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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-05-20
Mr.. c. DIV. YOUNG

has been auditor Of the Omaha road
since 1875, and was highly esteemed
by the officers Of the road and all con-
nected with him, both as a man and
as an accountant. He was about thir-
ty-tour years old, and was for years
III the office Of the Northwestern road
at Chicago, as accountant, and finally
as head bookkeeper. He resides here
and leaves a wife who is agonized over
the sad accident. His father lives in
St. Paul and has been connected with
the engineer corps of the Omaha road.
Of Mr. Gossick, fewer particulars
could be learned. 1t was he who
owned the boat, which he brought
here from Shakopee, where he used to
live. He came out yesterday, accom-
panied by his wife, to visit Mr. Young.
P. S.-The bodies of the drowned
men were found on Wednesday last
in about forty feet Of water. The boat
was first found, and then the bodies,
all near the boat.
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NOTICE.

Notice is given 70 all Interested that hereafter
al Town Orders VIII be cashed at the First Ma
tional Bank, in superior
A. G. BERTRAND,
May 10, lSs2. Town Treasurer
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FULLER PARTICULARS.

WHITE BEAR LAKE, May IA
About II o'clock to-day a party con
sisting of c. DIV. Young, auditor Of
the Omaha road, J. B. Gossick, store
keeper at the Omaha shops, and Lrv-
ing Moore, chief clerk in the auditors
Office Of the same road, went out sail
ing in little sailboat called the Ma
bel. The water was rough, the wind
s1ually, and the boat was not consid-
cred safe by experien ed boatmen, be-
ing rugged with a large square sail with
Il spar at top and bottom. They were
to have returned at / o'clock, but not
appearing for an hour or so later Il
search was instituted and the rud-
der and oar and the hats of two of
the party were found and Unidentified.
After this a careful search was made
Of the shores Of the lake, but no fluth-
er evidence was discovered, and the
hypothesis is that they capsized while
lacking, and the great weight Of the
stone ballast carried them to the bot
tom. Victor, who keeps the boats at
the Hotel Leip, was sailing quite near
them moment before the must have
gone down. He reports that they were
between Comedian point on the south
shore and Spirit Island, and about a
quarter Of a mile from Cornealian
point. He looked around every two
or three minutes, but the last time
longer interval elapsed, and when he
looked again he could not see them,
but thought nothing Of it at the time
Boats at once went out to search the
part Of the lake where the boat went
down in hopes Of seeing the sail or
rendering some assistance, but owing
to the roughness Of the water nothing
could be done.
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Wanted 90 Write q Book.

Susie Pollard, aged fifteen, The
daughter of wealthy citizen of
Cleveland, who disappeared from
home three weeks ago and for whom
detectives have been securing the
country and reward of $4,000 is Of
fered, was found at the Palmer
House, Chicago, under an assumed
name, living quietly. She explained
she wanted to rove about the world
and then write a book about her ex-
perience. She is said to be the niece
of Governor Foster, of Ohio. Cover
nor Foster, however, DIMES any re-
lationship to Susie Pollard.
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State News.

The Fayette county Grand Jury
found three hundred indictments,
mostly for unlawful RETAILING Of
liquors.
The Morgantown Post says chat
a little three year-old son of John
II. Bowers, Of Cheat Meek, bad
his nose and cheek bone dreadful
" mashed by the Kick of a horse,
last week.
Rev. ". E. Powell was sum
m0ned by telegraph last Thursday
to attend the funeral oflhe iounh
and last child OF Mrs. Drummoud.
at the residence of MIR. ID. BauaH-
ner in Clarksburg
Mr.. John 7. Thompson, on Jpr-
sey Mountain, this county, had
from ten TO fifteen head of sheep
killed by worthless dog recently.
\ $50, Mr. Sjlas j. Patterson, on
Little CapOn, had eight kiiled,aud
Mr.. 3. f King OF the same vjcin-
ity, lost five in the same manner
Our citizens VO.ed down hp dog
law at our laie cfee. ion. Mr.. T
inform~ as tHa me thought uf
Withdrawing the money he han
invested 10 the business; yet with
protection he could realize tWenty
per cent, otherwise he could only
realize six per cent on his money.
-S0mh Branch Gazette.
We learn from the Clarksburg
Telegram that n little BOY, s or 10
years old, son OF Porter G Day,
swallowed a grain Of corn, which
got into his windpipe Or, Gather
was called, and aiiUg to get IL
out, it was concluded 80 get il by
"a surgical operation, end ON SER
day Drs. Dew, Cdrder and Gather
met there. At in ervals the corn
would rise in bis throat and cause
smolhering spells, and while no
had one OF thee spells they COM
menced to operate on the threat,
when he died Instantly,
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Siftings.

