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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10

live. Both horses swan ashore and the
driver got on one of the horses back.
The wagon of course vent to the bot
tom. Suit for $500 or 5000 damages
will be brought against the town.
GREEN BAY Globe: Serious charges
are made against Rev. Father Tacken
by school teacher named Van den Berg
in the town of Holland. He is charged
with beating a son of Van den Berg's in
church, of traducing the whole Van den
Berg family, and several minor INSIDE
meanors. Van den Berg says he made
complaint to the bishop here, who very
properly told him if Father Tacken had
done anything contrary to law to have
him arrested. He then carried his case
before the archbishop at Milwaukee, the
archbishop of Baltimore, and even the
pope. The latter has not been heard
from, the former two referring him to
the bishop here. Van den Berg thinks
Father Tacken is a very bad man, but
the case is not tried as yet, and the other
side of the story has not been heard.
A DISPATCH from Hudson says: The
suit of Bertha Smell against Matt Bray,
which was on trial here last week, went
to the jury Saturday evening, and after
about thirty minutes absence a verdict
was rendered for the complainant fo1
the full face of the note and interest,
! amounting to some 81, 060. This is the
case, sent over from Winnebago County,
in which Mrs. Suell claimed that BRAY
gave her his note for So, 900 for release
from marriage, and when the instrument
was destroyed in the Oshkosh fire OF
1877, he denied the whole transaction
and contended that the whole thing was
a matchmaking conspiracy to get money
out of him. The jury and entire COM
munlty here, however, were of the
opinion that his relations were such tC
the woman as to make the demand 9
justifable one, and are glad to see him
obliged to fork over.
CUMBERLAND Herald: A sad accident
took place on the lakes this week. A
couple of young men--Donald Giles
and Dan Lynk-working at Kings camp
were returning to the camp from town,
the lakes being open part of the way and
the balance only frozen over by thin
scale of ice; they were making their way
through with boat. While standing
up breaking ice. Giles lost his balance
and fell into the lake. Repeated efforts
were made to get back into the boat, but
all to no account. During the struggle
Lynx also fell into the lake. Their only
hope now was to reach land, and in order
to do this they must break through the
ice. Giles failed to reach the shore,
and up to this writing had not been
found. Lynx was found about O'Clock
in the morning, lying upon the bank
more dead than alive. He had fallen in
to the lake about 10 o'clock at night,
and had been all this time in the water
and on the bank. His hands and feet
were frozen, and the ends of his fingers
and thumbs were all torn off, where he
had broken the ice after they froze.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
Some EIectioneerinq Tricks.

When the Berwick freemen resident in
London were going by sea to vote, the
masters who commanded the ships In
which they embarked have been known
to take such electors to Norway, on ac-
count of such shippers being bribed to
do so. The freemen of Ipswich appear
also IN the same way to have been taken
to Holland. Asthe daughters offreemen
at Bristol conferred the right of voting
on their husbands, trick devised at one
closely contested election in that city
was for the same woman to marry several
men. When the ceremony was COM
pleted and the temporary husband had
duly recorded his vote, the two shook
hands over grave in ehurchyard and
said: "Now death us do part, - which
was considered divorce; after which
the woman proceeded to qualify another
husband at another church. At one
place brides were given by a mysterious
individual known as the "Man in the
Moon, who approached at dusk in the
evening, and was at once met with the
question, 'What news from the moon?"
"FD lay you five guineas," said a cele-
brated canvasser in Fox's contest of 1874,
and stake the money in your own
hands, that you will not vote for Mr.
Fox" "Done," says the free and indie
pendent, and wins his bet and BRIDE
Another plan was to buy the voters
canary at price which would have been
far too much for bird of paradise
When Sheridan contested Westminster
his opponent brought up his unpaid
creditors to bully him on the hustings.
They censured him for having bought
peas at two guineas and a half per quart
(to make sure of a voter) while he was
neglecting their just claims against him,
and they hooted him accordingly.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
At Jerusalem,

