fire at 5
o'clock, on the evening of the Sd ult., and was
entirely destroyed. Loss, 100000; insurance,
IS, 200 on furniture, and $40, 600 on building.
Mis-. S. B. Page, boarding in the hotel was
sut1ocated by the smoke and died. Her body
was recovered. Mrs. Chas. +. Harlow, visiting
Mrs. Page bravey jumped from the fourth
story window and escaped with bad burns.
Mollie Holloran, waiter girl, Is missing and is
believed 10 have persisted. The fire originated
from broken kerosene lamp.
4 fire broke out suddenly in 4 clothing store
at Toronto. Canada, on the Sd inst. and spread
so rapidly that the inmates of the upper stories
OF the building were compelled to escape by
ladders. William Crawford, BERTHE Crawford,
Nellie Edwards and Lawrence Steward were
seriously burned. None of the unfOrtunates
were expected to recover.
At Nevada Storey county. Iowa, on the ID
inst, fifteen business houses were wiped out by
fire. Total loss $50, 600.
The cotton houses of the Pepperen Manu-
featuring company. BiddefOrd, Me-, was burned
on the night Of the Sd inst, together with 400
bales of cotton. Loss $50 geo; insured.
The Walnut Valley elevator and Bonanza
mills, at Eldorado, Kansas, owned by f. X.
White, burned no the LIST inst, together with
some IL, 600 bushels of wheat and several thou
sand bushels of corn. Loss about $50. 900; IN
surance small.
O'Brien Bros plug tobacco mandatory at
Coyington. Ky. burned on the I'd INST. Loss
about $4,000; insured.
Crawfords Opera h0nse at Topeka, Kansas,
burned to the ground on the I'd inst Loss,
$4,000.
The Auburn high school building at Waterloo,
Ind, burned On the evening Of the 30th nit.
Loss. $4,000; insursuce, $1,000
Durham, y. c., experienced heavy hre on
the 1st inst Several buildings we're destroyed.
The loss on buildings foots up S23,UOO. Loss
on stock not reported
4 tobacco factory was Destroyed at Naples
Italy, with loss of several million hire.
The wheelbarrow factory Of Stevens q Co., at
Coldwater. Mich, was burned on the zS1h uIt.
Loss, S23, 600
The barns of John ana Robert Carluthcrs, in
the suburbs Of Elmira. y J., were reduced 10
ashes. on the 29th ult.. crenatlnS MY Attorney
and jersey COWS.
The wooden mills Of Oliver Willy CO.,
Weston. Ont. burned on the 3Uth ut: Three
hundred hands are thrown on OF empiGYhltnl.
y fire in the mining town OF highland, IN
southwest Wisconsin. On tie Z9th uit, destroyed
$4,000 worth of property including four stores
and three dwellings,.
\ fire occurred at West Point, a., on the Z'th
ult.. which DESTROYED the extensive "harFes
and sheds Of the Richmond. York River end
Chesapeake Railroad company and the COM
pany's steamer Shirley, also The telegraph ana
freight Offices and all the freight on Tie "ilu ~;
including 2.600bales Of cottou. Loss, es'liA4tel
at S250HG0. Insured. ,-,,-,,
4 destructive fire occurred about ) cIoch Oh
the morning Of the Goth, at Havana, ILL., de
stroying and damaging nine business houses a1.I
several stocks of merchandise Inc aggregate
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a prOelHnlatiDEl,

The following proclamation has been issued
by the president
WHEREAS, Satisfactory evidence has been
given to me by the government Of his majesty,
the Emperor of China, that no discriminating
duties Of tonnage or imports are imposed or
levied in ports of that nation upon vessels
wholly belonging TO citizens OF the United
States, or upon produce, manufactures, or
merchandise imported III same; therefore,
/, Rutherford B. Hayes, president of the
United States of America, by virtue of authority
in me vested by law, do hereby declare and pro-
claim that foreign discriminating duties CT ton
mage and import within the United States are
and shall be suspended and discontinued SO far
a. respects the vessels of China, and the pro-
duce, manufactures and merchandise imported
thereon into the United States from China or
from any other foreign country, so long as the
exemption aforesaid, ON the part OF China, of
vessels belonging to citizens of the United
States, and their cargoes, shall be continued,
and no longer.
In testimony whereof, [ have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal Of the United States to
he affixed.
Done at the City Of Washington, this 23d
day Of November, in the year of our Lord. one
Thousand eight hundred and eighty. aud Of the
independence of the United States Of America,
the one hundred and fifth. (Signed.)
l.. :. RUTHERFoRD Il. HAYES.
by the President VIM. NJ. EvARTs,
Secretary of State.
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Chicago.

