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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05

From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
It made the mouths OF a large NUM-
ber OF men water TO see the fine ale
running into the river out OF a hose
leading from Hathaway & Go don's
brewery on North Water Stre.t yes
terday afternoon. Il was the ale in
which Ferdinand Kubitz was drowned
last Monday, and 1t was being public
" destroyed by the brewers. There
were ninety-three barrels OF the best
pale ale in the vat and, as it j. worth
IS per barrel the loss to the firm is
nearly $50. The ale began to run at
As o'clock and ran at the rate Of
about two barrels per minute. The
sight wa Witnessed by Mayor Parsons.
Coroner sharpe and others, while on
the opposite side Of the river almost
every workman in the building was a y
Interested spectator rom some win
dow or balcony.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
Kind Butchers.


From the New York Herald-l
'Our business strikes an outsider
as cruel, " said a butcher in a West
Side abattoir, "but, like everything
else, one gets accustomed to it. The
butchers, as a rule, are the kindest-
hearted OF men. They know that the
poor brutes have to bekilled and they
do it in the quickest and least painful
manner. We get half dozen bullocks
in the yard and tie their feet with
stout rope. Then we hoist them into
the pen. When they are in the pen
their throats are slit with a sharp
knife. Death follows very soon after
ward. In some other yards their
throats are pierced. Hides that have
been pierced bring a quarter OF A dol
lar more than those with their throats
cut.
"The bullocks are often very ugly
customers to deal with, and a man
has to look sharp or he viii be hurt.
Only a few nights ago | was at the
gate getting something when a big bull
lock made a dash for me. His aim
was very accurate, and had / not
been very smart in lodging him |
wouldn't be talking to you now. As
it Is he grazed and knocked me down,
and I'm lame still from the effects OF
+ba IA III -
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
What the Panama Canal May Do.
From the Atlanta Const1tution.l


DR.. Charles Pinckney, a man OF fine
learning and observation, opens up a
stupendous suggestion. He asked, the
other day: "Have you thought much
of the physical effect OF the Panama
canal -
"Not much"
"Well, let me throw out a sugges-
ton. The Pacific Ocean is five times
as large as the Atlantic. The rotary
motion OF the earth, acting on water
near the equatorial line, OF course, has
a tendency to pile up. The bulk OF
the Pacific being so much larger than
the Atlantic, is lifted twenty eight feet
higher than the Atlantic. For the
same reason, that ofits bulk, it is about
20 degrees colder. Now imagine the
effect of this enormous body OF water.
twenty-eight feet higher in level and 20
degrees lower IN temperature, being
poured into the Atlantic through the
canal"
"Why doesn't it seek its level below
the caps? ~
Because that point OF meeting is so
far from the equatorial line that the
centrifugal force is not so great, and
the level OF the two oceans are the
same. Up about the Panama the diff
ference 1t levels is great, and the i'm
mense volume OF the Pacific will rush
down into the Atlantic with terrific
force"
"And with what effect?"
''Thatis almost beyond speculation.
But suppose this mingling of the two
oceans simply changed the current OF
the Gulf stream. That one change
would wipe out the cotton and rice in
dustry, making Georgia many degrees
colder These are speculations; but
the cold facts are as stated, and it is
interesting to think OF what viii be the
effect when the canal Is cut, and the
high immensity OF the Pacific is
dr0Drad To the level Of the Atlantic -
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05

CheVarria, aged Is. who IS charged
with having killed six men. He was a
brother OF the Chevarria who was
hanged on the 18th.
The tobacco country in the vicinity
OF Hartford, Conn, was damaged by
storms during the afternoon and even
ing OF the 25th to the extent Of $3.50
600.
The Rev. :. :. Idleman. a Methodist
preacher at Green Springs Run. Pa.
committed suicide on the 23d, bv
jumping from a window while laboring
under q tit of insanity.
Ex-Treasurer Adams, OF the Franz
lngham Mass ; Savings Bank. whose
accounts were being made the subject
OF a special investigation by Bank
Commissioner Gatchell and whose
resignation was requested, committed
suicide at the bank on the afternoon OF
the 24th by cutting his throat.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05

