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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-11
Robbed His Own Orchard.

Speaking of his liking to look at
workmen," says an old friend of Wash
ington Irving, reminds me of another
good story which he used TO tell with
great enjoyment-no one can tell his
stories as he used 10. One day when
he was building the extension to Sunny
side, as he strolled about watching the
carpenters, he happened to pick up an
apple that had been blown from tree.
The next moment he felt his arm
tugged, and turning saw a ragged little
urchin-one of half a dozen who had
come in to pick up the chips left by the
workmen-looking up into his face.
Say, mister says the little chap,
'iust you come with me and I'll show
you where to get some good apples;
but mind you don't let the old man
know meaning Mr. Irving himself.
"'Well,' Mr.. Irving used to say, tell
ing the story, 'the little scamp brought
me to the very best tree in my orchard,
and there we filled our pockets together
and ate our fill of my very best apples.
We got on very well together, and be-
lieve it's the only case [ ever heard of
where man participated in the robbery
| of his own orchard ,"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-11
Cooled His ArdOr.

81 am anxious to serve my party in
this momentous political campaign
now upon us" remarked a bald-headed
individual of some 50 summers, more or
less, to the third assistant secretary of
one of the state central committees yes
terday, as the latter tipped back in his
chair and ran his eye over handful of
letters, every one of which set forth in
glowing terms the certainty of victory
for the party in November. The secre-
tary continued to tear up envelopes and
file the enclosures, while the political
patriot who had addressed him stood in
the doorway and balanced his rotund
form on one leg, materially assisted by
ponderous foot encased in a No. II
shoe. "Ah, yes," said the secretary,
finally condescending to look up and
recognize his visitor "In what direc-
ton, pray, do you consider your services
would be the most valuable to the
| cause?"
why, on the stump, of course"
As the would-be political aspirant ut
tered these words his face flushed and
his eyes reflected his astonishment at
what he doubtless considered foolish
question on the part of the secretary,
for he added, Il was not aware that
there was any other medium through
which one could render gigantic service
to the party. I am well known in my
'deestrict,' and night and day for the
past three weeks have been looking
into the record of our political opponent
on the national ticket, and my speeches
| will bring CONSERVATION into the enc
| my's ranks and utterly disband the
miserable scalawags and horde of cor
rupt political profigates from our
| midst"
Gust So" said the secretary. "That
| is good, very good; consummation
| devoutly to be wished. Our committee
shall know that we have such desira-
BILE acquisition to our list of speakers,
and | will take the responsibility of
authorizing you to enter upon the cam
paign at once. Hurl defiance into the
enemy's camp and commence at once
| your policy of CONSERVATION that the
| scalawags, corruptionists, moral lepers
and lecherous scoundrels may be ex-
terminated root and branch. And by
the way, if you could find it in your
heart to show your patriotism still
| farther, you might contribute few
| hundred dollars to the committees
campaign fund and possibly we could
arrange to print few hundred copies
of your speech for country circulation. y
Contribute gasped the aspiring
| stump-speaker.
Certainly. Why not?"
"And amt ] agoing to get $50 for
every speech and expenses paid?"
Not if | know it."
"And no pledges made to me that 1
shall have the postoffice?"
Nary pledge"
Then let our land reek in political
corruption. May the party go down
into a sea of iniquity. The country
can't be saved" And with an emphatic
blow upon the table with his horny
hand he pulled dilapidated sombrero
over his eyes and marched out into the
hotel lobby, where he entertained two
men and boy on the dangers that be-
set the country, the ungratefulness of
republics and political committees in
particular
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-11
Stories of Yankee Robinson.

Yankee Robinson, the veteran show
man who died recently, is said to have
been the originator of street parades.
he was a genius in the advertising line,
and silver half dollars with "Good for
one admission to Yankee Robinson's
show" stamped on them are almost
every day taken in even now at circus
ticket wagons in the West. Another of
his devices was to havea poster contain
ing the music of q favorite song of his,
each note two or three feet long, posted
Oh the fences, so that people were soon
humming the music. AS late as 1868
he had the largest and best circus and
menagerie in the country, and was
worth 100000 according to MIR. Hutch
inson, of Barnum's firm, who travelled
with him for several years. His real
name was Fayette Ludowic Robinson,
and he was native of Avon. Living
ston County. His father and grand
father fought in the revolutionary army.
He embarked in the show business in
1915, and was engaged in theatrical en-
terprises as late as 1882. He took ont
his first circus in 1856. At the time of
the John Brown raid he was in the
South, and it was learned that he
had at once managed an Uncle Toms
Cabin Company. He was warned out
of town, Columbia, S. c., and fled on
foot, leaving a show worth some S40,-
600. He derived his sobriquet from a
Yankee character in a play called '76,
which he played more than 400 times.
His son Silas, who used when scarcely
more than an infant to travel with his
fathers wagon show and sing Old
Uncle Ned, is now editor and publisher
of the Warsaw tIll.) Democrat.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-11
On the Philadelphia Plan.

