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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

fire in the printing house of Mr.. Jeffries. at
Bristol, England, caused a damage of ECO, 0OO
By fire in Upmann's cigar factory in New
York ON the 10th inst, loss of 100000 was
suffered. Many thrilling scenes were witnessed,
but by judicious management the entire force
of employees escaped from the burning struc-
ture.
Mosser d Kicks tannery at Allentown. Pa.
burned on the 10th inst. Loss $50, eoe.
fire broke out in the Fourth Avenue car
stables, New York city, and rapidly spread to
the Morrell furniture storage warehouse en-
tirely destroying both structures. Many horses
were burned in the stables and the loss on
building and contents fOots up about SIC, 600
lge amount of valuable furniture was stored
III the warehouse, the principal losers being as
follows: Abram Hewitt, $4,000; Harriet Iry-
ing (pictures), $780, COO; Geo. Verburger, $780,
O00 Schuyler Wheeler Qibrary). amount not
stated; Mrs. Einsten (wedding presents,
$4,000; VIM. H. Vanderbilt Gone picture), $780,
600. The total loss is estimated at between
81, 600 and 81, 100000.
large painting and stationery store at
Bristol, Eng, burned on the 8th inst. The
damage is estimated al 1900 600.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22
An Odd Bill

Perhaps the oldest bin ever rendered
was that sent by Bryan Garratry, an
Irishman, to Sir Mark Somerville after
his election to parliament in 1926. 1t is
still preserved at Somerville Hall, and
among other long winded items contained
the following: "To eighteen horses and
five mules about my yard all night at
three shllhngs every one of them, and
for mare which was lost on the head
watching them all night is to me five
pounds and five shillings. For breakfast
or tay in the morning for every one of
them and as many more as they brought,
as near as l can guess, is four pounds
and twelve shillings. To raw whisky and
punch, without talking of pipes, tobacco
as well as porter, and as well as for break
ing pot above stairs and other glasses
and def for the first day and night am
not very sure, but for the first three
days and half of the election, as little
as can tell it and to be very exact, is in
all, or thereabouts, as near as l can
guess and not to be too particular, is to
me at least seventy pounds fifteen shil-
l1ngs and nine pence. For shaving and
cropping of the heads of forty-nine free
holders for Sir Mark at thirteen pence .
head, for every head of them, by my
brother as has a vote, is two me two
pounds thirteen shillings and a penny.
For vomit and nurse for poor Tom
Herman In the middle of the night when
he was not expected, is to me ten hogs. |
l don't talk of pipes or for keeping him |
sober so long as he was sober, is to me |
forty pounds ten shillings," etc.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

e." WIrH more untitled acres than there are IN
kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa combined. the set
tier whdcomes to California" The San Fran
cisco Chronicle says, . finds extreme difficulty
IN securing home-one hundred and sixty
actes-at even four times as much as one hun
dfed and sixty acres would cost him in any OF
those states. Millions of acres have been
transferred from government to corporation
control, and the corporations. with singular
blindness to their own interests, seem to be the
worst enomy the settlers have. Other millions
Of our best acres are locked up in large Spanish
and Mexican grants, held for advancing rates
simply because the machinery provided for tax.
ing them does not work with honesty and
smoothnessn
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22
MOrk OfIhe Flames.

The explosion of q coal-ol lamp in the town
of hokomo, Col, on the 18th inst, caused
nearly the complete destruction of the place.
Twenty-Five picked men of the Leadvlls
fire department were taken across the
continental divide in forty-tve minutes, but
there was no supply Of water. The loss is
placed at $4,000 Eighty families are home
less. Several hundred men Lave been infuri-
ated by liquor stolen during the conhagration.
Flames swept away one of the new buildings
st the Rock Island arsenal, destroying paints
and machinery valued at s35, 900.
Subert's leaf-tobaoco factory, Chicago, Ill.
was consumed by fire on the 14th inst. Loss
$4,000.
San Francisco was visited by a serious conha-
grafton on the 14th inst, large area in the
manufacturing and lumber district being swept
over. Loss about S2ee, 600
A Philadelphia mill, m which we're en-
ployed thirty-tive operatives. was burned on
the 18th inst. Twenty of those in the building
were injured, ten, 1t is thought, fatally. Some
OF the operatives are supposed to have been
buried IN the ruins. Pecuniary loss estimated
ct $40, 900; insurance $50, 0U0 The fire is sup
posed to have originated by sparks from the
electric lamps ignlting material on the second
floor. LATER.-The bodies Of two females and
man were found on the third floor by the
tiremen, but before the searehers could proceed
further the upper floor, with heavy machinery,
came crashing through, and they barely es4
capped with their lives. Ten or twelve bodies
were under the seething ruins at last accounts.
fire originating in the outside corn bins de-
stroyed the Indianapolis homIny mills, valued
at $50, 600. They We're previously burned to
the ground III June last and had Just been re-
built.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

