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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
FOREIGN.

Oh the oath George Gardner. a fisherman.
arrived at Halifax, N. S. and reported that
while fishing off Cape Split. with a companion
named Peter Dakin, they were drawn into the
whirlpool of the Basin of Miras. Three
different times they were drawn to the bottom.
Dakin was suffocated, and Gardner after ris-
ing the third time caught the boat and fioated
around for nearly day when he was rescued.
The iron caisson on Colchester Reef, near
Amherstburg, Ont, was destroyed by the
severe storm on the goth. Loss $4,000.
Two captains in the German army fought a
duel with pistols near Posen, on the oath. One
received fatal wound in the abdomen.
IwENTY-THREE workmeu were killed by the
falling of scaffold ut the king of Bavaria's
new palace, on the oath.
A COLLISION occurred on the 26.h off the
Edistone lighthouse in the English Channel.
between the French steamer St. German. from
Hayre for New York, and the steamer Wood
burn, from the East via Suez Canal. The
Woodburn sank ani Is of her crew were
drowned. The st. German was disabled but
arrived at Plymouth.
The steamer Palermo collided with the
steamer Rivoli off Ushant. Five persons on
the Rivoli drowned. thick fog prevailed at
the time.
DISPATCHES from Cettinje, Montenegro, of
the 25th, report the massacre of 80 Christians
by Arnauts, and the destruction of % villages
MATTHEWS ARNOLD, the poet and writer. has
been granted pension of $3.50 by the British
government.
COUNT DE CHAMBoRD, the last of direct
descendants of the kings of France, died at
Vienna on the oath
ENGLAND is becoming exceedingly alarmed
over the spread of the foot and mouth disease
among cattle in the county of Lincoln.
THE patriarch of Armenia resigned on
on the Goth.
A sAwMILL belonging to the Rainy Lake
Lumber Company, at Rat Portage, Manitoba,
burned on the 22d. Loss S35). 600.
The French scored victory in Tonquin on
the 21st. One hundred and fifty cannon and
$4,000 in cash was captured and the Anna
mites put to fight.
MOUNT VEsUyIUs was reported on the 22d
preparing for grand eruption. Much dam
age had already been done to the railway run
ming up the mountain.
FIRE at Berozio, Italy, on the2 2lst, destroyed
forty-four houses.
CETEwAYo, the Zulu king, reported killed a
hort time ago, has turned up alive and we'll
lie h d been severely wounded.
IN The town CT Colbridge. Lanark County,
Scotland, on the 18th. serious riots occurred
between Orangemen and Catholics.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01
A Thrilling Scene.

at Perranpo1th, near Truro, Eugland,
the driver of wagonette party wander
ing on the beach found his retreat cut
off by the tide. He cssayed to climb
the cliffs, but when halfway up he found
progress impossible. The ledge on
which he was supported would only give
space for one foot, and the ground to
which he cluug above was loose and
crumbling For some hours he endured
this suspense Then the visitors
deserted him from above. The news
spread, and crowd congregated, but
none dared venture along the slight
ledge by which alone the man could be
approached. To have thrown a rope
would have been useless. for The effort
to catch it would certainly have caused
the poor fellow 10 fall A coastguards-
man, named Reagan, volunteered to be
let down 100 feet over the face of the
cliff, and, while be descended, the ex-
citement was quickened tenfold. By
sudden effort, the coastguardsman
clasped the man with strong grip, and
they swung off the ledge together. Even
then the danger was not at an end; but
descent was safely effected to ledge
below, whence access to the summit was
gradually gained. The spectators col
lected good round sum for the gallant
coastguardsman.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01
SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER l. 1888