From the New YORK SUM-
There are gteat many young men
in New York who manage to live well,
enjoy frequent excursions, and keep
well i'll the amusement swing by con-
Quoting all of their entertainments on
what is commonly known as the Phila-
delphia plan. They are the well-dressed,
good-natured, and jolly-looking men
who are seen together in box at the
theater, dining at good restaurant,
going to the races on q coach, or run
ming off for two or three days fishing
on a yacht. Their bills are paid un-
obtrusi7ely and quietly, but when the
crowd IS alone prompt settlement is
had, and each man pays his own share.
When a number of men "whack up"
for a dinner it reduces the cost very
much. They can eat much better
dinner, have more wine and greater
variety than when dining alone, and for
less money. AS rule, the young men
who 90 about town habitually are not
overburdened with funds, and if any
one of them attempted to entertain all
his friends he would find it serious
drain on his purse. That is why the
Philadelphia plan is resorted to. Dur
ing the races at Jerome park the hotel
coaches are continually employed by
crowds of men who go on this principle.
The coaches have movable seats which
can be arranged on top so that they
look like veritable coaching club drags,
and when drawn by four spanking
bays they make quite presentable ap-
pearance. With crowd of ten or fif-
teen men aboard, such a coach usually
forms very lively sort of a procession.
The young men usually chip in from 50
to so apiece and make the solid sum
with which they buy horse for win
ner and horse for place in every
race. This keeps them interested all
through the day, and when they go
home they divide the winnings-if there
are any.
In the same way they arrange yacht
ing trips and excursions to the country.
It may not be particular aristocratic
mode OF procedure, but it certainly is
much fairer to all concerned than the
indiscriminate habit of treating. by
which the poorest man in the crowd is
usually impoverished through the
proverbial generosity of poor men-and
the mean man has no end of fun with
out paving for it.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-11
FOREIGN.

IT is reported that Admiral Courbet
will shortly be recalled from China and
that he has instructions TO destroy the
Chinese fleet in certain contingency.
A PARIS dispatch of the 4th says sixty
houses have been destroyed by fire
III the town Of Montgreland, Auyerque.
France.
THE Chinese were defeated with
heavy loss in an engagement in Ton
quin, on the 4th.
A DISPATCH from Copenhagen of the
4th, states that ten soldiers were burned
to death while attempting to save some
effects IN the Royal Palace at Chris
tlansboro, which was destroyed by fire
the previous night.
IHE reports from the cholera infected
districts of Italy begin to assume more
hopeful tone, On the 5th there were
reported 207 fresh cases and 126 deaths.
INTELLIGENCE was received on the
Sd inst, of a disastrous hurricane,
which swept the coast of Iceland, on
the 18th of September. Seventy nine
vessels were wrecked, and large num-
Der disabled. The loss of life was very
great.
A FIRE at Copenhagen on the Sd
inst, destroyed the Danish parliament
buildings, together with large library
ofvaluable books and manuscripts.
ADyICEs from India of the I'd inst,
report collision on the Eastern Ben
gal Railway, by which sixty persons
were killed or injured
ODONOTAN RossA's son, who is in
Paris, claims to have received 10000
francs With which to purchase dynamite
to seId to England.
a DISPATCH of the 1st inst. says Bis
marck proposes that the London con
erence to settle the Egyptian financial
question be renewed and that a session
be held at Berlin before the end of the
month.
The British steamer Firefy struck
and went down in seven fathoms of
water, off Isaac's Harbor, Nova Scotia.
on the Both. The captain and crew
were saved.
LACHINE, near Montreal, was visited
by fire, on the Both, which destroyed
twenty-three houses. Loss S35, 600
This is Lachine's second fiery vista
ton within d short time
The village of Louisville, near Mon
treal, reports fire, on the 30th, which
ruined over twenty houses, causing a
loss of $4,000.
AN Egyptian vessel bound for Khar-
toum, laden with troops and provisions,
was sunk in the Nile on the 18th. Two
men were lost and all the stores de-
stroyed.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-11
CRIMINAL.

