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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
RurnCd to Death.

Johanna Callahan and son William were In
cinerated in their dwelling at Dorchester, Mass,
on the I'd inst.
The house of Tobias o. Chesner, at Audubon,
Mimi, burned early on the morning of the I'd
inst, and Mrs. Chesner and her two children
persisted in the flames.
The people of Butler county. KY, were hori-
fed on the 28th ult., by a terrible calamity
which overlook Wiley Erbry, an old and re
spected farmer and six Of his children on the
night of the 2Sth ult. Embry was awakened by
the roaring of fire and Immediately sprang
to the rescue Of his children In q room above.
Entering the apartment he was overcome by
the heat and persisted with the unfortunate
children. Mrs. E. and her eldest daughter
escaped. but it is thought they viii not survive
the shock.
The residence of a colored minister at
Charleston, s. c., took fire during the absence
of himself and spouse on the 30th ult.,, and
their three children were consumed in the
structure
Aminta Sebury, a paralyzed negress, 80 years
of age, was roasted by the burning of her SON
ln-law's dwelling at st. Louis, Mo-, on the 31st
ult.
By the burning of a tenement house at Union,
Conn, on the night of the 28th ult., Mrs. Geo.
Stones two children, a daughter aged and a
son aged years, lost their lives
For being intoxicated, a man named T. d.
Brown was placed i'll the jail at Baldwin, Mich,
which was soon afterward destroyed by fire.
the prisoner perishing in his cell.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
Marine Disaster

An English steamer bound from Balboa to
Mlddlesboro, foundered at sea, and thirteen
persons were drowned.
A vessel has arrived at Plymouth, England,
with the figure-head of the training ship At
lanta.
The steamer City of Bristol lost 143 head of
cattle on her voyage from New York to Liy-
erpool.
The propeller Saltz McCloskey was run down
and sunk by the Joseph W. Gould on the Ohio
river, about noon on the I'd inst. The fireman
of the wrecked boat was drowned.
The propeller st. Adams was wrecked on
Lake Michigan sixteen miles out from 8Iilwau-
kee, on the 3lst ult. The passengers and crew,
numbering twenty-six persons, escaped in the
small boats.
The steamer Roraima, bound from Lon
don for the Barbados, stranded near Long
Branch, N. j., on the 1st inst. The vessel is
nearly new and valued at S150,000. The crew
declined to be taken, preferring to stick to the
ship.
A dispatch from Paris says twelve fishing
smacks have been wrecked at Stables Dolonne,
Bay of Biscay, and forty-six men drowned.
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chants of Montreal, dropped dead from heart
disease in lawyers office.
Charles Klug was drawn into the rollers at
the rolling mills at Bay View, Milwaukee,
Wis, suburb, on the I'd inst, and instantly
killed.
A coasting sled having on board Charles
Barngert, his two daughters and three other
young ladies, ran off the wharf at College
Point, l.. l., on the I'd inst, and plunged into
Flushing bay. The party was rescued from the
water, but it is thought two of the ladies will
die from injuries received.
Patrick Murphy was run over by Missouri
Pacific train at st. Louis, Mo-, on the I'd inst,
and fatally mangled.
Two fatal elevator accidents occurred in Chi
cago on the first inst, one at the Furst & Brad
ley Plow manufacturing company warehouse,
where by the falling of an elevator from the
sixth story Joseph Spelen lost his life, and
Christopher Munstock and Hermann Harsch
sustained severe injuries. The other victim
was Peter Burns, who was struck on the fore
head by the weight attached to an elevator
brake and was fatally injured.
John w. Dwinelle, a prominent lawyer of San
Francisco, was drowned at Port Costa, opposite
Benecia, CAL, recently. His body was picked
up on the LIST inst.
Selma Peters, aged II, was killed, and several
companions seriously injured, while coasting at
Bayside, n. j.
Mrs. Rose Lowe, occupying apartments over
Grand RapldS, Mich, store, was sutfocated to
death by smoke which emanated from an in
cipient blaze in the store.
At Tiffin, o., on the 31st ult., H. H. Seaver
fell under the cars and was killed. He was on
his way to procure marriage license.
Thomas Koenig was killed at Cincinnati, o.,
on the 31st, while coasting. The sled struck a
tree.
While sliding on ice at Shadeville, O., on the
28th, John Tucker. aged 18, fell and was fatally
injured.
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Obituary.