rs. S. Cox, in New York Express
The tombs grow denser as we pass
down the valley, as the Jews strive in
life to locate their tombs as near in
death to Mount Moriah as they can.
Now we enter the dry brook Kedrop.
We zee Arabs digging In the piles of
gravel and rubbish for old pottery.
What for? To pulverize for cement.
1t makes rare and valuable cement, and
thus the ruins of one age become the
habitation and support of another.
Then we turn down the rocky, meanGer-
ing Kedron, to the Fountain of the Vir-
gin. 1t is said that here the Virgin
washed the clothes of the Child. Va
rious rubbish is told about this fountain.
and various modes to account for the APP
pearance of the water were given, until
some little science was brought to bear
upon the phenomenon of it's irregular
flow. We see many women here washing
clothes in most motherly way, and fill
ing their goat-skins for the irrigation of
their little gardens below. We retrace
our steps and go up out of the cave into
the sombre light of the valley. Tombs
of the "judges" and tombs of "proph-
cts, old and new, surround our steps.
There are tombs on every side. In
deed, we begin to find the place populous
with others beside the dead. There are
waters flowing here and some green re-
suits appear. Old Arabs in striped
mantles appear also with antiques to
sell in the shape of coins in the time of
Titus, and pottery in the age of Herod
We buy them doubtfully, for ever so lit
tie. Now we are under the southeast
corner of the temple plateau. How fine
ly the battlements stand. This is, in
deed, Jerusalem, and fills every expecta-
ton! From the village opposite comes
the sound of a rude flute and the iabber
of multitudes. Thehills opposite are ter
raced and tenanted to their tops. In
the valley below are some olives, some
cabbages and a COW A few carouba
trees and many caves; q few vegetable
plots and many donkeys. From another
point Sloan seems a larger village We
pass well; there is a bronzed Rachel at
it, filling her goatskins with water to ir-
rigate her patch below the "King's Gar
den." The lime rock and soil are very
white, and the dust and gravel very
thick, and the wonder is that, even with
water, anything can grow here. Here
we are called on to examine the excava-
tons recently made by a German
pal@ontologist. He had found the old
wall of the city, and was proceeding to
make out of his INNER consciousness
the temple, in all its parts and majesty
of proportion, when the good pasha call
ed a halt tO his antarpriae
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M0rfnR.HKa

jerry McKibben, manager of the Worlds
Hotel, st. Joseph, Mo-, dropped dead in his
Office on the 29th ult.
e. A. Clabough died at Baltimore on the 29th
ult. He was well known among turfmen.
The death is announced of DR.. John Bacon,
for many years professor of chemistry at Har-
ward College.
At the Osborne House, Auburn, N. Y, on the
29th ult, W. II. Whitney, business agent of
Rice's Opera Troupe, dropped dead.
Ex-Umted States Senator Abijah Gilbert, of
Florida, died on the 23d inst, at the residence
of his brother at Gilbertsville, N. Y. He was
elected senator in 1869, and served until 1875
He was in his 18th year.
Sister Resale, well known throughout the
west, died of consumption at Leavenworth
Fifty Sisters of Charity participated in the
requiem mass, and six of the number accom-
panied the body to the grave in the capacity of
pail bearers.
Edward E. Preble, formerly lieutenant COM
mander U. S. N, and ensign on the Kearsage
when she captured the Alabama, died at Port
land, Me-, on the 18th ult
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
Fatal Explosions.

On the night of the 1st inst. boiler explod-
ed IN the Wadsworth mine, near Doylestown.
O. John stinelne was fatally and another
man badly scalded. The wounded men had to
crawl half mile before reaching the surface.
The boiler of the Yazoo, Miss, oil works ex-
ploded Thursday, with terrific force, tearing
away the boiler house and end of the main
building. Seven colored men were wounded,
four fatally.
A boiler collapsed in the mills of Douglass &
Sons, Mud Creek, Texas, on the 29th ult.,
blowing the establishment to atoms. Three
white men were killed and a colored man fatal
ly injured.
By an explosion in the barrel-works at Sag
NAV. Mich, Charles Utter was mortally injured,
Ira Nichols right leg was broken and F. Bur-
hard was badly bruised.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
TOLEDO
A Slave to Duty.

