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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
CRIMINAL.

MASKED robbers took $4,000 in
greenbacks from the house of Manuel
Nidancri, near Laredo, Tex, on the 18th.
A BoOT-BLACK named Willie Webster
who was arrested at st. Louis, on the
18th, says heis one of party of six boys
who started the great lumber fire at
Cleveland.
TRAIN wreckers derailed a train on
the Boston x Albany Railroad near
kinderhook, n. Y, on the 18th. The
engineer was scalded to death aud the
fireman fatally hurt. Several others
were injured. A reward of $1,000 has
been offered for the discovery of the
wreCkers
AT Leavenworth, Kas., on the 10Th,
Richard J. Waddy, an iron moulder
aged so, killed his wife and lady COM
panion and then committed suicide.
BENZ. PoE, a wealthy farmer near
Brownsville, Mo, was shot and killed
by Ben Dorman, a neighbor, on the
18th.
CHARLES LLOYD, who attempted to kill
City arshal North, of Beloit, has been
sentenced to Waupun for two years.
Mrs. ANNIE MADISON was found in
her home at Covington, KY, on the
morning of the 18th, with her throat
cut. There was evidence that she had
been choked with a rope before the
knife was used. Her husband has
been arrested on suspicion.
BURGLARS entered the store of
Burch & Clark, at Menomonie, Wis,
on the night of the 18th, but while at
work attracted the attention of Walter
Clark, who slept up stairs. Clark
opened fire on the men, killing one. The
others escaped.
The election on the 18th was the
bloodiest Cincinnati has ever known.
There was a riot in which three men
were badly shot.
CAssIUs CLAY, steward of a steamer
at Little Rock, Ark, killed John Humes,
the engineer, on the 18th, and then
drowned himself in the river.
On the 10Th at Harrodsburg, KY, in
heat ofanger growing out of sport, Wn.
Curry struck DR.. Dillon on the head
with glass, killing him.
The $4,000 in notes and securities
taken from the store of John Allen, at
Livingston, Grant County, Wis, were
recovered in a cattleguard near the
village. The thieves escaped with $500
in cash.
Morris GARRISON died at Ripley, O.,
on the 14th, from wounds inflicted by
David West the day previous.
Mrs. LoUIsEP. MALLORY, wife of the
proprietor of the Mallory Steamship
Line, committed suicide on the 18th
during an attack Of melan cholia by
jumping from a train while it was
crossing Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana
The sentence of Charles Spurlock, a
West Virginia desperate, who was to
have been hanged on the 18th, has been
commuted to Imprisonment for life.
The bodies of John Lowry and his
wife were found In the woods by the
roadside six miles from Marshall, Mo,
on the evening of the 18th. Murder.
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$500 A YEAR.
THE OHIO ELECTION.
The State Claimed by the Republicans by
about 10, 900 Majority.

The State Claimed by the Republican by
about 10000 Majority.
Returns from Ohio up to the 18th,
indicate that the election on the 14th,
has resulted IN Republican majority of
from 10000 to $4,000. With the excep-
ton of two counties and few precincts
the figures shown are: Republican, 81,
6l5; Democratic, Al ,50S Following is
list of Congressman elected:
First Distrct-Benj. Butterworth (Rep.)
Second District -Obarles f. Brown (Rep)
Third Distuct-J. E. Campbell Dem
Fourth d Disrict-Chsrles VI. Anderson ID I'm. }
Fifth District-Bepj. Lefever (Dem.)
Sixth Di=trict-W. ID Hill (Dem.)
Seventh District q. f. Seney (Dem)
Eigh'h b Dstrlct-Jol'n Little (Rep)
Ninth Distric'- William Cooper (Rep.)
Tenth DIstrict-J mes Romeis (Rep.O
Elevel tn Dl-tr cr-Doubtful.
Twelfth Distrcl-Aibert c. Thompsou
Rep.)
ThIr eenth Distriet-Joseph Fl. Cultivate
(D.m)
Foun tee tn Di-trict-C. H Grosveror (Rep. J
Fifteenth DIstrict-Berlab Wilkins (Dem.)
Sixteenth Distrct-GeoTge W. Gtddes
Dem.)
Seventeenth Dstrict-A. J. Warner (Dem.)
Eighteenth DIstrict-Isasc Fl. Taylor OR D.
Nineteenth Dis rct-EZ,a b. TAYLOR (Rep.)
Twentieth Di,tnct--Wiliam Mckinley (Sep.)
Twenty-frst Dietrict-Martin A. Foran
Dem.)
This makes the delegation stand ten
Republicans, ten Democrats, and one
doubtful. The Republicans have gained
two, and possibly three Congressman.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
GENERAL.

