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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18
Only Four Hours in Bed.

One of the most peculiar characters
in Connecticut is John Maher, of
Spring Street, Ansonia, better known
as John Who-never- Sleeps. John
is an Irishman who is making for himself
little fortune at $3.50 per day by work
ing thirteen hours in the factory.
Thither he goes every day, rain or
shine, and he IS never Ill. OF the re-
naming eleven hours he devotes seven
to labor and four to sleep.
This perpetual living without sleep
causes great annoyance to his neigh
bors and. to everybody within mile of
him who wishes to sleep when he is at
work He now owns three double
houses and two fine building lots. For
years he has been clearing the lots of
stone, working wholly by night. He
has done his blasting with giant powder
by torchlght, and, at all hours, except
near midnight, can be heard the sound
of his hammer and drill. He does not
put fire to his fuse before 4 o'clock A
NJ, when off go three or four tremendous
blasts, the shock OF which sends half the
fathers and mothers of Ansonia out oi
| bed upon the floor like the recent
slaughter of fish by the bursting of s
| torpedo at Beauford Point.
Mr.. Maher is thin, nervous, and a.
supple as Rocky Mountain goat HI
is only forty, but looks aged because O.
his devotion to money getting. HI
! has never made but one losing specula
ton. A few years ago he sank a well IL
| the rear of one of his houses
through seventeen feet of solid rocl
without help, and carried the stone NJ
on his back, most of the work being
done with the aid of lantern. A weel
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18
FOREIGN.

The report of the massacre of Col
Stewart and party, in Soudan, is con-
tirmed. Wolseleys expedition will ad-
vance on khartoum about the middle of
November.
The British naval commander in
Australia has been ordered to proceed
to New Guinea and proclaim a protec-
torate over the southern coast, on &C.
count of the rapid increase of the slave
trade.
WHILE the workmen on the new Par
lament buildings at Quebec were at
dinner, on the 1lth, mysterious ex-
plosion destroyed a considerable por-
ton of the masonry and windows.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire visited the town
of Paita, Pe1u, on the night of the 10th.
ODe-qusrter of the place was swept
away. The losses aggregate 100000.
A HoPEDALE, Labradore, dispatch of
the 9th, announces the loss of a fishing
vessel and five lives.
FORTY tin cans billed as lard were
seized on the steamer City of Washing
ton at Havana. They contained opium.
THE Spanish army in Cuba is in de-
moralized state. The government has
not paid the troops for six months.
TIE Russian government on the 9th,
essed the university at Kieff and ar
rested 16S students for alleged con
nection with Nihilists.
AN explosion of fire damp in a mine
at Octrau, III Moravia, on the Sth, caused
the death of twenty persons.
INTELLIGENCE was received on the
Sth of a cyclone at Catania, on the
Island of Sicily. Trees were uprooted
and houses destroyed. Twenty per-
sons were killed and fifty injured.
Owing to the severity of the cyclone it
was impossible to render assistance to
the sufferers during its prevalence.
THE Windsor Hotel, at Kingston,
Ont, burned on the 9th. Loss 100000.
A RUMoR was prevalent at Cairo on
the 9Th that Gen. Stewart and his en-
tire force had been massacred by Arab3
in the Soudan.
A PARTY of Italian laborers got up a
row with their employers, at Tamworth,
Ont, on the 9th, over non-payment of
wages, in which the whole village turned
out to defend the contractors. A large
number of men on both sides were
killed.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18
GENERAL.

