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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01
Washington GOssip.

Gulteau evidently does not dread his tri al
half 80 much AZ the vengeance Of the populace.
He has fretted himself sick in apprehension of
mob violence. He has been put on sick diet
by the jail physician and he asks the guards
and wardens every time he sees them day and
night, whether there is any indication of pur-
pose to attack the jail to take him out. He
seems to entertain some hope of escaping with
q hight penalty If he can escape the popular in
dignation.
Immediately after the second inauguration
of President Arthur, Gen. Grant and express
ldent Hayes left the room together and passed
along the corridors of the rotunda, where the
body of Gen. Garfield lay. Falling quietly into
the line they passed up with the throng, and
very few knew that the two quiet gentlemen
dressed IN deep black, who looked moment at
the dead face and then walked hurriedly away,
were the immediate predecessors of the muir
dered President.
}. Stanley Brown, private secretary of the
late President Garfield, has been requested to
continue i'll the discharge of the same duty for
President Arthur.
1t may safely be said proclamation will soon
be issued by the President calling the senate in
executive session. The time fixed will not be
later than the 18th of October. 1t is under
stood that the President was averse to the call
ing of session but has yielded to the weight of
senatorial opinion, which has been freely ex
pressed.
Sergeant Mason has addressed an appeal to
the police in which he admits that in shooting
at Guiteau he did wrong, not because of TIE
injury he intended to inflict on Guiteau, but
because he had offended tee law of the land.
He Is yet Of the opinion that Guiteau ought to
have been killcd-in fact, that all assassins
and would-be assassins of the chief ruler of a
nation ought to be killed, and suggests a rather
curious way of dispatching them. They should,
he thinks, be put into a ditch ten feet deep,
and all persons who hate assassins should be
permitted to throw mud on them, and when tue
ditch is filled the place over the assassins body
should be covered with birthstone, that no
grass might grow thereon. Sergeant Mason
does not want people to applaud bis unsolder-
like conduct, but at the same time it is evident
that he does not like the criticism Gen. Sher-
man passed thereon. He thinks, too that it is
rather degrading to United States soldiers to
place them to guard the life of the worthless
scoundrel Guiteau.
The contributions for the erection of the
Garfield memorial church at Washington have
reached $4,000 1t is proposed to preserve in
the new structure the pew occupied for SO
many years by the President, where Guiteau
first intended to kill him through the open win
dow
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01
Another Train ROhherv

train on the Iron Mountain and Southern
Railway, which left Texarkana, Ark, at o'clock
on the 23d inst, was boarded at Hope by three
young men. After passing Prescott, and when
near Kensett, they suddenly drew revolvers and
ordered the conductor to stop the train, which
he did. The men proceeded to make the pas
sengers throw up their hands, and went through
them, getting 800. They then visited the ex-
press car, opened the messengers safe, and
took $780, 900 in currency. Before leaving the
train they dropped package containing sis, 900
back. under the impression that it was value
less. The three presented cooked revolvers to
the conductor and babe him stop the train,
which he did as quick as possible. He was in
such hurry to stop the train that he pulled the
bel-cord III two. All three men were very young.
and none of them masked or had any beard.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01

Neb, killed his wife and her mother on the
Goth inst, and delivered himself up. He
choked his wife to death and killed his mother
with an axe. He is probably crazy.
Arthur Stern murdered his wife and buried
her body in the prairie near Chicago, Ill. He
was arrested and confessed the crime.
Thomas Stinson, of Chester, Pa, aged So,
killed his wife and probably fatally stabbed
himself in drunken fit on the 18th inst.
Charles Deter, Of Yorktown, Ind, fatally
shot Thomas Straight on the 18th inst, for
paying too much attention to Mis-. Deter, and
went back three miles to kill her, but. being
deferred by the presence of visitors, ended the
tragic affair by shooting himself.
An ARRAY took place at Boston, OH the 18th
inst, between George w Townsend, the noted
marine diver, and Harry Forbes. The latter
shot his antagonist fatally and then killed him
self.
Andrew Kountzman, shoemaker. of Pitts
burgh, who had just been released from JAIL
assaulted his wife and boarder in his house
with piece of iron, on the 18th inst, and then
ended his own life with razor. Mrs. Kountz-
man was fatally injured.
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Chimnevs.
From the New York Evening MALL