Four thousands decks of cards
said 20 be worth 800 pack. were
seized at Laredo, Texas yester.
day.
Boston is reported 20 be on the
eve Of a sensational expose of nat.
uralizalion frauds.
One hundred and seventy-five
girls employed in a New York
candy mandatory, attempted tc
mob packer named Wells, the
other day, and the police were
compelled to interfere to save his
life.
The foreign and domestic money
orders issued and paid by the Post.
Office Department during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1882, aggre-
gated 1896, 632, representing over
$115,000,000
Eighty-seven thousand dollars
in silver three cent pieces have
just been melted up at the Phila.
delphia mint.
That explosion Of fireworks at
Philadelphia appears to have been
rather a serious thing. Seven per-
sons are already dead, and five
more are in a fair way 10 follow
them.
There is rumor at Washington
that eX.Supervising Mullet in
tends to put in claim for five
years pay, from 1877, when he
was last recognized, up to date
The President Indignantly de-
MES that The political situation in
New York and Pennsylvania was
ever discussed at a Cabinet meet
ing He also emphatically asserts
that his visit to New York city
has no political significance.
New York special to PhiIadel-
phia Times "Mrs Langtry's
complexion is as near perfect as
compilations go, but when closely
inspected her skin IS not as re.
markable as her friends would
have the public believe When
animated by conversation her face
Is very captivating, aud her smile
is extremely fascinating, 80 much
so, indeed, that Oscar Wilde took
occasion TO remark 10 q compan-
ion that she was delicious when
her face lighted up with laugh
ter" All in all, she is not as beau
titul a woman as the public have
been led to believe, anil after eE-
her critically, Sarony,lho
photographer, remarked. There
are countless women ia thi4 ooun
try who are more beau'ifui than
she y
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Religious Notes.

4 pretty sight at the evening
service Of church in Newport.
VT, was the unfolding of night
blooming cereus, which was car
ried in by parishioner. The
blossoms attained their full size
near the close of the service.
During the past century the
population Of the United States
increased elevenfold, and its
churches thirty-seven fold. A
hundred years ago there was one
church to every 100 inhabitants
now there is one for every 529.
Dean Burgon, preaching from
the Cambridge University pulpit,
recently said "For my part, I
am quite content to seek my an
cestofs ia the garden called Eden;
let Others, if they choose, look for
theirs in the garden called Zoo
logical"
The Supreme Court of New
Hampshire has decided that the
right Of tie pew holder is sub0r-
dinate 10 the right Of the Society
to repair or remodel the church.
and, upon compensation, 70 re-
move or destroy the pew for the
purpose Of making needed altera-
tons or repairs.
The Mission premises Of the
United Presbyterian Church ia
Alexandria have not been injured,
and Nj. Ewing and DIR. Watson
visit them during the day, bat
pass the night on a ship in the
harbor. Nothing is known Of the
condition of the Mission property
in Cairo or of the native Chris
tiaBs there. The Chicago Inter-
ocean, commenting on a recent
sermon in which such expressions
as the "primordial fire mist"
uncommeasurable eternities, ere
observation-disclosures creation"
and eternal se.f-determination
impaled upon the sharp retribu-
ton Of an overmastering 0mnipo-
tenca' occurred, says Imagine
thQ Sermon on the Mount transla-
ted INTO this kind Of English, or
the parable of the Prodigai Son
amned full ofiaw-tWisting words
ike boom fail of logs in high
water.
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a High Building.

At st. Louis, a new twelve story
sugar refinery has just been com
pleted The building is said to be
the strongest Of its kind in the
world 1t was begun in April, 1881.
Since then work has continued in
cessauuy Over 6,600,OO0 bricks
were used in the walls, and the
structure is higher than any other
iI the country. The outlay will
reach S500,000 when the machinery
is placed in position, and the capac-
ity win be 5000 barrels, or 1000, 600
pounds Of sugar per day of twenty
four hours
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Important Pension Beef
sion.