tFrom the Virginia City (NeV.l Enterprise.J
Old Gray, the big horse, who was at
one time employed to haul the hose
cart which is kept at the Corporation
House, was genuinely enthusiastic in.
his business. He was always on time.
This characteristic was encouraged by
the fire boys. Old Gray was trained
regularly every day, and he soon came
to know as much as anybody about
what he ought to do. Hard work and
rheumatism finally retired Old Gray to
furniture wagon. Three days after his
retirement he wac in front of Currie's
auction store, hitched to AN express
wagon loaded with furniture. All at
once an alarm of fire was sounded. Old
Gray waited about the length of time
that he thought it should take to hitch
him to the hose cart, and then he started.
The furniture was scattered from one
end of the street to the other, but Old
Gray reached the fire before the oppo-
sition cart, and with self-satisfed air
backed up to the hydrant. Next day he
was returned to the department. His
devotion to duty was appreciated.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10

was in self defense. People believe it was for
robbery. Beggs bore high character. The
accused had bad regulations.
A special from Gore, o., says that Allen
Eastering stabbed and killed Levi Paw at Old
Straitsville, on the night of the 9th ult.
Easterling is in jail.
James Holland was mobbed at Dardanell.
Ark, on the 2Sth ult., for the murder of an old
man named James, in 1879.
The body of an unknown man, middle-aged
and well-dressed, was found in Wlnthrop's
Cove, at New London, Conn.,, on the 9th. A
twenty-pound payer was attached to the neck
of the unfortunate. In one of the pockets of
the clothing was found bill from II. Wagner,
San Antonio, Tex, to NJ. A. Adams.
widow named Miller, residing near Water
loo, Iowa, who has been insane for some time
back, but was though!to be harmless, strangled
two of her children, on the 9th, and attempt
ed to kill three others. but they escaped. The
dead babes were three months and five years Of
age respectively
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
Minor MiShaDs.

Three daughters of J. J. Furrow, living near
Winterset, Iowa, were burned to death on the
night of the 1st inst, the house in which they
were sleeping being destroyed by fire.
Mrs. George A. Whitney was drowned in a
cistern at Grinne Iowa, on the I'd inst. 1t is
believed she lost her footing in lifting pail Of
water.
Arnoldus Vanderherst. owner Of extensive
rice plantations ON the South Carolina coast,
was killed, on the 1st inst, on HAWAII Island,
by the accidental discharge of his gun. He was
a member of the Cincinnati Society.
The steamer Kate Waters upset a skiff con-
tanning Mrs. Hattie Jones, Miss Rilda Sherman
and colored man named Lee, who was row.
ing, at Madison, Ind, on the I'd inst. Miss
Sherman and Lee saved themselves, but Mrs.
jones was drowned.
DIR. S. @. Norcross' dwelling at Whiteside,
Ga, burned on the 30th ult., and the doctor
persisted in the flames
During the excitement incident to a fire alarm
at Philadelphia, Pa. on the evening of the 9th,
the horses attached to steam fire engine be-
came unmanageable and dashed into street
car, killing two Young men who were standing
on the platform. Several other passengers
were slightly injured
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
Work of the Flames

| The extensive glass works at Poughkeepsie
N. z, we're destroyed by an incendiary fire OF
the night of the I'd INST Loss $3.50. ZOO. one
half of which is covered by insurance.
Several valuable presses we're DESTROYED by 8
fire which burned out the Evening Post press
room at Montreal on the Cd.
Maxwell Bros barns, on Bennett farm, near
Geneva, n. Y, burned on the Both. Fifty Hol-
stein cattle, five horses, fifty hogs and large
quantity of hay were destroyed. Loss $50, 600,
The fire was the work of an incendarv.
Ballary q Co.'s hardware store at Jefferson,
Texas, was totally destroyed by fire, on the 9th
Loss 1000. 80 .,
Mark Hopkins & Co.'s hub and spoke works.
at st. Clair, Mich, furnished food for flames
on the 30th Loss 100000
fire broke out in Newmans mirror and pic
ture frame establishment, Philadelphia. on the
3Oth ut. Causing damage to the amount of
$4,000
The county court house at Decatur. Texas,
burned on the 18th ult Many valuable papers
and the safe IN the county clerks Office. con-
tanning $4,000 in cash, were destroyed
+ A lire at Rochester, n. Y, on the goth ult.,
destroyed Marion's hat store and caused a loss
of $4,000. ..
Cox Hotel at Cookeville. Tenn, with an en-
tire square of buildings, was wiped ont by fire
on the 29th. Loss heavy. n
Over fifty buildings, comprising the entire
business portion of Augusta, Ark. were con-
sumed by fire on the 28th ult. The total loss is
estimated at $780, 900.
Fire on the night of the 28th ult, destroyed
the extensive establishment of the American
Rubber Company, at East Cambridge, Mass,
together with the valuable machinery and a
large quantity of stock and manufactured gar
ments. Total loss half million dollars. The
company gave employment to six hundred per-
sons, three-fourths women.
The Paulding iron furnace at Cecil, Paulding
County, o., burned on the morning of the 9th
ult. Total loss, $50 900.
Campbell & Co.'S new Hungarian -four mills
at Ridgetown, Ont, burned on the 9th ult.
Loss $40, 900.
Dispatches report the destruction of the BUSH
ness portion of Kosciusko, Miss. Loss $50, 900.
fire at the foot of Chesapeake street, at
Canton Nd, on the morning of the 28th ult.,
burned two floating elevators, the Russian bark
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
TraRiCal Tales.

