The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-04-05
GENERAL

C. W. HussEY, New York oil specula:or,
| failed on the 29tr.
| ABOUT 500 miners near Plttsburg struck
| against reduction in wages on the 2Sth.
| VIM DoRR, Pittsburg oil broker, failed on
| the 28th. Liabilities, $4,000.
| The failures during the week ending March
| % numbered 204 against 2l3 the previous
week.
MRS. KATE n. DAGGETT. a prominent and
progressive woman Of Chicago, died at Havana.
| Cuba, of consumption, on the 2Sih.
L. W. MUSFoRD & Co., coffee and tea brok-
| eTs, New York, failed on the 2Sth.
JUDGE GRANGER. brother in law of the late
Stephen A. Douglass died IN Washington on
| the morning Of the 2Sth.
The Pope has ordered the convocation of the
third plenary council of Baltimore, in that CITY.
| in November next.
The first through train from the CITY of
Mexico arrived at Chicago on the morning of
| the 2Sth at O'Clock.
Mrs. SHERWOOD e. STRATToS, mother of the
late Tom Thumb, died at New Haven. Conn,
On the 26th.
AUGUSTUS ScHELI, the great Ner York finan-
cier. died on the 27tn.
The private banking house of Wn. NJ. Locke.
Noblesville, Ind, suspended on the 27th, owing
to speculation by the owner In Chicago options.
MILWAUKEE Republican municipal ticket
nominated on the 26th: Emil Wallber, mayor:
Lem Ellsworth. comptroller; c. W Milbraith.
city treasurer; Robert LUscombe city attorney
TIE President, on the Goth, sent to the Sen
ate the nomination Of Aaron A. Sargent, envoy
extraordinary and minister pltnipotentiary to
Germany, to be envoy extraordinary and min
lister plenIpOtentIaIy 10 Russia, vice Wm. H
Hunt. deceased.
Er-r &
Philadelphia failed on the 26tb. Liabilities
500, 0O0.
MISS ADA KURT vas sworn in as deputy
sheriff at Franklin County, Pa, ou the 26th.
JAMES MUTT, the hero Of the Uniontown Pa,
tragedy, viii try farming IN Kansas.
EASTERN mil owners and scientists are inter
ested in a new process which beaches raw fax
in from tweniy-tbrae to thirty-eight minutes
Under the present process, ten days are re-
quired.
WARNER WILLIAMS, sged years. known as
The By Giant" died at Anita. Ia, on the
18th. He weighed 300 pounds.
Mrs. J. ". SUMMERS (Lillian de Garno). q
well known actress, formerly playing with Nat
Goodwin, died at Bloomington, Ill. on the
25th.
THE James D. Frary 1, Son, Cutlery Com
pany Bridgeport, Comp, went to the wall, on
the 25th- Liabilities 100000.
DEMOCRATIC nominees for the Milwaukee
municipal offices ave; For mayor, Samuel
Dixon; comptroller, Ferdinand Kuehn; treas
urer. William Msyworm; city attorney, P. J.
SOmers.
FREEBORS WELSH. a Wisconsin pioneer died
at Elkhorn, on the 231, aged 76 years.
II, J. BLYTHE, an attorney of Lawrence.
kas.. has fallen heir TO an estate valued at
81 900, 600.
INDICATIONS of oil have been noted in a well
Bear Angola, Ind. Sheep which drank the
water on the oath, died n few hours.
HEAVY rains caused sharp rise in the Peca-
tonica River on the 23d, and Dodgeville and
CalamIne, in Lafayette County, Wiz, were
flooded.
A YOUNG giTl named Morris, the belle Of %
cahontas, Va, whose father was one of he
mine disaster victims, offered on the 24tb, to
marry the man who would lead band of ex-
plorers TO rescue the dead.
The Republicans of Youngstown o., on the
23d. nominated Walter l.. Campbell for
mayor. The nominee is AZ years old, and has
been blind since his fifth year.
DR.. Ezra ABBOTT, of Bos ton, Mass. a noted
biblical and historical student, died on the
I1st.
The cattle disease in Kansas is not the dread
fooi-and-mouth disease but caused by ergot in
the hay.