A CITIZEN of Oswego, n. Y, named
Pardee, brought suit against the New
York Central Sleeping g-Car Company
for the loss of money in a coach. He
was nonsuited, on the grounds that the
company had not been proven guilty of
negligence and was not common car
rler.
WILSON & MCGuL's tobacco factory
at Petersburg, Va, suspended on the
10th, owing to a scarcity of tobacco
The suspension throws 800 colored
people ont of work.
d. W. CARROLL & Co, boiler makers
of Pittsburg, Pa, cut the wages of their
skilled workmen 10 per cent. on the
10th. The men quietly accepted the
reduction.
The piano and music firm of Arthur
Uhlig & Co. failed on the 10th. Judg-
ments aggregating $4,000 were con
fessed.
FAILURES in the United States for
the week ending on the 10th, 1876.
BARNEY H. YORK. a prominent eleva-
tor man of Cleveland. died suddenly on
the 9th of heart disease. He was so
years of age.
SEVERAL hundred men have been
made happy at Pittsburg by the re-
sumption of the Fort Pitt Iron and
Steel Works.
GEN. JOHN B. MURRAY, an old Grand
Army man and originator of Decoration
Day, was fatally stricken with apoplexy
at Seneca Falls, n. Y, on the 8th.
A THREE days reunion of Mexican
war veterans was opened at st. Louis
on the 8th. About 300 delegates were
present.
W. W. CoTTERAL, ex-auditor of Henry
County, Ind, who is missing for some
days, is S3,700 short in his accounts.
A FOREIGN syndicate has purchased
$10,0O0,000 worth of the stocks and
bonds of the Louisville q Nashville
Railroad.
RICHARD KINvER, OF Whitby. Ont,
has brought suit against al Odd Eel
lows lodge on account of injuries re-
ceived while being initiated.
THE employees in the Oliver Bros. &
Phillips rolling mill at Pittsburg having
refused to accept 12t per cent. reduc-
ton in wages the mill was on the 7th
closed against 5000 men.
DRoUTH. rust and excessive rains have
wrought serious damage to the cotton
crop in the Memphis district.
SMALL PoX has broken out at Prairie
town, Ind. Seven cases and one death
a~e reported up to the 9th.
JOHN F. STEINMAN, the oldest
merchant in Pennsylvania and veteran
of the war of 1912, died at his home
near Lancaster, in that state, on the 9th,
aged 95 years.
J. W. RosENTHAL & Co., one of the
largest clothing firms in Rochester, n.
Y, have failed. The preferences
amount to nearly 500, 600.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18
CRIMINAL.

RS. MARY c. DAVIS, and C. G. Jones
who boarded at her house in Gayles-
| vile, Ala, were killed by Mrs. Davis
uncle named J. r. Dorsey, and a wom-
| an named Jane Wade. Jones was
killed by mistake for Mrs. Davis hus-
| band.
SAMUEL KEENER was shot dead on
the 18th by Tibbett T1iplett, dis
guised detective, near McClelland, Pa.
Keener was drunk and had attacked
Triplett.
The safe in the general store of ].
Allen, of Livingston, Grant County,
was blown open on the night of the
10th, and rihed of $500 in currency and
$4,000 III notes. Safe blowers also
worked the store of Hsse & Rundall, at
Rewey, IN the same county, but secured
only Sl2 in silver.
AFTER a quarrel in the saloon of
John Cramer, in Archer Avenue, Chi
| ago, on the evening of the 18th, a sheep
butcher named Joseph Whitney was
murdered with knife by a notorious
criminal named Bob Haley.
Doc. MARTIN, who killed E. n. Pleass-
ant at Rolling Fork, Va,,. was lynched
| at that place by a mob on the 18th.
The whole party were colored.
Ok the night of the Sth inst, the
| headless body of a woman was found in
the cistern on the farm of Peter Bas-
kex, near Troy, Ind. The head was
afterward found some distance away i
the woods. The next day the remains
were identified as those of Mrs. Hender-
shot, who resided fourteen miles dis
| tant. The body WAS nude, and the
| woman's husband was afterwards found
preparing II leave the country with a
valise containing the dead woman's
| clothes, ana was arrested. He then con-
| fesset the murder, and was locked up.
| He was examined at Troy, on the 10th,
and during the trial an effort by a mob
to lynch him was frustrated with con-
siderable difficulty.
CHAs. W. BUTLER was hanged at Col
umbIa, Ind, on the 10th, for the muir
der of his young wife at Piercetown, in
September, 1888.
FIVE masked men robbed farmer
named Joseph Gates, IN White Town
| ship, near Johnstown, Pa, on the 10th.
| They took over 81 100
AT Alleghany City, on the 10th, Leo.
Breget, aged l3, threw mortar into the
| face of BERTHE Black, girl aged years
! destroying the sight of both eyes. He
| also seriously burned two other children
/ EX-ALD. JOHN GERHARDT, OF Neenah,
shot himself fatally on the 9th, because
his wife had instituted proceedings for a
| divorce. He was hard drinker and
/ when in his cups was very abusive to
/ his family.
BURGLARS raide6 the who.eelle mil
! linery store of William Swale on
Broadway, Milwaukee, on the night OF
the Sth, and stole 800 worth of silks
and satins. One OF the thieves who
gave his name as William Raymond
was arrested the next day with a trunk
containing the stolen goods. His con
federate escaped.
THE bodies of James Casson ant
| Henry Boyer, two farmers, were tounc
on the road near Roaring Greek, Pa, OIL
the morning of the Sth, both riddlet
with buckshot. Suspicion pointed to .
young ma,tied man named Heilner, ant
he was arrested. He confessed th,
crime, but claimed that he only intend
ed to kill Boyer. Jealousy was tn
| cause.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18
A SnSnecfed DYnamiter.

