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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-11-03
Men and Women in T0nqnin.

Correspondence London Standard
| landed on the river banks, and found
myself in the midst of population diff
feIing altogether from any had hither-
to encountered over a pretty wide por-
ton of the globe. Slim, dimlnutlve
creatures the ToUquinese are, COM
pared with whom even the Bengaiee of
the GaDges delta IS a giant. But,
strange to say, the women IN most cases
are as comely and fair as the men are
repulsively ugly. But their size is
ridiculous. OF about the same stature
as Goorkhas, th, y on an average prob
ably weigh no more than half the sturdy
hill man. The men and women, when
the men are dressed at all, are dressed
alike. 4 cOlOred handkerchief is CO.
quettishIy tied round the back of the
head, and the other garments are long,
loose blouse with wide pantaloons. 1t
is difficult for a newcomer at first to dis
tinguish the sexes. WhaJ is most Won
derful, however, OF the costumes now in
fashion Is the head-dress which the bet
ter-off TCEquinese ladies wear. A
mushroom shaped basket might per
haps describe 1t, but then the mushroom
must be OF the size of a drawing room
table. Add two enormous tassels pen
dapt Oh either side, and place under
meath a Malay featured, salIow-com-
lexioned doll OF about fifty pounds
weight, and some idea may he formed
of Haiphong belle. bIeI and women,
as in China, all carry fans. Indeed, l
have seen coolies, whose walking cos
tunes was limited to a fan and a woven
substitute for fig leaf which so often
suffices for clothing in the east. In new
English settlements, after the public
house which has attracted attention to
the locality, the first buildings erected
are generally a church and a prison.
Frenchmen always begin with a cafe
restaurant, and so Haiphong already
boasts its establishment of that descrip-
ton. 1t is, of course, the central build
ing and most marked feature of the
place. 1t is strange how the French
carry their language, their manners, and
their customs with them to their foreign
possessions, but how they communicate
them also to their subject populations.
Thus, IN our cafe here We have Tonqui-
nese mattresses, who, with the few words
cf French they have learned, have ac-
quned also in some ineXplicable man
uer the cOluettish airs and gait Of Pari-
sian 6r1SSprie attendants
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-11-03
An Electric Gun.


One Of the most interesting novelties
at the Vienna international exhibition is
an electric gun. The powder is fred by
means OF a piece of platinum in the
cartridge, and the electric current neces-
sary for heating the platinum is OBJ
tanned from a little accumulation, which
must be worn with belt specially de-
vised for the purpose. Besides the ac-
cumulator and a belt, a glove and a
shoulder strap are necessary: the glove
is worn on the left hand, and is connect
ed with one pole of the accumulator. the
strap with the other. All this would il
must be confessed, be a rather formid-
able addition to soldiers eccoutre-
ments, and ore is hardly surprised to
hear that the inventors do not expect
their patent to be Immediately adopted
in all the European armies. Meanwhile
they point out that the electric gun af-
fords several advantages, besides the
charm OF novelty, which ought to COM
mend 1t to the sportsman. In the first
place, 1t IS said to be. very economical:
and what new application of electricity
is ever said to be anything else-at first ?
There IS no great saving on the gun or
the cartridges, but then only quarter
Of the ordinary charge of powder is neces-
sary. Moreover, the gun is economical of
time and trouble. The cartridges serve
many times over, and there is none of
the bother OF taking off the old cans.
But the GROWING merit which is claimed
for the electric gun is that it is warrant
ed never to "kick." If this warranty be
really true, the application of electricity
to sport ought not to be long DELAYED
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-11-03

of Essen in 1882 for smallpox cases.
A disinfection house and apparatus has
also been instituted on Dittmsr's plan.
Baths were put up near the entrance of
the works in 1873. In 1876 a life insur-
ance fund was started, and has risen to
!, ,525 members. A high school, with
twenty class-rooms and private school
with sixteen rooms are among Herr
Krupp's foundations, and since 1876 five
technical schools have been in existence,
III which classes for women in household
work, etc., are also held, which are now
better attended than at first. Second
ary schools, both in Essen and Alien
dorf, near to, are supported by the firm.
Work for disabled men and invalids has
been instituted since 1876, such as
broom making for the cooperative stores,
basket making, etc., in which widows
and children are also employed. In one
week in September, 1882, the number OF
people-men. women, and chllaren-
connected with and dependent on
Krupp's works was 65. .38l.
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GENERAL.