r. Y. Lawrence, veteran pioneer surveyor.
died at Fort Worth, Texas, on the night of the
81 inst.
Robert Fisher, president of the Baltimore
beard of trade, died suddenly on the 4th inst, of
congestion of the lungs
J. G. Wilcox, an old settler of Lancaster,
o.. and brother-in-law of Secretary Sherman,
is dead.
Joseph E. Modesto Blanco. the Spanish con-
sui at Philadelphia, died on the 1st inst.
Captain Joseph Lawson. OF the Sd cavalry
the hero of the Milk river fight with the Utes,
died of paralysis at Fort Steele
Anna Maria Hall, the English authoress, wife
of s. c. Hall, the well-known author, is dead'
John Tyler, a noted auctioneer of Boston has
passed away.
Carl Moelman, president of the sophomore
class of the Northwestern university, at Evans
ton, died at AIanteno, H., on the 30th ult.
Miller Dewitt. farmer of Angola, Ind. died
at the advanced age of los.
KilliOn II. Van Rensselaer,, a native of Alba
ny, \. Y, for nearly half a century resident
of Ohio. died at California, in that state. aged
ed Scottish-rite Masons in the United States.
LucLettelier, ex-heutenant governor of Que
bee, died at River Onelle on the 29th nit.
Ezra Elliott, one of the oldest merchants of
Cincinnati, is dead.
Gen. John Love, graduate Of West Point
and a veteran of the Mexican war; died at
indianapolis, Ind. On the ooh.
John Wassel, eX mayor Of Little Rock, Ark.
and formerly Wee President Of the Merchants
National Bank OF Little Rock, died on the 29th.
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ABOUT PEOPLE.

JENNIE STEWART, western pedestrian,
has lost her eyesight by over exertion on
the track.
OR. B. HAYES, president of the United
States, IS danked ono aido in tho
new Washington directory by "R. H.
Hayes, barber" and on the other by
"T. j. Hayes, shoemaker.
PRESIDENT HAYES has discovered the
man who "stood up" with his father
when he was married in 1913. His name
is DR.. Pelatiah Dwight, of Adams, JEFF
ferson county, n. Y, and he is So years
of age.
Miss LIZZIE SARGENT, daughter of
ex-senator Sargent, of California, has
been regularly admitted as a member of
the medical profession in San Francisco.
She is graduate of the medical college
of the Pacific.
To gentleman in Plattsburg who had
named his child for him, General Gar
field recently wrote: Accept my
thanks for the compliment you have
paid me in making my name household
word in your family. l trust that your
boy may live to honor his parents and
his country"
SENATOR LOGAN wears an immense
white sombrero, which adds to the In
dian-like picturesqueness impaired by
his long straight black hair and formid-
able mustache. Senator Ingalls, can
always, it is said, be recognized among
the other senators by his necktie, which
is usually brilliant cardinal or solferino
color.
Mrs. MILLER, the wife of the newly
chosen senator from California, is de-
scrlbed as cultivated and charming
woman, who will be a social acquisition
to Washington. 1t is said also that
Senator Fair of Nevada will excel in
hospitality anything heretofore known at
the federal capital.
The Buckeye Blacksmith is dead.
His name was John w. Baer, and in
every presidential campaign from Har-
r1son to Grant he was stump orator
and singer in the west He was an at
tractive speaker, and his songs always
aroused great enthusiasm. Between the
campaigns he was usually provided with
berth IN the Baltimore OF PHILADELPHIA
custom house.
OF the late Father Edward Purcell. a
writer in the Commercial of Cincinnati
says: cit is within the positive knowl-
edge of the writer that the fish in the
lake of the Brown County convent came
to the edge of the pond upon his APP
proach; that the swans, wild to all else.
came to the mimic beach and sang to
him. In the bitter days of the winter,
now half gone by, the birds of the field
came to the windows of his convent re-
tlrement and fed from his bounty upon
the sills. If only half satisfied, they
Knocked at the panes until the repast
was replenished. A curious custom of
Father Purcell was that of staying close
~ at home until sunset, when he would
take short walk unaccompanied, gener-
ally going over the same route.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
THE MARKETS..
New York.