birmingham correspondent of the
London Times says Last night ludi-
crous incident in connection with the
dynamite scare took place in Birnine
ham. 1t having been reported that
lie priest, had left America and would
shortly arrive in England, the utmost
vigilance was displayed by the home
Office in notifying to the police authori
ties throughout the country that sharp
lookout should be kept for anyone re-
sembling the description of the "sus-
pect." On Monday last a Roman
Catholic priest from Dublin arrived in
Birmingham, and called upon the
brother of Egan, who at the last War
wick assizes was sentenced by Justice
Hawkins to twenty years penal servi-
tude for his alleged association in the
dynamite conspiracy with DAILY, who
was sentenced to penal servitude for
life. The suspicion of the police was
heightened by the fact that the supposed
dynamiter- had in reality come to
Birmingham on a charitable mission
carried with him a small Gladstone
bag" After being tracked to the house
of the brother of Egan, one of the de-
tectlves, who took prominent part II
the recent apprehension of DAILY and
Egan, called at the residence, expressing
desire to purchase some vegetables
which were in the garden where the
reasonable documents had been found
The reply was that there were no vege-
tables TO spare, and that there was a
good green-grocer's shop round the cor
ner. The detective then left, and as
sured several of his colleagues that
there was something wrong, and that a
big find" was most probable. The
priest seeing the mistake into which
the authorities had fallen, carried on the
JOKE at the expense of the police. See
ing that he and Egan were being close
ly watched, he hailed cab, and gave
instructions to the driver to be driven
to nearly all parts of the town-frst
from New Street to Hagley read, then
to Acock's green, afterward to Spark
brook, and next to Aston, where he
alighted. During this excursion the
cab was followed by relays of detectives,
who, regardless of expense, hired We
hicles at many different places. Still
keeping up the joke, the priest took a
fresh cab and drove into Birmingham
again. Finally, the priest drove to
Monument lane station, where he
booked for Birkenhead. Subsequent
inquiries convinced the detectives that
the Gladstone bag" which was sup
posed to contain nitro-glycerine, con-
tanned nothing more harmful than some
prayer-books and subscriptionhsts for
a Roman Catholic church near Dublin,
couple of shirts, and collar or wo.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18