One man was killed and three others fatally
wounded by drunken mob of Swedes, at Med
ford, Pa, on the I'd inst. The Swedes were
railroad laborers.
In an affray between man named Williams
and Buck Martin at Gsdsden Ala, on the I'd
inst, both were killed.
A batch of crimes from Texas and Mexico:
An entire family was murdered in cold blood
near Camargo, Mexico. The body of Mexican
with throat cut and four bullet wounds was
found near Rio Grande City, Texas. Sheriff J.
E. Martin and Louis Henry were robbed and
fouly murdered near Rio Grande City. The
sheriff had large amount of collected taxes
on his person, which was taken.
John Brodie and Shadrach Hester, colored
murderers, were lynched at Oxford, N. c., on
the LIST inst. A similar fate was melted out 20
two negro murderers at Mississippi.
At New Orleans, Margaret Massey. aged 10.
was shot by her lover, Henry Mense, aged 81.
who then shot himself. Both wounds are fatal
DIR. Joseph A. Beggs, book-keeuer and chem
list at the Alice furnace, Ironton, o., was cruel
ly murdered on the night of the Both ult.. a
short distance above the city limits. The
murderers used shotgun loaded with buck
shot and slugs. John Wagner and Bill Geek
have been arrested as the murderers. Wagner
confessed firing two shots at Beggs, but says it
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
Business Troubles.

The Bank of Prince Edwards Island has sus-
pended. The trouble was largely owing to
overdrawn accounts. Its affairs are said to be
in bad condition. The cashier has disappear
ed. The capital of the bank is 100000 and
the notes in circulation 100000.
The Usage City (Kansas) Savings Bank sus-
pended, on the 28th ult, owing to complica-
tons with the Daneford banks at Caldwell and
Hunnewell. which closed on the 25th.
Proctor & ingalls,. leather dealers, Lynn,
Mass, have failed; liabilities estimated at from
$4,000 to 100000; assets considered quite
large. general shrinkage in values of stock
and losses by failures have necessitated the
suSDensjOD.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
Railway Wrecks.

A collision with cows threw passenger train
from the track at Table Rock, near Madison,
Fla, on the 30th ult. A locomotive and two
cars were wrecked and the engineer and fireman
badly injured.
Seventeen freight cars were wrecked, a brake
man killed and the conductor seriously injured
by smashup at Greencastle. Ind, on the 30th
ult. A broken axle caused the train to leave
the rails.
Apassenger train from Edinburgh, Scotland
collided with freight train near Tayport on
the 25th. -Four persons were killed and eight
wounded,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
Church Scenes i'm Memphis.

A strange bulldog entered Mount Olive
colored church, at Memphis, on the evening of
the 9th ult., dragged visiting minister from
the pulpit, and only released his hold when his
brains were beaten out. At the same hour a
bench was broken down in Avery chapel, color
ed, and created a panic. The congregation
leaped from windows into the bayou. Many
were injured, one woman fatally.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10

vesta, two small yachts, the Smuggler and
Eagle, and two barges. Loss, S40,0
The standard Oil Company's paraffine works
at Cleveland, o., were partly destroyed by fire
A fire broke out in the Dockyard Church.
Sheerness, Eng, ON the 9th, consuming the
structure. Nine persons were injured.
Achille Emords stables of fine breeding
stock, near Quebec burned on the 9th. Five
horses, twenty-five cattle and forty-tiye sheep
were creniated
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
The RMhiIc DRhf

of the public debt during November of $7,249,-
1876; cash in the treasury, $245, 042, S96; gold
certificates, $5207, 800; silver certificates, $780,
663, $50; refunding certificates. 1919, $50; legal
tenders outstanding, 1916, 681 ,Ol6, fractional
currency outstanding, 81, O93, 1913; decrease of
debt since June 80, 1881, $72, 373, All.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
WIScenNin,S Vote.