SOME interesting statistics with regard to
lonGeyIty.ln Continental Europe have recently
been published in France. From these it
would appear that, out of a population of PAP
millions. there are s, Jos centenarians. Switzer
land Claims the oldest person in the old world.
IN the being OF an aged farmer living in the
Canton GrlsCus, who has seen 100 summers.
Tue femalcrentenarians are IN the ascendencv,
their number beng 1,964, while that of the
males Is l,2i4. The countries which have the
largest proportion of centenarians are Belgium.
Denmark, and Switzerla hd-tho three smallest
OF European divisions. The old people, in a
majority of instances, have spent the greater
part of their days if not all of them, in remote
country districts, where they have devoted their
time to outdoor labor, far away from what are
generally accepted to be the destinations of
life. The old tale that sobriety. regular habits.
ana healthy occupation are most beneficial to
the human system Is thus once again proved,
France has tewer centenarians than any other
country; but, at the same time. can boast of
more septuagenaria1ls, ectogenarians, and non
OspnarflDS
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22
ST. LOUIS.
The Story of a Hundred Dollar Bill.
(From the Baltimore Gazette.l

A distinguished statesman forty Years
ago was on visit to Baltimore, and he
gave to colored girl while here what
he supposed to be, at the time, a one
dollar bill. The next morning tie girl
went to grocery store. and after max
ing few trifing purchases, gave the
bill in payment, after the superstition
that it was a dollar. The proprietor of
the store, highly esteemed citizen of
Baltimore, noticed that it was for 800,
and he supposed at once that the woman
had stolen 1t. Ascertaining the delu-
sion that she was under, he informed
her of the true character of the note.
and told her he would detain it until the
owner was found. The girl told how
she had received it, persisted that it
had not been stolen, and assented to the
gentleman retaining it until the owner
was found. He advertised the bill, and
the statesman, in answer, called to say
that the girls story was true, and that
as her honesty had been suspected she
should keep the bill. He then departed
to the scene of his daily triumphs, and
in the acquisition of great fame per
haps forgot the incident. The grocery
nClCLduG letdIleo tHe NIUE, III GSpeCCa-
ton of the girl returning, but she never
called for it, it is supposed being fright
ened and fearing being charged with its
theft. He deposited it at interest.
Years rolled On and she married, bore
children, and died, and few years ago
a sou applied to the merchant for the
note and the interest, which now
amounted to a large sum of money.
This amount the custodians of the fund
paid into one of our city courts, in order
that the court should decide whether or
not the claimant was entitled to it. The
court sustained the claim, and the money
was paid to the heir, and thus ends the
true story of hundred dollar bill.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22
Troubles i'm Ireland.

Parneii, the leader of the home rule party in
Ireland, was arrested near Dublin on the 18th
inst, and cast into prison. The arrest was
majesty's chief secretary for ireland, on the
charge of melting the people to violent re-
sistance of the new land act Of parliament The
arrest threw Dublin into ferment OF excite
ment and it is feared the act will only add fuel
to the existing flame of revolutionary tur-
bulence.
Serious disturbances are reported from Ire
land. At Ballyragget, on the 9th, a riot occurred
between the police and people, in which two
persons were killed and fifteen wounded
Herdsmen near Ennis were fired at while har-
vesting hay, and numerous other agrarian out
RACES are reported. The midland counties are
the arena Of lawlessness. The land league has
full sway and boycot;ing and incendiarism are
the rule. A collision between the police and
peasantry occurred at Athenry on the 9th inst,
IN which one man lost an eye by a bayonet
thrust.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22
MOrIuHrE.