JOSEPH earle was stabbed i'll the
side in an affray ia Westboro, Taylor
County, or the 9th and will probably
die.
LOUIS GREEN, ex-cotton broker, of
Columbus, Miss, was arrested at New
York on the 7th, charged with swim
ding to the amount of about 100000,
by fraudulent bills of lading. Green
has been in Europe for year.
LEE LADD and Charles Mckinney
had a go-as-y ou-please duel at Balm
bridge, KY, on the 7th. Ladd was
killed and chimney badly wounded.
DURING the temporary absence of
Frank Lorenz from his jewelry store on
Reed Street, Milwaukee, on the 7th, a
sneak thief got away with a tray of
watches valued at $500.
A WOMAN named Gusta McKisson
killed Patrick Forbes with shotgun at
Edenburg, Pa. on the 9Th The MUIR
der resulted from an old feud.
w. W. CATHELL, of Muncie, Ind,
urned up missing on the 9th. He was
a member of the State Fair Board, and
when last seen had considerable money.
Foul play is feared.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18
Pay During the Revolution.

From the Magazine Of American History
The scale OF compensation was at the
extreme OF moderation. In no degree,
however, in the absence of value to the
currency In which it was rated, could
pay have been invested with the attrac-
ton of reward. Yet It is submitted as
not devoid of interest. To the office of
director of the military hospitals was at
tached the pay of $50 per month, two
rations, one for servant and two of for
age; to that of the chief physician and
surgeon of the army, $40 per month,
two horses and wagon, and two rations
of forage; to each of the three phys
icians and surgeons of the hospitals,
$40 per month and two rations; to the
surveyor, S130 and his assistant S75 per
month; TO the apothecary, $l30 per
month, and his two assistants $50 per
month each; to the fifteen hospital
physicians and surgeons S120 per month
each, and to each OF the twenty-six
mates $50 per month. The stewards re-
ceived each S35 per mouth; the clerks
and storekeepers > per day; the seven
matrons 30 cents each and ration PEI
day; the thirty nurses each shilliDgs
and ration a day, and the orderlies, il
soldiers, shilling and ration, and il
citizens shillings and ration a day.
THE health OF Grandma" Garfield
' SO years of age, is failing.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18
His Campaign Ended.

About ten o'clock Tuesday night the
| telegraph operator in the Times edlto-
rial room was receiving over our special
| wires the United Press report of the
Republican campaign at Burlington, Vt
Among the other papers IN the same
circuit receiving messages simulta-
neously by the same wire was the Peters
burg Index-Appeal. The message licked
out at a slow and steady place, which
seemed to add dignity to the names of
the prominent orators present. The
operator in the IndexAppeal office had
said to the sending operator in New
York at the beginning:
"Not feeling very well to-night-been
splitting blood-take it easy"
New York was sending slowly:
The exercises were held in the city
hall, which was densely crowded. Ad-
dresses were made by Congressman
Horr, of Michigan; Stewart, of Yer
mont, and Frost, of Maine, Senator Ed
munds presided. The following is a
verbatim report of his address:
Suddenly from the Index-Appeal ::
"Bk-Bk-Bk-," and felt his key open,
interrupting the message. New York
had to stop sending. Washington cut
the repeaters and the offices gossiped
with each other over the wire, exchang
ing guesses as to what was the matter
with Petersburg. Ten minutes passed.
They began to call Petersburg hard
names. Fifteen minutes. New York
was getting impatient and was just about
to cut Petersburg out and continued the
report to the other papers, when the in
terrupting key was suddenly closed.
Washington put the repeater through,
and then this from the IndexAppeal:
"Cummins, regular press operator,
Just died. Hemorrhage. I'm his sub.
Go ahead address"
And Senator Edmunds' speech went
on, while the body of Ned Cummins,
the great campaign ended Tor him, was
carried ont
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK
POLITICAL

The Prohibition state central com
mlttee of Kansas have placed the name
of Il. l.. Phillips at the head OF the
state ticket, A. B. Jettmore having de-
clined the nomination.
THE Rupubhcans of the Fourth
Wisconsin District, in convention at
Milwaukee on the 7th. nominated Isaac
". Van Schaick for Congress.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18

after it had been finished it was hope
lessly ruined, so that he had to fill it up
He had with the aid of his wife, started
small grocery store. A barrel OF
kerosene oil which was left outside and
some yards distant from the well, leaked,
and its contents FINELY worked through
the ledge into the water.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18
A Dakota Girl.

