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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
MOrtuarys

Lorenzo Leland, ESQ.,, a prominent and
wealthy citizen of Ottawa, H., a resident of
that city since 1884, died on the Goth inst, aged
68 years.
Hon. f. B. Stiles. an old and well known citi-
zen Of Dixon, ILL.,. died in Chicago on the Goth
inst, of congestion of the lungs. About year
ago he had paralytical stroke on the Chicago
board of trade, on which he had been an active
operator for many years. Deceased was at one
time an active and influential democrat and in
1862 was candidate for congress, but was
beaten by Hon. Z. B. Washburn.
Pierrepon Edwards. wealthy farmer died
suddenly at Earlvile, H., on the 26th inst. De-
ceased was IS years of age.
Daniel c. De Jarnette. member of the thirty
sixth congress and afterward of the confederate
house of representatives from the Richmond
Va. district, is dead.
Geo. W. Riggs, the Washington banker, is
dead.
Rev. ID. P. Mitchell, prominent Methodist
clergyman. politician and editor, of Kansas,
died very suddenly in the cars, near Newton,
in that state, on the oath inst.
Gen. Geo. S. Dodge died at Oakland, CAL, on
the oath inst.
DIR. W. H. Brouse, prominent member of
the Canadian senate, died of pleuro-pneu-
monia.
Rev. James Clark died suddenly on the
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
Fatal Explosions.

Nearly ton of fine sporting powder exploded
at Warren. Me-, on the 25th inst, demolishing
the powder house and adjoining buildings
Samuel Mank, workman, was blown nearly
four hundred feet, and instantly killed.
The portable engine attached to circular
saw on the farm of James Telarga, near Meta
mora, ILL.,, exploded on the 26th., scaIding Syl-
vester Vale, the engineer, fatally.
The boiler of Moody's mill, at Greenburg,
KY, exploded on the Goth inst, killing George
Gaines and wounding several others.
At Bay City, Mich, on the 22d inst, a porta-
bic boiler exploded, killing James Kelley, the
manager, and William J. Abrams, engineer,
Edward Zimmerman and a boy named Crabb
were injured. The cause of the explosion is
unknown.
BY the explosion of locomotive near Du-
buqGe, Iowa, the engineer was killed and ten
persons seriously injured. The engine was an
old one and in bad condition.
The tug A. B. Ward. exploded at Chicago on
the goth inst, killing Ole Oleson and VIM. Nc
Donald and dangerously injuring Captain Frank
5. Butler. The tug sank to the bottom of the
river Immediately after the disaster. The Ward
was the property of John Crawford and Cap
tain Butler, was valued at $4,000 and was not
insured.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
That Little Hatchet.
IFrom the Texas Siftings.J

'Come heah, George Washington,
you black ape" exclaimed Rev. Amini-
dab Bledsoe, of the Austin Blue Light
Colored Tabernacle, to Sunday school
scholar who had just removed big wad
of something or other from his mouth.
The boys trembling limbs carried him
into the immediate presence of the irate
shepherd.
eyer was chewin' terbacker in de
house oh de Lawd."
q owns right up, parson, L was
chawln' terbacker, but / won't do so no
noah.
" George Washington chewin' ter
hacker am bad enough, Lawd knows,
but when yer has got so shameless yer
don't chen try to lie out oh it, hit am
time ter take yer in hand so yer won't
grow up and disgrace de fodder OBJ his
country. Lean ober dat knee, George"
and for about ten minutes people living
several blocks off imagined their neigh
Dor were preparing tough beefsteak for
dinner with an axe.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03

period of suffering with them.
The Presidents sons were informed
at an early hour of the
change for the worse. They had
been sleeping on cots in the corridor,
neither having undressed for the night.
The children went into the sick room
about half past 7. They spoke cheer
fully to their father, and the daughter
kissed him. They remained but few
moments.
ANOTHER RALLY.
WASHINGTON, August 28.-It is re-
garded this evening that the President
rally has been of such a character that a
further relapse, while among the posi-
bllltles, is not probable. Commencing
at 4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon there
had been up to 7 o'clock tonight 81
hours In which the President was pro-
nounced as improving. The improve
ment has not diminished in strength
nor is it less marked tonight.
DIR. Woodward said when the
wound was twelve days old that the
President might last twenty or thirty
days and then die. eff however," he
said, "the President is alive at the
close of the sixtieth day from the shoot
ing the danger will be over and he will
live" The sixtieth day will be over
Wednesday. The White House this af-
ternoon and evening looked as it did in
the palmy days when it was believed
that the President was certainly on the
broad highway to recovery and that the
desired ending of the sickness was but
short time ahead. There were but a few
people around.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
Native Manufacture of Iron, Africa.
(How Crossed Africa, Pinto.1