tFrom the New York Evening MALL
Chimneys have always been prolific
source of danger. In former days the
citizen was held responsible if he suf-
fered any of his chimneys to get on fire.
It cid not in the least matter how the
thing happened, the argument that he
ought to have prevented it, and that if
he did not, he should pay for his care
lessness. No doubt this law did much
to keep down confaeration, but it was
found to be insufficient as protection,
and in 1766 so much damage had been
done in New York by fire that every man,
who was the fortunate possessor Of two
chimneys, was called upon to provide a
bucket, and when houses still kept on
being burned it became necessary to ap-
point overseers to look the matter up
and inspect the chimDeys once week,
and, if after inspection, they declared
the fiues clean and yet fire occurred,
they had to bear half the penalty of the
householder's fine. This proves how
badly they managed things in those days,
instead of making insurance companies
pay damages.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01
Is There to be Cotton Planting Aristoc

Henry w. Grady, in Harper's Magazinel
The small farmer who was to retriev,
the disasters of the South, and wipe on
the last vestige of the planting aristo
crazy, between which and the peOpl,
there was always a lack of sympathy,
by keeping his own acres under his own
supervision. and using hired labor only
as supplement to his owns still held
to be the typical cotton raiser.
But the observer who cares to look be-
meath the surface will detect signs of
reverse current. He will discover that
there is beyond question a sure though
gradual rebunching of the small farms
into the large estates, and a tendency
toward the establishment of land .
holding oligarchy. Here and there
through all the cotton states, and almost
IN every county, are reappearing the
planter princes of the old time, still
lords of acres, though not of slaves
There is in Mississippi one planter who
raises annually IL, 900 bales of cotton OF
twelve consolidated plantations, aggre
eating, perhaps, $4,000 acres. Th
Capeheart estate, on AlbemarIe Sound
originally of several thousand acres
had $4,000 worth of land added la
year. In the Mississippi Valley, wher
more than anywhere else, is preserve
the distinctive cotton plantation, this
absorbing of separate farms into
ownership Is going on rapidly. Mr..
G. Morehead, an authority on thu
lands, says that not third of tn
are owned by the men who held them
the close of the late war, and that tn
are passing, one after the other, into
hands of the commission merchants.
is doubtful if there is a neighborhood
all the South in which casual inqui
will not bring to the front from ten tC
dozen men who have added farm af1
farm to their possessions for the p;
several years, and now own from SIX
twenty places. 1t must not be suppos
that these farms are punched togett
and run after the old plantation sty.
On the contrary, they are cut into ev
smaller farms, and rented to small Gro
pers. The question involved is n
whether or not the old plantation met
DDS shall be revived. 1t is the mu
more serious problem as to whether
lands divided forever into small far
shall be owned by the many or by
few, whether we shall have in the sol
q peasantry like that of France, or
tenantry like that of ireland.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01

At Crystal Lake, ILL.,, on the 23d inst, Chi
cago and Northwestern train ran into a team
driven by Christian II mmerman. Zimmerman
and his son were killed, and Mrs, Zimmerman
fatally injured.
During terrific thunder storm at Chicago on
the 22d INST, Mary A. McEntee, aged 10, was
killed by lightning.
During a storm at Atwood station, Mich, on
the 22d inst, two men, William Delaine and
Joseph Pepper, were killed by falling trees
The storm blew down over two million feet of
timber.
brakeman named James Stephens was
struck by lightning and instantly killed, while
switching at Two Rivers, Wis, on the 21st
inst.
Thomas Yost,' of Locust Dale, and George
Kenny of Philadelphia, were killed by por-
ton of the water train coming in collision with
q coal train on the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad at Pottsville, Pa, on the 22d.
Three small children burned to death in o
cabin near Carthage, Pamela County, Texas, on
the 18th inst. The parents, named johnson,
were absent at the time.
Five wood-choppers were drowned by the
capsizing of boat at Multonah Falls, Column
bia River, Oregon, on the 10th inst.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01
Political.

The republican convention at Madison, Wis,
on the 2lst inst, placed in nomination the fol
lowing ticket
For Governor-Jeremiah NJ Rusk, of Vero-
qua.
For Lieutenant Governor S. Fifield, of
Ashland.
For Secretary of State-Ernst G.. Timme, of
KenOsha.
For State Treasurer-Edward C. McFetridge,
of Beaver Dam.
For Attorney General-Leander f. Frisby.
Of West Bend.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction
Robert Graham. of Oshkosh
For Railroad Commissioned. P. Haugen,
of Pierce
For Insurance Commissioner-Phillip Spoon
er, Jr., of Madison.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01
Work Of the Flames.

