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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
On James Gordon Benefits Yacht.

New GCrE Cor. Detroit Free Press
Some acquaintances of mine-a dozen
Of them-took trip up the river avile
sgo on a little steam yacht. Coming
down, they discovered the Namouna
lying in the harbor, breathing lightly.
Hello !" exclaimed one, heres
Benefits yacht, he's in Europe, let's see
if We can't get aboard !"
So they steamed alongside, saluted an
officer on the deck and asked if they
could be allowed to inspect the vessel
Afte, little parleying they were allowed
aboard, and the officer, apparently the
head steward, showed them around.
They were in picnic mood and they
lauglingly criticised everything they
saw. @B' Georgei he doesn't show
such bad tastel !" said the leader, as they
went through his private cabin.
wouldn't object to dwelling here my
self said q little gypsy with her hat
tipped down to her nose and her nose
tipped vica versa. Here's where he
gets himself up! Seel Here's the
pomstum he puts on his mustache to
maks it stick out! And here's some
powder-hsl ha hel hel-oh, my"
20, here's little mite of pair of
slippers lined with pinkl7 shouted an
othe- girl, at which they all pulled down
their mouths and looked sober.
You mustn't mind what the girls
say, stevard-we're on lark, said one
of tle gentlemen, slipping into the
stewards hand q half dollar
~0b, all night, sir" said the steward
respectfully.
What do they pad the walls so for p
asked bright-eyed lady; they're up
holstered just Ike sofa"
TO make EN- soft when Bennett oc-
cupies EN-" exclaimed a youth in ex-
planation, and they all greeted the re-
mark with a laugh.
~0h. girlsl" cried another, gleefully,
@hark Here's narghihgh. III take a
smoke. I s'pose he has had his mouth
on it-never mind; :" and she put the
stem to her lips and coughed violently
thereafter. She wiped it off demurely
and said I'm afraid he'll track me-
"Oh Here's his closet" cried another
dressing govns-three. four, and more
slippers, a whole row of EN-; why, he
must be centipede but they are all
full grown" and they laughed and ran
away.
Steward, who is the captain of the
Namouna now p asked the leader, wish
ing to show his interest in so fine a
vessel.
There is no captaia," said the stew
ard. we have a saihng-master and
commander"
-Oh, yes; who is the commander"
L am"
%Oh, All Indeed What name
please?"
James Gordon Bennett-but don't
you tell"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
rHE BUZZARDS AGAIN.
Eighteen Robberies Inside of a
Week.
Their Operations Lead TO a Grand
Chdse-Ope of the Gang
Captured.

A dispatch from Lancaster, Pa, of
the 18th, relates the following: The
posse II pursuit of the thieves who
robbed Shifer's iewelry store at Bow
mansville, last night, supposed to be the
Buzzard gang, came upon them at the
edge of swamp, this afternoon, after a
chase of twenty miles. The thieves
were four ID number-Abe BuZZard,
Jos Buzzard and two others. They
were fired upon. Finally Joe Buzzard,
cut of from the rest, was captured and
lodged IN jail. Since Wednesday night
last, eighteen robberies nave been COM
mitted IN this immediate vicinity. in
Gliding goods ranging all the way from
preserves to horses and wagons. Last
night a horse and wagon was stolen
from Bowmansville, after the thieves
had got 81 900 worth of iewelry from d
B. 5hiffer. The police force of this
city were notified to be on the lookout
for the stolen goods, and fifteen or
twenty men of the vicinity, armed TO
the teeth and mounted on good horses,
started early this morning for the mount
ain, firmly resolved to capture the out
laws or drive them from thei1 b ding
places. As they rode, one by
one from their farm houses
they joined the pursuing party
until nearly fifty sturdy men were in
the avenginC force. The pursuing
party, cCm prising members of the Cer-
norman and Honeybrook Horsethief
Detective Association, all armed TO the
teeth, some ON horseback and some on
fooI, followed the trall of the outlaws
twenty four miles, where they overlook
and fred three volleys At them, but
without effect. The thieves made for
kruJz's swamp, a tangled wilderness
four or five miles IN dimensions, and on
the edge of il Toe Buzzard was captured
after resistance, and was dIsarmed of
a new 32-cahbre revolver. Abe and his
companions plunged into the swamp
and pursuit there was useless. as night
was approaching, but the sturdy men
resolved TO stay on guard all night.
Joe w2s brought 10 this city this even
ing and was taken to the prison from
which he was released from a four-year
term on October u, last. He was
searched and placed IN an iron-clad cell.
He denied all knowledge OF the recent
robberies, and said he had been at his
mothers IN the mountain region. He had
on new suspenders, shirt, stockings not
yet solled, and which ii Is thought viii
be recognized as a part OF the goods
recently stolen. The farmers have Or
ganized themselves into a vast vigilance
committee, and are resolved 10 capture
ne outlaws or kill them
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
James Wallaek.