The full official returns from the late Wiscon-
sin election give Gen. Rusk for governor, II :
$50 majority over his democratic opponent
For state treasurer, McFetridge has 1909 over
ance vote in the state was 1925; that of the
greenbackers g. 974
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10
Ihicrs Sentenced.

Herbert Nj. Theirs, the Kenosha, Wis, forger
pleaded guilty TO one charge, that of George
Youle, and was sentenced to seven years in the
state prison. The prisoner received q severe
lecture from Judge Wentworth.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10

Arabs plundered an Italian bark and burned
the stores of English merchants in Tunis. The
French have entirely destroyed the village Men
eel, near CODES.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10

CHAT prisoner has very smooth
countenance," said the judge. eyes, "
said the sheriff, she was ironed Just be-
fore he was brought in
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-10

HE man who manufactured the cele-
brated "A. W. Faber" pencils was re-
Gently married. Small Fabers thankful
ly received. = Cincinnati SATURDAY
Night.
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Havoc of War.

This frightful plague carries off eleven in
habitants daily at Jeddah and twenty-five at
Mecca.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-03-23
school PnaishHle nfs.

IL VIII probably surDrtSe good many people
10 learn that the barDarOuS and SenSeleSS prac-
tice OF making pupil write down single
word from one hundred 70 thousand times, as
punishment for neglect OF studies or defec-
tive memory, is still in vogue in some OF the
public schools Of Washington. Ii would be hard
TO invent more ingenious torture than this, or
one calculated to more quickly and effectively
destroy what faculties a child may nave
Whether IL is continued with the consent or
knowledge OF those high In authority In the ad-
ministration OF our school system we do not
KNOW. 1t seems hardly possible, however, that
they would permit a procedure ar once so
wicked and so dangerous, If they would reflect
hut moment But II is quite time the respon-
siSility for these eccentric and tdiotic punish
ments should be paced where It belongs. /.
tee school board and school officers are willing
10 shoulder IT, let them say SO. II the punish
ments are the Unauthorized devices of young.
inexperienced teachers, let that fact be known
Any way, the public wants to know where the
blame properly belongs. In this connection
the Inquiry comes up whether there is not
something lacking IN the normal school train
irg thai tCrCS out teachers so Sdly deficient IN
the knowledge hoH 10 govern pupils iudiciously.
This would seem 10 De \ very important part or
a teachers education. especially for the teacher
entrusted with the care OF young children.
Again, the question occurs whether the theory
maintained by our 5cnool authorities that only
unmarried women are qualified for teaching is
sound one. On the contrary, It would seem
that the matron Is altogether better fitted to
train, care for, and judieiously govern tender
children than are Young unmarried women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-03-23
The HONORARY Conference and the
Dollar of Our Daddies,

The International monetary conference and
its possible action are subjects OF greater
Interest in Europe than In the United States at
present, IL the newspaper comment OF the two
continents, respectively, is any criterion. The
French government seems TO have formulated
its proposition, basing 1t, apparently, upon the
assumption that the conference viii decide IN
favor OF bi- metali5m. France favors a ratio OF
l5k or siIyeT 20 one OF gold, and Germany and
Italy are counted upon b. the French to sus-
cain this ratio. In the RECOMMENDATION OF silver
the nited States fixed its ratio at &c to /,
making The standard dollar contain 412E
grains. In the discussion Of the subject, which
took vide range, prominent men or this
country who favored bi-metalism opposed the
act as 1t now stands. on the ground that the
dollar did not contain enough silver to make iC
or equal value wi h the gold dollar. 1t is said
now that Mr.. EyarIs goes to the international
conference decidedly in favor Of q dollar OF
4l2H grains. EN- Senator Thurman, it Is TO be
presumed, has NOT changed his views since he
supported the 412K grain dollar III 1873. The
representatives. or lrOpean nations IN the con-
ference VIII, IL Is believed, stand By the 151z 90
ratio. as any change would compel those na-
tons 10 recon all their silver. The adoption OF
the French proposition would reduce our stan
dard dollar TO 400 grains. SpeCulatiops a to
the decisions OF the conference are rather pre-
mature, with single exception. There can
hardly De doubt that the practicabilIty OF bi-
metalisfa viii receive a favorable decision.