From the Chicago Herald.
A broad-shouldered, compactly built
Young woman, with brown face and
nsrd hands, sat in the Lake Shore de-
pot last evening waiting for the de-
parture of train for the East. She
bad just arrived in town from Dakota
"We don't waste any time in foolish
ness out our way" she said to young
man who seemed to be acqusinted with
her. There is no love making on my
half section. It's nothing but No.
wheat from May to August. That's
what we are out there for. Now, !
own and manage a farm of 800 acres,
and this year | took out a crop of
eighteen bushels to the acre and sold
it, got the cash, put it in the bank, dis
charged all my men but one who will
look after things this winter, and I'm
off for little fun down East. Mar
rage" said she, in response to some
remark by her companion; "that's S
about all the good -for-nothing cranks
that see from plowing time to harvest
can talk about. What do l want 20 get
married for? There are more than three
hundred of us girl farmers in Dakota,
and we will hold a convention some
time. | never saw man yet that |
would have around. I intend to farm
it until 1 get money enough to live on
comfortably, and then I'll see. I'm in
the habit of doing about as / please.
There was nice young fellow III my
nelghborhood last July, who tried to be
very gallant and wanted to help me
whenever | did any work. If [ chopped
4 little wood he wanted to do it. If
put bag of grain on my shoulder be
insisted on giving me lift. He was q
pretty nice boy, but he made nae tired
One day / wanted the hay-rick on the
wagon, and / took hold of one end and
clapped it up on the wheel SO quick
that it made him dizzy.
"Let me- says he, but he only threw
the whole thing down in trying to gel
the other end up. He didn't have the
strength.
Says I: oh, go away. You don't
eat enough No. wheat Then l put the
rick up in good style.
I'VE meet lots of such fellows out
there. They are good enough, / sup,
pose, but when 1 want one l will send
for him"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18
SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1S, 1884

fire on the 9th, which caused the loss
of $4,000.
Two business houses and residence
were swept away by fire at Millersburg,
KY, on the 4th. Loss $25, ,000; insur-
ance small.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18
Naked Slaves i'm TimbuctOO.
Letter TO Baltimore Sun.

The girl was being brought IN by the
Morocco gate, on the road from the city
of Morocco. She was nude, comely of
face and figure, with large, dreamy,
lovely eyes, and streaming long black
hair. Her color was of the Olivian type,
Which shows the red blood coursing in
the veins. She was of medium height
and aged about sixteen yeas. -Four
old Arab dealers" garbed in all the
glitter and tinsel of the Orient. guarded
this girl as if she were an Amazon of
strength and prowess. One old Arab
in loud voice cried out her merits and
nationality as they passed on to the
center of the town. Hating, the whole
party were surrounded by intending
buyers, both Christian and pagan,
They came up to the crouching girl
palled her arms to and fro, opened her
N outh and looked at her teeth, made
her stand erect, and then haggled over
the price. "She is worth $780," say the
Arab dealers in one simultaneous cry
"but will let her go for $50 if you take
not" Our dragoman translates anc
tells us how she will go to Egypt and
fetch 5000 at first bid.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18

A SYRACUSE man is astonishe d be
cause one of three women walking
abreast stepped aside ard permitted
him to pass-the first time In his ex-
perience. She was young. pretty, and
real lady"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18

The country horsemen of Eastern
Connecticut have introduced novel
feature in horse-racing. Instead of
trotting for purse the horses are trot-
ted for 90 bushels of oats.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18

CONNECTIONS :

