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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-07-05
FOREIGN,

Two officers guilty Of desertion at Santa
Coloms, Spain, were shot at Corona, on the
2Sth.
DEATHS from yellow fever, at Havana, Cubs
$50.
CHOLERA broke out at Marseilles France, on
the 9th. 0
CHINESE regulars violated the treaty and at
tackled the French near Langoon, Tonquin, on
the 26th. They were repulsed after a sharp
fight.
FORTY lives we're lost at Erivan, Southern
Russia, on the 26th, in q severe hailstorrn.
The trial of twenty-three Anarchists. charged
with an attempt on the life of the czar wear
ago, closed at Gratz, on the 25tb. with YER
dict OF acquittal
ADRIAN LEWIS RICHTER, the artist, died at
Dresden on the 25th.
THOMPSON, chief officer of the late State of
Florida, has been adjudged guilty OF negli-
gence by the Glasgow, Scotland. investigating
com mittee which recommends that he be sus1
pended for six months.
WHILE the steamship Pavonia was leaving
the dock at Liverpool ON the, 23d, cylinder
burst, Killing the engineer and wounding sew
eral others.
PARIS dispatch OF the 23d: Twenty deaths
from cholera at Toulon are reported. The
city Is IN panic. The government has ordered
the barracks evacuqted. SANITARY precautions
are beng taken to prevent the spread of the
disease. '''o
SEVENTY persons were drowned on the 22d
by the giving way of bridge at Warsaw, Pms
sia.
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SENTENCED FOR LIFE.
Long, the Michigan Wife-Murderef.
Pleads Guilty.


Pleads Guilty.
IONA, Mlch., June 27.-Long, he
wife murderer, who was so nearly lynched
at Muir, Wednesday, was sent to the
prison at Jackson, for life, yesterday
morning. Before being arraigned he
made a supplemental co1fesslen, reveal
ing the motive for his crime, which was
to remove his wife so that he might
marry another woman, of whom he was
enamored. After this confession Long
was taken before the circuit court for
arraignment. Judge Smith explained
the law, as Long had no counsel,
as to what constituted murder In
the first and second degrees and
asked him what his plea was. He
pleaded guilty to murder in the second
degree, but the Judge did not accept 1t.
The judge then appointed counsel for
the prisoner, but no lawyer would act,
and the case was adjourned until after
noon. During the proceedings Nicker-
son, the dead woman's brother, at
tempted to shoot the prisoner, but was
frustrated by the sheriff, who took away
his revolver. AT 80 P. NJ. the case was
again called, and the prisoner pleaded
guilty to murder in the first degree.
The Michigan supreme court re-
quires testimony, even on this
plea, so several witnesses were sworn to
prove the murder and Longs confession.
Judge Smith asked if he had anything
to say, and Long shook his head. He
was then found guilty, and sentenced to
hard labor at Jackson for life. The
courtroom was packed during the trial.
Nickerson sat at the judges right hand,
waiting for vengeance if justice failed.
The prisoner was frequently greeted
with cries of ''Hang him p Bring
roper etc. He received his sentence
without emotion.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
POLITICAL.