During the coolest months, that is to
say, June and July, the Comedies min
ers leave their homes and take up their
abode In extensive encampments near
the iron mines, which are abundant in
the country. In order to extract the
ore they dig circular holes or shafts of
about ten to thirteen feet in diameter, but
not more than six or seven feet deep.
This arises most probably from their
want of means to raise the ore to q
greater elevation. [ examined several
of these shafts in the neighborhood of
the CubangO, and found them all of a
similar character. AS soon as they have
extracted sufficient ore for the work of
the year they begin separating the iron.
This is done in holes of no great depth,
the ore being mixed with charcoal, and
the temperature being raised by means
of primitive bellows, consisting of two
wooden cylinders about one foot in di-
ameter, followed out to a depth of four
inches, and covered with two tanned
goat-skins, to which are fixed two ham
dies twenty inches long and half an inch
thick. BY rapid movement of these
handles current of air is produced
which plays upon the charcoal through
two hollow wooden tubes attached to
the cylinders, and furnished with clay
muzzles. By incessant labor, kept up
night and day, the whole of the metal
becomes transformed, by ordinary pro-
cesses, into spades, axes, war-hatchets,
arrowheads, assegais, nails, knives, and
bullets for firearms, and even OCCASION
ally firearms themselves, the iron being
tempered with OK grease and salt. [
have seen a good many of these guns
carry as good as the best pieces made
of caststeel.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
The Good Old Times"


Grumblers delight In lauding up cold
times. To some people everything
conducted in the old-fashioned way is
better than any innovation of the pres
ent. +" 1t wasn't so in our days." ct the
good old times" ETC., when the fact is
the "good old times were just as far
from delightful as they could be. The
children had hard time of it; the won
der is that they lived to tell the tale.
The New England school house of
seventy or eighty years ago was rude,
implanted building, very often of logs,
containing a single room with huge
fireplace on which great sticks of green
wood which were dug out of the snow
burned freely and fiercely when once
fairly kindled, but that was often not till
school hours were over; and in the
meantime the urchin and big boys and
girls sat shivering on benches made of
slabs with sticks stuck in for four legs.
No blackboards, no apparatus, no text
books, no arrangements of scholars into
classes, but plenty of ferule and rod.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
Washington Gossip.

/. Captain Howgate's embezzlement bids fair to
show up 100000 on the books. The attorney
general has caused him to be rearrested and
held in $4,000 bail. General Hazen believes
that Howgate has for four years appropriated
to his own use about one-fourth of the signal
service fund, over which he had absolute con-
troll. His private yacht on the Potomac was
actually constructed with government money i'll
the back yard of the signal office. His method
of securing signatures to blank vouchers was
audacious enough to entitle him to premium
He owns real estate in Florida, Virginia, and
the District of Columbia, and is known to hold
large quantities of stocks, from which the pub
lie treasury may possibly realize something.
Secretary Window notifies the holders of call
ed five per cent. registered bonds maturing
October LIST that they will be redeemed upon
presentation without rebate of interest The
money lies in the treasury vaults, and the secre-
tary is anxious to spread the payments over
convenient period, and finish his scheme of
voluntary refunding at a reduced rate of in
terest
Attorney General MacVeagh decided that,
although the law gave preference to ex-soldiers
as candidates for government positions the
the right for preference could not be observed
until they bad passed the same examination
prescribed for other candidates in the civil
service.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
streets of Jersey City on the oath inst He was

