The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-10-06
GENE AL.

| THE United States authorities are afte
steamers plying on inland waters in Wisconsin
number not having paid the required "hos
pital tax" The aggregate is about $4,000.
| OS the 28th the Creighton cattle ranch il
Nebraska sold to the Bay State Live Cat
| tie Company for 100000.
On the 28th the tive-year old Jav-Eye-Se,
won the purse of $4,000 at Fleetwood Park
N. Y, in three straight heats, beating the
| champion, st. Julien; time, 2:204, 2:1815.
| 2:19.
THE total voting population of Virginia is
estimated at 334, 600, of which 128, 900 are col
ored.
THE meeting of the Salvation Army corps al
New Brunswick, n. J =, on the 29th. wound III
in row, in which pistols were used, but for
tunately no one was seriously injured.
The baseball season closed on the 2Sth and
the league pennant for 1888 was captured by
the Bostons with 63 games won and 80 lost
Chicago secend-59 won and 80 lost; Pfovi-
dence third-5S won and 40 lost, and Cleveland
fourth-55 won and 43 lost.
On the 28th the Western Union Telegraph
Company announced reduction in wages of
operators of from IS to SO per month.
The New York supreme court on the 28th
decided that the Western Union Telegraph,
Company must pay the taxes imposed By the
state of New York. The total amount is over
S600,0O0.
An electric, manufacturing and misceIlane-
ous stock exchange was opened in New York
city on the 2Stb for the sale of stocks Of cor
porations not listed on the stock exchange.
A FATAL hog disease resembling cholera, is
making inroads on the porkers of Miami Val
ley, Ohio.
Snow fell at Minneapolis, Mimi, Marshiield,
Wis, and Cheboygan, Mich, on the 28th.
An anti-monopoy telegraph company, which
will send messages for one cent word. was
organized at Chicago, ILL.,, on the 9th.
UMPIRE MCCUNE, of the trades tribunal. on
the 9th decided that the rate for mining coal
shall be 311 cents from October 1st, 1888, tc
April 1st 1884. The miners wanted 33l, aud
the company wanted to pay only 81.
THE Pennsylvania school state association,
on the 28th decided to suspend operations fol-
60 days.
A MICRO 110 years of age, named George
Lefeur, and said to be a descendant of an AT
rican king, died at New Orleans, La, on the
28th.
THE New York Sun will increase its sizeytc
eight pages.
TEE Huntingdon Car and Car-wheel Works
failed on the 28th. Liabilities $1,000
The drug house of Junkermann & Haas
Dubuque Ia, went to the wall on the 2Stb
Liabilities, S118, 600.
t roads from Chicago to indianapolis
Louisville and Cincinnati are engaged in a rat,
| war; and on the 26th the New Albany Road SOLD
| round trip tickets to Indianapolis for S5.
On the 25th the New York Herald reduced t.
2 cents. The news dealers ON the 26tl
| -. Al.
| New York morning dailies and refused +,
| handle the papers at the present prices Thei
| commissions have been reduced from IL cent
| per copy TO y cent.
| Ok the 26th three diplomas were awarded +,
American exhibitors in the electrical exhibitio,
| held at Vienna, Austria.
| JACOB WIENER, wholesale notions. ST. Touis
assigned on the 26th. Liabilities s35. 600.
THE New York Herald on the oath notified if
readers that henceforth cents would be tn
| price of that paper.
A MEETING of sheep breeders and wool-grow
ers of the United States was held at Chicago
| H., on the 25th.
| THE jewelry firm Of Engel & Clark. New Yorl
city, assigned on the Goth. Liabilities s43. 600
The capitalists interested in the Northern
| Pacific Railroad are accusing their president
| Villard-of reckless squandering of funds.
| FRED MAYER Il Co., WOODEN goods, New Yorl
city, failed on the 25th. Liabilities 81, 750. 900
NAVAL officers are becoming exercised AZ tn
order not to employ pilots, and in consequenc
Of the order government vessels are being ren
dered Qnseaworthy By contact with rocks il
| shoal channels.
LEVY BROTHERS,, dealers in clothing, Nev
York, assigned on the 25th, With Iiabiltie
| OF about $4,000, 000
a Polish congregation at Buffalo, n. Y, at