GEORGE MCCARTHY, confined to his
bed with brain fever, at Butternut,
Wis, escaped from his attendants and
wandered off. On the 18th, four days
later, he was found in a swamp, dead.
The steamship Faraday has arrived
off New York bar with the end of the
Bennett -Msckey cable.
HERDMEYER & STEIGLITz'S WOODEN
goods establishment at Chicago, is in
the hands of the sheriff. Judgments
were confessed to the amount of S75.-
600.
D.. G. DEwELL & ADAMS, grocers,
Boston, have assigned. Liabilities S4O,-
900.
JAMES LEGG & Co., owners of the
Mapleville mills, at Burrelsville, r. L.,
failed on the 18th, for 100000.
A DISPATCH of the 18th says small
pox has appeared at Argo, fifteen miles
from Aurora, d. I.
THE National Academy of Science
began its session at Newport, r. l., on
the 18th.
LEWIS DICKINSON, one OF the oldest
residents of Racine, died on the 14tn,
aged 90 years.
THE establishment of Davis, Atkin-
son & Co., pork packers, Chicago, has
been seized by the sheriff to satisfy a
debt of S25,000.
G. 81. CRAGG & Co., wholesale deal
ers in jewelry, New York City, failed on
the 18th.
S. S. DAVIS private bank at Cincin-
natl, closed its doors on the 18th. Liza
bilities 100000; assets 5 0,000
THE United States grand jury has
made a presentment against the New
Brunswick National Bank of New Jer-
sey. 1t says the banks money was lost
through fraud on the part of the cashier
with the possible connivance of the
president. 1t will be remembered that
these two officers committed suicide.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
RaypnOus Tigers.

From the London Standard.l
Mr.. h. q. funner, acting agent to
the governor Of Vizagapatam, writes to
the chief secretary to the Madrass gov
ernment, from Lothugedda, on the Sd
of June, as follows: Il have the honor
to report that the neighborhood of this
village, together with the adjoining
villages belonging to GaDgaraz Madgole,
are infested with man-eating tigers to
such an extent as to render some
special measures being taken for their
destruction matter OF urgent import
ance. During the last four months up
ward of forty people have been killed in
the vicinity of the police stations of
Paderu, NaDdapoor, Pawada and Sujan-
kota. In the neighborhood where / am
now encamped, which is within the cir
Gle of the Lansinghi police station, up
ward of thirty-five people have been
killed within the past twelve months,
and IN both places there is weekly re-
currence of deaths from the same cause.
The panic that exists here is terrible.
People will not go out of their houses
after dark. They are obliged to gather
in large parties to go to market; villages
are deserted; cultivation is pursued un-
der the greatest difficulty and in
constant trepidation. This morning I
was shown deserted village, abandoned
on account of the tiger terror.
Recently man and his wife were
plowing a field near the abandoned
village, when tiger attacked the man in
the middle of the day. He hit him with
a bill-hook, and the tiger turned on the
woman and carried her off before his
eyes. On the same road [ was shown
two spots where the tiger carried of two
men IN one day. Yesterday was shown
place where a tiger sprang upon
constable, knocked him down, and
mauled him so severely that he died the
nexb day. This constable was one of a
guard who were escorting about one
hundred people home from market.
Three days ago village munif came to
see me, with the story that tiger got
into his yard, in the middle of a village,
and seized his wife, and, although he
beat it of, the poor woman died the
next day.
Il think it likely that this unprece-
dented human slaughter may arise from
an unusual dearth of firearms in the
country. 1t Is clear to me that If some
thing is not done to stop these ravages
the country side will be gradually de-
populated. / should say that at least
six villages have been abandoned quite
recently from this cause, and this means
that lands have fallen out of cultivation,
that the people try to live on jungle
produce, and failing that, go off to the
plains as laborers. 1t is not only the
absolute danger to life that we have to
think about, but likewise this disastrous
stopping of all agricultural operations.
1t is horrible to contemplate the feelings
of poor laborer going out for his days
work to field a few hundred yards
from his house, with the knowledge
about him that there is an even chance
of his being carried away from the side
of his plow, or that his wife may be
seized when she is bringing him his
midday meal. Yet this is, and must be,
the attitude of mind OF every man in
this country who pursues the usually
peaceful avocation of the husbandman.'
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An 0ld.Time Rustlpr,