streets of Jersey City on the Gath inst. He was
on his way from Panama to Chicago.
Col. J. G. Benton, commanding the Sprin e.
field, (Mass.) armory, died on the 23d.
Hon. Oliver Colley, formerly mayor of St.
Louis, died of Bright's disease at Hampton,
Mass.
Michael Firman, the present prosecuting at
torney for Wayne County, Mich, and ex-presi-
dent of the board of education of that city,
died on the 22d inst. in Minnesota, whittier he
went on account of his health.
Captain Albert Cozine, of Cincinnati, was
found dead in his bed at Chicago on the Esd
inst.
Oliver ID. Filley, prominent citizen of st.
Louis, died suddenly at Hampton Mass, near
Boston, Oh the 21st inst.
Gen. Leslie Coombs died at Lexington. KY.
on the night of the 21st nst, aged 88 years.
Rev. Samuel Medlar, residing near Oregon,
ILL.,, was found dead in his carriage, with the
lines grasped i'll his hands.
james G. SlOcum, prominent railroad con-
tractor both Ill New York and California, died
suddenly in tit Of delerium tremens at
Bradford Pa, hotel on the Dist inst
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
Railway WreckS

At Greenfield, o., on the oath inst, on the
Ohio Southern road, an engine ran into freight
train, completely wrecking it. Rev. John At
wood, of Summit, who was in the caboose of
the freight train, was instantly killed.
freight train on the Ohio Southern Railway
colhded with passenger train on a side track,
near cambridge, Ross county, o., on the 23d
inst. killing the fireman and one pa ssenger,
and badly wrecking the freight.
Two freight trains on the Richmond,
Fredericksburg 4 Potomac railroad came into
collision at North Anna, on the 23d inst, and
both were wrecked, interrupting travel. The
engineer, A. Corele, and the colored fireman
were reported seriously injured.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
Political Notes.

The following ticket was nominated unani-
mously, with one or two exceptions, by the New
York state greenback convention at Elmira. on
the Gath inst: Secretary of state, Epictus Howe;
comptroller, John Hooper; attorney general,
Dennis c. Feahy; treasurer, Allen G. Woods;
surveyor general, J. w. Gould; associate Judge
court of appeals, L. G. McFarlan
The Massachusetts state greenback conven-
ton met at Worcester OH the oath inst. Four
hundred and six delegates we're present. The
following nominations were made: For gov
ernor. Israel w. Andrews; acknowledgements
Geo. W Dutton; treasurer, Geo. Foster; secre-
tary, A. 3. Brown auditor, Wilbur T. Whiting;
attorney general, D. o. Allen.
The greenbackers of Mississippi have selected
Benjamin King as their candidate for governor.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03

koN-CoMMIssIONED officers in the French
army have heretofore been virtually prohibited
from entering into wedlock, but General Fare,
on the ground that recent legislation opens
real career to such officers, has issued circular
aboIishing the prohibition. Permission to
marry is given to officers who have more than
five years engagements, and whose prospective
wives have atIeast 5000 francs, or an income of
$50 francs year. Such wives. however. in the
interest of discipline, are forbidden to open
cafes or billiard-rooms.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
Suicidal.

C. T. Burke, a married man of Little Rock,
Ark. ran away with young girl of that place,
one day last week, and went to Galveston, Tex.
His wife, with her two children, followed him
on Friday, and after putting the children to
sleep, locked herself in room at a hotel and
fatally poisoned herself.
William Gainey, sailor. jumped from a
steamer at Chicago ON the 26th inst. and was
drowned.
DR.. w. Mel. Ostrander, wealthy physician
of Pittston, Pa, hung himself in his bath
room on the 23d inst. He had been an invalid
for long time.
The wife of Francis Dudley, a New York
merchant, killed herself with revolver at ST.
Cloud, N. j., on the 21st inst. Her father is a
Broadway lawyer, and the young couple were
married in great style about year ago.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03

LAND owners in Hungary appear to have had
very little faith in the success of artificial ind
go. though there appears to be not much doubt
that the process for producing it will finally be
IN successful operation, with excellent market
prospects. These land owners have been en-
couraged and aided by the ministry of COM
merce to cultivate the plant, and have given to
the enterprise large amount of money, time
and attention. But an official report declares
thattheir experiment has practically failed. Re
suits were obtained, but they were out of pro-
portion to the money and trouble demanded in
the care and cultivation of the plant.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03