CHICAGO, December 4-1:3O P. M.-Wheat-
Heavy; at the most panicky; &c lower; at S1.O6
for cash; Sl.06@5 for seller January; S1.O75s for
seller February. Corn-Heayy; 112c lower;
4074c for cash; 4O15c for seller January; 4536c
for seller May. Oats-Weak; &c lower; 37$fc
forcash; 32 &c for seller January sc a for seller
May. Rye-At 87@88c. Barley-At S1O2.
Whisky-At $113. Pork-Heavy and lower at
81. so for cash and seller December: $500 for
seller January; S1315 for seller February.
Layd-Weak and lower at 50. 80 for cash; IS. IS
for seller January; 1916 for seller February.
Hogs-Receipts $4,000 head; for week. $50. COOS
nominal; quotations at S+30G485. Cattle
Receipts 2,10O head; quite steady: export at
35.4OG6.25; shipping at 93.5OG5.00; butchers
at S2.ZOGD2. 80: stockers at S2.40(d3OO.
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Sells Murder.

James Sloan. in Jail at BeLefontaine. Ohio.
on indictment for shooting with intent to
Kill. cut his throat with razor on the "a inst
Hayden House, lawyer Of Henderson. Ky,
who had been on prolonged spree, suicided
on the Both ult.. by taking an overdose of NOR
phme.
fit of dependency caused by unrequited love,
threw herself in front Of q passenger train at
Falmouth, H., on the 9th, and was instantly
killed
James Roe, aged 81, and one of the early
settlers Of Michigan, hanged himself in his barn
at the village of Portland, Oh the 26th.
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fsOr1tsary.

Charles Ensign, for years identified with the
lake trade and manager OF the Commercial line
of steamers, died at Buffalo, n. y, on the
Sd inst
Rev. john S. Sumner, S. J. died suddenly at
Washington, d. c., on the LIST inst, of COnges-
ton of the brain, aged g.
Capt. Frederick G. Cameron, veteran sea-
man Is dead. He commanded the ship Mace
donna, which sailed from New ! DIRK III 1913 with
provisions and supplies for the ADMINISTRATION
sufferers in Ireland. Capt. Cameron also sailed
the ship Robert Bound, the first vessel that
sailed for San Francisco, carrying tirst-class
passengers.
Father Julian Bennett, pastor of st. Peters
Catholic Church at Fort Wayne, Ind, died
suddenly on the ID inst, of apoplexy.
John c. Fiedeldv, well known business man
of Cincinnati. o., died suddenly on the LIST inst
of apopexy.
Rev D. Frederick Lehman, president of the
capital university at Columbus, O., for twenty
years, and president of the synOdical confer
cnce of the Lutheran Church of the United
States, died on the 1st inst. of cancer of the
mouth
The remains of Estelle Anna Lewis, the poet
ess, were deposited III the catacOmbs III Kensal
Green cemetery, London, on the 29th inst.
preparatory TO their removal to the United
States, according to her request
The archbishop of Goa, a Portuguese settle
ment off the coast of Hindostan, is dead. The
deceased prelate was the head of the Roman
Catholic church in the east.
Congressman Evarts w. Farr expired at Lits
Teton, n. H., on the 30th nit, Of pneumonia.
He was IS years of age.
Francis Hotchkiss retired merchant and
banker, died at New Haven. Conn. on the 18th
nit. 4 few minutes before his death his wife.
who had gone to see him, on being informed he
was dying, fell dead.
George Parks, one of the earliest settlers of
the Grand river valley, and first mayor of
Grand Haven, Mich, died on the 18th ut.
aged 81.
Oliver Perrin, wealthy Cincinnati capitalist,
died suddenly on the 18th ult., in the office Of
Nelson, Perrin & Co. Deceased was II years Of
age.
Benz Il. Roberts, representative Of the
Society of Friends on the board of Indian COM
missioners. died al Sandy Springs, Ind, on the
2Sth ult.
James E. Brown. who died ct Kittaning. Pa.
on the 27th ult., had a wonderfully varied bust
/ ness career, and leaves an estate of several
I millions.
! Byron Gilmore Pierce, cadet midshipman Of
T the first class. died at Annapolis, Nd, on the
28th nit, of pleurisy aggravated by erysipelas.
/ Gen. George B. Crittenden, who served with
/ distinction IN the rebel army during the civil
war; and in the federal army during the Next
can war. died on the 9th, st Danville. Nv.
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, the London
chemist is dead.
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unssacred By Sayagc..