Too Poles named Walstine and Lipka
had dispute at Polish dance on
Blackhawk Street, Chicago, on the
night of the 4th, in which the latter was
stabbed in the neck. He will die.
An organized company OF outlaws, be-
ing incensed at the rulings of Judge
Jose Santos, of Salinas City, Mex. at
tackled the city hall on the I'd inst, and
killed the judge and the chief of DO
lice. Ten others are reported killed.
and twenty-five wounded. At last ac-
counts the city was in the hands of the
mob.
DOMESTIC trouble caused August
Hennig, Milwaukee saloonist, to hang
himself on the Sd.
JAMES DACEY, the murderer of AID.
Gaynor at Chicago, has been found
guilty and sentenced to death.
DANIEL MCGRATH was enticed from
his home at Providence, r. l., on the
I'd inst, by party of men and foully
murdered. His mutiated body was
found floating IN the river.
Mrs. NJ. NICHOLS committed suicide
at st. Louis on the morning of the 1st,
by standing in one wash tub full of wa
ter and holding her head in another
tub of water until death ensued. De,
ceased was 70 years of age and has been
sick long time
FRANK BROWN, a notorious Chicago
pick pocket who attempted to ply his
vocation at the state fair, had been sent
to Waupun for two years.
GEN. VIM. A. THRooP, a prominent
citizen of Detroit, shot himself in the
head on the morning of the 1st. He
will die.
A HIDEoUs crime was committed at
Chicago on the night of the Both. al
most unparalleled in atrocity. Michael
Shay, living in a miserable hovel at 400
Clark Street, went home during the
night in drunken state, and with the
body of dead infant to which she had
given birth during the night. beat his
wife to death. Shay was arrested
DIR. ABRAM BABcoCK, committed
suicide On the Both, by taking morphine,
in the Jail at Syracuse, n. Y, where he
was awaiting trial for malpractice.
Two brothers, Clay and Oscar Gar
linghouse, quarreled in the stable of the
latter at Madison, Ind, on the Both.
Clay cut Oscar so he will most likely
die. Clay is under arrest.
Ar Alfred, Me-, on the Both, Mary E
Bauows and Oscar E. iBlaney were
sentenced to be hanged on the third
Friday in December, 1885, for the muir
der of Thomas Barrows, the woman's
husband
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-11
Sunshine and Shadow.

IRON the tHlCdSu NENs-J
"The officer tells me that you were
drunk and disorderly and that you have
often been arrested for the same Of
fense," said Justice Foote yesterday, as
he frowned through his eyeglasses at a
hard-looking woman who stood before
him. Il have no sympathy for women
like you and / will fine you hum
"Fapal" interrupted voice, clear
and sweet, and two soft arms stole
around the judicial neck and soft face
was laid against the judicial cheek.
Justice Foote'S frown changed to q
smile. "Aha, you rascall' said he, seiz-
ing his little daughter and seating her
ON bis knee. So you came to see me
Just while l am hard at work, did you
and you slipped up behind me and
tried to scare your old pap? All, your
and be gave her great hug.
Clerk Clingen poised his pen ready
to record the fine; the lawyers took
their seats with a smile; the prisoner
was left alone before the bar. She
ooked at the little child and passed
her sleeve over her eyes. For five
minutes the old head and the youna
head nodded at each other, while from
two red lips came wonderful story
of "Oh such fun at the park and how
funny the deers looked" Then {
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-11
Ireland's National Color.
IFrom the Pail Mall Budget.l

1t is strange to be told that after al
green is not the old national color of
Ireland. The popular belief for centu-
ries is in favor of emerald color. But
the old books show that the popular
belief is contrary to the fact. There was
a Duke of Ireland in Richard lis time
Robert de We're, Duke of ireland
and Marquis of Dublin-to whom the
King granted coat of augmentation,
azure three crowns, or with border
argent" In Edward Tvs time the arms
of Ireland were such a problem That
commissioners were sent to investigate
and report. The commissioners pro
nounced that the arms of that Kingdom
we're three crowns in pale. A drawing
in the British Museum settles the ques-
ton. The drawing was made in 'Ae
reign of Queen Elizabeth, or at least
registered the colors as they existed
in her reign. The national flag appears
then to have been harp or with strings
argent on an azure ground. Thus in
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-11
CRUSHED AND SCAlDED.
Terrible Railway Accident Near Bay
field, Wis.
A Construction Train Wrecked in a Wash
out. Two Men Killed Outright and
Others Fatally Sealded.