PROFESSOR SWIFT, of the Warner Observa-
tory, Rochester. n. Y, reports the discovery
of another comet.
SEXTON, the biliardist was victorious over
Sch8ner, In cushion carom game of billiards
-6OO points, for S500-played at San Fran
cisco on the 22d. The score WAS. Sctmffer
600, Sexton 562.
The Oconto, Wis, Water Works COMPANY
filed articles of association with the secretary
of state to-day. So, also. did the Oshkosh
Watch Company.
SEVEN hundred half-chests of tea, aduIterat
ed with sctiYe poisons, were seized by the
government inspector at New York on the 23d.
rae green Tea was colored with Prussian blue.
u Nj, DAWES, grocer at Boone. Ia, assigned
on the 23d. Liabilities about $50, 900.
NEW foRK's potato crop is threatened with
disease. The rainy weather Is causing them to
rot.
On the 2lst Capt Rhodes appeared at Mag
ara rails with his suit of armor to attempt TO
SWIM ihe rapids in which Capt. Webb perished.
he was prevented from taking the water. and
then weighted his armor with rocks to his own
weight aud sent it adrift. 1t was seen to enter
the whirlpool and was lost sight of.
DoLos MERCHANT, Cleveland Ice machine
n. III
estimated at $3.50, 600.
On June 1st Peter McGeoch, dealer on the
Chicago board of trade, refused to accept 3d.
0O8 t1erces of lard from Fowler Brothers. pack
ers, on the ground that it was adulterated and
understandable. The matter was referred TO
the board and an investigation commenced.
which ended on the 21st Chemical experts
varied I their testimony, but sufficient evil
dence was produced to show that some Of the
lard was adulterated. motion to expel Fow-
ler Brothers from the chamber was lost by one
vote.
THE Belolt creamery, managed by w, J.
Davies failed on the 2Ist. The creditors are
principally farmers and employees Liabilities
about $50, ,000
I ELI STILsoN, Winnebago County pioneer,
died at his Country residence near Oshkosh.
Wis, on the 10Th.
from the southern cotton districts
indicate that the crop is suffering severely for
want of water and from the ravages of the cot
ton worm.
OyERPRoDUCLIoN has caused a depression il
the dry goods trade in New York, and large
dealers are forcing sales by disposing of goods
at auction, at cost and frequently less than
cost.
The surplus earnings Of the postal depart
ment for the year ending June 80, 1888, ex-
ceed 81, 500, 900. So says a Washington dis
patch of the 20h.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01
A Graceful Walk.

Az English lady who is now "pro-
Tossing" calisthenics IN Chicago has
uttered her dictum on the American
walk. she says it is ungraceful, like
the German walk, and that the cause of
its awkwardness lies in the fact that
when Americans walk they place the
heel on the ground first. The English
and French, she says, are taught in
their youth to walk properly, and have
therefore an elegant G it. The elegance
is produced by placing the ball of the
foot upon the ground before the heel.
We have never seen this feminine pro-
fessor walk, and cannot, therefore, pro-
nouuce upon her gait, but we have seen
Englishmen and Frenchmen walk, and
truth compels US to state that they put
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01
CASUALTIES.

HENRY STEIN, Of Harrisburg, Pa. was bitten
by mad dog on the Goth. He refused to be
treated for 1t, and experimental with whisky.
He died of hydrophobia on the oath.
THE wire factory at AinsvIlle, n. Y, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 25th. Loss SIS, 600.
CHRISTOPHER SLINKIE fell from railing on
Sherman Street, Chicago. on the oath and
fractured his skull.
THE Huntsville, (Ala..) steam Touring mill
burned on the 26th. Loss S50.C00
On the 26th, at Boston, Mass, George and
Thomas Mclaughlin, Mrs. Fred Savage and
Katie and Mamie Savage were burned to death
by the destruction of a tenement house.
HANS CRUISE, a sailor was drowned st Fort
Howard, Wis. on the 25th, by falling through
an opening adjoining a small bridge.
HENRY L. MITCHELL and an unknown person.
had their skulls crushed at the Reesbrook Inn
mel while steaIing ride.
Two Eel-dlggers were killed at point six
miles from Knoxville, Tenn, by inhaling the
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01
GENERAL.

A FATAL horse disease is reported prevalat
in Chicago. 1t begins with symptoms of COR
followed by an apoplectic stroke, reesing. yei-
go, muscular contractlons and then desth.
A RICH vein OF lubricating oil was strck
near GAINESVILLE, O., on the 2itb. at depthof
80 feet.
The grain trimmers Of Chicago haveor-
ganized a union and on the 24th they mae a
demand and received raise of wages. hey
now get S1.50 per 1000 bushels.
WINDOW GLASS manufacturers at Pitta1rg
propose a reduction of 10 per cent. il the
wages of their workmep, but the latter fuse
to accept.
SURGEON OWEN, U. S. N, died on the Ia at
Pensacola, Florida, of yellow fever.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01


