The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-07-07

quested that he be placed on the retired list
after July 1st. He has served in the army 40
years.
The Chicago council on the 2Sth passed an
ordinance making the first Monday i'll May the
eud of the municipal year. As the new license
law takes effect July 1st, licenses can not be
raised III that city before May next.
OK the 2Sth the Bessemer Steel Works of
the Bethlehem Iron Company, at Bethlehem,
Pa, closed on account of difficulty concerning
the discharge of workman belonging to the
AmaIgamated Association. 1t is expected the
difficulty will be adj JUS ed III a few days.
GRAIN and provisions took tumble i'll the
Chicago markets on the 28th, and in conse-
quenoe two small failures were reported.
The printers on the morning papers at
Omaha, Neb., struck on the 28th, for increased
wages. They were receiving 80 cents per
1000 ems and want 35.
STocK is suffering Ill Texas on account Of
scarcity of water and the parched condition of
the grass.
The supreme court of Ohio, Oh the 26th, de
cided the Scott liquor tax Law constitutional.
Ok the 9th James Gordon Bennett recov-
eied $4,000 in his suit against New York City
for advertising in the Herald.
A SITE has been selected in Lake Vie u Ce me
terry, Cleveland, o., for the Garfield monu-
ment.
The state auditor of Virginia on the 9th
levied on the rolling stock of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad at Harrisonburg, to satisfy a
claim of 500, 900 back taxes.
A NEW YORK tea inspector rejected over 5000
packages of tea brought to this country by the
Flintshire. Some was green tea mixed with
sand, some with gravel, and some WAS eX-
hausted leaves
The President on the eth, approved the
findings of the court martial and the recon-
mendatiou of the secretary of war that Major
Wasson. for gambling, be dismissed from the
army and imprisoned for IS months.
CAPTAIN MATTHEW WEBB il in training at
Nantasket Beach. He will endeavor to so
through the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls
for $4,000.
WISCONSIN vas on the 26th, by order of
President Arthur, divided into two internal
revenue districts, instead of four, as hereto
| fore. They will be known as the east, Bean
| collector, with headquarters at Milwaukee, and
| the west, with headquarters at Sparta.
| The lumDcr firm of Wright & McCord, at
| Merrill, Wis, failed on the 10th. Liabilities
| 100000.
| Ii is stated as fact that coldness exists
| between Vanderbilt Jr., and Vanderbilt Sr.
The latter before starting for Europe disposed
| Of his New York Central and Lake Shore stocks
| through private brokers and in quiet mau-
| ner. Vanderbilt Jr., was a heavy purchaser.
and only learned of his mistake when the
senior seut IN his resignation as president OF
| the companies. GoulI and Sage came to the
! rescue and prevented panic.
| DECISIVE steps are TO be taken to prevent
| the landing of assisted" " emigrants at Castle
| Garden, n. Y On the 25th ihe board of lmmi-
grafton met in New York city and decided tC
employ men to make strict investigation of
| immigrautT, and if any were discovered who
had been paupers IN the old world, they were
] TO be prohibited from landing on the new.
GEN. Crook was summoned to Washington
on the 25lh to consult as to tue disposition OF
the captured Indians.
! REpFIELD, Dakota. rs experiencing a real os
tate boom, lots having advanced 800 per cent
| The st Paul road Will make il distributing
| point for the jim Valley.
The expense Of the Star route tiiaI is place.
at G1,31S, of which S130,l5G goes TO tht
| lawyers.
NINETEEN glass factories at Phtsburg, Ia.
closed for the summer on the 25tb.
| The Meridian Lumber Company's lumber
and shngle mills near Eau Claire burned oil
| the 2Gtb. Less $50, 600.
The Robinstein brewery at Ottawa, H..
| burned on the 26th. Loss $4,000.
| THE building of the Turkey Red Company al
| Bellefonie, n. j., burned on the 25th. Loss
| $4,000.
| The Planters Cotton Seed Oh Works at Al
| giers, La. were struck by lightning on The 25tl
| and destroyed. Loss S500,000.
| THE warehouse of the Bohu Manufacturing
| -, q ca L
| fire on the 25tb. Loss $4,000.
| JOHN STRIKER, the well-lnown New York mil
| lionaire was drowned at Saratoga, on the 25th.
Mhllp bathing.