Two Policemen at Geneva. III, Murdered
at Midnight.
Two policemen were mysteriouslv
murdered on the night Of the 21th. in
the little village Of Geneva. H.. right
IN the center Of the town, and thus far
there Is no explanation of the bloody
deed. The victims are John McNett,
one OF the three policemen of the vii
lage, and Joseph Grant, the night
watChmsn at the depot The shoot
ing occurred near the courthouse
about midnight, and aroused many OF
those who were sleeping in the neigh
bOrhOOd, and, although shooting in
the streets, and especially such a fUlsil-
ade as it now appears there must
have been at that hour, IS q most un-
usual occurrence there few arOse from
their beds or went out to investigate.
and 1t was reserved for a party OF
merrymakers returning from a picnic.
about l clock, to find the bodies
OF the murdered men and give the
alarm. Monet was found dead with
a bullet-hOle IN the region OF the
heart, his revolver, with five of
its chambers emptied. lying near
him. The corpse was lying its face.
as If death had suddenly stricken
down the tall, powerful man. McNett
lay at the southeast corner Of the
OuIt-hOuse, and several rods away.
on the sidewalk, was found City
Marshal Grant, also with a bullet
hole IN the breast, but on the right
side. still breathing slightly, but un-
conscious, and the last Iife-sparks fast
dying out. The blood oOzed slowly
out Of his mortal wound He was
taken home, a few blocks distant, and
died on the way. 4 corOner's Jury
was summoned but adjourned until
the 3Oth inst, TO allow time for inves-
tigatlOn. Many theories are advanced,
but the most probable is that the
crime was committed by burglars
whom the officers were trying to cap
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
/uni Table Etiquette


From the Milestone.
Among the Zunis, with a guest at
the table, it would be considered
shameful for any one Of the house
hold to cease eating while any other
remained obviously unsatisfed; and
equally shameful for any one not to
cease eating very soon after even one
Of the others-if a respected or elderly
one-had done so.
When guest or inmate. man or child,
ceases eating he clears his throat and
eEClaims: "E'lah-kwa 'ha-yu-shith-
nai-e Thanks, I have been salts
fed 3 The instant reply, made by all
the elderly women, Is. "El-i-ta," Eat
wellD to which the first speaker final
ly responds -LathI-e-Iah-kwa; ha =
i-po- -ti-k'ia," Thanks again; / am
filed And the women add: "Ita-i-
navel Have eaten. then y
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
Finger-Nails as Jewels.

From the san Francisco Report
A leading model OF Market Street
statuary has a set of cuff and shirt
studs made OF Chinese fDger-nails, set
IN gold. He points with pride at his
exclusive possessions, which are made
OF a Chinaman's fiuger-nail, which was
four inches long when cut. The nail
IN the studs presents a shiny appear
ance and Is susceptible to changes in
the weather. Their owner claims that
they were successfully used by him as
a weather barometer when he first
got them, but their usefulness in this
direction has been lost through age.
The question OF whether Chinese
finger nails will come into general use
as articles OF jewelry j. one which in
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
WASHED CELERY.
\ Storm Does Great Damage in the vi
Cinity of Kalamazoo.

A Storm Does Great Damage in the Vi
Cinity of Kalamazoo.
At Kalamazoo a heavy rain set in
on the night OF the 23d, continuing un-
til morning, and doing great damage.
In the south part OF the city the All
cOtt dam was swept away which, to-
gether with the backset from the river,
submerged most Of the celery fields. In
the north part of the city many acres
OF celery were inundated. It is esti-
mated that three-fourths CT the first
crop Is ruined, entailing an immense
loss, and the second crop must have
the best weather to save it from al
most total loss. Many growers esti-
mate the loss ofthecelery crop at over
800, 600. A Lake Shore freight en-
CINE and nine cars laden with coal were
ditched by a washout at KiIgore's mill,
south of Kalamazoo
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
Operating on the Spinal Column.

- From the New York Tribune
Francis Spencer, aged 20, who lives
At Magnolia Corners, Elizabeth. was
seriously injured on March II, while
pracUicing on a horizontal bar in a
gymnasium, by a fall. His spine was
affected and paralysis set in. He was
able to move only his head. II was
proposed by DR.. Morris. OF the Belle
vue Hospital, and other New York
physicians, to perform an operation
on the patient, the result OF which
might prove fatal On Friday after,
noon DR.. Morris, with several other
New York physicians, went to Eliza
beth, and, after placing the patient
under the influence OF ether, began the
operation, which lasted three hours.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05

The spinal column was cut into and
raised and a small bone which had
been thrust into it by the fall thus
causing the paralysis, was removed.
The patient, when he recovered from
the effects OF the an8sthetic, was ra-
tlonal, and conversed with his moth
er. Yesterday he was in a weak con-
dltlon, bat it was thought that the
operation had been successful, and
that he would regain the use of his
body. The case is said to be the sec
ond one IN the history of medical sci
pY1Pp
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
How Prisoners Get Liquor.

