The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-04-11
MINOR SETS NOTES,

1-N ''CNltIolS VI CIdlt L EGllllgllNSe0
IS very Ill at Newark, n. j., and his
life is despaired OF.
There Is great Indignation among
the settlers on the Crow reservation
lands IN Dakota, over the news from
Washington that the lands are to be
withdrawn
Early on the morning OF the 4th, the
charred remains OF three Chinese were
tound IN the ruins of a fire which part
~ destroyed building and contents
IN the heart OF Chinatown, San Fran
CISCO. The loss is about $4,000
tully insured. One of the cOrpses had
its throat cut. 1t Is believed he pre-
ferred suicide to suffocation.
Fire at Nicksburg, on the 4th. de
stroyed four buildings near the public
square. The losses aggregate in the
nelghborhoOd OF 5000, 900.
\ swinging sign was blown down at
Pittsburg on the 5th, killing a lady
and seriously injuring two other per-
sons
EN-COngresSman Finerty. attempt-
ed to make 4 speech In the Seventeenth
Ward, Chicago, on the night OF the 9Th,
but the audience appeared to be dis
satisfied about something and threw
rotten eggs at him. The meeting was
abandoned.
At Waco, Tex, during a thunder
storm on the afternoon of the 5fh.
lightning struck a shed near which
James b. Baker and a number of
negroes We're standing. All were pros
trated. Bakers injuries are pronOunc-
ed fatal.
The freight house and several cars of
the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg
Railroad company at Cape Vincent,
\. y, burned on the 5th. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
falling plank in the sandwich
house OF the Calumet and Hecla Con
per mine, Lake Superior, crushed the
head OF John BrOus and badly in
jured Augustus Christmann, who
tell twenty feet. The former leaves
a wife and seven children.
-Four prisoners escaped from the
Cook County Jail at Chicago. on the
night OF the 2d. At last accounts they
We're still at large.
Johnson Pyle, farmer. and two OF
his hands whose names are not
learned, together with Pyle's 1O-vear-
old son, were drowned in the Wabash
River, about three miles from Mexion,
Ind, on the evening of the 2d. The
three men, it is said, had been intoxi-
Gated and left the management of
the boat to the boy.
Fire at Baltimore, on the night OF
the 3D. inst damaged the building and
stock OF Wiesenfeld & Co, clothing
manufacturers, to the extent of S95,-
900.
John Canes sausage factory, in the
Town OF Lake, a Chicago suburb,
burned on the night OF the 3D.. Loss
S65, 600.
\ fire at Rochester, Andrew County.
Mo, on the lst, consumed five bust
ness houses including one in which the
oddtellows and the Masons had their
headquarters. Loss S24, 900: inst1r-
ance $4,000.
The boiler OF David Hulse's saw
mil near ScIplO, Ind, exploded on the
lst. and killed Anthony Cleaver, en-
glneer, andfatally injured David Hulse.
Morton Hulse and Alfred Hulse.
Early on the morning OF the Cd.
the powder magazine of the Hazard
Powder Company, at st. Joseph. Mo.
was struck 10y lightning and exploded.
The magazine contained eight and
one-half tons of powder. The shock
was terrific. All the houses in the
vicinity were partially wrecked.
The United States Senate adjourned
sine die on the 2d inst.
Near 4 laya vga,. Y Y -, A. a
Mrs ID. ;. Young, in a tit OF passion
saturated her bedding with Kerosene
nred It and burned herself and two
children.
The Minneapolis Mimi courthouse
was destroyed by fire on the 2d inst.
Loss $4,000; insurance S35. 900.
dispatch from Hong Kong. under
date OF the 2d, says the Frenchtroops.
after an engagement lasting two davs
have captured Fishers Island. in tha
channel between Formosa and the
mainland. The Chinese lost 600 men
James f. Chandler, president. and
John B. ClemlngS, cashier. OF the First /
National Bank, at Bushnell. H.. were
arrested and taken TO Springfield. ON
the lst, charged with having embezzIed /
$4,000 or more OF the banks funds I
They have been held in bonds OF $50 /
600. The investigation OF the banks 7
affairs has not Yet been completed. but /
1t Is expected the shortage will exceed
the amount named.
The Emery Candle Works, Cincin- .
natl partially burned on the lsr.
Loss. $50. 900
Fire in New York on the 31st dam
aged the stock OF Reynolds & Whit /
took, dealers in Masonic goods. TO the +
extent Of $4,000. Fully insured.
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