The cutter idaho, recruiting labor at Sante
one of the solomon islands. was boarded by
natives under pretence of engaging for labor,
who, in the absence of a boats crew to the
shore, tomahawked the captain and native crew
remaining Onhoard except two who got below.
These secured arms and drove the murderers
overheard. The boats crew on land were at
tackled at the same time and all but two killed.
The latter reached the shore and sailed away.
Five whites and one FijIan belonging to the
brigantine Borealis were murdered by natives
near Malta Solomon islands. boats crew
who were on land and witnessed the massacre
pulled forty miles to procure help.
The shooting Of some of the natives and run
ming down of some OF the canoes about three
months ago form one of the causes of attack.
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S is about a22,o 600; about one-half covered by

loss IS about so, 600; about one-half covered by
insurance.
Two hundred bales of cotton belonging to
British steamer and stored on = wharf of Nor
folk, Va, were nearly destroyed by fire on the
28th ult. Insured
The Loistlng works and blocks in the shop of
tue Wales Consolidated mine, at Eureka. New.
were Consumed by fire on the 18th nit
burned on the night of the 9th nit.
a baggage car on the Texas Pacific road con-
tanning nine pieces of baggage and fifty sacks of
mall caught fire and was DESTROYED near Sui
phur, Texas. on the 26th
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Bold EsObberies.

Three men broke pate-glass window in a
Pittsburgh, on the evening of the I'd took out
$1,000 worth of booty, and disappeared in the
darkness.
The postoffice at Monroe, Mich. was burglar
lied on the night of the %. The safe was
blown open and between seven and eight
hundred dollars worth of stamps stolen and 325
III money. No clue to the thieves.
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Mrs. ELIZABETH THOMPSON, OF New York,
who has been so munifcent in her charities
says: Il have given, during the last sixteen
years, for benevolent purposes, some 5000 900.
The most of this has been used to encourage
idleness, corruption and crime. | am now de-
termned to assist Gods worthy poor, who are
willing and striving to do something to make
mankind richer and better morally, inteIlectu-
ally, scientifically or mechanically. This is a
GOOD example 10 follow
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PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.
The Comptroller OF the Currency Gives Valuable
Instructlon--hs Suggestions.

WASHINGTON, November 29.-The following is
portion of the annual report OF the compuol-
Ter of the currency. The remainder, which
consists of a review Of the operations of the
national bank system since resumption. and an
estimate OF the amount of currency and coin In
the country, and the amount in national, state
and savings banks. and in the hands of the
people on the date of the resumption of coin
payments, and on November !, 1879, and No
ycnber l, 1880. is not yet completed, but will be
ready for publication in the course of q few
DAYS. The amount of national bank and legal
tender notes outstanding on November l, 1880,
and the. aggregate amounts Of both kinds of
notes for the same date In 1879. was as follows:
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milwaukee,.

MILWAUKEE, December 400 p. M--Flom
Inactive ana weak; standard extras nj S4.l5
@4.Z1: choice extras at @4.5OM5.O0 Wheat
Unsettled and lower; No. / at S1O6l i:
No. hard at @10615; No. Irregular closed at
SL04; No. 3 at 8915c; No. at SOC; No.
2 seller December at 41O4; No. 2 seller
January at o1.0514; February at S1.06&5 Corn
Lower at 404c. Oats-Steady at 32$lc.
Barley-Lower at 80j2c; No. cash and seller
January at Sic. Rye-Quiet at 861 &C. Pork
Dull and lower at $500 for cash. Lard-At
IS so for cash
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serious bruises third accident of the same
kind occurred in the same vicinity by which two
persons were seriously injured.
On the night Of the Goth ult. an express tram
left the track near Banman's station, Pa, owing
to broken rail. and fed down an emhankment,
landing upon lis side. The fireman was killed
and the engineer badly scalded. None OF the
passengers were injured
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An Active Volcano.