The Memphis Appeal, in an article upon the
progress of the negro as a laborer, says: "It is
an undeniable fact that the negro is making his
way and is winning more forward position
than had been thought possible in the same
generation that say him a slave While that
people can produce a Douglass and a Senator
Bruce 1T is impossible utterly to despise them.
Their children are absorbing education with
power of assimilation they had never been
credited with possessing, and events are proving
that as working men they are not to be tied
down to the position of mere hewers of wood
and drawers of water"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03

WITH view 10 affording relief to persons
persons who receive abusive and ANNOYING
postal-cards through the mails, the following
general instructions to postmasters will soon be
issued from the postoffice department: "When
any one IS annoyed, or expects to be annoyed.
by postal cards sent from any particular place,
or from any known person, he may direct the
postmaster at the point named to destroy all
postal cards addressed to him, or cards from
any person named so addressed; and as far as
the discharge of the duties of the office permit
sufficient examination the postmaster should
comply with the request. The same request
may be made of the receiving postmaster. The
direction to the postmaster should be in writing
and should be filed for preservation"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03

The exemptions from taxation in Montreal
are enormous. The churches, benevolent in
situations and parsonages belonging to the diff
ferent denominations, all of which are exempt,
are valued at 57,000,000, according to the last
report of the city treasurer. The assessed value
of Protestant is greater than that of Catholic
churches, for the figures being S1,354 900 for
the Protestant, and S13O7, 900 for Catholics.
The benevolent institutions belonging to the
Catholics are assessed SO, 100, 900, and those of
the Protestants only at 500, 600 Opposition
to those exemptions is becoming greater every
day.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03

The next legislature of Virginia will, among
It's many duties, have the following important
measures to consider: The election of a United
States senator; the election of five judges of the
supreme court; the redistricting of the state for
members of congress-; the repeal of the capita
ton tax restriction of suffrage the repeal of the
whipping post law; the modification of the
criminal law, SO as to restrict the penalties to
what they were when the constitution of yir-
gnla was adopted and the pledge of the people
was given never TO alter it to effect dsfranchise
ment except as herein provided.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
Minor Mishaps.

Two brothers, named Cofferen, living in
Samlac county, Mich, fell from a steamer in
st. Clair River, Wednesday night, and drowned.
They were both drunk at the time.
Russ King. young man of Mt. Vernon, Iowa,
fell from freight train, on the night of the
oath, and was killed
MIR. and Mrs. Fl. Temple, living near Fulton,
H.. were killed by lightning on the night of the
Gath inst, while in bed. A little child sleeping
between them was unhurt.
Mrs. John Leonard and Miss Lavina Chase,
of Dummerston, Vt, were thrown from a car
riage and killed on the 25th inst
Eddie c. Farnsworth, of Detroit Mich. was
killed by the accidental discharge of a gun on
the oath, near Masonville, Mich. He was rid
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
Lucky Fools.

The dory Bath City, from Portland, Me-,
reached Falmouth, Eng, on the oath inst. The
crew had thrilling experience as the tiny
vessel proved to be crank. Two days after the
Bath City left New Foundand a gale capsized
her, throwing the men into the sea. She
r8hted Immediately, but nearly all the provi-
sions with the chart and sextant were destroyed.
Nothing daunted the voyagers will sail for Ham
burg and from thence to America.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
The Colored Troops Fled RAPIDLY.

Reliable intelligence has been received of
fight between Lieut.. Schaffer, of the Ft. Bliss
garrison, and the Indians, near valley hun
dred miles northwest of Ell Paso, Texas, in
which Lieut.. Smith, four soldiers and George
DAILY, the celebrated mining expert and owner
of extensive mines in Colorado, were killed. and
Lieut.. Schaffer wounded. The negro soldiers
fled when the Indians made the attack, hence
the casualties.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03