The East Broadway mills, at Quincy. ILL.,,
were burned on the night Of the Esd inst. Loss
S15, 900.
On the night OF the 22d inst, during a severe
thunder storm, Allen Hale Co.'s planning mill
at Lansing, Mich, was struck by lightning, set
on fire and totally DESTROYED Loss $40, 900 to
S25.00O; insurance $1,000.
fire in tae state prison at Salem, Oregon,
on the 22d inst, destroyed the tannery, stove
works and chair factory. Loss about $4,000.
Tho Connecticut River Railroad wooden deck
bridge, spanning the river near Greenfield,
Mass, was destroyed by fire on the 21st inst.
The structure was 600 feet long and at height
OF 80 feet from the water. Loss so, 600. Travel
will be suspended ON the route for over six
weeks III consequence.
The Prairie State FIGURING Mills and the an
healing rooms of the Malleable Iron Works,
South Elgln, ILL.,, burned on the 22d inst. Loss
$4,000.
The stock of dry goods and groceries, large
barn, wagon shop, warehouse and blacksmith
shop of Mrs. H. Rochlueing, in the village of
Sehaumbery, ILL.,, burned on the 22d inst. Loss
$4,000.
fire broke out in New Chinatown. located
on the west side of the corporation limits of
Chico, CAL, and swept away the entire settle
ment, consisting of sixty or seventy houses
Three Cinnamon were burned to death.
block OF buildings in the business portion
of Texarkana, Ark, was consumed by fire on
the 18th inst. Loss 100000 The fire was
caused by lamp explosion.
The Georgia Iron Works rolling mill at At
lanta, WAS burned on the Dist inst. Loss
s150.000.
The extensive corroding houses of the Collier
White Lead and Oil Company, st. Louis, Mo-,
burned on the 21st inst. The houses were
frame and not of much value, but the contents
of the 100000 corroding pots filled with lead
and nine large tanks containing 100000 gallons
of linseed and castor oil are estimated to be
worth about 100000.
A fire at Washington, d. c., on the 18th
inst, totally destroyed the Star Parlor Organ
Company and Beatty s immense organ factories
Loss estimated at 100000 Four hundred
men are thrown out of employment.
Thompson d Co s glassware house and
lumber yard adjoining burned at Pittsburg, Pa,
on the 18th. Loss S25, 900.
The Carroll House block and several other
structures burned at Carrollton, No., on the
10th.
The Mohawk House, Soap Works of Bolck
Bros. and four dwellings were burned at East
Rome, n. Y, on the 10th inst. Loss $40, 200.
Shortly afterward the union freight depot, four
loaded cars and over twenty dwellings burned.
Loss 100000.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01
An Extra Session.

The following proclamation was issued from
the department of state on the 23d inst:
By the President Of the United States of america
a Proclamation:
Whereas, objects of interest to the United
States require that the senate should be con-
yened at an early date to receive and act upon
such communications as may be made it on the
part OF the executive; now, therefore, l, Chester
A. Arthur, President of the United States, have
considered 1t to be my duty to issue this, my
proclamation, declaring that an extraordinary
occasion requires the senate of the United States
to convene for the transa ction of business at the
capitol IN this city of Washington; Monday, the
10th day of October next. at noon on that day.
of which all who shall at that time be entitled TO
act as members OF that body are hereby required
to take note,
Given under my hand and seal at
Washington, the 23d day of Septem-
Der, in the year of our Lord one thou
LsEAL. sand eight hundred and eighty one,
and of the independence of the
United States. the one hundred and
sixth. Signed,
CHESTER A. ARTHUR,
BY the President:
JAMES G.. BLAINE, Secret airy of State.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01
Marine Disasters.

On the night of the 18th inst, the schooner
Van Valkenburg foundered off White Fish Bay,
Lake Michigan, and all on board except one
seaman were lost Those that persisted were
the captain, Andrew Keith, his wife and son
Richard, lady friend of Mrs. Keith, Peter
Hennesy, George Curtis (two seamen), third
seaman, whose name is unknown, and the first
mate.
The German bark Johanna was thrown on
her beam ends by gale on the Atlantic and
dlsmasted. The mate, helmsman and a boy
were swept overheard and drowned. The
Johanna was bound for Java with oil.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01
Heavy ROhbericS.

