The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-10-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOR EEGN.

OK the 10Th at Quebec, Ont, was held the
farewell ball to the Marquis of Lorne, ex-gov-
ernor Of Canada.
The celebrated chateau of Prince Czartory-
ski at Sienawa. Austrian Galieia, burned on the
Goth. Loss S600,000.
FIVE men were killed by an avalanche, in
Assra, Sicily, on the 20th.
THE Mexican government is negotiating in
New York City for loan of $40, ,OOO, 900.
BY an explosion in a collery at Wharchfe,
Yorkshire, England, twenty miners were kslled.
THE cholera has reappeared in Egypt. 1t is
| supposed to be owing to the infltration into
the canal flowing through village of water
from cemeteries IN which cholera victims were
inferred.
IL flight of one hundred workmen from a
flood IN the Severn tunnel, England, ON the
18th, four were killed.
THE diamond miners at Capetown, Africa.
are on a strike, and on the 18th they engaged
in riot destroying much property. Troops
fired on them and killed two.
The town of Altsta, in Mexico, was visited
by a cyclone on the Sd and many people killed
and houses wrecked. Since then yellow fever
set in and the deaths now number 20 per day.
So says dispatch dated the 18th.
AT Halifax, n s.. on the 18th, detectives ar
rested Vim. Brocken and James Holmes for
having in their possession 100 pounds of dyna-
mite in satchels, for which they can give no
satisfactory explanation. They claim to be
Americans apd ask protection from this gov
ernment.
SEVENTEEN peasants w5re on the 18th SEN
fenced to prison in Styris, Austria, for robbing
Jews.
ADyICEs from Constantinople of the 18th,
Crtv rti ~ ba kt-a
quake of six villages on the peninsula between
Chesme, Asia Minor, and Vourla, on the south
ern coast of the Gulf Of Smyrna. Upwards
Of 1000 persons psrished. Twenty thousand
persons were rendered homeless.
On the 18th 5000 armed peasants assembled
at Valencar-do-Minho, province Of Vienna,
Portugal, and shouted for republic. Troops
sent to dIsperse them were defeated by the
mob after severe fighting and reinforcsmepts
have been sent from Oporto.
Tar delegates of so, 900 miners at Wegau,
Eng, on the 18th demanded an immediate ad-
vance Of 10 per cent. IN wages.
The village of Algeno, Italy, burned on the
18th. One thousand people are homeless
A CATTLE plague has broken ont in Breslau,
Prussia.
Os the 17th at st. Petersburg, Russia, 63
members of the Nihist Red Cross Society were
sentenced to Siberia.
An express safe at Port Hope. Ont, was
opened on the nth and robbed of a package
containing $4,000. The package had been in
the safe just fifteen minutes.
PRIME MINISTER FERRY, of France, on the
10th, predicted that the French embargo on
American pork would be removed.
THE remnant of Cetewayo's band in the at
tempt TO rescue that general from his ambush,
in Inklanka Bush, Zululand, was almost ami
hllated by Chief UsIhehu, and Cetewayo sur
rendered and asks English protection.
TRICHISosIs has broken out at Ermsleben,
PrussIsn Ssxony. Over $50 cases and / deaths
were reported on the 10th.
Az English swell who had thrown bououet
in which was concealed note, from private
box to the American actress, Minnie Palmer. at
18th, was publicly boxed and pitched from the
theater by Mlnnie's husband.
A FALSE alarm Of fire caused panic in the
Jewish synagogue at Ziwonza, Russia, on the
18th, and fifty women were crushed to death
IRVING Bishop, the mind reader, made sew
eral failures at an exhibition in Dublin, Ire
land, on the 18th, and WAS taken seriously i'll
with cor gestion of the brain.
DR.. Koch, a German physician sent to Egypt
to examine into the causes of cholera, reports
that the disease is due TO living thread-like
organisms.
The firm of Zembrona & Co., one of the
wealthiest in Monterey, Mexico. failed on the
18th. Liabilities about SS00,000