The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-22
GENERAL.

THE National Methodist Local Preachers
Association will hold an annual session in Phil
adelphIa, beginning October Sd.
The coming trotter, Jay-Ey-See, owned by
J. l. Case, of Racine. Wis, trotted a mile on
the Narragansett Park ccurse on the 18TH in
2:10$l.
PEOPLE at and near Toleno, ILL.,, are using
natural gas from wells about 100 feet deep, for
purposes of light and heat
JOSEPH CURTIS, one of the founders Of the
EVENING WISCONSIN, since 1858 one of the pro-
prietors, of the Rochester IN. y. } Union, died
IN that city on the 18th.
CONSIDERABLE criticism was INDUCED in on
the 14th because Lieut. Darlington, in COM
mand of the relief ship Proteus, crushed by
the ice III the Arctic, did not land provisions
at Littleton Island, before attempting the
dangerous passage. However, the lieutenant
is said to have obeyed orders from the war de-
partment.
A GENERAL strike of window glass workers
on the Goth is probable. The manufacturers
insist on a reduction and the employees say
"no most emphatically.
PELLs NANNY, pioneer in the invention of
agricultural machinery, died at Freeport. Ill,
on the 18th.
A DISPATCH from Lawrence, Mass, dated the
18th says on account of low water many of the
mills on the Merrimac are temporarily idle.
CHICAGO physicians a. e of the opinion that
cholera will visit the United States next year
and advise sanitary precautions.
A MAMMOTH curling rink is to be built this
fall in Milwaukee, Wis.
YELLOW fever is raging in the Pacific coast
towns Of Mexico.
AN attempt to gobble up large tracts of valu-
able redwood lands in California has failed.
THE organized workingmen of Washington,
ID c., have formed society for the protection
of girls from the assaults of hoodlums on the
streets.
ALMOST S2O,OOO.O00 of bonds under the 12lst
call were redeemed up TO the 18th.
HUGH J. HASTINGS, proprietor aud editor of
the New York Commercial Advertiser died at
his residence at Monmouth Beach, n. j., on
the 18th, aged 65 years.
THE Poles resident in Milwaukee on the 18th
celebrated the 200th anniversary of Sobieski's
victory over the Turks at Vienna, Austria,
September II, 1858. High mass was celebrated
in the Polish Catholic churches. and torch
light parade with floats and in costume repre-
senting that epoch, was participated in by about
1000.
STEPS were taken in the Chicago courts to
divide the estate of John McCord, who died in
1878. By his will it remained in tact until his
youngest child was q years of age. The estate
is worth about s1.000,000 and includes the
Breevorst House.
GOVERNMENT detectives are guarding Chief
Justice Coleridge, of England, during his tour
in the United States.
E. MANSON d SoS, hotel keepers at summer
resorts in Massachusetts, failed on the 18th for
large amounts.
A STALLION six years old without pedigree.
was taken from a road wagon at the county
fair at Neblesville Ind. on the 7th, put on the
track and trotted mile IN 2:24
A MoSEY-oRDER treaty to take effect January
| 1, 1884, between the United States aud the
| Hawaiian government, was signed on the 11th
MOODY, McGranahan and Whittle viii 60 to
! Ireland this fall to labor in the cause of
| Christianity in the southern part Of that
| country.
CHICAGO man, named VIM. Kitzig, on the
| 10th succeeded in mounting a fight of fortv-
| five stairs 800 times in ten hours for a wager.