The Insurance and banking firm Of Bachman
q Bro, Portland, Ore, went to the wall on the
9th. Liabilities about 200 and assets
Sc, coo.
ENGLAND's cnlef justice-Lord Coleridge-
who has been sightseeing etc., in the United
States sailed for Liverpool on the 27th.
ON the 9th President Arthur issued a pro
clamation naming Thursday, November 29.b.
as Thanksgiving Day.
4 HoRsE-THIEF in jail at Belyidere, n. j.. on
the 9th had tasted nineteen days and ap-
peared to be in good health.
JOHN VoGEL fell from a church spire at
Waterbury, Ct, on the 9th, striking three
roofs in a descent of seventy-fve feet, and
walked away unhurt.
Mrs. BELvA A. LOCKWOOD, the Washington
pension agent was on the 9th suspended from
practice for receiving illegal fees and withhold
ing pension money.
ALEX. MITCHELL, president of the St. Paul
Railroad Company, returned home from Europe
on the 26th, and received an ovation and ban
ouet from the business men Of Milwaukee
\ FAT woman named Mrs. David Moses nee
Blanche GRAY, on exhibition at a museum in
Baltimore, died on the Goth. She was II wears
old and weighed SIT pounds.
W. A. KITS. an Oswego lumber broker.
failed on the 25th. Liabilities $4,000.
VIM Fl. JENKINS x Co., door manufacturers
New York, assigned on the 25th. Liabilities
$4,000.
The Army Of the Cumberland held its annual
meeting at Cincinnati, O., on the 2fth. Gen.
Sheridan presided.
Snow to the depth of several inches fell at
Hanover n. H., on the 9th.
The twenty seventh annual conclave of the
Grand Commandery Knights Templar OF Illinois
was held at Chicago, on the Oath.
MATTHIAS A. Fox, pioneer of Dane County:
Wis, died at Oregon, Wis, on the oath, aged
So years.
DR.. SEYToN H. WALKER. several years ago a
prominent and wealthy physician of St Louis.
Mo-, died IN poverty at that place on the oath
aged Is years.
PATRICK EGAN, the noted Irish agitator has
located at Lincoln, Neb., where he will go into
the grain business. On the oath he applied
for his first papers Of citizenship. He has also
sent for his family who are still IN Ireland
MOSES TBAUTMAN & Co., wholesale ,.othiers,
Philadelphia, Pa, failed on the oath. Liabili-
ties S150,000.
GOLD IN paying quantities, quartz and
placer, has been found near Lisbon. Oak.
W. P. COPELAND g well-known Washington
correspondent, died at Philadelphia Pa, ON
the 23d, aged 81 years.
CHARLES MCCARTNEY, an editor killed two
roughs who waylaid him on the 10th, at Flem-
lngsburg, KY.
In a quarrel between two families hamed
Syms and Rogers, on the 21st, at Mclean
Church, Barry County. Ga, three OF the Svms
famly-fatEer and two sOns-were killed.
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yer, slipped and fell on buzz saw and was ia
tally injured.
JOHN AGNEw, of Marshall, Wis, was killed
at Aberdeen, Oak, on the 23d, by falling lum-
Der.
A FRAGMENT of bursted grindstone killed
Michael Proprikus at Detroit, Mich, on the
23d.
On the 23d, fire at Geneseo, H., destroyed
an oat mill and two grain elevators. Loss
$4,000.
Two children of VIM. e. Post of Passaic,
\. j., set fire to the house during the absence
of tier parents, on the 3d. and were burned
to death.
A BROKEN rail rail overturned two coaches of
passenger train on the Louisville and Marsh
vile Road. near East st. Louis, on the 23d.
Forty persons were Injured none fatally.
a ABoILER In pump factory at Belpre, o.,
exploded on the 23d, injuring nine persons,
four fatally
On the 23d. at Kingston, Pa, squib fac
tory exploded, wrecking portion of the build
ing and setting 1t on fire. Nine girls were at
work at the time. Two were killed and five
tiers fatally turred.
FIRES on the 23d; Twelve buildings. frame.
at Miles City, Mont; aggregate loss, S35, 900.
NcLeans medicine factory and warehouse, st.
Louis; loss $50 900.
THE steamer Heimdahl. with 500 passengers,
on fire off Fire Island, signalled for assistance
on the 22d. Later she react ed her docks when
the passengers were safely landed.
CHAs. LEGG and his aged aunt, Miss Lizzie
Watkins. were burned to death at a fire in An
napolis, Md, on the 22d.
Four barges broke loose from tug in gale
on Lake Ontario, on the 21st, and one is sup
posed to have fOundered with all on board.
FIRE on the 22d, destroyed four stores on
South Second Street, st. Louis. Losses sggre-
gate about $4,000.
OK the 22d the hardware store of Capt S.
B. Smith, at Middlevllle, Mich, burned Loss
$4,000. Mr.. Smith, Chas. Bundav, and IA
year-old son of Thos. Walsh, were killed by a
falling wall.
On the 22d train consisting of locomotive,
passenger and baggage car, went through
bridge near Fort Edward, n. Y. Dallas Grip
pen, and Mrs. n. Mahalen. of Glen Falls, and
a Mr.. WIncap, of GlOversville, were killed
Twenty-Five others were injured several fa-
tally.
On the 22d at private school in Cincinnati.
the clothing of Maggie McKai, years old.
caught fire from contact with the stove and
lie rushed from the room screaming. A panic
nsued and the $50 pupils pushed and iammed
each other until all were on the outside The
girls injuries are fatal.
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CRIMINAL.