Acting Secretary of the Interior
JOslyn recently rendered a decision
of the utmost Importance to a large
class Of applicants for pensions. He
holds in effect that seven years alb
sence may be taken as proof pre-
sUmptive of soldiers Deaths and such
proof shall warrant the issue of a
pension to his family if the other re-
quirements have been complied
with This decision is a direct re-
yersal of the practice which has
hitherto prevailed in the pension bu-
reau. Positive proof of soldiers
death was required, which in many
cases, it was impossible to produce.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-10-28

4 CORRESPONDENT in the Wheel
ing Register addresses a card to the
ladies of that city on the importance
of change in the present mode of
Waiting. The Society Editor of
that paper has this to say:
This question of waltzing has
never yet come up in Wheeling, but
ii is reported that a club, to be
known as the Dancing Reform
Club, will be formed this winter,
and will organize a change. There
are three kinds Of Waiting: the
graceful, the ungraeeful, and the dis
graceful, and it is, doubtless, to this
latter our correspondent refers. Of
late years it has become customary
for ladies', in waltZing, to get so close
to the gentlemen, that the coats Of
the latter soon collect enough rice
powder to go the rounds of female
seminary. This species Of dancing
is, however, more common to water
ing places than provincial towns,
like Wheeling.
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NOTES AND COMMENT.

John g. Whittier has written an
| apology for his 1894 poem on Will
liam Penn. One was due the public.
Ex Rev. Min, the new imperson-
ator of Hamlet" is spoken Of in
Chicago as reformed preacher y
That's the Chicago idea.
Two great European celebrities
Nilsson and Langtry-are on this
side Of the water, and the Eastern
hemisphere is clipping up" in conse-
quence.
Secretary Chandler is an honest and
considerable gentleman. He does not
think it fair to deprive Hon. Jay
Hubbell Of the glory to be extracted
out of the present political cam
paign.
Weakened New York Republi-
cans now say it is not who will win
at the coming election in their State
but that it is merely a question of
majorities. The Tribune already
calls Mayor Cleveland "Governor"
Cleveland.
A duel is talked of between Dis
trict Attorney Woodford, of New
York, and Democratic politician.
Too far North for an encounter on
the field of honor. There "the hey
dey in the blood is tame; it's huns
BILE, and waits upon the judgment. "
The current number of Harper'S
Weekly represents Boss Kelly in war
rig smoking a calumet, but with one
eye closed, his finger athwart his
nose, and saying: I'm let them
have their way before election but
I'm boss Qftermard, and don't you
forget it :"
The actress Marie Prescott re-
Gently recovered damages from the
American News Company in New
York for libel, theft and perjury.
There would seem to beno reason in
the world why an actress should not
be as sensitive of her reputation as
other people are.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-10-28

TIE official returns of the Ohio
vote at the last election shows that
the principal cause of the Repubii-
can defeat was the attitude Of the
temperance people, who, instead of
supporting the temperance side
of the question involved, went into
corner by themselves and threw
their votes into the air. The Pro-
hibition candidate for Secretary of
State received L, 200 votes. So far
as the result is concerned, these
votes were all cast for free whiskey
on Sunday. The great drawback to
temperance movements everywhere
is the lack Of practical sense display
ed by leaders.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-10-28

PENNSYLVANIA has invented a
baby spanking machine. 1t can be
attached to a sewing machine, or
can be wound up and operate itself.
II enables the most harassed mother
to do up the family spanking in ten
minutes, and to take in spanking in
stead of washing or sewing. \ re-
cent test showed that the machine
was able to reduce the most refrac-
tory baby to lamb like gentleuess in
eight seconds by stop watch. A
special size is made for twins, and a
musical box attachment droWus the
voice of the spaukee.
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Thinks il all the Time.
From the Philadelphia Press