From the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph
"Oh, yes, there were great rustlers
IN those days in California" remarked
the old '49er. you see the gold had
about played out in 80, and sharp men
had hard time making living, for
everybody all of a sudden commenced
to get poor. | and six others were
working for an old fellow named Col
Friday, who lived in great barracks of
a house on the Mokelumne River 1t
was all that was left OF old Mokelumne
City. Friday had been rich once, but
the old man was as poor as Jobs tur-
key, and all he had was a fatboat, an
old horse, that wreck of a house and
pretty young wife that he'd picked up
the Lord knows where or how. The
old man was trying to make a living
cutting willow cordwood and floating it
down in his fiat to Sacramento. We
fellows cut the wood for him at rs cents
a day and chuck. One night there
come along an old-time 'rustler.' He
lowed he'd neqer worked and never in
tended to. He didn't have a cent, but
we all slept on the floor whenever We
pleased in our own blankets, and he
borrowed blanket and did the same
For two or three days the 'rustler'
didn't do anything but borrow tobacco
and get credit at the whisky Jug old
Col. Friday called his bar Then q
fellow came in from the San Joaquin
| wheat fields, where he'd been harvest
ing, pretty flush. He was a nippy sort
of a fellow and thought he'd like to be
great gambler. The 'rustler' took
him under instructions. Somebody
had given him cigar and he put that
up against short-bit of the harvest
hands money and won. They played
two days and a night steady, and then
the 'rustler' had all the money of the
man that came in from the San Joaquin
bout $50 l reckon-so he went to
work and made him a faro box out of an
old cigar box; marked out layout
with piece of charcoal on board and
opened business. In two days he owned
everything we had in the world, and on
our back to boot, and the Jug of whisky
was empty. Then, when no one had
anything more to bet, the 'rustler' lay
around yawning for day or two while
we fellows went to work chopping wood
and debating if we hadn't better go
through him and chuck him into the
Mokelumne. We'd got the fiat boat
all loaded for trip to Sacramento by
the third night after he'd closed his
cigar-box bank, and we'd about deter
mined to drown the 'rustler' afore we
started for Sacramento in the morning.
Well, when the morning came we
looked in vain for the 'rustler.' The
cuss had tak,n the fiat boat, put the
horse and jug on it, loaded up his
pluuder that had once all been ours, and
taking old Col. Fridays pretty wife
with him, had sailed away. The boat
would get to Sacramento long before
we could foot it there, and there wasn't
an animal within miles, so as he had
good eight hours start, we knew he was
safe enough. [ saw the old Colonel
sitting on stump, contentedly chew
ing tobacco and looking at his old,
bankrupt wickkyup, SO l went to him
and said for consolation, Pretty tough,
Colonel But the old man looked con-
tented enough and only said, Thank
God he didn't take the river, too, we've
got lots of water left >"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
Not a Clear Idea Of a Sharper.


He was such an innocent-looking old
man, and so very green in his ways, that
Officer Button at the Central Depot
felt it a duty TO caution him against
pickpockets and sharpers.
"Oh, you needn't be afeerd of any
body gettin' the best of me" was the
reply. "Jist come in here and lemme
show you sunthin'."
He sat down in one corner of the
waiting-room and pulled of his boots,
In each one of them he had S15, and
about 50 in change in his pockets.
"Ir order to git that money" he
said as he pulled his boots on, I've
got to be knocked down, walked on and
them butes cut off my feet, and l reckon
nobody will undertake to sarve me that
way by daylight"
"Well, take care of yourself.
"Oh, you bet I've fed on grass all my
life, but I'm not half as green as you
might suppose"
He went strolling around for an hour
or so and then came to Button with a
check in his hand and said:
"What street shall take to go to the
Marine Bank u
"There is no such bank here"
"Well, wherell | go to git this check
cashed?"
"Great Scots old man, bat what have
you been doingp
Lent feller $50 and took that check
OF S400 for security. He said l could
draw the hull of it and keep 1910 until
he saw me again"
When told that it was worthless and
that he had been made the victim OF
a confidence man the old fellow took q
long time to think and then replied:
"Well, why in lands name didn't you
explain what a sharper was? Ireckoned
that SO long as didn't trade hosses OF
buy the county right of washin' ma
chine no human hyena could wallop me
out O. them S30"
The mountains around Salt Lake are
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
A Rat Skin Dress.
TFrom the London S andard.