A terrible railroad accident happened
at Pixies Greek, Wis, on the afternoon
of the I'd. The particulars, furnished
by parties who were on the ground, are
as follows: A construction train, with
the fat-cars loaded with piles, and ac
companied by twenty-five men, all told,
left Washburn after dinner to repair a
wash-out one-half mile south of Bayfield,.
The train was running at about fifteen
miles per hour when 1t struck wash
out Just north of the Pike Greek bridge,
and the engine and tender plunged
headlong into it. All hands were riding
on the tender and in the cab of the en-
gine at the time of the accident, and as
the engine made the fatal plunge one of
the rails ran up through the boiler and
tire-box, letting the steam and wa
ter escape into the cab and tender,
scalding the inmates in a frightful man
ner. A Masonic lodge of Ashland was
conducting a funeral short distance
from the scene OF the accident, and the
members hurriedly repaired to the spot.
The sight was sickening indeed. Men
with flesh hanging in shreds from faces,
hands, and bodies were lying on the
grass or among the ruins. One man
was found dead, his skull crushed, and
otherwise manged Another died after
being taken from the wreck. The work
of gathering up the wounded and hunt
ing up the missing was prosecuted with
the greatest diligence. A message was
sent to Washburn for a special train,
which arrived shortly after. DR.. Han
mum, being with the rescuing party,
dressed the wounds of the sufferers as
best ne could, and accompanied them to
WasLburn. Tie following is a full list
of the men on the train at the time,
with the extent of their injuries:
G. HuntleY, not hurt.
Fred. Huntley, badly scalded.
G. &. Anderson. foot hurt.
A. Johnson, uninjured.
}. Duuham, side hurt
McGeorge, section foreman, not hurt.
A. L. Johnson, dead.
Frank Carim dead.
+. Barred, slightly hurt.
A. Anderson, badly scalded.
K Mccoy, conductor, badly scalded.
j. J. Burlington. engineer badly scalded.
E. S. Ford, brakeman, not hurt.
S. Morris, fireman, scalded and hurt IN
ternally
NJ. Mcconnell, badly scalded.
NJ. Bunk, badly scalded.
z. Nelson, badly scalded.
William Mack. leg and arm broken.
p. Foley, not seriously hurt.
M. Mccarthy, badly scaded.
Ed Ottale, badly scalded.
Ten coffins were ordered by the rail
road authorities at Bayfield,, the follow
ing morning, and it is believed that the
number of victims of the disaster is
greater than at first reported. M. Nc
Carthy died few hours after the acci-
dent, and three others are not expected
to live
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-11
A College of Beggary.

An effort to check begging recently
made in Liverpool brought to light a
college of beggary in which pupils of
all ages were taught to pursue the art in g
scientific way. The proprietor was a
member of the profession" and mad
amassed considerable fortune. The
school was well attended, many young
children especially being sent there by
their parents, who were chiefly Of the
criminal class. Many of the pupils pa
rents not being able to pay for the tu-
ition OF their children, the professor
appropriated the clothing and money
brought in by his students until he was
recompensed for his services.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-11

early times the national flag was GER
tainly blue. 1t may be that the color
changed imperceptibly. There are
blues that are almost green. Twenty
years ago the italian tri- color was brick
red, white, and olivegreen. These
were the esthetic tints in use at time
when Carlyle had no: yet explained to
us in a note how Richter invented the
word "esthetic" and what he meant by
it. Now any one who looks at the Ital-
ian flag floating over the House of Par
lament in the Piazza Rome will see
that the red is bright earmine and the
green is rank emerald.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-11