Adyices from Honolulu, Sandwich islands,
describe the eruption of Mauna Loa, now in
progress, as one of the grandest ever witnessed
1t broke out November 9Th. about SIX miles
from the summit Of the crater, throwing out
two great streams of lava, one of which is
thirty miles long, one to two hundred yards
wide, and about twenty feet deep. Terrible ex-
blossoms accompany the flow Of molten liquid.
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MACEDONIA is said to he IN terrible condition.
Bands q brigands, strong in numbers and well
armed, are infesting almost all parts Of the
country, taking advantage Of the weakness Of
the authorities, and enriching themselves by
ndiscriminate plumber of the inhabitants with
out distinction Of race or creed. Beys and other
high dignitaries are being seized, and there are
even cases in which all the members OF Provin-
clal councils have been carried off in body and
sent INTO the mountains. One of the bands de-
mands tue sum of $4,000 sterling as ransom for
the hbt ration of two Turkish dignitaries and
three Christians who hold the rank Of council
iors. In Epirus incredible atrocities are report
cd TO have been rerpetrated. In one case two
women are said to have been thrust alive into
an oven. The inhabitants are powerlsss to de-
tend themselves, and are looking for pity and
protection from the west
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man named Boasham has for some months
lain in jail at Kansas City on suspicion of being
one Of the robbers Of a train at Glendale, Mo-,
in October, 1879. At his trial on the 9th ult.
he pleaded guilty, giving the details Of the
crime and the names Of six men who perpetrated
it. On his confession, two men, named Tally
and Rose, have been arrested at Independence
Mo, for a share in the famous enterprise
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THE Russians are about to establish Greek
Russian Church in San Francisco priest has
been selected by the Russian Synod, who viii
soon leave St. Petersburg for California, ac-
eompanied by deacons, acoytes and full choir.
Five thousand rubles have been appropriated
for preliminary expenses, and the funds needed
for the building OF a church viii be supplied
when the mission is ready to tart
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GkIfSinesS Failures.

The Peninsula Cider company, Detroit, Mich,
Bernard Stroh, president, made an assignment
on the 81 inst, to Geo. W. BeadIe, Jr. Assets
reported at 522, 500; liabilities $4,000, Of which
SIS. 500 are to firms il New York, $4,000 in
Philadelphia, 81, 800 to parties in Detroit, and
-. 300 to the Coldwater National bank
Durham & Sons, piano manufacturers OF New
York, have failed. Liabilities 540, 1000; assets
not ascertaned
Mckee 4 Edwards, dry goods dealers at Rich
mond, Ind, have suspended payment with ia
biities Of ever 100000
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Earthquakes.

Victoria, b. C.. was recently shaken pretty
badly by several earthquake shocks. The
glaciers il the vicinity were split from base to
summit, and great masses Of then were thrown
into the rivers and creeks, entirely choking up
many of them
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The Public Debt.

The November statement of the public debt
shows the total debt 10 be 8, 03G $40 268; total
interest, 218, 861, 662; cash in treasury, S210,
926, 1885, debt less cash in treasury. 81, 904, $751;
166; decrease during November, S3,609, POI; de-
crease since June 80. 1880. S37, 291, 12S.
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IHE latest visionary business scheme comes
from London. 1t consists of proposition to
insure merchants against loss from bad debts
Its advocates claim that the guaranteed GER
talnly Of payment for all goods sold at the ex-
prauon Of the term of credit would enable
merchant to extend his buying and selling oper-
atoms with great confidence, and at a minimum
of profit, with resulting benefit TO both pro-
ducers and c0nsumers.
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d. o. Mill, of bonanza fame purchased
$500, 900 house in New York, and then turned
lot Of artists into it, with instructions to do all
that money could accomplish to make il beauti-
ful. The wainscoting Of the drawing-room cost
$500 per foot, and the main chimney-piece cost
$500 1t is one enormous pile of mahogany
engraving five wood carvers having been
brought from Europe on purpose for the wood
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WHILE France is said TO be making from four
70 SIX casks of so-called Bordeaux ont of everv
one that Is actually produced in the Gironde.
Germany has passed stringent laws. and is en-
forcing them too, against parties who sell
adulterated wine as .'wine" II is made inpera-
tive that such compounds be described in in
Yelces, bills Of lading and all other documents
a. p" hunswelne acknowledgements wine,) and
not DC called WINE. Several eases against
the aduiterators, ending in heavy fines and even
imprisonment, have been reported. The last
striking case was against party in CoblenZ.
VINO had sold a parcel of "wine" to whole
sale dealer, which the government chemist
found 70 be an artiticialy made compound The
Judge condemned him to three DAYS imprison-
ment a fine Of l., 500 marks, confscation and
destruction of the parcel of wine, so-called. and
the costs Of publication of the Judgment in -four
M the leading provincial papers
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The Ice Embargo.