A CONFERENCES of colored Democrats, repre-
senting the different states, was held in New
York, on the 9th, at which delegates were
chosen to attend the national Democratic con-
ventloD TO endeavor to secure representation
for the colored Democratic voters Of the coun-
try.
THE Republicans of the Second Indians
District, on the 9th, nominated Capt. Geo. G..
Riley, OF Vlncennes, for Congress.
The Democratic state convention at Colum-
bia, on the 26th. renominated the entire state
ticket. The delegation to the national conven-
ton are divided.
GEN. S. P. HUGHES was nominated for
governor by the Arkansas Democrats on the 26th
vention was in favor of the strongest ticket
available.
The Democrats of Florida, on the 26th, nom
mated Gen. Perry for governor. The delega-
ton to Chicago favors Cleveland for the presi-
dency.
THE Republicans Of the Second Minnesota
district nominated ]. B. Wakefield for Con-
gress on the 26th.
The Rhode Island Democratic delegation to
Cnlcago are II favor OF Cleveland for president.
THE Indiana Democratic state convention
met at Indianapolis on the 25th. D. w. Voor-
hees was made permanent chairman. A long
platform was adopted fayoring readjustment
OF the wool tariff, an enforcement of the eight
hour law, the abolition of the prison contract
system, the organization of the laboring classes
for mutual protection, the equalization of pep
slons and bounties, the establishment of a tariff
for revenue only, and the restriction of the
pubic domain, excepting mineral lands, to the
occupation of actual settlers, A plank was in
trodueed and adopted favoring j. A. Mcdonald
for the presidency. Isaac P. GRAY was nomin-
ated for governor on the first ballot Other
nominations: Secretary of state, W. R. Myers;
auditor, James II. Rice; treasurer, John j
cooper. The delegates we're instructed for
Mcdonald for first choice.
THE Missouri Democrats, In state convention
at ST. Louis, on the 26th, chose delegates at
large to Chicago. A resolution instructing the
oelegates TO vote as unit for T0den was
voted down. majority of the convention
favor Cleveland.
The North Carolina Democratic state con-
ventlon. on the 25th, nominated Gen. Alfred
NJ Scales for governor, and chose delegates to
Chicago. The delegates are divided between
Cleveland and Bayard.
The official count Of the Oregon election re
turns, published on the 26th, give 3 Her
mann, Republican, majority of 2027 for
Congress. The vote on the woman suffrage
amendment was l., ,223 in favor and 2S. l76
against.
GEN. LOGAN was officially notified of his
nomination to the vice-presidency by the Re-
publican national convention on the 24th
The Republican congressional convention. at
Paola, kas., on the Gath, renominated E. III.
Funston for Congress.
THE Democrats of Armstrong County. Pa,
on the 23d. nominated Calvin Reyburn for Con-
gress from the Twenty-fifth District
THE Jefferson County, Pa, Republican con-
yenuon, on the 23d, nominated A c. White for
Congress.
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The SOda.Fountain Business.

According to the New York Sun a
dealer in soda water apparatus thus gives
away some interesting facts about profits.
In the dispensing department"-that
is, selling from the fountain-the follow
ing are the actual costs:
One glass of plain soda-water costs
ITO of cent.
One glass of soda-water with syrup
costs one cent.
One glass of mineral water costs l
cent.
One glass of root beer costs l cent.
One glass of ginger ale costs l ! cents.
One glass of fine draught champagne
costs cents.
In the "bottling department" the fol-
lowing scale of costs prevails:
Plain soda-water, best quality, put up
in bottles closed by corks and fasteners,
costs cents per dozen.
Ditto, with gravitating shoppers, costs
3 cents per dozen.
Soda-water with syrup, in bottles
closed by corks and fasteners, costs 10
cents per dozen.
Ditto, with grsvitating shoppers, costs
10 cents per dozen.
Ginger ale in bottles, with corks and
wires, costs IL cents per dozen.
Ditto, with gravitating shoppers, costs
y cents per dozen.
Mineral waters in siphon costs 3 cents
per siphon.
Sparkling champagne (domesticl, bes.
quality, costs % cents per quart bottle.
From a simple comparison of the fore
going scale of costs, and the well known
retail charges for the same articles, the
inference drawn by the manufacturer,
that it is, "a business that pays" appears
to be correct one. Then a list is given
of the materials included in the outf
of this business. We find in tbs cata-
logue the following items:
Sulphuric acid and marble dust to
make the carbonic acid gas, which gives
the sparkling quality.
Chemical extracts for the havors.
Coloring to initiate raspberry, straw
berry and other fruits.
Gum foam to give it an artificial foam
which enables the retailer to sell half
glass of soda as a brimming glassful.
Tartaric and citrid acid to do duty for
lemon soda.
Coloring for making something. sold
for sarsaparilla.
There is one item called an "acid dis
penser" which appears to be essential
in handling "acids and other corrosive"
ingredients. We are not informed if
such acids and corrosive substances are
eliminated during the manufacture or
during their passage into the human
stomach. Such facts remain among the
mysteries of business which pays"
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The Title Of Esquire.

This word, in the primary meaning,
is 'shieldbearer." In the early middle
ages this was called scutifer, from the
Latin scutuD, a shield, and fero,
bear. This, in the old French, became
escuyer, from which the transition TO
its English form was easy and natural
In England esquires may be divided
into five classes; he who does not be-
long to one of them may or may not be
gentleman, bu. is no esquire:
/. Younger SONS of peers and their
eldest sons.
2. Eldest sons of knights and their
eldest sons.
B. Chiefs of ancient families (by
prescription.)
4. Esquires by creation or office, as
heralds and sergeants alarms, judges
justices of the peace, the higher nava
officers and military doctors in the sew
eral faculties and barristers.
5. Each knight of the bath appoints
two esquires to attend upon him at his
installation and at coronations.
No estate, however large, confers this
tank upon its owner.
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Royalty in the Composing Room,