FrED LoHACK, shoemaker. hanged him
self to tree at Tustin, Wis, on the Goth, in a
mt OF dependency over financial troubles
An old r2iser named David Adams died of
starvation the 9th Troy, n. Y. Sc
curities to the amount of 5000 were found
hidden in the house. Mrs. Adams died of
starvation 10 years ago.
A PAINTER named Kuhn went from Atlanta
Ga, to Front Royal. Va, to be married. On
the 27th, the day fixed for bis wedding, lis
friends found him III bed with his throat cut
tie as supposed to have suic:dod on account of
financial troubles,
AT Atlantic, Iowa, on the 9th, an express
pouch containing $4,000 was taken from the
express messenger by someone unknown.
On tie 25th F. c. Burhus, a Washington
politician and lawyer, turned on the gas in mis-
room at a New York Hotel and suicided.
AT Wauseon, o., farmer named Geo. w.
Williams and his wife were murdered and
robbed.
CHARLES LEICHARDT, of Beaver Dam, Wis
attempted suicide bv taking chIoroform on the
18th. He was the bookkeeper of McFettridge.
Smith * Co., and acknowledged peculation
from that firm.
PORTIONS of woman's body were discovered
IN the Erie Canal at Rochester, n. Y, on the
NOvh' anu II Is btlCNeu r1e was murdered, and
cut to pieces to conceal the crime.
On the 25th David Steinback, cf Germania
Mlnn., was murdered. He had a quarrel the
day previous with a neighbor named Scble.
FRANK r. SHERwIS, the noted speeuIator.
was found guilty Of contempt of court at Al
bany. \. y, on the Oath.
On the 23d. at Clifton. Mo-, L. l.. Daring
was struck on the head with a hammer by his
aunt, Mrs. VIM. StTaub, and killed.
IL New York City, on the 23d, Mrs. Rose
Rch was arrested for stealing goods from her
employers. She confessed her crime aud stat
ed that she was forced TO 90 it by her husband
who was a lazy, shiftless yagabond.
On the oath farmer near New Comerstown,
o., named Albert Puzn murdered his wife
and three children and then suicided.
AT Chanute, Kas.. on the 22i, RI. Barklev
was shot and killed by RAM Waters because he
had mahgned the latters sister.
THREE men, supposed to be tramps. caught
young man in the woods near George Station,
Pa, robbed him of 80 and cut and kicked him
IN brutal manner.
OK the 22d dispatch announced the death
Of the wife of John Russell Young, United
States minister to China
THE Charlie Ross case was revived on the
22d. Now it is SAID that man named Mosher
brother of the burglar killed several wears
ago, who was lynched near Chevenne re.
Gently, was the custodian of the Bidnapued
boy.
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CASUALTIES.