iu Rather Peculiar Position-Ener-
getic Officers of the Law Trying Hard
to Secure the Conviction of the Bandit.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, August 20.-The
trial of Frank James for the Winston
train robbery commenced to-day. Gov.
Crittenden occupies a curious position
in regard to the case. He is to be a
witness for the defense. The extra
ordinary measures the Governor took
to break up the train n-robbery gang, his
negotiations with Dick Liddle, who fur
nished the information, and with Bob
and Charley Ford, who assasslnated
Jesse James, and the subsequent pardon
of the two when they had been con-
victed and sentenced for the act, all are
startling chapters, fresh in the memory
of those who read the story. The fact
that the governor Is to be witness Tor
the defense leads to considerable COM
ment, more especially as there have been
the most desperate efforts made to make
up testimony for the state. Circuit At
torney Wallace, of Kansas City, is a
young man who has an idea that he
would make national rputa-
ton by securing the conviction of
the bandit. Sheriff Timberlake, of Clay
County, is also raising heaven and earth
to produce evidence to convict. A num-
Der of other officials in the western
counties are equally bent on making
finish of him. 1t was through the efforts
OF these officials that the conviction OF
Dick Liddle for the Mussel Shoals rob-
berry in Alabama was secured.
When Frank James surren-
dered it was thought by many that
he had a promise of protection from the
governor. Whether he had or not, he
is too shrewd TO rely much Oh it, for he
knows that the governors term is short.
The outlaw was evidently firmly con-
vinced that evidence to convict him
could not be secured. He professed to
be willing to stand trial for any of the
crimes charged against him. The states
officers have found it hard to
prove anything against him. Dick
LIddle could convict him, but
would not. In order to make him
tractable the Mussel Shoals case was
made against him in the United States
court, and then, In order to save him.
self from long term of imprisonment,
he was willing; but when the Missouri
officers tried to get a pardon for him it
was found that the adverse influence at
Washington was powerful. Many friends
OF the James boys are also friends of
the two Missouri senators, between
whom and the lawyers and other jealous
workers the efforts to place Liddle in
shape to testify failed. Now it is under
stood the governor is to be witness to
impeach some statements which Liddle
made before he was convicted and which
the Kansas City officers had legally GER
tilted
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01

their heels down first The only per-
sons we know of who habitualIy walk
IN the manner recommended by the pro-
lessor are boys and girls in school, and
ladies whose shoes will not allow their
heels to get within two inches of the
ground. We are bound to say that in
either OF these cases is the result OF a
character 70 encourage the general
adoption OF the gait by persons who
wish to be graceful. Neither a boy
hptoelng through school-room, nor a
lady torturing herself on French heels,
can be considered a model of beautiful
motion
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01

The international cricket match at
Toronto between Canada and the United
States was brought to its conclusion on
the 10th, by the had defeat of the Cana
dian team. The American team did not
need to take a second inning, as it was
found at the conclusion of the Cana.
dams second inning that they had been
beaten in Que inning by 40 runs. This
was notifying to the friends of the
Canadian team, who, previous to the
match, were tired Of sounding the praise
of their team. and anticipating gloli-
ous result for them.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01
DURING a thunder storm a few da,

DURING a thunder storm few days
ago the lightning struck tree in Law
renee County. Tennessee, leaving only
a few traces on the tree, but tearing up
the ground at the roots In several direc-
tions. 1t then ran along the ground
seventy.fve yards, scorching the gcass
on its way, aud finally killing three
COWS.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01
S$II)Rl I
.IlIEI:: ,
CHICAGO,
MILWAUKEE
AND S.. Paul.

II owns and operates over 4,50Q miles Of road in
Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and
Dakota; and as its main lines, branches and con-
nectons reach all the great business eeners of the
Northwest and Far West, it naturally answers
the description Of Short Line, and Best Route
between
CHICAGO. nSilyvaukee. st. Paul and
Chicago. milwaukee. La Crosse and
HInOna.
Chicago. milwaukee, Aberdeen ana
Es!IcnduIe.
Chicago. milwaukee, Eau Claire and
Chicago. milwaukee,, gausau and
Merrill.
Chicago. MEIwsukee, Beaver Dam
Chicago. Milwaukee. Waukesha and
0cOuomOw
Chicago, milwaukee,, Madison and
Prairie du Cbien.
Chicago. milwaukee, OwatOnna and
EaTibauiG.
Chicago. BeIoit. JanesyilIe and Min
eFai Point.
Chicago. EIgiD, Rockford and Du-
Chicago. Clinton. Rock Island and
Cedar kapids.
Chicago. Sioux City, Sioux Fails and
XaukfOD.
Chicago. milwaukee,, Mitchell and
Chamberlain.
Rock Island. Dubuque, 81. Paul and
Davenport, Caimar, St. Paul and
minneapolis
Pullman SEeepeTs and the Finest
Dining cars isl the World are run on
"a EE d. 81. PAUL RAILWAY, and
every attention is paid to passengers by courteous
employees Of the Company.
S. s. Merrill, A. v. II. Carpenter,
6enI Manager Gen1 Pass. Agent.
J. r. CLARK, Geo. n. Heafford,
Cent supt. Asst Gent Pass. Agt.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01
FOWLER BROTHERS CENSURED.