From the LSh5gh Register
4 COnshOhOCken woman visited the
Norristown jail and brought a roasted
chicken along for one of the prisoners
The warden examined the basket and
noticed a slight uneasiness on the part
OF the visitor when he handled the
fowl. Taking out his knife he ripped
the chicken up and discovered that it
was stuffed with half-pint bottle of
gin. The visitor, with her basket and
contents, were esummarily elected. Some
years ago a stuffed goose was brought
to the Easton jail for one OF the pris-
oners, and before 8 O'Clock that night
the recipient became drunk and
challenged the warden 70 a stand-up
fight. The prisoner 3 cell was exam
ined and a quart bottle nearly empty,
was found IN the dead fowls body.
AT the recent school festival IN Pos
ton. 2, 200 bouquets were presented 10
the pupils OF the public schools,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
HORsE THAN BEFORF.
The st. Louis Hotel Trunk Mystery Get
ting More Mystic riOus.

Ur-L-
ting More Mysterious.
Developments in the St. Louis trunk
murder mystery appear to make the
muddle worse than 1t was before the
arrest OF Maxwell. On the 24th. a
letter addressed to Maxwell by a friend
in New Orleans, was intercepted by
the police. In it the writer calls the
prisoner Danger, and advises him to
give the whole game away, in order to
save his own neck, and also intimates
that Preller can be produced alive If
Maxwell desires it. The scheme OF de
traudlDg the insurance companies Is
hInted at
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
nIYOR VIEWS NOTES.

Fre at Nlncennes, Ind, on the night
ot the 23th, did damageto the amount
Of $4,000.
hoIera j epidemic at Nagasaki,
japan
All but two OF the Pittsburg sheet
IRON manufacturers have signed the
Anna Igamated Association scale. An
extensive strike has thus been avoided.
and there Is great rejoicing among the
operatives
Henderson. Frean & Co. grain and
Hour commission merchants. ats Corn
Ezcha e chambers. London. have
failed. Their liabilities are stated 10
be Sl50,OOO.
During the week ending on the 29th.
213 deaths from smallpox occurred
aE Montreal It's officially stated that
e-re are only seventeen cases OF the
fAsease in Ontario.
The recent explosion Of the steamer
: ~ FELTON, at Philadelphia has been
traced TO the agency OF a man named
AdElance Spears, who carried a line OF
accident insurance which would have
yielded him $50 per week if he had
been seriously injured. Spears. how
ever, was killed, and the pavment of
ms lie policies, which call for S35 900.
VIII he resisted. The deceased Is said
70 have bled the accident insurance
COMPANIES handsomely during the last
FlJseU Veal
In an accident on the Indiana x
Illinois southern Railroad. near New
ton Indiana. on the 24uh. one man
was fatally hurt and twelve or fifteen
- Fl -7oll9 more OF less IN luFed.
lIe IA London lumber-yard on
me -5lA' caused a loss OF S2oO,OOO.
Two large stores at YazOO City. Mis-
sIs1lppt, burned on the 29th, with a
loss OF about $4,000.
At Vinton. Iowa. on the 2gth. a
large Touring mill was DESTROYED with
hts contents, the whole being valued at
$500
John R0senmaver . vraTl--o-5o fsr-
mer living near Weisburg. Dearborn
County. Ind. While in a condition bOr-
darIng ON deI.rfum +ram-ns. niIad bod
ding and furniture on +ba Hoor If III
room. fired If and then mounrfng a
chair on a table in the middle OF the
room and armlng himself with a shot
GIN, bade defiance to his imaginary
tormentors.
The chair factory ri Csr5r.-
Holmes a. ~ " ~ - - -, =,
-ga 9a-b -, ST35 0oG. - s.-sl,..,5-- ~ ~
500 000 -'',.'''' li-7.'l 1'iioe
r-a.
ALeE5 were % -tllaIes ID the United
- 80 s'e- 'il- s.l1 week ending on the
T.
/" III. hoNaEftl, hardware dealer at
Sel5s-.al W ~ 4Fy goods at P1eblo,CoL.
- = y .l''l- go - e-5 70 N5rlous parts OF
-l ..s'1 on me IN ~. heestl-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.
sad Death of Mrs. Stuart, Wife of a Ne
York Millionaire.