| FARMER named LOrensen, near FIgin. TIL
| on the 9th, died of glanders contracted from
horse, and his wife is afflicted with the same
| disease.
Two carriage factories at Plainville, Conn.
| burned on the 28th. Loss $50, 600.
| The wholesale liquor house of Moss & Shell
| don, Lordsburg, New Mexico, burned on the
| 9th. Loss S55, 900.
The county residence of E. N Brinson, at
Philadelphia, Pa, was destroyed by fire on the
| 2Sth- Loss 100000.
A PASSENGER train on the Pan Handle and a
freight on the Michigan Central coIided on the
28th at the Joliet, H., crossing. The engines
wrecked the iagman's box and the flagman
WIS burned to death. VIM. Morris, engineer of
| the Pan Handle, and John Kellogg a brake
man, were killed john Dengan engineer Of
the Central, was craZed by the accident
The store and Office of the Metropolitan Iron
Company, Metropolitan, Mich, burned on the
| 26th. Loss $4,000.
AN incendiary fire at Dubuque, Ia, onTthe
26tu, destroyed manufacturing block. Loss
$40, 600.
As Barnum's menagerie was nearing Bridge
port, Conn, on the 26th, one car containing
several small elephants was derailed. TIE
animals scrambled over each other and unset
several other cages, one containing a bear and
another panther. The latter started for
the country aud killed a horse and four hounds
| before he was dispatched.
AT the Lackawanns Iron and Coal Com
panv's rolling mill, Scranton. Pa. Michael
Durken, oiling machinery. WAS struck By red
hot IRON bar being rolled; it penetrated his BODY
and he died IN few minutes.
An insane man named Keeney hugged a red
| hot stove at st. Louis, Mo-, on the 25tb. and
was fatally burned.
A SCHOONER capsized off VINEYARD Haven.
Mass, on the oath, drowning the captain and
three seamen.
PLASISG mil, five dwellings, and a large
amount of lumber were reduced to ashes AT
Pittsburg on the 25th. Losses aggregate $50
! GOO.
PARKER & YoUSG's piano stool fsctory at
Lisbon, \. H., burned on the 24th. Loss
/ S25,00O.
! On the 28d near MuDcie Ind, buzz saw
burst, killing Jacob Ritter and seriously wound
/ ing two others.
| NEAR Wheeling. ". Va, on the 24th. Perry
Lincoln blew into the ;muzzle Of Lis gun. his
| foot on the hammer; his foot slipped and be
/ was killed.
| The saw and shingle mills of Bliss, Brown &
Co., near Saginaw. Mich. were DESTROYED by
ire on the oath. Loss S75000.
| On the oath L. Chapman. one of the proprie
tors Of Hammond & Chapman's saw mill, nea,
Lake Washington, Mimi, acting as head saw.
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EruDn'S Iron Works,