New YORK, February 28-12:30 P. M.-Flour-
Dull; strongly in buyers favor; receipts 23,578
bbls; round hoop Ohio at $45005.00: choice do
at $5.05@6.75; superfine western at IS. 70(04 10;
common to good extra do at $4.30@6.50; choice
do at "a 7O@6.75: choice white wheat do at
S5.0O@6OO. Wheat-Heavy; 15@1c lower and
fairly active; sales $4,000 bus No. white sell
Ter March at $1.141901. 24O, 900 bus No.
2red seller March at S1.165s@1. IS; 112, 600 bus
do seller April $1.1724@1.183l; 1877, 900 bus
do seller May at S1.1736@1.18%. Corn-119
@3sc lower; moderate trade; mixed western
spot at 54C0551sc; do futures at 527s0D541sc.
Oats-4@ssc lower; western at 4213@4715c.
Beef-Firm; new plain mess at $3.50; new extra
do at $1,000 Pork-Dul and declining; old
mess at $14.00@14.20 for spot. Lard-Heavy
and lower; steam rendered at 500. Butter
Firm; moderate demand; Ohio at 13@28c
Cheese-Unchanged at 8(013s4c for poor to
choice. Sugar-Unchanged and quiet. Molasses
Quiet and steady. Petroleum-Dull and NOM
inal. Rice-Firm; fair inquiry. Coffee-Quiet
and unchanged: Freights- Spirits of
Turpentine-Dull at Ate. Realistically at
$1.774@ .8219. Tallow = Firm at 69lc for
western. Eggs-Dull at 35c for fresh.
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Chicago.

CHICAGO, February 5-1:30 P. M.-Wheat-
Weak and lower at 97c for cash; 9796c for
seller March; 991lc for seller April. Corn
seller March; 407sc bid for seller May. Oats
Weak at 29c for cash; 291sc for seller March;
$3.50 for seller May. Rye-At $50. Barley--At
9919c Pork-Weak ana easy at S1415 for cash;
$14.20 for seller March; S14.35 for seller April.
Lard-Weak and heavy at 1920 for cash;
$3.50 asked for seller March; S9.4O bid for
seller April. Whisky-At S1OS. Hogs-Re-
celpts $4,000 head; weak; lower at S.. 1906. 40;
mixed packing at S5.O0@535; shipping at
$5.40@5.8O. Cattle-Receipts l 200 head; dull
and unchanged no cars obtainable for love
or money; shipping at S40O05.25; butchers at
S2.10@4.0O, mainly S2.50@3.30; stockers at
S2.5003. go.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
T ale Of the Sea.

In January, 1853, says the New B BED
ford Mercury, the clipper ship. J Jon
Gilpin, with cargo Of oil and tIeiSL'ii
from the Sandwich islands to the Ull!e.l
States, was wrecked and sunk oil car
Horn. On the 1st of January, 1851, tGe
ship Congress, OF New Bedford, Whiig
cruising between Cape Leurwin ana
Bull Head, picked up cask OF OIL c'N-
cred with barnatjes, rehc of the TrecA
of the John .Silpin. La three years tl ms
cask had driftetl east by north 7,'oo
miles. In February Of the same year
$50 miles from New Holland, two otIisii
casks from the same cargo were plcA''
up, having in their three years Of w"
dering drifted from 10 dogs. west 10 e.
gitude 10 dogs. 10 Minis. east-halI W.
round the globe.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
Bold RObbprieS.

Two masked men STOPPED the San Antonio
aud I'll Paso stage about fifteen miles from
Boerne, Texas, on the ID inst, and robbed the
mail bags of several valuable packages. The
ROBBERS are thought to be the same who plum
9ered the coach on the Laredo and Eagle Pass
line.
w. q. Wilkinson, bank clerk at Wheeling,
"; va, was knocked down In the street and
robbed OF box containing $500 in money and
$4,000 in checks and drafts.
Burglars took $4,000 in stamps and money
from the postofice at Vassar. Mich.
A commercial traveller named Holland, of
Philadelphia, was robbed of check for $40, 600
ana S2,l0O III money on a railway train between
Jefferson City and Sedalia, Mo-, on the
29th ult.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
Congressional Appropriations.

The bill which has been reported back to the
house from the committee, appropriates $780,
600 for the purchase and distribution of seeds.
$4,000 for continuing the sorghum sugar
manufacturing experiments; $4,000 for
further experiments in tea culture: $4,000 for
continuing researches in regard to destructive
agricultural insects; $4,000 to reclaim aria
and waste lands in the territories. and $1,000
Tor new museum building in connection with
the agricultural department.
The house committee on river and harbor
improvements for the Mississippi have agreed
upon investing 81. 0GO. coo from Cairo t0 tbe
jettles and $4,000 from Cairo to the head
waters
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19

the 30th inst, destroyed storehouse contain
ing some 81, 900 bushels of grain, belonging to
J. Lindsay. Loss $4,000.
A fire in large five-story building on Pine
street, New York city, occupied by the Down
Town Club" an association of merchants, bank
ers and brokers, caused damage to the extent of
$25, 000 on the 30th.
At cambridge, Ca, on the 3Oth inst, the
Adams cotton mill was consumed by fire. Loss
$4,000.
At Port Union, Butler county, Ohio, about
80 miles from Cincinnati, on the 30th, fire
destroyed five ice-houses. Loss probably &c.,
600.
Johnstown, N. Y. suffered a $25, 900 fire on
the 30th, in the business section of the city,
Frow Il Co. g flour mill at Madison, Ind, was
totally destroyed by fire on the 30th inst Loss
$1,000; insurance $4,000.
Five car loads of cotton were destroyed at
Dodge, Texas, on the goth.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
Buried Alive.