Col. Edwin d. Morgan died at his home in
Aurora, n. Y, on the 18th inst. He was one
of the stockholders III the New York Times, one
of the originators of Wells, Fargo & Co.'S ex-
press company, and was elected to congress three
times.
Among the deaths announced on the 18th
inst, were: Levi Robbins, a New York cen
tartan; Sylvester Doohttle, an old citizen of
Oswego, n. Y, John Edwards, of Portland,
Me-, and John J. Ford, a wel[known Kentucky
planter.
DIR. j. G. Holland, the popular New England
poet and writer. who has been the editor of The
Scribner's Monthly, and was to be the editor of
its successor, The Century, died in New York
on the 18th inst.
Mr.. John J. Borland, for many years one Of
the leading lumber merchants of Chicago, and
much respected citizen, died on the 18th, aged
- years.
Baron Won Haymerle. the minister of foreign
affairs IN the Austro-Hungarian cabinet, died
of heart disease.
Captain Samuel Winsor, of Greencastle, Ind,
who suffered conclusion of the brain by the
passage of q shell at Chickamauga, and has
been in the insane asylum for several wears,
died of commissions on the 8th inst. His wife
Is state librarian.
Colonel E. B. Armstrong. one of the leading
business men of Rome. n. Y, is dead
Hon. Eli Avery, one of the oldest forwarders
on the Erie canal died on Clayville, N Y.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22
&hipwreck.

The British bark Avonia arrived at San
Francisco, on the 18th, with the crew of the
Blush bark Arcadia, wrecked on Jacobs Island
and also the officers and crew of the British
ship AIatargis, which was burned at sea on the
second inst.
An unknown schooner was foundered in the
Mersey on the 18th. and all hands lost. The
British steamer Corsica with part of her crew.
was lost off Cape Roca.
The schooner Thomas J. Lancaster Captain
Hunter, of Philadelphia, bound for Savannah,
Ga, went ashore near South Inlet. Seven
lives were lost.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22
SuSDenSIOn.

Two heavy failures were announced to the
public on the 18th inst. Washington Butchers
Sons, provision dealers Philadelphia, with
s., 900, 900 liabilities, and John Mahone's Sons,
Boston shoe manufacturers, with $3.50, 900 liza
bilities.
The South Boston Iron Company, an extern
siye establishment founded in 1909, and which,
from time to time, has done large amount of
heavy ordnance casting for the government,
suspended payment on the 9Th inst. The COM
pany has claims against the government of
$3.50, 600 for work done some time back. The
failure of the government to remit this sum is
stated to be one of the causes of the suspen-
sion.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22
DELAWARE


DELAWARE. NEW JERSEY.
Eli Salisbury, d 1888 Jno P McPherson, L. 1883
Thomas Bayard d 1887 william j. SeweH, R. 1887
FLORIDA. NEW YORK.
Wilkinson CALL d. 1885 Elbridg geo Lapham, r 1885
Charles ". Jones, D. 1887 Warner Miller B.. 1887
GEoRGIA. NORTH CAROLINA.
enjamin H. Hill, d. .1S83fMatt. W. Ransom, ID 1853
Joseph E. Brown ID. 1885 Zebuon b. Vance, ID 1885
ILLINOIS. OHIO.
David Davis Ind. D. 1888 Geo. Pendl. ton, D. 1885
John A. Logan, H.. 1885 John Sherman, r.. 1887
INDIANA. OREGON.
Danl W.Voorhees D.1SS5 Lafayette Grover, D. 1888
Behj Harrison, r.. 1887 John ii. Slater, D. 1885
: IOWA ia PENNSYLVANIA
James w. McDi, R. 1883 j Donald Cameron R. 1885
VIM. p. Allison, r. 1885 John l. Mitchell R. 1887
-'---s~ KANSAS. -sas--- RHODE ISLAND.
Preston B. Plumb T. 1888 Henry B. Anthony, r. 1888
John j. ingalls,, r.. 1885 Nelson W. Aldrch n 1887
KENTUCKY. SOUTH CAROLINA.
James ID. Beck, D.. 1888 Manning C, Butler D. 1888
John 5. Williams, D. 1885 Wade Hampton, d.. 1885
LOUISIANA. ... TENNESSEE.
VIM P. Kellogg, r. 1883 Isham e. Harris, D.. 1888
b. Frank Jonas, d. 1885 Howell f. Jackson, d 1887
MAINE. TEXAS.
VIM. p Frye, R.. 1888 Richard Coke, d e. 1888
Eugene Hale R.. 1887 Samuel B. Maxey, D. 1887
MARYLAND. VERMONT
James u. Groome, 1885 Justin s. Morrill, r. 1885
Arthur p. German, ID 1887 Geo. f. Edmunds, R 1887
MASSACHUSETTS. VIRGINIA.
George +. Hoar R.. 1885 John w. Johnston, 1883
Henry l.. Dawes, r. 1887 VIM. Malone, Ind. L. 1887
MICHIGAN. WEST VIRGINIA.
Thomas W. Ferry, X. 1888 Henry g. Davis. D.. 1888
omar d. Conger, K. 1887 j. n. Camden. D.. 1857
MINNESOTA. WISCONSIN
"A. j. Edgerton, r.. 1888 Angus Cameron r.. 1885
SAND IT. Mcmillan K. 1887 Philetus Sawyer, r. 1887
Appointed by the Governor.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