ONE of the most gigantic schemes of its kind
is that which proposes to direct the current of
of the st. Lawrence River, opposite Montreal
into the channel between st. Helen's Island and
the southern shcre-this to be accomplished by
running dam of large proportions from Point
u. Charles, IN the western part of the city, to
81. Heien's Island. This dam would be 2,7O0
feet long and 900 feet broad, and would give
head of twenty feet for mills, elevators and fac
torres. As contemplated, this project would
cost some s7,OoO,0O0, and would realize the fol-
lowing advantages: The dam could be utilized
either as a railway or carriage road, or both,
thus obvlating the necessity of tunnel; and
z the harbor would be made still water one.
where vessels might winter.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03

LAST year the capital invested in the slate
trade In the United States was nearly S10,000,-
600, and the produce was 600, 900 Squares Penn
syfvania alone producing $4,000. The largest
quarry contains sixty acres and employ 200
men. 1t was opened in 1865, and in 1880 turned
out 10000 squares. The most durable states
are from Pennsylvania and Maine, and are dark
blue and blue black. Green, red, purple, and
variegated do not keep color well, and the red
kinds are the most expensive
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
ASiatiC Cholera.

Asiatic cholera is raging at Bangkok, Siam,
and it is variously estimated that from one
hundred to three hundred natives are dying
daily. Very few foreigners died. but several
have fled to Singapore and Hong Kong. Every
one feels as though he were living in grave
ward
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
Troublesome Strikers,

The strike of mill hands at Oscoda, Mich, is
assuming alarming proportions. Sheriff King
with three deputies, attempted to arrest the
morning of the 25th, but was resisted. King
shot one of the rioters in the thigh and was
himself shot. His deputies were also wounded
The strikers, to the number of 700, paraded the
streets with banners.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
A Tedious VOYAGE.

A British sailing vessel has just reached
Baltimore after tossing about the Atlantic for
112 days. She left Bilbao, Spain, May LIST, With
cargo of Tou-ore, and did not have ten days
fair sailing weather during the entire voyage
The sufferings and distress of the crew were
very great,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
MurderOUs Redskins.

No less than twenty-four settlers have been
killed fifteen miles north of Mutt station by the
Mascalero Apaches i'll ten days. The hostile
party number about seventv-five and are being
closely pursued by troop of soldiers and In
dian scouts
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
Heavy KRhherV.

A jewelry store at Atlantic City, n. J.. was
robbed of goods valued at Sic, 900 while the
proprietor was absent for dinner.
Burglars entered Mulligan's iewelry store at
Atlanta, Ca, few days since and secured
10000 worth of iewelrY.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
Stanley the Explorer. HI.

A cablegram from Paris announces that
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African explorer, is lying
dangerously i'll halfway between Stanley Pool
and the mouth of the Congo River. He has so
little faith in his own recovery that he has made
his will.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03

The railroad between Canon City and Silver
Cliff, Col, was totally wrecked bya water-spout
on the Goth inst, and will not be ready for use
again for several weeks. Stage coaches have
taken the place of the iron horse.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03

A. A. Miller, jeweler, at lot State Street,
Chicago, has made an assignment Liabilities
16,000 assets $4,000.
Williams Il Co., flannel makers, at Rockdale,
Eng, have suspended; liabilities e75000.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03

MOUNTAIN tunneling is a far less expensive
and laborious business now than it was several
years ago, as statistics for work at present 60
ing ON IN the Alps and for work already accom-
p'lshed there strikngly show While Mont
Gems was bored at the rate of LIP metres a
a year, and the ST. Gothard at the rate of $40.
the hrlberg is expected to be pierced at the rate
OF about AGO The cost per running metre of
the Mont Gents was $4,000, and on the St.
Gothard it has been 81 $50; but the outlay on
the Arlberg will not exceed $3.50. The chief
difficulty IN Alpine work does not lie in quarry
ing out the passageway, but in getting rid of
the dirt after it has been taken down. After
every blast this material must be removed
before boring work can go forward again. Five
years will be required to finish the Arlberg work,
and two and half will be consumed in actual
boring and e1cavating and two and half in
carrying away the rubbish. Since the work
was begun in June, 1890, the gallery on the east
side has been driven forward 1,010 metres and
the one on the west side 10 metres
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-03
THoS. BAR00N. Editor and Publisher.
VARIOUS TOPICS.

The White House has had no general over
hauling since it rebuilt in 1915, after it had
been destroyed by fire by the British troops, on
the occasion of their raid upon Washington in
the war of 1872