1t was my destiny once to engage the
deceased Prince Leopold, duke of AL
bany, il long conversation, writes a
London correspondent. In the fall of
1879, Prince Leopold, accompanied by
his former tutor, Canon Dickworth, visit
ed the sffice of one of the largest of the
LondoI morning newspapers on the
staff of which was at the time employed.
was deputed by the proprietors to
show ihe prince over the building, a
task which occrpied about three hours
for The prince not only desired to see
everything that was to be seen there,
but to have it explained to him in de-
tail. The poor old canon became quite
weaned of the inspection, and once or
| twice limited at the propriety of quit
ting, 1ntil the prince told him plainly
that he was not disposed to hurry.
When passing through the composing
room, the prince dumbfounded one of
the cempositors by asking him for the
loan Of his composing stick. Ofcourse,
the princess request was at once COM
piled with, when his royal highness pro-
ceeded to still further astonish the ty-
pos by setting two or three lines
from page of MS. which lay on
the ase. It was evident that the prince
was perfectly acquainted with the ar
raIlgement of the cases and could COM
pose type with ease.
Court etiquette requiring that no one
who has not been officially introduced
shall put any question to any royal per-
sonage, I was precluded asking for the
explanation l so ardently desired to
have. Noticing, suppose, my puzzled
expression, he proceeded to enhghten
me. He had learned practical printing,
he said, when a young boy, at his un-
cle's IL Germany, and had spent five
weeks at the task.
There is no historic custom in the
royal family of England, as there is in
that of Germany, requiring every prince
to go through the farce of pretending
to learn trade, hence Prince Leopold's s
knowledge of printing must have been
voluntarily acquired. That the late
Duke of Albany was an accomplished
linguist and musician was generally
known, but / think that it has been
reserved for me to publish, for the first
time, that, to his other requirements
must be added the art of the com
DOsltOr
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of unholy bargains" Iactually heard
woman say of her own sister: "She
wants me to buy her lace founces, and
/ have offered her guineas, but she
does not seem willing to take it. 1
shall wait awhile. She will be glad
enough to accept the money in a month
or two"
The founces were well worth 80
pounds, but no douot the hideous bar
gain was concluded. The beating
down" process is easy when poverty
helps. / heard another woman say
once, when it was question of buying
something of an impoverished gentle
women: "Is she very poor?" "Very
poor indeed" was the reply, "and in
want of the ordinary necessaries of
ife." ooh, then, should think she
would take 10 shillings, and be glad to
get it. You may tell her l shan't give
any mora
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HOrseshOeS for Luck.

From the ienteman's MsgaZtne.1
The principal gateway at Allahabad
is thickly studded with horseshoes of
every size and make There are hum
dreds of them nailed all over the great
gates, doubtless the offerings of many a
wayfarer who has long since finished
his earthly pilgrimage. We could not
find out what was the exact idea con-
nected with this custom probably
much the same notion of luck as we at
tach to finding a horseshoe, especially
one with the old nails still in their
place. We afterward noticed that the
sacred gates of Somnath, preserved in
the fort at Agra, are similarly adorned
Ii reminded us of that curious old
manorial rite still kept up at Oakham
Rutlandshire, where every peer of the
realm is bound the first time he enters
the town to present horseshoe to be
nailed on the old portal, which is we'll
nigh covered with these lordly tributes.
1t is said in case any contumacioas
peer should refuse to pay this tax the
authorities have right to stop his
carriage and levy their blackmail by
unshoeing one of his horses. 70 avert
so serious an annoyance the tribute
shoe is generally ready, some being of
enormous size and inscribed with the
name of the donor. Whether these
Eastern horseshoes were taxes or offer
ings l cannot tell, but it certainly is
very curious to observe how widespread
is the superstitious reverence attached
to this particular form. It has been
suggested. and apparently with some
reason, that In ancient pagan times it
may have been recognized symbol in
serpent-worship, and hence may have
arisen its common use as a charm
against all manner of evil. The resem-
blance is obvious, more especially to
that species of harmless snake which Is
rounded at both ends, so that the head
and tail are apparently just alike. The
creature moves backward or forward at
pleasure; hence the old belief that it
actually had two heads and was indie
structible, as even when cut in two
parts it was supposed that the divided
heads would seek one another and re-
unite. 1t stands to reason that in
snakeworshiping community such a
creature would be held in high rever-
ence. Even in Scotland various an
cient snake-like bracelets and orna-
ments have been fond which seem to
favor this theory, aud at very early
period both snakes and horseshoes
seem to have been engraved as symbols
on sacred stones. We hear of the lat
ter having been sculptured, not only
on the threshold of old London houses,
but even on that of ancient churches in
various parts of Britain. And in the
present day we all know the idea of
luck connected with finding one, and
how constantly they are nailed up on
houses, stables, and ships as a charm
against witchcraft In Scotland, all
parts of England, and Wales, and es-
pecially in Cornwall twhere not only
on vans and omnibuses, but sometimes
even on the grim gates of the old jails),
we may find this curious trace of an
cient superstition. Whatever may have
been its origin, it certainly is remark
able that it should survive both in Brit
ain and Hindostan.
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CRIMINAL