The postoffico of Evarts, Mich, was robbed
Of -, 500 III money and stamps on the night of
the 21st inst.
The safe of the county treasurer of Tuolumne
County, CAL, was robbed of 81, 800 on the night
of the 18th.
John 2. Holmes, bookkeeper for Geo. Fl.
Small Co.. commission merchants, St Louis,
Mo-, secured 1900 of the firms wealth and
decamped. He was arrested on the 22d inst.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01
Terrific ExnIASSAnS

The boiler of locomotive exploded at Che
topaz, Kan, on the 22d inst, and the engineer,
George Adams, the firemen, Simon Bailey and
John Denny, and man named O'Nei, were
instantly killed. Baileys head was blown off
and could not be found
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01
GAN inouisitiye old gent poked his

CAN inquisitive old gent pokcd his
head into printing office and asked,
"Who is dead?" The man at the
wheel answered, Nobody that have
heard Of. The old gent asked, "What
is this Grape on the door for?" The
boss went out and found that the
devil had hung the job Office towel
on the door Knoxville he chased a lame
pigeon up az alley,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01

"WHY, old fellow, I thought you "
dead long ago, he exclaimed, grasp
his friends hand and shaking it with
enthusiasm that almost brought teai
his eyes. "No not dead" he respoI
calmly. CT expected TO be, BIT
divorce court INTERVIEWED in time to
me-"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Terrible Storm,

caused great destruction of property. Thirt,
.shps and smacks are already reported lost.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01
Suicidal.

Mrs. Frank Schmidt, wife Of ieweler at Z E.
troit, Mich, cut her throat on the ed inst,
with suicidal intent. She died in short time.
Mollie Filkin, of Detroit, aged Is, a prev to
unrequitted love, suicided on the 10Th inst
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01
Falkland Slides.

Two hundred persons were killed and thirty
houses DESTROYED by land slip near the village
of Elm, in the canton of Glaurus, Switzerland
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01

LIGHTNING completely stripped hog
OF its skin in Richmond, Mich,
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inOrfURry.


J. A. Cuthbert, of Mobile, Ala, aged o. and
member of congress in 1S19-21, died on the
I'D inst.
Hon. Solomon Sphinx, a former secretary Of
Dakota and afterward delegate to congress-
died at fankton on the 2Sd. in the 51st year of
his age
Willard O. Bartlett, a well-known lawyer of
New York city, died tho 23d inst, at his
residence, on Long Island, aged 81.
Jonah Richards well-known vessel owner
Of Manitowoc, Wis, died of typhoid fever on
the 22d inst.
Henry VAIL president of the bank of Com.
merce, New York, died on the 22d inst.
j. n. Adams, prominent merchant of Paris
tc.-T6xas, died suddenly at the Laclede Hotel St
Louis, Mo-. on the 18th inst, of heart disease.
p . Hon. Satterlee Clark, of HORIZON, Wis, a
, prominent Democratic politician, dropped dead
at st. Paul, Mimi, on the Goth inst, of heart
J disease
-. Upon reading the headlines of the morning
paper, announcing the Presidents death. SUI
pervisor Coates, a wealthy and influential citi-
zen of Cranston, n j. dropped dead.
VIM. B. Homer, managing editor of the Com
: mercial Gazette, Pittsburg, Pa, died on the
2lst inst, after an illness of several months.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01

the 18th day of May 1872 fer the taxes interest and
| char0aa 30 war Not; is hare
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Iragical Tales

Frederick Lathamer. of New York. shot his
wife and daughter and then shot himself, on
the 22d inst. The murderer will recover.
Two men-Tom Maloney and partner-were
found murdered on White River, twelve miles
below RaHIins, Wyoming, on the 21st inst,
and it is supposed they were killed by Ute
Indians.
Dr. Henry C. Cole, mayor of Kokomo, Ind,
was shot dead by sheriff's posse while steal
ing flour from the Spring mills. His friends
allege that the whole affair is damnable con-
spnacy, in which he met bis death at the hands
of bitter foes.
Benz. j. Brisbois was found dead in the bed
room of his residence near Detroit, Mich, on
the night of the 18th inst, having been muir
dered by some unknown person.
Joseph Hero!itsky, farmer in Colfax county,
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h North Western Railway. AIS Broadway.
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nuiufh ern RI Gnn,nholl e. Sn,iih7
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Just east Of Becker avenue Mrs.
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G. John Glover neg ofnt4 u as
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JAMES ADRIAN GARFIELD,
Born November 10, 1881.
Died, President of the United States,
September 10, 1881.