scribe an avalanche which buried four men in
their cabin while getting supper, those lost be-
ing two brothers named Kelly and two men who
were working for them.
On the Both ult., as eighteen Cinnamon were
engaged in cutting timber on the line of the
South Pacific coast railroad at point fourteen
miles from Santa Cruz, Cal, they were over
whelmed by land slide, comprising an area of
fully half mile of an adjoining mountain.
Ten of the mongols escaped, the balance per-
ishing
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
Boiler Explosions.

Schmidt's flour mill, at Kimswick. Mo-. twenty
miles below st. Louis, on the Iron Mountain
road, was almost completely demolished by q
boiler explosion. Three boys were killed and
two boys wounded.
The steam yacht Carrie, of Philadelphia, was
wrecked by the explosion of her boiler. when off
Chase's wharf, Baltimore, Md, on the ID inst.
Four men were killed.
The steamer Pitpan, running from Greytovn
TO Lake Nicaragua, while shooting the rapids
IN the San Juan river on the ID ut, burst her
boiler. Several people were killed and mann,
badly injured
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Suicidal.

insane in watching over her only child during
an attack OF smallpox, and hanged herself
When she learned from the physician that it
could not survive
Max Levi, Polish Jew of Toronto, was in
terrupted by his wife, while engaged in shoot
ing himself in the head. on the Sd INST. With
one arm he held her of, while with the other
he grasped a razor and severed his juguiar vein.
An Ann Arbor, Mich, bagnio was the scene
of a startling suicide on the I'd inst. Henry
A. Fairbanks, medical student, shot himself
shortly after receiving visit from some women,
one of whom claimed to be his wife
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
Heavy RainstOrm on the Pacific
Coast.

A storm which commenced on the 28th ult.,
and continued till the evening of the 30th, and
which spread over the Pacific coast, from Brit
lsh Columbia to Southern California, was the
heaviest experienced since 1861 The Feather,
luba and Sacramento rivers, all overtiowed
their banks and the aggregate loss in immense.
The Central Pacific railroad company is a heavy
loser. San Francisco valley from Cache creeks
tothe bluffs presented the appearance of a vast
lake. Several miles of railroad in the vicinity
OF Santa Cruz was washed away and the towns
OF Napa and jacksonville are under water. San
Francisco was thoroughly drenched. the cellars
generally being filed.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
Foreign War Notes.

SkObelOff's loss Mt GeolS-Tara tLe 18th ,1lt.
was officers and 80 men killed, and 10 officers
and 235 men wounded
The following are the Chilian conditions of
peace: The surrender of the allied fleet and
payment of an indemnity of $50, O0O, 900, of
which Peru is to assume 500, 600 900. and Boz
win SO, 1000, 000 the cession of Astofagasta to
Chill; Chill to occupy Callao. and work the
guano deposits, supper and saltpetre mines until
the payment of the indemnify
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
they Surrender.

Major nges, at Poplar river, telegraphed to
Gen. Terry, commanding the department of
Dakota, on the I'd inst, that Iron Dog and
sixty-four Sioux, in charge of Captain Davies,
have left for Fort Buford, and that Scout ALI
son, with 800 surrendered hostles, is also en-
route for the same point Thus far about 700
of Sitting Bulls force have surrendered, and it
is thought his power for mischief is broken.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
swept AWAY.

The reservoir back of FranktoWn, Neb,
formed by draining ravine. gave way on the
afternoon of the I'd inst, and swept away the
small cluster of dwellings, like SO much chaff.
A dozen men were carried off by the torrent,
but escaped by being cast up on the sides of the
ravine. No lives were lost. Nearly mile of
railway track was demolished.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
RlIsineSS EaiIures.