From the London 5 aDdard.l
An ingenious inhabitant of Liskeard,
Cornwall, exhibits himself in a dress
composed of rat skins, which he was
collecting for three years and half
He made the dress entirely himself,
consisting of hat, neckerchief, coat,
trousers, cape, CATERS, and shoes. The
number of rats required to complete
the suit was go, aud the person, when
thus dressed, appears exactly like one of
the Esquimaux as described by Ross.
The cape is composed of pieces of
skins Immediately around the tails, con-
tanning about 900 tails. A lady of Glas-
gov had pair of shoes of exquisite
workmanship, the upper parts of which
were made of the skins of rats. The
leather was exceedingly smooth, and as
soft as the finest kid, and appeared
stout and firm. 1t took no less than
six skins to make the pair of shoes, as
the back of the skin is the only part
str ,ng enough for use.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

Six Russian officers and two women,
convicted of political offenses, were ex-
ecuted at st. Petersburg OF the 18th.
ALL portraits of the Czar have been
ordered removed from public houses in
st. Petersburg on the ground that they
have become targets for disrespect.
THE steamship Nevada, of the Guion
line, reached Queenstown on the 17th
with her cargo on fire.
THE death of Paul Lacroix, the
French novelist, is announced.
A GANG of ruffians is terrorizing
Michipicoten, Ont, on the north shore
of Lake Superior. Bullet incidents are
common.
ALEXANDER M. SULLIVAN, the we'll
known Irish leader and one of the
founders of the home-rule movement,
died at Dublin on the 18th.
The editor of paper published at
Monat, in the Bernese Oberland,
Switzerland, was publicly assassinated
IN the market place on the 18th by the
president of an Ultramontane society.
Provisions are scarce in the vicinity
of Berber and Khartoum. Ell Mahdi
has occupied position on the Nile near
the latter place and is throwing a barrier
of telegraph wires across the stream.
The schooner Charles Valentine was
wrecked near Louisberg, Nova Scotia
on the 10th, and all hands-six in num-
ber-Were drowned
AHUNGARIAN dynamiter was captured
on the 10th while landing from a steam
er at Liverpool
AN express train was wrecked at Til
bury Center, Ont, on the 10Th. Dan
iel Cox, the engineer, was killed and
number of others badly hurt.
THE communal council at Senzeilles,
Belgium, having abolished girls schools
a mob on the 18th, drove them from
their chamber and afterwards looted
priests house.
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in these parts. 1t was quiet, and we'll
behaved animal, and had never been
known to leave the hotel premises.
Well, one fine night Judge Smalley's
entire household was awakened by the
noise Of desperate dogfght. There
were barks and howls and yowls of
every description. Lanterns were i'm
mediately lighted and an investigation
was had, and what do you suppose we
found? Well, sir. that Newfoundland
had gone to the hotel, told the big
mastitf of his ill-treatment. and per
suaded him to go home with him and
help him; and the mastiff and the New
foundland had torn that bulldog all to
pieces He was scattered all over an
acre, and no single piece of him was
hIg enough to weigh an ounce. | tell
you, dogs can talk to each other, III
their way, and this story proves it."
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
Thousands of Miles on a Bicycle.

From the Hamburg Morning News.I
Hugo Barthol, a native of Saxony,
has just completed long bicycle
journey. In eleven weeks he has COW
cred $500 miles. Starting from Gera,
he rode to Frankfort, thence down the
Rhine to Switzerland, stopping at Basle,
Zurich, Lucerne, across the st. Gothard
Mountains to Milan aud Turin. He "a
complished the difficult task of riding
across the Apennines on his way to
Genoa. Following the coast he rode to
Pisa, thence through Southern Italy to
Florence, Rome and Naples, from which
point he started the home ride, crossing
the Apennines to the eastern coat of
Italy, the whole length of which he COW
cred. He passed through Ancona.
Venice. Bologna, Trieste, Larbach,
Graz, Vienna, Tetchen, Dresden, back
to Gera. Mr.. Barthol remained from
three to six days in the larger cities.
The feat is the most remarkable on rec
ord
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
CASUALTIES.