Nine hundred canal boats, six hundred OF
which are grain laden. are frozen III on the Erie
canal In the Champain canal 125 boats, load
ed chiefly with potatoes, are ice locked. On the
,ther New York canals some twenty-five boats
are fast in the ice On the Delaware and Hud-
son canal the ice is six inches thick
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aEpspEt.

LONDON. December 4-12:30 P. M.-Liverpool
wheat market opens dull; California club at los
3dG10s I'D; average California at IS ldml1s:
spring at IS 3dGD9s Sd; floating cargoes quieter;
on passage rather easier; good cargoes red
winter wheat off coast at ASS 6dM4qs.
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Foreign War Notes.

Cape Town advces state that the rebels have
been dislodged from the Leribe mountains.
The cOlonals lost four men and il is believed the
rebels lost heavily.
dispatch from Derquez announces that the
Tekke Turcomans have captured 400 camels
laden with stores for the Russian army near
RnuITna
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Ylerited IsOnOrs.

The treasury department has awarded six
gold medals, each twice the weight of a double
eagle, to the crew of the life-saying station at
Monmouth Beach, \. J., for the heroic rescue
of the crew Of the Augustine
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The Bishop Of Exeter, speaking at an odd
Fellows dinner at Exeter, England, said that he
believed that If it were possible for all the work.
ing classes Of the country to organize themselves
SO as to be quite independent of all charity, as
the term was ordinarily used, real charity would
greatly increase. 1t would take its proper place
and be what it ought to be-the sympathy of
man withmani each in his turn feeling the need
OF the other, and none feeling that he was below
the other
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Fatal boiler Explosion.

Charlotte, Mich, on the 9th ult., and caused
the death of Geo. Moore, his son and another
man, and the severe scalding and bluising Of
four others. The building was entirely de-
mOlished.
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At Last.

On the both ult. the remaining four bodies of
the twenty men who persisted in the Hudson
river tunnel were recovered. They were I'M
recognizable.
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Il f" Some Reeollections of Merchants of New
York the Dry Goods Bulletin mentions a Gu
rlous circumstance connected with the lotteries.
J. \. Moore Of Hinton 4 Moore had brother
IN the lottery business, then legitimate in this
state. George, as the agent, had certain
number Of tickets placed in his hands Those
unoold had TO be returned IN a certain time or
pald for. One evening he found he had acct
IDENTITY omitted to return to Virginia $50 ticket.
He was very hard up. and begged his sister-in-
law (hls brother at that time being rich 10 take
i. She rather Reluctantly dill 50. and did not
say word 10 her husband The ticket won
100000. Not long afterwards J. A. Moore
failed. His creditors sued ham fer the lottery
money. asserting that it really was MS. After
considerable litigation Chancellor McCoun de
cided that the money nquesuonably belonged
70 Mrs. Moore, and that payment hitherto
restrained by injunction-must he therefore
made 10 Ler.
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TH0S. EAR00N. Editor and Publisher.
VARIOUS TOPICS.

Mr. PETER COOPER says that he would have
the United States build railways in Mexico with
the deposits in postal savings banks.
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THE four largest states in the Union-New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois-polled
at the last election rather more than one-third
OF the total vote
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vinor casualties.

A planter residing near Greenvile, 5. c.,
named George Martin. attempted to ride across
the railroad track. twenty yards in advance Of 2
lightning train. The horse was instantly thrown
from the track, dead. and after reaching the
station the rider was found on his saddle, a
q corpse, astride the pilot Of the engine.
The state fish hatchery at Boyn6 Falls. Mich.
was destroyed by food on the 30th ult.
A plumber searching for gas leak in an iron
building on White Street. New York City, on
the both ut. caused an explosion which dam
aged the building considerable; one Of the men
il Is thought viii die.
Thomas Ashley miner, fell distance of 70
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
Hanged.

John Callahan was hanged at Wooster. o.,
on the Sd inst, for the murder of Benjamin
Tormie. Oct 20. 1879.