AT GREEN BAY-with Chicago g. N. W. R'y
to and from OCONTO. MARtNETTE, MENOM-
INEE, CRYSTAL FALLS, FLORENCE, ESCA-
NABA NEGAUNEE. ISHPEMING, MAR
QUETTE, HOUGHTON, L'ANSE, and all
points in the iron and copper region, also AP
rLETON. MENASHA. NEENAH, OSHKOSH
FOND DU LAC, MILWAUKEE, CHICAGO
and all points south and east.
With Milwaukee & Northern Railway for MIL
wAUKEE and sn points north and south on
that line.
AT NEW LOND0N-with Milwaukee, Lake
Shore s. Western Railway TO and from all
points on that road.
TGRkND DRAPIDS-With Wisconsin Division
OF the Chicago, Milwaukee s. st. Paul R'y.
AT MERRILLAN-With Chicago, St. Paul,
Minneapolis s. Omaha Railway to and from
EAU CLAIRE, CHIPPEWA FALLS. ME-
NOhONEE, Wis, HUDSON, SALTWATER,
ST PAUL. MINNEAPOLIS. and all points
beyond.
AT wINONA AND LA CBOSSE-with C. q
n. w. R'y and O., N. g. st. P. Ry to and
from REDWING, HASTINGS, ST. PAUL.
MINNEAPOLIS, and ell points In MINNIE
sofa, DAKOTA. IOWA AND NEBRASKA,
DURING season of navigation, with steamers
for all points NORTH and SOUTH on MISSIS-
sIPPI RIVER.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18
1HEPASSENGEREQUIPMEN1

ef this road has laleIy been improved and in
creased and now embraces all the modern i'm
proyements and conveniences that tend 10
make travelling by rail- safe and comfortable.
IF YOU are travelling between anyOf the above
named points, see that your tickets read over
this line.
For me cards, rates, and information not
eotaIaaDie from local agents apply to
TIMOTHY CASE,
GenI Passenger Agent.
GREEN BAY WIS
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-10-18

THE health OF Grandma" Garfield,
SO years of age, is failing.
The Russellville Democrat., 1884-05-01
Isussellyille select school.

The first monthly examination of the students of the Russellville Sc- Iect School was held April %, 1884. The following is the average stand ing of the students examined. 100 being the standard Of perfection:
 Emma Reed 97, Lutic Eby 95, Maggie Brashear 96, s. l. Kinimer 9s, Lula Brashear 906, Bettie Dod- son 9l, Cara Hendrickson 90, Victo- ria Brashear 93, Laura Dodson 92.5, Clemmie Hendrickson 92, Thomas Bland 90, Beulah Shade 94. Minnie Amos 90, Hattie Amos S9, Adam Brashcar 91, Ford Brashear 80, Will lie Taylor S9.5, Ezra Taylor S8, Ada Harkey 90, Stella son 94.S, Katie Wilson 95, Floren Vim 92.9, Mar tin Vim S9, Jan Walker S9.6, Terrence Mckinney 90.5, Dorsey Cole 90, Jennie Stanley 90, Edward Eby 92, Emma Luker 91, Ola Stan ley 91.6, Anna Stanley 95, Minnie Stanley 90.
 Miss Emma Reed will be reward ed with copy of the "Practical Lessons in English Grammar" for completing Swinton's "Language Lessons" There are 37 stud Us en- rolled. We would be pie Il to have any one visit our school.
 CLARENCE R. HENDRICKsoN,
 Teacher.
The Russellville Democrat., 1884-05-01

the fact that certain railroads in the state, before escaping taxation, had paid in state and county taxes about $100, 900; alluded to the fact that judgment had been rendered in favor of the state against ex Auditor Crawford and bondsmen for ten thousand dollars, and that suit against the treasurer was pending, and that the people need have no fears but even and exact justice would be done the state anc the par ties. He urged the importance of Q full vo.e on the Amendment at the coming election, and closed by ahoping that the democratic conven- tion at Chicago would declare in favor of q tariff for revenue only, but that he would abide by whatever the wisdom of the party should de- tesr.ss..::ac, and that shatever the char acter of the platform should be he expects to rally to it's support so long as the democratic flag should float"