The Chicago Board of Trade Committee
Reach a Verdict In the McGeoch-FoVv-
Ter Lard Case - They Report That
Fowler Brothers Deserve Unqualified
Disapproval and Censure for the
Methods They Employ in the Manu-
fsctUre of Lard.-The VaIue of Micro
scOpic Inspection.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01

MIKE-An' what are ye diggin' out
that hole for, Pat? Pat Arrah, an it's
not the hole I'm after diggin' outl I'm
diggin' the dirt out and LAWN the hole.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01
THE JAMES TRIAL.

Frank James Before tine Bar of Justice 80
Answer for Participation In the Wins
ton Train Robbery-GOv. Crittendea
in Rather Peculiar Position-Ener-
getic Officers of the Law Trying Hard
to Secure the Conviction of the Bandit.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01
Edison and the Fool Editor.

[From the vicksburg Herald
Edison used to work the other end
of a circuit with me, and I knew him
when he was in Memphis, some thirteen
or fourteen years ago. He always
looked ratty and never spent his money
on clothes, but the reason was he was
always tiukering with some new con-
trivance or other and spent his money
in paying for material to work out his
inventions. He used to take press in
Memphis. He was as fast as they make
em, and his copy never gave a tele-
graph editor bit of trouble. He had a
way while waiting for copy of drawing
caricatures illustrating the character of
news he was getting, and putting them
along III the spaces OF the copy he sent
in to the press. This made one of the
papers up there-I forget which-red-
hot, and it opened on him, and had a
good deal to do with his being fred by
the manager. Edison didn't want the
fool editor to print his funny pictures in
his telegraphlc news. He only drew
them for his own amusement. When
he vent to Boston with his yellow linen
breeches on, IN the middle of winter.
the manager of the office, finding he was
an expert, hired him TO keep the repeat.
els in order. Edison worked at the in
struments part of two days, and then
was caught by the manager of the Office
fooling with some new contrivance of
his own. Thought I hired you to keep
those repeaterS in order said the man
ager. You did, said Edison; 'but I've
put kiDk or two into them that will
make them keep themselves In order
From that day his fortune was made"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01
Rare Old Furniture.

A Philadelphia storage man said to a
reporter; Until very recently we had
here unique walnut cabinet, elaborate
~ carved, that has a history. 1t is said
TO be over two hundred years old and
to have belonged at one period ef it's
history to Talleyrand, the great French
diplomatist. 1t was brought here by a
professor of languages, who used to live
in this city. When this gentleman died.
a short time ago, his heirs claimed the
cabinet and took it away. In room
up stairs there are three or four brass
tenders that have rare histories of their
own. One, that is still bright and shiny
by Marie Antoinette when warming her
pretty slippered feet; another was owned
by Patrick Henry, Virginia's orator.
and the third often saw the frost thawed
out of John Quincy Adams, who origi
mated the family chilliness that is said
to have descended to the present genera
ton.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01

The use of the term
A" Short Line" " in connection
with the corporate name
Of a great road, conveys
an idea of just what is re-
quired by the travelling
yubiic--a Short Line. Quick
Time and the Best Of Ac-
commodations-all of which
are furnished by the great
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-09-01
MILWAUKEE
Sr, LOUIS

WdFAr-No. 2 Red.
OCsN-No. 2. ......-..-.--.
OTs-No. >. -. -. ..
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-08-10
Sherman's Call for 100000
Men.