w. H. Vanderbilt goes on deny
ing every twenty-four hours that
he said 1.-The puolic be damned"
but as far as the public is concern
ed Mr.. Vanderbilt is in the posi-
ton of the Dutchman's boy who
impressed his watchful parent
with the belief that whatever he
said be was thinking damn all the
time.
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A REpBODUCTNE COMET The
.present comet in the Eastern sky,
which can be distinctly seen by
every one at early morning, is GER
tainly the most remarkable one of all
the modern comets. Prof. Lewis
Swift, director Of the Warner OBJ
servatory, Rochester, N Y, states
that the comet graZed the sun so
closely as to cause great disturbance,
SO much so that it has divided into
light separate parts, all Of which
can be distinctly seen bya good tele-
scope. There is only one other in
stance on record where a comet has
divided, that one being Bella S
comet of 1916, which separated into
two parts. Applications have been
made on Mr. II, II. Warner by par
ties who have noted these cometary
offshoots, claiming the 5000 prize
for each one of them Whether the
great comet will continue to produce
a brood Of smaller comets remains
to be seen.
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TIE scales for weighing gold in
the assay Office at New York are so
delicate that when brought to a ball
ance with two pieces Of paper Of
equal size the mere writing Of a
name on one Of the pieces Of paper
viii add enough weight in the paper
to turn the scales IN its favor.
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For some tine past mich cows
in and around Memphis have
been dying Of a strange disease,
somewhat resembling dry muir
rain. A few d ,ys ago a colored
man named Edward Ward SKIN
ned Oae Of the animals that died
thus, and paid for the job with his
life. A sPeck Of the blood from
the cow dropped ON slight cut OH
the wrist. Next day he was taken
sick the arm began to swell and
infame, and in less THAI forty
Fights hours ne died
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FROM 1868 to the present year
there have been 400 skirmishes and
battles with Indians west OF the
Mississippi, in which more than d
thousand officers, and men Of the
army have been killed. There are
in that territory 1870 soldiers to
take care Of 800 redskins, most Of
whom are well armed.
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PhiladelDhia Telprraph

Philadelphia Telegraph
Democrats, AS q rule, like 10 90
to public meetings, ii il about the
only fun they have had III his
State for twenty-five years
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HOME INTERESTS.


mons, but every Bible reader or
church-going man has read or
heard Of the parable about the
talents and the reference is suf-
fciently suggestive without olab-
Grating. It can be applied with
strong force to Martinsburg PEG
pie. Since the day that mortal
eyes first gazed on the spot where
stands our town and its surround
ings, an unhidden field of wealth
has been ever present and ever
visible. Generation after genera
ton have passed through their al
lotted time and on into eternity
without any effort to utilize the
wealth upon which their eyes daily
gazed and their hands often
grasped, and only within the past
few years has any attempt been
made to garner the wealth lying
unconcealed ut their own doors,
Great blocks of splendid limestone
exposed to view have been thus
left unmoved, whilst hun dreds of
our people have gone off to the
far west and with pick and shovel
entered the bowels of the earth
for the hidden quartz of the pre-
cious metals, is it not strange
that the intelligence of our people
has been so negligent To-day q
decided change is presented. Now,
rocks have value exceeding till
able land, and Martinsburg fur
nishes lime for building and man
ufacturing purposes to the large
cities. Pittsburg gets it specially
for the making of glass and our
neighboring county of Morgan
furnishes the other ingredient,
the sand of choicest quality. Why
not embrace these natural re
sources at Martinsburg and at
once enter into competition in the
manufacture of glass A slight
effort would draw capital here for
such a purpose. With such lime
stone, iron ore in abundance and
sand so near, and with railroad |
facilities unsurpassed, it is only |
negligence, the sleep and inertia
of death that can prevent Martins
burg from becoming a manufac-
turing center The manufacture |
of glass can be multiplied, and |
when iron and steel are made |
direct from the ore, the multipli-
cation of manufactures Of every |
thing made from iron and steel is
only a question of push and en- |
ergy. The stave business recent
ly started, and of which notice has |
heretofore been made, is one adj |
iunct of the lime business (for /
much Of it must be shipped in
barrels) and we credit those gen /
tlemen for sense and foresight in /
their enterprise, and meanwhile /
we welcome the Messrs. Baker to /
our town and wish them much /
profit and success in their lime
burning.
Let us all put our heads and |
hands and means together and /
see If these things cannot be .
doubled and trebled in our midst /
FROM 1868 to the present year
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THE last storm signal saved five
millions worth of shipping. Can't
some one invent a mother.in-law
signal ? Something that can be
hoisted from the home roof to warn
the returning husband and son-in-
law. Such an affair might not save
millions in cash, but it would do
away with lots of worry.
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NOTICE.