| AT Taylorvie, Pa, on the 2sth, the daughter
OF druggist named Thompson made a strich-
nine phi, and laughIngly dropped the deadIy
pellet into her mouth and swallowed il. Efforts
were made to save her, but she died.
| The residences Of Charles Fuerman and Mr..
Alger we're burglarized at Watertoyn. Wis. on
the night Of the 9th. Mrs Alger was shot in
the arm and seriously wounded while giving
| chase to the villain.
| VIM H. Owens killed VIM. Larkins at Waver-
ly, Tenn. on the 18th, for persistently SANDER
| ing bis wife.
| MAN supposed to be John Asel. of Center
| vile, Wis. shot himself dead in Lincoln Park.
Chicago, on the 2sth
VIM. PESILAsD was arrested in McCuIIoch
| County. Tex, on the 9th. for the murder of
| Lent Saffel, q. S. A., In 1864
RICHARD COLEMAN Of Trenton, n J., inter
| Tered, on the 9th, to prevent George Gregory
from beating bis wife and was mortalIy wound
] ed by the latter ''''-
/ NATION, H., was excited on the 9th. over
| the discovery Of the body of Mrs. Dan Cook
In vel! with her throat cut from ear to ear.
| Her husba Id and man named Simon John
| ston were arrested.
TELEGRAPH operator named L. Diel Ford.
committed suicide at Macon, Ga, on the 9th.
| by putting bullet through bis heart.
Lone. the wife murderer, who narrowly es-
caped lynching at Iona, Mich, pleaded guilty.
| on the 27th. and was sent up for life.
| CHAs. E. SAsDFoRD, of Grand Haven. Mich.
| sulcided on the steamer City of Milwaukee ON
| the 9th.
DOCK WALTER, colored. was banged at
Iexarkana. Tex, on the 9th.
SON Of Gen. Major was shot and killed in a
street car IN the City of Mexico. on the 2stb.
by Capt Pedro Garsea. professor IN the military
| school. Young Majors servant was also kilIrd
DURING fit Of insanity, Larkin kirby. Of
| Jerseyville, H.. stabbed his sister seventeen
| tunes. ON the 18th, InfiictiDg fatal injuries.
| AIBERTIsA ANDERSON wss shot dead at San
Francisco, on the 26th, by William C. Milton.
| because she refused TO marry him. He then
blew his own brains out.
| MAN giving the name of Marshall was ar
| rested at the Merchants Exchange. Musaukee
| on the 26th while endeavoring to pass forged
| $50 Bank of England note. He Is wanted at Chi
| eago fer similar offense, and is supposed TO
be notorious English counterfeI.er.
CoPsEY HIsdISs shot and mortaIIy wounded
| his brother, Clay. in quarrel about q mon.
key-wrench near Brownsville. NO., on the 26th.
Ed. LANE, aged q, well-knovn society man
| OF Minneapolis. SHOT himself on the morning of
the 10th, leaving note stating that he was in
sane
YOUNG man whose baggage was marked .B.
WeInsberger, Cleveland, O." committed suicide
| at Braidwood. H., on the 2sth, by layrng his
| head on 8 rail before moving train.
BIsNAhcK, OAK, dispatch of the 2sth re-
ports the lynching in Mepan County. of Jake
y heu and three other notorious horse thieves.
Ike LADDY, colored cowboy, was Iynehed
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LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE.