KY, on the 4th. Loss $4,000; insur-
ance small.
Two men were killed and a number
badly injured on the 4th. by the ex-
plosion of threshing- machine boiler at
Lake Elmo, MINI.
A BULKHEAD collapsed in an elevator
at Buffalo, ON the 4th, smothering
Thomas DAILY under mass of grain.
Three others were badly injured.
A TRAIN of empty fiat cars jumped
the track near Foxborough, Mass, on
the morning of the 4th. Two men were
fatally injured.
RoUTzoNG & SoN's mill at Greenville
Falls, o., was destroyed by fire, on the
4th. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
FIRE in a storage warehouse at Phila-
delphia on the 9Th, destroyed property
to the value of 100000.
AN incendiary fire at Braddock, Pa,
on the Sd. destroyed an entire block of
frame buildings and caused loss of
$4,000.
A CANNON exploded at the Blaine re-
ception at Morrow, o., on the 3D., kill
ing man named George Hamilton and
injuring another.
THE steam -whaler Bowhead, of San
Francisco, valued at $125,000, was
crushed and sunk by ice in the Arctic
Sea. Crew saved.
ADvICEs from Hudson's Bay state
that the whaler Roswell King, of New
London, vas crushed in an ice foe.
The crew escaped.
THE charcoal furnace at Geo. p.
Whittaker's iron works, Principle, Md,
was consumed by fire on the Sd, with
100000 bushels of charcoal.
WELSH, DERoo & Co.'S flour mill at
Holland. Mich, burned on the I'd.
Loss $4,000.
The Glen House, Mt. Washington
was destroyed by fire on the night of
1st. Loss 1926, 900; insurance 100000.
J. j. HICKMAN, his daughterin law,
Mrs. Brit Hickman, and her two chill
dren, were drowned in Polk Greek,
near Paris, Mo-, on the I'd while at
tempting to cross it with team.
THE shops of the Alabama & Great
Southern Railroad at Meridian, Miss,
burned on the morning of the I'd inst.
Loss 800, ,000.
THE establishment of Macomber &
Tolman, leather dealers, was damaged
by fire on the night of the Both to the
extent of $4,000. Fully insured.
DURING a game of base ball, at Riv-
erhead, L. l., on the 1st, Roscoe Conk-
ling, aged II, of Cutchouue, was in
stantly killed by a ball thrown by a
striker. The ball struck Eugene Hal
lock in the face, cracking his jaw bone.
A CLoUD-BURsT at Pachuca, Mex, on
the 29th, caused the death of thirty
persons and the loss of much property.
The workshops of the Transatlantic
Steamship Company, at st. Nazaire,
France, were destroyed by fire on the
Both.
THE works of the Pennsylvania Salt
Manufacturing Company at Natrona,
were damaged by fire to the extent of
SIUO,UUO.
LUDWIG PNsKI was fatally hurt in a
runaway accident at Milwaukee on the
10Th.
THE boiler of the Millwood coal shaft,
near Blairsville, Pa, exploded on the
Doth, killing John Hanna, and several
others.
ALMOST the entire town of Shongo,
n. Y. was obliterated on the 29th by a
tornado which swept over the country
along the Pennsylvania line. -Four per-
sons are reported killed and large
amount of property destroyed.
JOSEPH BUNKER, Cincinnati's fire
chief, died on the 29th from injuries
received several days previous at fire.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-11
GENERAL.

THE Western Union reports on the 4th
breaks in both American or Gould At.
lantic cables, 700 miles from Canso
Nova Scotia.
MALLoN & RoURKE, foundry men, New
York, failed on the Sd for 100000.
FAILURES for the week ending on the
Sd number 1914.
Z. i. MATTHEWS, furniture manufact-
urer, Lawrenceburg, Ind, has assigned
Liabilities 10000; assets $4,000.
BREED & EDWARDS, plow manufact.
urers of Pittsburg, have assigned. Liza
bilities about $4,000; nominal assets
100000
Gov. CLICK, of Kansas, has issued q
proclamation prohibiting the introduc-
tion of Jersey cattle into the state also
ordering the quarantine of cattle from
Kentucky, Iowa, Nebraska and is.
sOuri.
STEPHEN ANGEL, prominent citizen
of Delavan, died very suddenly on the
evening of the 1st. He was SO years OF
age.
FRANK CHANFRAU, the actor, died Of
apoplexy at Jersey City Oh the morning
of the I'd.
THE striking stove moulders an
nounced on the 1st inst. that they were
willing to go to WORK at reduction of
10 per cent, in wages.
THE governor has appointed Geo. A.
Burnell, of Oshkosh, Judge of the
third judicial circuit, to succeed d. J.
Pulling, resigned,
PAT MINIS, hotel-keeper at Court
land, Ala, was mysteriously murdered
by mob on the night of the Doth. Nc
clue.
THE Supreme Court at Madison, Oh
the 29th, sentenced George G. Ford to
Waupun for one year for obtaining
money under false pretenses.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-11

bright ten-cent piece was produced
from the Justices pocket and put into a
little hand. Then came long, hard
hug, and the little girl skipped away,
shouting goodbye as she went through
the crowd
When Justice Foote turned his face
toward the court room there was spread
over it smile that would have graced
the countenance of saint. Where
was ?" he asked, as he rubbed his glasses
and looked down at the sheet. "Oh,
yes, this drunk and disorderly case"
Then he looked at the prisoner "You
look like you might have been decent
girl once" said he; 81 will give you one
more chance. The prisoner is dis
charged"