Herr Paul Dehn has written a short
account Of the immense iron works of
Krupp. in Essen, for the Industrie Blat-
ter. Krupp's works were founded IN
1910: in 1866 the number OF his wOrkmen
rose to 693, and soon afterward he felt
obliged to raise dwellings for them. The
number of his woTkmen IN 1882 was TO-
598, and the number of houses g, 3,208,
in which live Is, 300 souls. The houses
are built con tanning from two to five
rooms, the rent running from about 49
to lie a year. One successful expert
ment was a boarding-hOu for 200 sin
gle men, and later for 500 men, provid
ing dinner with meat four times a week,
supper, coffee and butter; the bread they
must provide themselves. A large CO.
operative store, started by f. krupp,
has developed enormously, and monOp-
oIizsd the retail trade of the district.
The sick club has existed since 1856, and
in 1882 had II, oil members. and fund
of G62,69 The pensions IN 1882
amounted to G2,042, aud the death lia-
bility to f477; some alterations will
probably be made In the arrangements
in accordance with the new laws. Sick
clubs among the workmen's s families also
exist. The works have had fever hos
pital since 1871, an infirmary since 1872.
The former was transferred to the town
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MARINE DISASTERS.
Particulars of the Loss of the Barge John
Marsh with all Hands on Lake
Ontario---0ther Disasters.

CHARLOTTE, n. Y, October 23,-Yes-
terday morning at O'Clock the tug
Barrows sighted a vessel flying a signal
of distress five miles off this port on
Lake Ontario. She put out and found
the barge Pacific drifting helplessly
about the lake, having lost her rudder
and had her port side stove in. The
captain of the Pacific said the tug Carl.
bou left Montreal Saturday for Fair
Haven towing the Pacific, John Marsh,
Eugene, and another. They were
struck by a heavy gale and the tow-line
parted, leaving the barges to drift of.
The Pacific was thrown against
the John Marsh, knocking 8 hole
IN each boat. The crew on the Pacific,
five minutes subsequent to the collision,
saw the blue lights Of the Marsh disap-
pear and the vessel was never seen after
wards. She was running light and had
a crew of three men and one woman,
who must have persisted. Their names
are not ascertainable. The Eugene
hoisted sail and reached port safely. The
Carbon put into Oswego, and reached
here last night IN search of the Pacific.
The Marsh was owned by Vetal Pardee,
of Montreal, and was uninsured.
THE REED CASE STRANDED.
DETsoIT, Mich, October 23.-The
schooner Reed Case, Of Chicago, went
ashore on the north side OF Middle Bass
Island, Lake Erie, during heavy gale.
At last accounts she was pounding badly,
but as the storm has subsided she will
doubtless be released without much diff
fculty. 4 wrecking expedition will
leave here to assist her. The crew is
safe.
DISASTERS To MACKEREL FISHERS.
PRovINCETowN, Mass, October 23.-
The fearful gale of last Saturday night
has caused great loss of life to the fish
ing and coasting fleet off Cape Cod. It
IS reported here this evening that a
Chatham vessel lost the captain and
twelve men out Of a crew of fifteen. A
boat went out with these thirteen
men after a school of mack
erel, and the equall struck and
nothing could be seen OF them.
The cook and one man were left on
board. The squall blew the sails all away.
The vessel d1ifted across the bay under
Marshtield, and report says was tOwei
into Plymouth to-day by a Gloucester
schooner. Nothing has been heard from
the eight men lost from the schooner
Helen NJ. Crosby. tits generally thought
they have perished. When the vessel
last saw them they had a seine around a
school of mackerel. The vessel shot
up to the boat, but they refused
to take the line, there was so much
water in the boat. Their lantern in the
boat went out. Capt. Higgins shouted
to them. "Leave the seine and come
aboard" The vessel drifted away from
them and they could not be found again.
A dory WIS found on Scorton Beach this
morning which answers the description
of that lost from the schooner Helen NJ.
Crosby. A diligent search is being
made for The missing crew, who are ma
tiyas of HarWich
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
FOR EIGN.