In the fall of 1851 Secretary Cameron
and Senator Zach Chandler came to this
CITY to consult with Gov. Morton, after
having visited Louisville and consulted
Gen. Sherman. who was stationed there.
The informant of the News was one of
the party among whom the consultation
here was had. and he says that Mr..
Cameron derided the idea of such a,
force as the general wanted and was sec
onded by the senator. Both of them
very freely declared that the generals
sense of his responsibility had unsettled
his intellect and that he was unfit for so
important a position. Gov. Morton, with
q tar keener insight, said very. little. He
had expressed to the News Informant
few days before, on his return from a
visit to Gen. Sherman, the opinion that
the latter was unduly discouraged and
probably overestimated the danger and
difficulty. "He waited 100000 men,"
said the governor, and he doubted IF
it wouldn't take a year, even with that
force. to drive the rebels below the Tell
the work was done. But the governor
was somewhat impressed With the
notion that the generals mind was I'M
settled by the multitude of his task and
the hopeless inadequacy of his forces
He walks his room necessarily" said
the governor, like wild beast in a
cage, and can talk of nothing but the i'm
possibility of doing anything with the
means at his command" AS far as this
testimony goes it is MISUNDERSTANDING
apolis News. h
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Making Cross-Eyes Straight.

1.-THE operation to be undergone by
the patient is simple and practically
painless. For the convergent cases there
is no pain whatever, only little annoy
ance while'the operator is reaching the
little muscle which has to be divided. l
have performed the operation hundreds
of times on other people, sometimes CIV
ing anesthetics, and often with no such
pain. The patient is stretched on the
table. I drew apart with my fingers
the lids of his eyes and insert between
them little steel inst .ument shaped
like the letter 0. The sides o. this ex.
pand by a spring and force the lids open,
disclosing the eyeball and the network
of muscles holding it in position and d.
rectlng its movements. When this ex.
muscle with small pair of tweezers,
and divide it with my instrument. When
it is cut it feels to the patient as if a
small band of rubber was being snapped
There is no pain at ALL Very often,
however, painful operations are per.
formed. The muscle has sometimes
been divided too much, and the error
has to be rectified. This requires some
stitches to be taken, and new cut to be
made. The patient must be made un-
conscious while this is going on"
"Can you cure any case OF strabis.
mus?"
81 can benefit any ordinary case, even
when it can't be entirely cured. have
often wished that could operate ON
Ben Butler. think could give him as
straight eyes as I have in half an hours
time."-[A Doctor, in New York
Times.
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the Mechanical In
stinctS.

Francis A. Wal >er says excessive
training in letters weakens the execu-
tive faculty. One side of the mind can
not be trained without injury to the rest.
The Imagination. the memory, the tastes,
the rhetorical faculties, cannot he de-
veloped exclusively without weakening
tile judgment and the will. Herein lies
the explanation of the contempt OF
snrewd. uneducated men for the book
men. Civil engineers are rarely good
mechanics, and most frequently do not
understand the methods of using their
material in the most economical way.
They may have been well trained in the
mathematics and theories of their pro-
fessions, but they have never actually
worked on wood or iron, and acquired
practical acquaintance with their quail
tiles and their possibilities. Therefore,
they are timid sometimes in the pres
ence of what are really small difficulties.
They hesitate and are lost. Ask new
~ graduated civil engineer to tunnel the
Thames or bridge the East river, and he
would unhesitatingly make his plans
and his estimate; but put him before a
paltry brook tumbling across country
road, and, after he has hesitated and
trembled, he will make structure elab-
crate and strong enough for great riv-
er: whereas any ordinary country sur,
enough bridge in half the time and at q
good deal less cost of money and material.
Now, continued General Walker, sup.
pose that civil engineer had had his
mechanical instincts trained from the
first, as lawyers and clergymen are
trained in letters. He would have Dev-
er made mountain Of his mole.hlll.
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Coffee and Ten Drinking.

Iu the World of Science a physician
advises people not to take coffee ,,r tea
after dinner or at breakfast. Cocoa is
recommended for breakfast for those who
can digest it, but hot water is better.
Those who dine late, and need no dilu-
lent drink an hour or two afterward, but
cannot DIR nix tea on account of being
kept awake by it, are also counseled to
use hot water. IT find," he says, that
dining solidly at IL, and often, need
ing to work from 9to IL. tumbler of
hot water brought into my laboratory is
the best drink, and, after few evenings,
will be as much relished as tea. The
hot water assists to complete the diges-
ton of residual food, acts upon the kid
neys and will be found to wake one up
without injuring the stomach or keeping
the brain awake after bed time. In
cold weather warm water is the best
drink at dinner time, and in hot wealth
er is wholesomer and more cooling than
iced water"