Planche tells US IN his Entertaining
Recollections7 that James Wsllack,
after his success IN the @Brigand." COM
planned that the part had done him,
professionally speaking, more harm
than good, the public being unwilling
to hear him in any other. This was
confirmed to me by the manager of a
provincial theater, where the actor, con-
trary to ny Informant's advice. had de-
termined OF commencing a starring
engagement as Rover, instead of appear
ing IN his popular character of Massa-
roDi. The result was a "beggarly &C
count Of empty boxes" and Wallack s
disappointment was by 10 means les
sened on hearing next day from a casual
acquaintance that, SIS he had been
described in the bills simply as Mr..
Wallsck. the local playgoers had mis-
taken him for his brother Henry, IA,
inferior artist, and had reserved their
money uasil the real simcn purs should
! honor tassr sowu With visit, and grsts:s
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
FRIGHTFUL MORTALITY
Ravages Of the Strange Disease IN
Kentucky and Virginia.
People Dying BY scores-Au Efforts
10 Check the Epidemic
Futile.

The latest advices concerning the ep
ldemlc II Wise, Lee, Dickinson and
Buchanan Counties, Va, are heartrend
ing. On CHESTS River, Wise County
within a radius of four miles, are thirty
cases of the disease. In one instance
the father, mother and SIX children
died. Many persons die for want of at
tention. Business is suspended, all be
ing concerned with the sick and dying
SIX persons were buried in one grave
yard IN one day. The disease is as.
suming a milder form in some local..
ties. Not less than IT'S of the best citi-
zens Of Wise County alone died. The
disease has made its appearance IN
Lee County, and several deaths have
occurred. The Louisville Courier
Journal sent a staff correspondent to in
vestigate the reported ravages of the
dread disease in Eastern Kentucky and
Vest Virginia, and the correspondent
sent the following on the 25th, from
Williamsburg, Ky: w. c. Lester, a
prominent attorney OF this place, has
Just arrived from Mount Pleasant. the
county seat of Harlan, where he has
been Tor two weeks past at court, as
acting prosecuting attorney. Mr.. Lester
has information of the prevailing plague,
principally from Harlan, Letcher, Perry,
Leslie and Bell Counties, and says that
II Harlan II appeared 70 be the worst.
l. is most fatal and prevails TO the great
est extent up about the head waters of
the Poor Fork and Clover Greek IN the
mountains, a distance of about twenty
FIVE miles from Mount Pleasant. A
-arge territory is terribly afflicted. and
people are dying very rapidly. In one
uelghborhood twelve persons died ii a
single day II the latter part of
last week, and there were scarcely
well people enough TO make the
coffins. Of rudely-hewed boards, and
bury them. On Browns Greek, which
rises IN Harlan and empties into the
Cumberland River in Bell County, the
disease is raging with frightful fatality,
and there Is no way to keep a record of
the dead. All along the banks of the
streams people are sick, and physicians
and medicines, outside Of herbs and
roots, With whose curative properties
the natives are acquainted, are unknown
and unobtainRble. The epidemic is
rapidly spreading n Harlan, and so far
there seems to have been nothing dis
covered 70 check or cure, those afflicted
l5sEer dying IN q short tine or nature
saving them from death, only 20 leave
them such physical wrecks that they
are helpless infants for weeks"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
A Quaint Old Bell.