'tAsA ACShIA " -AESs stuart HilS Oh d Ne"
York Millionaire.
Mrs. Mary A Stuart, wife Of Joseph
Stuart, a millionaire banker of New
York, was instantly killed at her sum-
mer home at Rye Beach on the 25th.
The story goes tlat Mrs. Stuart was
looking in a closet for some toys be
longing to her younger children, when
she came aross the breech-loading
double-barreIed shotgun of her eldest
son. She had many times warned the
boy not to leave the weapon there,
and it Is supposed she attempted to
remove it to a place of safety, VII
the gun was mysteriOusly discharge
the load entering her head Just benin
the right ear and causing instant death.
RumOrs OF suicide prevailed for a time
but they were unfOunded. Mrs. Stuart
was one OF the leading charity givers
IN the city, and during the winter
months resided in an elegant house on
Murray Hill.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
HEITCD's TREBTTE.
Impressive Memorial Services in Honor
of Gen. Grant.

of Gen. Grant.
Memorial services, under the aus
pices Of the city government, in honor
Of the late Gen Grant, were held on
the evening Of the 26rh, in the hall OF
congress in the City Of Mexico, in the
presence Of all the chief officials Of
both the Federal and city govern
ments and the eliteo Mexican society.
All the members OF the American
colony were present by special invita-
ton. The programme embraced ap-
propriate music by superb Orchestras,
funeral Grafton by SenOr Ramon
Prida an address by Senor Tomar
Reyes, Retana and the singing o. the
Ave Maria, by Rosa Palacios, the
Mexican prIma donna.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
A Deaf Mute and His Cigar.

From the Davenport Iowa. Democrat
A couple OF days since, at Des
M0ines. Conductor Blank took the
fast express from the West for Daveu-
port. Going through the train when
II was speeding eastward he saw a
young man seated at the window.
with a young lady on the aisle side,
enjoying a cigar with the window
raised. He walked to the smoker,
touched him on the shoulder. and
said you mustn't smoke in this
car The young man looked up at
him and the conductor went into the
next car. In a few minutes the con
duCtOr reappeared. the young man
still smoking: Il say, smoking is not
allowed in this car; put out that ci-
gar. The young man stared at him,
and the conductor passed on to the
forward car. In the course OF five
minutes he returned, and tne young
man was still smoking.
The conductor hurried to him,
seized him by the back OF the collar,
raised him, drew MIN into the aisle.
and then rushed him forward to the
coach ahead, which was the smoking
car, The young woman raised her
hands IN amazemeut, and looked
about in the passengers faces with an
appealing gaze, bat said not word
nor did she move from her seat. The
conductor returned and a passenger
said to him: 4 guess you will find
that young man Is deaf and dumb,
going home from the asylum at COun-
ell Bluffs, and didn't understand
word you said to him" well, I
guess he understands 1t now replied
the conductor; they ought to start a
school OF manners at the asylum
Sure enough 1t turned out that the
young man and woman both we're deaf
mutes- The young woman wrote on a
card that she had told her companion
not to smoke in thecoach where ladies
were
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
RIOTISG IN FREL4ND.
An Attempted Eviction Fooled by an I'm


Magistrate Bodkin, Of Dublin, and
100 police went to BalIy Farrissey,
County Killarney, Ireland, on the
27th. to evict some tenants. When
they arrived. the chapel bell was tolled,
and ZOO persons assembled and at
tackled the officers, preventing them
from accomplishing the evictions. The
police were compelled to charge the
mob with bayOnets, and fierce en-
counters ensued, many on both sides
being stoned and stabbed.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
BEAT A BISHOP.
4 Sensation Caused by Irate Priest in
AustrO-Hungary.

The people Of Polski, in Austro-Hun-
garian Croatia, are busy with a cleri-
cal scandal. The bishop of that do
cese felt himself compelled to call upon
one of his priests, who Is a candidate
for election TO a public Office, and re-
buke him for Overstepping the bound
ary OF clerical prOpriety. The priest
resented this as unnecessary interior
ence with his personal right and a
quarrel resulted. The priest became
frenzied, put the bishopOut of the par
sonage, chased him through the streets
to his residence, and then fell upon him
and gave him an unmerciful beating.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
mYsrERTOTs STRANGER.
PreIIer, the Victim of the st. Louis Trunk
Murder, Seen Alive.