THE late prince consort frequently Wis
tied the parish schools in London, and
remained while the children were ex-
amined. Upon one occasion the master,
anxious that his pupils should dis
tinguish themselves, inquired, "Can
you tell me anything about heat?" A
bright little boy put up his hand and at
once said glibly: Heat expands cold
contracts TIE master looked at the
prince for approval, he smiled appro-
baton, and the teacher continued:
every good; now, give me an ex-
ample?" "In summer" said the boy.
I" the days are long, i'll winter they are
short.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22
Railway Wreck q.

By collision of trains on the St. Paul &
Omaha road, near st. Peter, Mimi, on the
18th inst, a fireman named Thomas O'Brien
and brakeman named James Johnson were
killed.
A terrible accident occurred on the 9Th inst,
at Fulton Junction, H., three miles east of
Clinton. Iowa, at the crossing of the Chicago
and North Western and Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul railroads. A passenger train bound
from Rock Island to Racine ran into freight
train while the latter passing over the cross
ing on the Northwestern. A freight train
heavily loaded was thrown ON the platform of
the depot and struck five persons, killing J. J..
Flanagan, station agent, lately appointed, and
Arthur Cuddy, boy of IS, son of laborer, both
residing at Fulton. Lester Fisk, son of Clark
Fisk, was hurt internally, and will probably
die; l.. Rosenblatt, a travelling man. residing
at Beloit was badly but not dangerously bruised.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

Is his opening address, before the International
Medical Congress. lately assembled in London.
Sir James Paget said: :" The best work of our
international congress. is the clearing and
strengthening of the knowledge of realities; in
bringing, year after year. all Its force of num-
ters apdSaieties of minds to press forward the
demonstration and diffusion of truth as nearly
TO completion as may, from year to year, be
possible. Thus, chiefly, our congress NAV
maintain and irvigorate the life of our science.
And the progress of science must be as that of
life. 1t sounds well to'speak of the temple of
science, and of tie building, and browning the
editice, but the body of science is not any dead
thing of human work, however beautiful; IT is
something living, capable of development and a
better growth insevery part. For, as in all life,
the attainment of the highest condition is only
possible through the timely passing by of the
less good, that /; may be replaced by the better,
so Sit in science. As time passes, that which
seemed true and was very good, becomes rela-
tiye,y imperfect truth, and truth more nearly
perrect takes its place"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

foRGERs have. always shown themselves
keeniy alive to new processes and Inventions.
Their ingenuity seems to keep pace with all the
attempts to battle it which have of late years
been suggested by photography and photo
chemical science. A branch of the bank of
Warsaw received the other day an example of a
new device, which consists in splitting 100
rouble notes and uniting each side with the
corresponding upper or under half of false
tlntn
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

Ii costs something to start the wheels of
business even for single day. There are, ac-
cordng to the Hour, 80, 0OO, 900 working peo-
pie III TIE country who average at least 81 a
day, which makes $50 900, 600; and when there
is the interruption to commerce and financial
transaction and the loss of profit on labor an
unexpected stoppage of weekday work must
cost $50. COO 900.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

IN view of the number of land slides that
nave lately taken place in the various parts of
Switzerland, it is proposed to organize Swiss
slip commission, with sub-commissioners in
every canton, whose duty it will be to inspect
localities where land slips are likely to occur,
and devise means to prevent their occurrence,
and to warn persons whose lives may be i'm
periled
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that private banks
are given the benefit of every doubt, and that
assessments made by revenue agents are not
maintained unless the law plainly supports
them, it isfound that the aggregate amount
due the government from these banks now foots
up to over 50 600 600
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22
pAIIfAcaE.