Much interest has been aroused IN
antiquarian circles by the deciphering
OF the Danish inscription on heevy
brazen bell which, until recently, nad
been OF Castle Island, where Fort In
dependeuce stands, ever since the
meu ory Of people now living. Its
quaint appearance and mysterious in
scription led Maj. G. ". Raymond, of
the United States corps Of engineers,
who has charge of the for.ifcations Of
the harbor. to bring it to his Office in
this city. The Danish consul, who has
examined the inscription, finds that II
reads, when interpreted, Belonging to
the Patriot" thus leading to the con-
clusion that 1t was attached TO a vessel
of that name which entered the harbor
wears ago. The characters composing
the inscription are such as have long
since ceased to. be used by the Danes
and there Is little doubt that they &c
back to q period Of two centuries OF
more ago. The bell is of antique shape
and its pondercus mass is with difficulty
lifted by an average man, and the let
| ters of the inscription stand out IN bold
/ and graceful relief from the tarnished
metal. which bears the scars of many
wears of exposure TO the chances of ses
/ life. Some are of the opinion that this
( discovery verifes the theory that tbs
Norsemen found their way into Bostor
/ harbor. The bell certainly antedate'
4 the War of Independence.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06

IRON the Boston Herald
Chief Braun spoiled a romance, or
rather the opportunity of knowing more
about 1t than is known at present. and
a brigand romance at that, saws Pitts
burg Dispatch gossiper. His crusade
against peanut venders did Il. There
used TO be peanut and candy stand on
one Of the leading streets, which was es-
tablished some years ago by a big Draw
ny. surly Italian with swarthy face and
habitual scovl. An ugly cicatrice. which
ran acrOss his cheek and above his eve.
did not improve his good looks. He
was a sober and industrious man, it was
said by those who lived near him. and
al agreed that he was kind TO his daugh-
ter, dark-hsired, olive-skinned. pretty
girl Of Il or Is years. I was walking
down tlt street where this Italians
stand was with an acquaintance some
time ago, my companion being an Ital-
ian artist. As We neared the stand a
street arab made a dart at basket of
apples, took one and scampered of.
Never of the stage have I seen such a
display OF rage as that of the owner OF
the stolen fruit. He sprang up. but lost
sight of the boy IN the crowd. and then
he ragged and cursed ID his native tongre
and the scar on his face seemed to stand
out Ike a bas-relief. The artist watched
him with such a singular expression
that when We walked on / asked him if
he knew the man. Yes" said be, 4
do and he shuddered. His name is
Antonio. and he was once marked man
IN Italy. He lived In Calabria, and was
an innkeeper. He was always a silent
and morose msn, and at that time vas
not liked by his neighbors. At that
time there was famous brigand at large
II the mountains, with desperate band
of thieves at his back. This man was
suspected of being the brigand. but. al
though he was watched for vears bv the
police, they could not prove his identity
A girl who was the daughter Of a no
bic Of Parma vas carried off and neve,
heard Of sfterward. Five or six vaar:
later Antonio brought little girl 10 his
inn and said she was his daughter bv 8
glrl IN Naples There was a story af1oa-
that she bore marvellous likeness "a
the Psrmese girl who vas carried of
One thing Is certain Antonio was
warned TO leave Italy, and he came t<
this country. Since he left nothing hs.
been beaTd Of that brigand, and Ii,
band Is 10 longer feared. The girl vhor
yoa sav With k4z Is tie one &c ca.les
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
A Compromiser.

A lieutenant governor IN the western
part Of the Commonwealth used to be
famous for proposing compromise IN
the settlement Of all differences of opin-
ion IN which he Was concerned. On
one occasion the church with which he
was connected was rent by fierce con-
test as TO whether the congregation
should turn their backs upon the minis
ter and face the choir during the sing
ing or should pursue the more modern
method of simply rising In their seats
with faces turned toward the pulpit.
The war closed by the acceptance of a
proposition Of the heutenant-g governor
that the congregation should face the
side of the house during the musical
exercises.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06

which has ever since been regarded as
one of the best examples ever invented
of Disconnected and incoherent thought /:
So he went into the garden to cut 8
cabbage leaf 10 make an apple pie. A
great she bear. coming up the hill, pok-
ed her head into the barber shop. What,
no soapi' So be died, and she very iu-
pru5entiy married the barber; and there
we're present the Picaninnies, the Toll
Panjaudrum himself, with the little
rcun5 baton 81 the top, and they all
fell TO playing at eateh-as-catch-can till
the powder ran out of the heels of their
boots
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
MemOrY.

