The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-06-13

A OILIdIu, VT.
The defeat of Gladstone is con-
sidered an Irish victory by Mr.. Par
nell and his followers.
-Waukegan, H., is infested with
horse thieves, and the good people of
the place are indignant.
General Grant will no doubt live
many years yet if the doctors and re
porters will give him half a chance.
The locusts or grasshoppers are
reported as devouring everything in
their path, in various parts of the
country.
Dan. Archibald and Hugh Kane,
two Minnesotians have been arrested
for stealing government timber some
years ago.
The family of a Long Island print
er was poisoned a few days ago by
eating canned corn. One child has
since died.
-Assayer Harrison has been charg-
ed With specializing with government
money. and now he has an inyestiga-
ton on hand
The remains Of Alexander II. Ste
vens have been placed in their final
resting place, at his old home, Liberty
Hall, Georgia
Mr.. Gladstone has resigned his
position as leader in British affairs. II
will be some time before they Will
find 4 better man.
A Madrid dispatch says the chol-
era IS spreading fast. We will pro-
badly have it in this country before
the summer is oyer.
The Missouri River is the high
est for many years. The June fresh
ct for that stream bids fair to be a
very destructive one.
Recent experiments have demon
strated that the heating value Of coal
is dimished from Is to . per cent if
it is used while wet.
Gen. Crook tells the government
that the Apache Indians must be sup
pressed at once, or great loss of life
and property will be the result.
Gen. Bragg has succeeded in de
CAPTIVATING Il dozen or more postmas-
ters in Dodge, Washington and Fond
du Lac counties, and now Bragg is
happy.
Mayor Harrison has undertaken
big contract. He is going to reform
wicked Chicago, and as a starter has
ordered the gambling dens closed.
Great is Harrison
Great excitement prevails in the
town of Wausau, this state over the
discovery Of case of supposed rape
and murder, the victim being q Mrs.
Robinson, recently divorced from her
husband.
There is a vague rumor that Chin
csc Gordon IS not dead after all. 1t
Is said that he escaped amnog a band
of friendly negroes, and that the head
which FL Mahdi showed was that Of
the Austria consul.
-Tobey Richmond and Charley
Young did live out near Portland, Or
egon, but Toby stole cattle and Char
ley stole horses, 50 the citizens got up
little neck-tie PARTY for the boys,
and now they won't steal any more.
Frank Delong and Peter Emer-
son, living near Cumberland, this
State got drunk last Tuesday, and
then got into some kind Of a quarrel
at belongs house, and Emerson was
killed. Delong says he only acted in
self defense.
Near Sparta, last Wednesday, a
team of horses, driven by Mrs. Fran
els Wheeler of La Crosse, and Mrs. A.
i. Holden, Of Sparta, ran away, and
in the smash up that followed Mrs.
Wheeler was killed, and Mrs. Holden
seriously if not fatally injured.
Philip and Milo Lockman, of On
alaska, aged eighteen and twenty
Years, sons of Il widow, were drowned
at Ia Crosse, last Wednesday after
noon. The bodies were recovered and
efforts to resuscitate them made with
out avail. Both were employees of the
Island mill, and the younger, Milo,
fell from a log into deep water, Phil
ip seeing his danger went to his rescue,
but persisted with him.
1t seems that when Judge stearns
Was the colonel Of a colored regiment
he was given 10 obligatory language,
and he was in the habit of pouring
out a yolley on his white subordinate
officers whenever they gave any IN