Complete but unofficial returns from Ohio
give Foster majority of 24,062. Republicans
gain IL 446 and the democrats $3.50.
Corrected returns from Iowa make the re-
publican strength in the senate A out Of SO and
ia the house u out of 100. Eighty counties
give Sherman a plurality of 40,725. The re-
naming eleven counties gave Garfield a
plurality of II, 767.
The New York democrats, in convention at
Albany on the 18th inst, nominated the follow
ing ticket For secretary of state, William Pur-
cell: for comptroller, George II. Lapham; for
encouragement Roswell A. Parmenter; for
treasurer Robert A. MAXWELL for state engi-
neer, Thomas Evershed; for judge of the court
of appeals, ex-Attorney General Schoonmaker
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

GENERAL GARFIELD is quoted as saying in a
letter written ten years ago to a lawyer who
had opposed the insanity plea in a murder
ulai: The whole country owes you a debt
Of gratitude for brushing away the wicked alb
8ufdIty which has lately been palmed off on the
country as law on the subject of insanity. If
iHS thing had gone on much further, all that
man would need to secure himself from the
charge of murder would be to rave little and
tear his lair little, and then kill his man."
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

The ingenuity of mankind in the manufacture
of stamps has displayed itself in 5000 different
kinds. The museum at Berlin contains 5. 900
different specimens, half of which have an
European origin. Among the many kinds of
decoration which have been used on stamps are
coats-of-arms, stars, eagles, lions, the effgies
OF five emperors, eighteen kings, three queens,
one grand duke, several titled rulers of less
rank, aud many Presidents
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

Is some of the Pennsylvania towns the white
and coored schools have been united in accord
ance with the new laws without unpleasantness
of any sort: in only three towns there is good
deal OF excitement and anger over the matter on
the part of the white people
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

The convicts in the Ohio Penitentiary have
sent 500 to the Michigan sufferers They
raised this sum by denying themselves the lux
ury Of tobacco and by the sale of trinkets which
they had made. A sermon could be preached
from that text. a.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22
Terrible Explosions.

A magazine containing three hundred pounds
of nitro-glycerine was exploded at Bradford,
Pa, on the 18th inst. by two men tampering
An explosion of petroleum on the Italian
brigantine Armenia, between Barcelona and
MarseilIcs, on the 4th inst, sent the vessel and
eight people to the bottom.
The boiler in Simpson Bros mill, Ripley,
Miss, exploded on the 10th inst, killing Jesse
Stubs, DIR. Charles Rucker, and Andrew B.
Simpson. The mill was wrecked.
At Grady's dye works, Philadelphia, on the
10th inst, the boiler collapsed, killing the engi-
neer and two others. The works took fire and
were DESTROYED.
By the explosion of tank of boiling linseed
oil III the Aston Manufacturing Company's
works, Chicago H., on the 10th inst. Ole
Burgison and F. p. Callaghan were horribly
and fatally scalded.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

CREMATION is gaining ground in Hungary.
The municipal council of Buda- Pesth has dis
cussed the question aud decided in favor of the
practice Following this example several other
Hungarian towns have decreed that cremation
may be adopted.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22
Now What ]

Dallas, Texas, bankers have been notified by
Wall Street parties that confederate bonds are
negotiable in that street in any amount at the
rate of $3.50 fer $1,000. The announcement
created general surprise, and the reasons for
wanting to purchase the bonds are not under
ctoo5
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

The settlers upon the upper Columbia river,
both IN Oregon and Washington territory, are
constantly asitating the matter of completing
the locks around the Cascades, in order that
they may have an open highway to the ocean.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22
VARIOUS TOPICS.

BEGINNING with the second congress. and
ending with the forty-ffth, there have been
twelve sessions at the beginning of which there
has been no presiding officer 60
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

A LONDON paper says as to the term g corner
ing =: eve are greatly indebted to our Ameri-
can cousins for supplying us with terms which
express IN one word the meaning of half dozen
sentences .
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

PRESIDENT GARFIELD wrote almost
prophetically to Mr.. Hudson, an old
Ohio friend, on November 8, of last
year: 81 believe all my friends are
more gratified with the personal part of
my triumph than [ am, and although [
am proud of the noble support have re-
ceived, and the vindication It gives me
against my assailants, yet there is tone
of sadness running through this triumphf
which l can hardly explain. z
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-10-22

A CANNON and many fragments of timbers
which belonged to the British ffigate Shannon,
sunk in York river just before CORVALLIS sur
rendered, have been recently raised.