4 certain well known actress says
that it is perfectly easy to learn part
in a well constructed play, bat hard
when the writer has done his work
badly.
She has only to fix in her pI1a she
idea and the train of associations IN the
thought of the playwright, and his
words, in Which the idea is clothed, are
easily retained in the memory, almost
mechanically.
How much the memory does depend
upon the logical arrangement OF
thoughts Was proved by the old, but
always good story of Foote'S Grand
Psniandrum."
To one who ossted Of his retentive
memory, and his ability to repeat any
thing OF moderate length after single
Lssrns Foets..rsttlsa Of sas IoIssnss
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
THE KEROSENE DOCTOR.
He Must suffer Punishment for His
Gross Malpractice.

On the 26th, the supreme judicial
court of Massachusetts overruled the
exceptions Of the defendant in the
case of Franklin Pierce, convicted at
Worcester Of manslaughter in causing
the death of Mary 4. Bemis. Defen-
dant represented himself as physician
and his treatment of Mrs. Bemis. which
the jury found to have caused her death.
was IN prescribing that kerosene oil
should be applied to her body in large
quantities.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
A BRUTAL MEDIUM, "
Healing "A Woman To Death on Pre-
tense OF Driving Out Devils.

tense OF Driving out Devils.
Mrs. Welker, living two miles from
Gumbier, o., lay i'll, and being a Spirit
uallst refused medical aid, but was per-
shaded to submit TO treatment by man
named Burrows, who said he was a
medium under the influence of the spirit
OF an Indian chief Burrows said the
woman was afflicted BY devils which he
proceeded to drive ont by beating her
about her head and shoulders and 9TH
erwise maltreating her. in consequence
Of which she died. He then insisted
that the evil spirits had entered his
wife and he beat her savagely, but with
out fatal effect. The house where Mrs.
Welker died was locked and nobody
permitted TO enter it, for three days.
when her cousin, DR.. Welker, forced
his way in and found the corpse stretched
on the bed IN state Of nudity. Unless
Burrows proves to. be insane, he viii be
tried for manslaughter
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06

them with performance of the -Brig-
and Chief The deuce take Planche
and lis piece exclaimed the mortified
comedian. We must put up the thing
after all. If your good folks here. Mr..
-, fight shy of Wild Oats perhaps
little chaf viii suit them better :"
Henry Wallack married Miss Tsrpin, 8
pleasing actress and singer, who person
sted one of the two ladies of ~Gahble-
ton square" in Buckstone's Rural
Felicity at the Haymarket, an amusing
comedietta, the groundwork of which
was derived from Picard's Petite
NillaS
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
A NEW ORLEANS SENSATION.
Two >ieces pf an Fx-uayor >hoo
Their BeIrayers on the >treet.

Two >Ieces pf an Fx-uayor >hooi
Their Betray ers on the >reets
Georgisna and Josephine Conway.
sisters, aged 2l and - years, nieces of ex-
Mayor Conway, shot two young men on
Canal Street, New Orleans, on the
night of the 29th. Georgisns shot
John d. Logan, son of ex-Ald. NJ. D.
Logan, and Josephine shot Joseph A.
Devonshire, United States deputy mar
shal. The young women claim they
had been seduced by the men they shot.
Logan was shot in the back and face.
probably fatally. Devonshire wss
slightly wounded in the back. The
women and their brother were arrested.
The wounded men were sent TO the hos
uital
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
THE ACT OF A FIEND.
A New York LabOreI Stabs His SICK
Wife i'm the Eyes With shoe
makers Avn.

Matthew McCarron, labozer, reeled
into his tenement on East Eighteenth
Street, New York, at midnight, Thanks
giving. His wife upbraided him for
having left her, sick woman, alone all
day The following morning the wife
was found with terrible wounds about
her head and face. She had been
stabbed in both eyes. A bloody shoe
makers awl was discovered IN a bureau
drawer McCarron had left the house
after forbidding his wife to open the
door. Her groans attracted the other
inmates. The suffering woman told how
her husband had assaulted her. She
vii be always blind If she lives. Nc Ear
ron was arrested
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
RAILROAD COLLISION.
The Wreck Ignises and an Engineer
burned 10 Death.

A collision occurred on the oath, be-
tween a north-bound passenger and 8
soprL-bound freight train, at Perdito,
Ala, on the NJ s. NJ Railroad. The en-
gineer Of the passenger train, James
Duffy, was burned IN the wreck. The
fireman, a negro named Tony McRae,
had both legs cut off The mail mes
senger was hurt and burned. The bag
gagemaster and express messenger were
unhurt. No passengers were hurt, but
the express car, and mail car contents
and second-class coach were burned up.
Nobody was hurt on the freight train,
but the engine and some cars were dam
aged
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
DIRE DESTITUTION.
Sad Predicameut OF a Widow and an
Unfortunate Daughter.