MOTIFS, WinsIow q Co, dry goods dealers.
Watertown, N. Y, and Loomis & McMasters,
failed Liabilities of the former S95. 600: of
the latter $4,000.
Mayer Brothers, importers and exporters,
New York city, have gone to the wall, with LA
bilities aggregating 81, 500, 600
We'll, Kahn q Co., tobacco merchants, Gin
clnnah, O., made an assignment on the 31st
ult The liabilities range from $3.50. 900 to $500
600.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
Crooked rEranSacts

For the crime of forging the signature of
Frederick ketchum, minor, upon which $18,
600 IN Baltimore city bonds were fraudulently
transferred, Geo. W. Bishop, ex-city council
man and ex-judge of the Baltimore Orphans
Court, and Isaac W. Helm, lialf-brother of the
minor, Ketchum, were each sentenced to five
years in the Maryland penitentiary. The city
had been compelled to restore the amount of
their stealings, with interest, to Ketchum.
San Francisco, CAL, firms are "out'' to the
tune of from $50, 900 to 100000 through
shipping that amount of goods to bogus firm
at Yuma. Joseph Goldwater, of Arizona, and
j. Lyons, of Yuma. manipulated the job. 1t is
a question whether anything can be done to the
sWlndlers, as the goods were bought on credit.
The plumber cannot be found. Goldwater
skipped out to Arizona
Government detectives arrested Cyrus Smith
at Short Creek, Kansas, few days since on a
charge of defrauding the government out of
81, 900 worth of revenue stamps. NTH and
others bought stamps at Chicago Under pre-
tence of starting match factory, gave bond
for the payment Of them, and skipped out.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
lNIIWankee.

MILWAUKEE, February $500 M.-Flour-
Very dull; Milwaukee standard extras at So. 500
400; New York extras at S3.6O@3.70. Wheat
Unsettled and lower; No cash at CSC; No. 2
hard at S1.0412; No. regular at 9512c; No. 3
at SIC; No. at 7411zc; No. seller March opened
at 9714c; receded to 96c, and closed at 9615c;
seller April opened at $3.50; receded to 97c, and
closed at 9713c seller May opened at S1.O2 aud
sold down to S1.0118. Corn-New at 33c Oats
No. at 29c. Barley-No. 2 fresh at 7S15c;
seller March at 77$Ic. Rye-Quiet at size.
Pork-Lower at $14.00 for cash. Lard-Lower
at 50 % for cash
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
Dead Indians.

Reliable information has been received of a
battle between the Indians and troops in the
Slerre da Boio mountains. on the Texan border.
IN which SIX warriors were killed and three
squaws captured. The savages are supposed to
have belonged to band who had been ravaging
the border for some months past
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
Foo Ambitious.

Mr.. Thornton, recently elected to a judge
ship in Sullivan county, n. Y, is to experience
some difficulty in taking his seat. Itseems that
Thornton pledged himself to his constituents
to serve as Judge for 8, 200 a year, the regular
salary being 81. 800. This pledge to Taxpayers
in advance of election is held by the courts to
be bribe and he viii not be allowed to take
his seat
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EOreign.

LIVERPOOL. February 5-1:30 P. M.-Produce
exchange quotations: Bacon-Clear cut steady
at ABS 3D. short ribs steady at AS Cd; long clear
steady at 40s; short clear steady at Ais. Shout
ders-Firmer at 29s Cd. Lard-Prime western
duh at 49s Cd. Wheat-No. l white dull at 9s
ID; winter dull at 9s Sd for new western and 9s
Sd for new southern.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19

A WASHINGTON correspondent saws he
rode down from the capitol the other
day III a five cent omnibus in which the
only passenger was the yice-president of
the United States. Sir Edward Thorn
ton, the British minister, whose salary.
besides his income, is over $50, 1000
year, walks every day from his home
away beyond the White House to the cap
itol, distance of nearly three miles.
Mr.. Hill, of Colorado, who is worth a
million or two, also walks, while all
around him dash the coaches of men
who live on their congressional salary.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
Too yNHSeh VeEneisV.

At the Russian Mills, Niles, O., on the Sd
INST, tie governor belt slipped off, causing the
ny wheel OF the engine to reVOlye so rapidly
that it flew into pieces Two men were killed.
several injured, and the mill badly damaged.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-02-19
PedeSfrIan5Sna.

The great walking match for the O'Leary
belt, in New York city, was brought to a close
on the night of the 29th ult., with Hughes as
the winner. The score stood: Hughes, $685.
miles and 162 yards; Albert 558; Vint, 550
Krohne, 500; Howard, 51518; Campana 425.
The five walkists received about $4,000 to di-
vide, but the managers had to content them
solver with $500 for their trouble The
pedestrian fever seems to have waned in
Gotham.
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Louis Grumme, a Chicago soap manufacturer,
was found hanging to beam in his factory on
the 3lst ult. An examination developed the
fact that he first tried to sever the arteries of
his wrist and had also taken poison