THE Marquis of Lorne, ex-governor general
of Canada, and his wife Louise, sailed from
Toronto for London on the 27tE.
The cholera has reappeared at Alexandria
and Cairo, Egypt, and promises to develop
INTO an epldemlc.
LARGE quantities of the American trade dol
lar have recently been shipped to Germany,
and now the papers of that country are de-
ncuncing the fraudulent coin and warning its
inhabitants against receiving it.
SEVEN of the thirteen persons participating
IN the recent rising in southern Croatia, were
on the 9th s7ntenced to Imprisonment for
from one week to one year.
DISORDERS exist in the penal colonies of ST.
bera owing to official corruption. On the 9th
dispatch from st. Petersburg reported the
escape of three prisoners from the Island of
Sagholien.
SEVENTEEN socialists indicted for high trea-
son, were acquitted at Omutz, Moravia, on the
10th.
SMALLPOX is raging in the suburbs of
Prague.
O'DoNNELL's Chicago friends have sent him
8, 600.
MICHAEL WATERS, land league prisoner,
died III the Dublin prison on the 25th.
1HE Mexleans, by a clever strategem, cap
tured Juh and his Apache warriors on the oath.
Ten men lost their lives by an accident in an
IRON foundry at lie Creuzot, France, on the
25th inst.
RICHTER, member of the German reichstag.
was G.sgraced aud sent to prison on the 25th,
INST, for insulting theroyal family several years
ago.
lr Is reported that plot exists in which the
French ministry are interested to establish an
Orleans dynasty in france.
ADvICEs from Paris on the oath were to the
effect thar war between France and China over
the lonquin troubles was inevitable.
The pope and Bismarck have come to an un-
derstanding and the pope will give in a little.
THE Marquis of Laudscowne, on the 23d.
took the oath of Office as governor general of
Canada.
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A NEW COAL FIELD.
A Vein of Superior Hard Coal Discov-
cred IN Tuscarawas County, o.

CLEVELAND, O., October 26.-About
a week age coal was discovered near
Clinton, Tuscarawas County. Practical
men who have given the matter a care
full study insist that the find is genuine.
Several parties are arranging for the
most approved drills for the purpose of
sinking additional holes, and nothing
will be left uudone to thoroughly mves-
tigate tie whole subject. The
find is located about midway be-
tween CANA Fulton and Clinton. About
seven mouths ago two men, named
Campbell and McFadden, set to work
drilling, with the result stated. When
they struck the vein they stopped aud
refused TO prosecute work until they had
received leases through other parties of
several farms, the royalty being fixed at
8 cents per ton. They then resumed
drilling, when vein of six feet of hard
coal was struck at a depth of 398 feet.
Experts from Akron have visited the find
and returned with different opin-
ions. A prominent dealer to-day called
on Campbell & McFadden and offered
them $40, coo for their lease and a roy
atty of cents on all coal dug. The
proposition was as follows: Two thou
sand five hundred dollars for the first
hole that shall be sunk in the future in
which the same vein Of coal shall be
found; 81, ,5Q0for the second, and the same
amount for the third and fourth holes.
The offer was not accepted, cash being
demanded. Another gentleman to-day
deposited Sl00 IN this city and 500 ia
Cana Fulton to be paid the parties who
will strike the vein in new hole. An
analysis of the coal is being made, and
although not yet complete, shows that
the new black diamond contains at least
from so to s. per cent. OF carbon, being
almost equal to the anthracite coal OF
Pennsylvabia.
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Alaskan MummieS,

From the San Francisco Buletiu.l
Alaskan mummies were brought down
from Alaska by the schooner Kodiak on
her last trip. Three go to Berlin and
one to the Smithsonian Institute. The
bodies are wonderfully preserved, even
the skins ii which they are wrapped, be-
ing intact. One mummy, evidently
that of woman, is now in possession of
the Alaska Fur Company, and is in
state of almost perfect preservation.
The mummies were secured by A. Jacob
son, who has been over two years IN the
country collecting for the Royal Museum
of Berlin. He is Of the opinion that the
mummies are at least 200 years old, all
evidence obtainable pointing to that
fact. Tie Esquimaux formerly preser7
ed the bodies of their dead shammans,
or medicine. men, and those of their
wives and children in this manner. At
ter death the viscera were removed from
the interior of the body through the