Hopeful Outlook for Plan to Secure
Money for the Road.
NEW YORK, June 27.-The directors
of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
met to-day and adjourned to the 7th
pro1. Kiernan's Agency quotes Mr..
Whitehouse, representative of the English
stockholders, as saying final action had
been deferred for the assent of the
foreign stockholders, but there was no
doubt but that the financial
plan under consideration would be
agreed upon. Many liberal offers had
been made, and if the stock market was
steady, the Louisville & Nashville Road
could raise all the money wanted in an
hour. There is no doubt about the
success of the plan under consideration,
which will be adopted.
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MASTER PLUMBERS.
Doings at the National Association at
Baltimore.

Doings at the National Association at
Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, June 27.-In the conven-
ton of the National Association of Mas
ter Plumbers committee appoint
ed to investigate and report upon
the difficulties in the New York delega-
tion presented report refusing to sus-
tain Mr.. Mead. The report was adopted
The president for Illinois made re-
port stating that they had succeeded in
breaking up jobbing in lead. and manu-
facturers will sell only to plumbers,
which has resulted in great many ben
efits to the trade. The officers for the
ensuing year were then elected, as fol-
lows: President, Andrew Young, of Chi
cago; first vice-president, Jas. Allison,
of Cincinnati; recording secretary, J. j.
Wade, of Chicago.
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GENERAL

IL. I'll. BANGS, doing business as the Bay
Stste Casket Co. at Boston, failed on the 9th.
LlaSilIties, 800, 900.
HE annual national convention OF the iron
and steel workers of the country will be held
at Pittsburg, August 5.
TEE National Association of Master p,umb.
ers, in session at Baltimore on the 27th.
elected Andrew Young, Of Chicago, presi-
dent.
THE ST. Petersburg Bank, of Clarion County,
Pa, closed its doors on the 26th. 1t was one
OF the strongest banks IN Pennsylvania outside
Of the large cities.
IHE GARFIELD Monument Association has sc-
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cepted the design of Geo. II. Keller. of Hart
ford Conr., and awarded him the f-st prize
of $1,000. The second prize, $3.50, was given
to G. +. and J. A. Schweinfurth. Of Cleveland,
and tho third, $500, to Mofit 4 Doyle, of New
York.
The clubs in the Northwestern Base Ball
League were In the following order in the race
for the pennant on the 2lst inst:
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The National League record is as follows.

The failure Of Stout 4 Co. was announced
ON the New York Stock Exchange, on the 26th.
THOMAS J. WATSON, heavy oil dealer at Pitts
burg, failed on the 25th.
MATTHEW MORGAN & Sons, bankers, New
York, faihd on the oath. Also Thomas j
Crombie, Timber dealer and Julius F. Deberg,
merchant
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YOUNG lady brightly to young bach
elor): "Do you know, Mr. Singlesome,
that when one finds a four-leaved clover
it is sure sign that the finder will be
married within ayear?" Old bachelor /:
No; L had always supposed that finding
a four-leaved clover was an omen of
good luck.
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$50 Mrs. Jones brother is dead" ("
said Gossip No. l to Gossip No. 2.
$50 hear" "Will she go into mourn
ing?" 81 understand she will wear
half mourning" "How is that?"
why, you see, it is only her half
brother"
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Wonderful Sleepers.
[From Little Folks Magazine. ]


A wonderful case is on record of q
snail which went to sleep on March "a,
1916, and did not wake up till March 7,
1850. 1t seems that this snail was
picked up in the Egyptian desert, and
as he had retired to the topmost recesses
of the whorls of his shell he was
gummed on a piece of cardboard, as
though dead, labeled with the date, and
sent to the British museum. He slept
unconcernedly for four years, when
showing some signs of life, the author
ities ordered him tepid bath, and at
the first touch of the wholesome moisture
the snail thrust forth his head very
cautiously, and then commenced to
walk to the top of the basin. The west
African mudfish affords another instance
of long-continued existence in state OF
torpor. This fish-known as the Lapi.
dosiren-lives among the swallows Of
the River Gambia, which are completely
dry during the tropical summer, but be,
fore the drought comes the mudfsh is
wise enough to hide deep down in the
soft clay at the bottom of the pools, and
there it lies in torpid state for months
together, while the surrounding mud
hardens into cake. While in thi;
state the natives dig them up and prize
them as a great delicacy for the table
That he does not live without breathing
the mudfsh proves by leaving a small
pipe open from his cell leading through
the hard mud to the open air.
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THE boy who doesn't leap over seven
hitching posts, kick lame dog, snatch
a handful of navy beans in front of
every grocery store, knock over box
or two, and work the handle of every
pump On the sidewalk on his way home
from school, is either lazy or does not
eel well.-( Keokuk Gate City.