I'll ANING QUALIFIED as the Commit-
Il ieeoi Fanuie Campbell, adjudeed to
non comp0s ments, ! hereby notify ali
persoa having claims against her to pre-
sent them before VIM. B Colstou. Com
missioner Of acconnts for adiud cation.
and all persons owing her viii call M nv
office and make settlement ~ same
WN ~ HENSHAW.
oI-4t Committe OF Fannie CampbeU
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Mrs. Patrick Galliher, several
weeks ago, was adjudged insane
and ordered to the insane asylum,
at Anna, Ill. Upon arriving there
81 300 in gold and greenbacks was
discovered seWed into the waist of
her dress. The unfortunate Wo-
man had secreted it so lohg that
the gold had become furnished
and the greenbacks twisted and
Wadded and damp from the salt
brine which she deemed necessary
for its preservation. and with
which she had plentifully sprin-
killed. Ii.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky, has q foundry
whose capacity is equal to GEO pluW5
90 day. One a minute.
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THE next legislature win witness

THE next legislature will witness
the novel sight Of father and son re-
presenting the same county in the
legislative halls, but sent by differ
ent political parties-the former by
the Republicans, the latter by the
Democrats At the late election,
Kauawha county elected J II.
Brown andJ. T. Brown to the House
of Delegate, The first named, a Re
publican, and the other, his son, a
Democrat
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WM. POLLOCK, Saturday, gave
$50, 600 for membership in the New
York Stock Exchange. This was
the highest price ever paid there for
the privilege of gambling.
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At Mansfield, Ohio, a partridge,
frightened from its native heath,
alighted on the Courthouse. Some
boys attempted to capture it, and it
flew in a straight line against one of
the postof1ice windows, and made a
hole about the size of it's body and
fractured three-eighths inch plate
glass, six by eleven feet, worth from
800 to 500. The poor thing, with
broken bill, head severed from its
body, breastbone broken, dropped
dead beneath the window.
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AN exchange takes up that story
of a cat that knocked a pistol from q
closet shelf, which weapon, in fall
ing, went off and killed baby, and
comments upon it as 'most extraor-
binary" Now, if the pistol had
climbed into the closet and Knocked
down the cat and the latter had ex-
ploded and killed the baby, or if the
closet had upset the baby and the
baby had burst and killed the cat,
there would have been something
very remarkable about the story.
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THE ELECTION ANOTHBR TURN

! IHE EhhUTION-AN TU KIN
In our last issue all estimates and
returns of the election indicated Ma
son as the successor Of Judge Hoge
in Congress. Since then the Wheel
Of Fortune has made another revolu-
ton and apparently gives Mr.. Viii
son the position by few votes. The
Wheeling papers having access to
the returns as forwarded to the Gov
ernor concede this, and we under
stand Mr.. Mason virtually acknowl-
edges Il defeat. Some persons talk
of a re count, and OF contest, but
they probably speak without author
ity. We do not know the kind Of
voting that occurred in other coun-
ties, but, in Berkeley, where it was
a fair fight, and cut tickets were the
rule, instead Of the exception, re-
count might vary the result-bat for
whom, only a recount can decide.
WITH the extreme activity on all
railroads comes the terrible length
ening of the list of killed and
MANNED employees, nine-tenths Of
whom are freight brakemen The
invention of a cheap, serviceable and
perfectly practicable freight car
coupling device resolves itself into a
question Of philanthropy rather than
ingenuity. The coupling, which viii
meet all the requirements, seems a
long time coming, and meanwhile it
only remains for the men that labor
among freight cars to exercise such
caution as will prevent their calling
from strewing the land with widows
and orphans.
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JUDGE SNYDER's majority in the
State will be about $1,000.
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IL Harvey county, Kansas, many
hundred buxom Mennonite girls may
now be found in the extensive
broom-corn fields. They appear to
like the work, and present splendid
pictures Of good nature and robust
health.