Sad Pred ic ameuT OF " idoy and an
Unfortunate Daughter.
The Directors Of tie Poor of Erie,
\. Y, discovered case Of fearful des-
titution a few nights since. Informs
ton was given that on the outskirts of
the city Widow Crouiu and her unmsr-
ried daughter Kate were dying of cold
and hunger, and upon reaching her
bovel a sickening sight met the off,
cials. With snow three feet deep
around the house and the wind beat
ing the roof, there was neither fuel,
food, nor light. During the night the
daughter Kate had given birth to a
child. which lay frozen at her side on q
char, the young mother being almost
dead. Pride snd desire 10 conceal
the daughters condition caused them TO
endure their priyation without apply
ing for food.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
A Pair oi Lovers. While walking ON
The IraCn IHsIamIIN Killed.

On the evening Of the 26th. while
young man named Kennedy, aged II,
and a cousin, a young lady 16 years
old. Of the same name, we're walking
along the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
track, near Demmler station, Pa, a 10
comotive rounded a curve suddenly,
and before the young couple could get
ont Of the way they were struck and
hurled a distance of twenty-five feet.
The young lady was killed instantly
and the young man, who was terribly
mangled. died IN short time.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
THE BOOMER DEAD.
Capt. Payne. the Oklahoma Leader
srops Dead

tnpt. Payne, The UEIAbenA Leader-
Hrops Dead
Capt. David l.. Payne, the famous
leader of the Oklahoma Boomers,
died suddenly at Wellington, kss., on
the 2Sth, while st breakfast at the Hotel
de Barnard. He addressed meeting
the previous night and was seemingly
IN his usual robust health when he en-
tered the dining-room. While partsk-
ing of breakfast, lie was observed to
lean forward and utter subdued sound
as II from & slight suffocation; then he
dropped from the chair 70 the floor and
expired instantly. His sudden taking
of created no little sensation and pro-
found sorrow Is expressed by his CO
workers and followers in attempting to
settle in Indian Territory
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
A PARIS SENSATION.
Lady Complainant i'm >Iander
snlt shoots ftcr Defamer i'm
Open Court

A suit for slAnder has been dragging
along in the Paris courts for about q
year past, IN which Nine Hughes, wife Of
French deputy, accuses one MORN, a
commission merchant, of SANDER. The
defendant has succeeded in postponing
the case from time TO time by having 1t
transferred from one court 10 another,
until. on the 9th, when it became ap-
parent that another postponement was
imminent, Nine. Hughes became en-
ragged and producing a revolver, shot
NORM, firing six shots, four of which
took effect. MORN viii probably die.
The incident created great sensation,
and public sympathy is with the woman.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06

his daughter. | don't know how he
came here, but l have known for
couple of years that he was in the city
Possibly Braun's edict drove the man
Oh 10 New Mexico or some other part of
the country where he can thrive st his
old trade.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
Two cattle kings of the coast, Messr

Two cattle kings of the coast, Messrs.
Miller and Lux, are rated at SS,000,000
TO sI0,0OO,0O0, and were poor men twen-
ty years ago. They have about $4,000
head of cattle and 115,O00 head of sheep,
of which latter they kill 5000 per
month. They own al irrgating canal
worth s1,0OO,000, fences 800 miles IN
length Ia fortune In itself, IN Cahfor-
Lila 500, 900 acres of land IL Nebraska TO-
600 acres, and $4,000 acres of alfalfa
grass
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06

A REMARKABLE automatic torpedo IN
the form of cigar shaped vessel Is be-
ing built at Hartford. Ii is thirty feet
long with a diameter IN the center of
thirty inches, and is expected to make
mile IN three or four minutes.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06
BISMARCK LEFT.

lhe prussiau Parliament Passes u
Resolution against the Wishes of
the Chancellor.
The Prussiau Reichstag on the 26th,
bv $50 against 90, adopted resolution
in favor of the payment of It's members
for their services as legislators. The
resolution was strongly opposed by
Bismarck. and the result is considered
s signal defeat for the chancellor.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-06

THE Empress of China could put her
foot in her watch-pocket, provided
Chinese ladies carried watches aud the
pocket vas in the place .og putting her
foot Il il,