The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-01-19
OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.


THE Cathohce of England have completed
arrangements for the erection of cathedral in
Westminster, Eng, 10 cost $500, coo.
THE Austrian government has founded an
art school at Rome, Italy, for the study of
medieval art.
On the 18th the body of Don Fenip SalazaI-
collector OF customs at Matamoras, Mex, was
found IN the river near that city. II is suI-
posed he was murdered.
An explosion of fire-damp in the Ferfsy
(France) coal mine killed seven men and ipjur-
ed five.
A MASS meeting of 1000 unemployed work,
men, and number of women. assembled at
Paris on the 18th. Revelation was suggested
as the only remedy for the present stagnation.
Representatives of trades unions thought an
appeal to the chambers would solve the diff
Guilty and the meeting peaceably adjourned.
ADvIcEs from Hong Kong, China. of the
1lth. are to the effect that China has blockaded
Canton River, and Issued calls for volunteers
70 the army.
AT Kiel. Prussia. on the 11tb, another iron
clad for the Chinese navy was launched.
On the 11th, Mrs. Carey, wife of the assas-
sinateo informer, requested England to furnish
ner SAFE employ ment IN that country.
.ON the 18th, at Liverpool, England, John
y.
charged with swlndhng the Northwestern
Bank out of $4,000 by hypothecating grain
securluesa second time.
FIRE at Ostende, Belgium. on the 11th, de-
stroyed warehouse and railroad buildings. A
fireman was killed by falling walls.
AT Vienna, on the 10th, Hugo Schencke was
arrested charged With numbering four girls af-
ter ne had secured their money and effects un-
der promise of marriage.
On the 10th three villains entered the busi-
ness place of a man named Eisert, at Vienna,
and murdered and robbed him. His two child
fen and their governess came upon the scene
ana one of the children was killed, and the 9th
er and the goyerpess seriously wounded.
STEAMSHIPS are not desirable property in
London, Eng, judging from the fact that at an
auctton sale on the 10th the sCitv of Paris {"
received no bid and the CITY, of New York .
one bid of e26,e which was refused.
A HEAVY rain storm at 81. John. n. B., on
the 10th caused considerable damage: tele-
graphic communication was suspended by the
breaking of the poles, and vessels in the har-
oor were afraid to venture ont.
On the Sd VIM. and John Sherlock left Clay
ton. \. Y, for How Island. ou foot On the
9th both were found in the SLOW. William being
frozen to death and John so badly frozen that
The pilgrimage TO the tomb of Victor Eman-
uel at Rome, Italy. occurred on the sth. II is
estimated 60 600 were in the procession. reore
sentlng the SIX great provinces OF the king
dom.
ADyIcEs from Paris of the 9th. saw Geo.
Bicknot holes Sontsy with / GOO French troops.
Hung Hoa has been abandoned By the Black
Flags. An explosion at Hanoi DESTROYED two
batteries OF Frel ch artillery, one msn being
killed and three injured. The Annamites left
IN Sontay 80 bror Ze cannon. 400 kiiogrammes
of dynamite, and 15G, 900 rife cartridges.
The government of the Dutch East Indies
on the 7th sent troops to the east coast of
Acheen TO compel the All to surrender the
crew OF Twenty-Five men OF the steamer Nisero
wrecked there several months ago.
DISPATCH from Rome on the Stb SAYS the
conversation between the pope aud the crown
prince of Germany was written out and
placed 10 the secret archives for the benefit of
posterty.
On the Sth two thousand steel workers in
England refused to work at reducad wages.
The Egyptian ministry resigned on the 7th
giving as a reason that If they cannot govern
Egypt andit provinces IN accordance with their
constitution and must do as foreign power
dictates. they prefer to let some one else do the
work.
On the eth, S. Davis Il Sons cigar actory
Montreal, Canads, burned. Loss 9105. 900.
ENGLAND on the 7th decided to assist in de-
tending Egypt proper, but would have no hand
In movements II the Soudsn.