TWELVE stores were burned at Edge
field, S. c., on the 18th. Loss $780,
600; very little insurance.
BENTON, NICHOLS & Co.'s folding box
factory at New Haven, Conn, burned on
the 18th, Loss, $4,000.
JACOB RoBER, single, anl Thomas
Jones, married, both of Locustdale.
were struck by fall of coal, while work
ing at the erriam colhery, at Ashland,
Pa, on the morning of the 18th, and
fatally injured.
A DEFECTIVE rail caused a railroad
wreck near Greencastle, Ind, on the
18th. The engineer, fireman and bag
gageman were seriously injured The
wreck took fire, and every car, including
the sleeper, which did not leave the rails,
was burned. The occupants of the
sleeper lost everything but the clothing
they had on.
BRooKLYN, n. Y, was visited on the
10Th by 100000 fire.
THE boiler of a saw mill near Rollard,
Ill, exploded on the 10th. killing three
men.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
TrOuble Ahead.

From the Philadelphia CALI
Jinks-Why, my dear boy, what is
the matter? l thought you were to be
married soon, and yet you look very
down. hearted.
Finks-Do I, really?
Indeed you do. I hope your
prospective bride has not cast you OFF. -
"Oh, no."
Then what is the matter?"
"Oh, nothing nothing at all. l am a
little nervous; that's ALL"
What about?"
Yesterday Matilda and I went out
shopping to get all kinds of furniture
and things for our new home"
"a joyful errand, surely"
Eyes, but can't help feeling upset
by her first selection. If it had been
the last it would have been all right
but the first-the very FIRST"
"You are speaking in riddles. What
did she buy tirst?"
"a rolling pin"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
How Feyers are Spread.

From London Truth
The Brownies eldest child is i'll with
scarlet fever, and they have traced the
origin of the disease to their laundress,
who casually and simply remarked to
the Brownies housemaid that size was late
in bringing home the clothes owing to
the immense wash she bad had from one
of her families" where three children
had had scarlet fever These people
took their children to the seaside to
convalesce, and sent blankets, sheets,
counterpanes-in fact, everything posi-
ble-to the laundress. Now, would it
not have been more thoughtful to have
had some women to wash these infected
things, rather than spread contagion by
sending them ont?
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
A Cute Canine,
from the Burlington Free Press.

from The BURLINGTON Free Fress.l
Talking about the sagacity of ami
mails" said a well-known citizen, heres
story, Mr.. Idler, which illustrates the
intellectual capacity of the dog. The
late Judge Smalley, who was very fond
of fine dog, one day bought splendid
English bulldog, which he placed in a
kennel close to one occupied by big
Newfoundland that he owned. Mr..
Bulldog took fancy to Mr.. New
foundland's house, and Immediately
proceeded to drive him out of it. A
pitched battle ensued, in which the
Newfoundland dog was beaten by a
large majority. Now at this time there
was kept at the American Hotel gigap-
tic mastif the biggest dog ever seen
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
A Jealous Boy.

bridgeport Comm Standard
Sidney Read, of Falls Village, deter
mined to raise some corn for himself
this year. When the corn was about
two feet high, ready for the last hoeing,
Mr.. Read thought he might trust some
one else to do that, and hired good,
strong boy to work for while, giving
him orders to take his hoe, go up to the
lot, and hoe up the corn" The boy
obeyed, worked all of one day and part
of another, and announced the job done.
Judge of Mr.. Reads satisfaction and
pleasure when, going up to survey the
promise of his coming crop, he found
that the strong, active, willing boy had
hoed up every root of the corn, and the
whole lot was as fiat as the back of ones
hand. Mr.. Read has bought his sweet
corn this year, as usual, and will prob
ably in future "hoe up" his own.
CHATTANOOGA is to begin Immediately
preparations for 100000 bridge across
the Tennessee River.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-25
S EIIllR I
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CHICAGO,
MILWAUKEE
AND ST: paul.

II owns and operates 200 miles Of road In
Northern Illinois Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and
Dakota and as its main lines branches and connec-
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Chicago, RIilss auKee. Portage. La
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Chicago, EIgin, Rockford and Du-
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Pst!EnIoss sgeepers and the FYuest
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