Murder, Seen Alive.
\ mysterious stranger who spent
part Of a week at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
answered so closely to the description
of c. Arthur Preller, and alluded so
frequently in conversation to the st.
Louis hotel. tragedy, that heis believed
by many to have been Maxwell's al
legged victim in disguise He disaD-
peared from Wilkesbarre on the 28th,
leaving no clue to his intended desti-
nation. The above, taken with the
fact that a letter was received by
Maxwell, purporting to come from
Preller, at Wilkesbarre, makes the
case more complicated than before.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
As 1T HAPPENS.

There's a depth that shall never be gauged !;
There's a book that shall never De PACED:
'TiS the depth that Is found,
And the book that i bound
In a misery never aSSuaged.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
An ola Arm-Chair's History.


Washington tGa.) Cor. Atlanta Constitution
Your correspondent was shown at a
residence here a Yeritable curiosity-a
char absolutely new so far as its con-
dltlOn goes, which has a history OF
about 200 years. Inthemiddle OF the
eighteenth century smuggling was very
rife IN Scotland. Quite a number OF
prisoners were confined in an Edin-
burgh jail under this charge. Their
sentence was death. As usual. the
popular sympathy ran out to the
smugglers. They contrived a plan TO
escape, which was through a hole in the
wall. A man named Williams, a giant
IN size, insisted upon getting out first,
but when half way through he became
wedged, and could go neither one way
nor the other. This broke up the
whole scheme, and brought upon the
prisoners increased vigilance. Williams
regretted that he should have been the
cause OF misfortune to others, and
proposed the only reparation he could
make-that as they were driving to
the gallows he would engage the guards
in a fight, while the other prisoners
should take advantage of the excite
'4CI4C oH1 CSCdpc. 1ue p4du NOEhtU
well; Williams was hanged, and his
companions, aided by the crowd
escaped. Those suspected Of com,
plicity in this work found it necessary
to leave, and a body OF seventy OF
them settled upon Broad River, in this
country. Among these people were
John and Holman Freeman, who
brought with them a chair OF magnifi-
cent workmanship. For years it was
used as the chair of Justice in the set
tlement. Judge Junius HiIIyer's
mother was a member of this family
OF Freemans. At the sale OF her faith
er's property, Mr.. White, of Boston,
Mass, bought this chair, and later it
passed into the hands of Powhatan
B. Thurman. Since thenit has passed
through several hands, and is now in
the old Haor1 n, .Dcior
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
Fishing for Tat.


A ragged, half-grOwn cOlored boy sat
yesterday afternoon on the end OF a
log that projected over the Delaware
River at the Walnut Street pier and
dropped his fshing-hoOk into the
water. Besides a peculiar looking
bait he had on the hook a small piece
OF red flannel. The boy had taken his
seat with such an air OF confidence
that several idlers were attracted
around him. For fully twenty min
utes not a word was said, either by
the boy or the company. It was APP
parent that he had only one object,
and that was fishing At last the line
was seen to straighten, the pole bent.
and the boy bumped himseiftOr a pull.
With one hand graspIng the log upon
which he sat he braCed himself and
with the other he whirled the pole in
the air and a two-pOund perch was
landed upon the wharf The boys
face, which had spread TO a broad
grin when he first got the bite, as
sumed look OF disgust a. he eyed the
wriggling trophy. Drawing the fish TO
where he sat he took it from the hook
and threw it far out into the river.
Hey, young fellow What did you
throw your fish away for2 Wasn't 1t
good ?" asked an astOnished bystand-
er.
Yes, sab, " said the colored youth.
''it am good 'nuff, I reckon, but | am
fshin' fur tat"
For what?'
For tat"
ooh. catfish. Won meau'I''
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05
Not a Tempting Drink.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
Il may not be altogether pleasant
to drinkers OF lager beer to learn that
a German manufacturing firm Is turn
ing out over a ton a day OF glucose,
made from old linen rags. These rags,
which are composed OF hard, vegetable
hbres, are treated with sulphuric
acid, which converts them into deT-
trine, and then into glucose, which IS
chemically identical with grape sugar.
As glucose Il used extensively in the
manufacture OF lager beer, the pos
slbIllty OF drinking other peoples IN
derclothes, suggested by this new proc
ess, II interesting, Is not appetizlng,
The weather bureau predicted a
cool wave three days in succession,
but the mercury didn't tumble to
It. '-NOrrTstowD Herald
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-05

LITTLE Johnny Fizzletop has the
habit OF waking up every night in the
middle OF the night and demanding
something TO eat. At last his mother
said to him: Look here, Johnny,
never want to eat anything II the
night 'sWell / don think I'd care
much 70 eat anything either IN the
night If / kept all my teeth IN p mug
OF water. ."-Taxas SIfIngs.