SoLoN, O., September 13.-Mrs. Gar
field, the Presidents mother, was in
formed of her sons death this morning.
The quick tears started in her sensitive
eyes, but there was no violent paroxysm
of grief. No expression OF frenzy told
of the anguish within. "Is it true?"
she asked with quivering lips; "thep
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-01

ELBERoN, \. j., September 1911 80
P. M.-The President died at 1875 P. M.
After the bulletin was issued at 80 this
evening, the President continued in
much the same condition as during the
afternoon, the pulse varying from 102 to
100, with rather increased force and vol.
ume. After taking uourishment, be fell
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-08-26


The funcFal OF the late George " u,v.,
will take place so.morrow af.ernmo,, 49," =
o'clock from 81. Aloysius' church. Tbs
burial will. be In Rock Creek cemetery
Inc pasl-oearers.w being selected 10 day.
A dispatch was received this morn,ov
rom watkins Glen, N. Y. stating that Mr.,
SnaIies Bradley, cashier OF the National
Bsns 81 the Republic, and secretary OF the
FRANKLIN Fire Insurance Company, of this
eltys bad died suddenly there OF heart.
disease.
hsnerAl sherman has bad number Of
stout soldiers drilled in carrying people ON
lreicheTs with view TO their emnIov.
ment IN the work OF removing the Presi.
dent should II be decided TO change III, In.
catien. Thete men. hAve become very er.
pert and metbodicSl IN their movements.
They have 20 lar been perfected thai their
steady tread and uniformity OF movement
Will not disturb the water ia glass held
by the band Of an 100 round man living ON
the stretcher. These men would undoubt-
eddy be called into service should the Pre-.
sident grow stroug enough to be removed.
The United States ship Ticouderoxa.
which has made voyage around the world.
Is nov IN New York. Commander Crom-
Well reports 10 the Secretary OF the NAVY
tnst In passing Pitcsrin Island on the Goth
OF April boat came or according 10 the
custom OF the natives, bringing some fruit
and vegetables, and 10 turn they were sup
pied from the ship with such small articles
40 they stood most In need OF. From the
Information obtained there Is not now an
American on the island. The number OF
Inhabitants is pinety-six. of which more
than one-hali.aro females.
Commander Wsdleigh. of the United
States steamer Alliance. under date OF July
26th, Hammeriest Norway, reports to the
Secretary OF the Navy that the Governor
has directed the mayors OF the different DIS
tricts oi Iceland 10 report TO him everything
In The shape OF drftwood. &C., which may
be discovered on the northern coasts OF the
Island, and also forwarded to them copies OF
the description OF the Jeanette, and has in
every way manifested the greatest interest
and goodwill in the object Of this cruise,
which has been suitably acknowledged. he
bad obtained supplies aud pilot, and would
sail July 2Stb for SptZbergen. The ice was
reported very heavy TO the northward, and
several vessels had returned, reporting that
they were unable TO get through TO Spitz.
bergen.
| Mrs. Mary Pauline Reminder, Of New
York. who appeared at the White House on
/ Friday last clad in bathing-suit and skirt
and demanded admittaDce 10 the Presidents
room, was after her return from Washing.
ton on Sunday, in the custody Of her bus
band, taken in charge by the police, and
upon the certificate OF two physicians was
sent TO the Elstbush Asylum Tor the In
sane. She became 80 unruiy in the care OF
her husband that he was obliged upon reach
/ Ing Brooklyn TO cali two policemen to assist
in taking Der TO the pOce-siation.
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stormy weather.

SIGNAL OFFICE, WASHINGTON. ID. c., Au.
gust 25.-siuce toe hour OF regular obserEa-
tions this morning a very high southern
swell has been reported all along the North
Carolina coast. At Hatieras the Signal Ser
vice observer states that the sea has risen TO
an enormous height since sunrise this morn
ing, and is now breaking over the bar and
running across the beach. It's direction Is
from the southwest. The wind changed
from northeast to east at Z A. NJ. aud then
10 southeast, and Is now northeast again.
AT 10 a. M. the wind, with velocity Of
over tweBty-eght miles, was northeast.
Heavy cumulo stratus clouds can be seen
above the horizon from east 10 south. eau
tionary signals have been ordered 10 be dis
played along the North Carolina coast from
Cape Henry to SmthyilIe in anticipation Of
a hurricane east OF North Carolina aud pro-
blbly moving TO northwestward.