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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
A SPANISH HURRFC4gE.
Seventy Persons Killed In the City @
Madrid Alone.

seventy PERSONS KILLED. In the SIty OF
Madrid Alone.
A dispatch of the 18th from Madrid
says: 4 terrible hurricane has lust
swept across the middle OF Spain. In
this city seventy are known to have
been instantly killed and 200 others
have been seriously injured. The wind
struck the city with the suddenness OF
lightning. Tram cars and cabs were
overturned and broken into splinters,
roofs were dislodged and telegraph
wires everywhere torn from their
poles. The parks in and about the
city were devastated and in some cases
entirely denuded. One church tower
was blown down. Anumber OF houses
in the suburbs were entirely wrecked,
and OF the many cottages on the out
skirts OF the capital which were blown
from their foundations and wrecked,
some were so completely and quickly
broken up and scattered by the wind
that they may be said to have simply
vanished before the storm. Tele-
graphic communication has been so
con- ! c.. Of t.laC it is impossi.
bic to as yet obtain news from the
provinces, but it is believed that the
ruin wrought by the hurricane has
been Widespread. The Queen visited
the various parts of the city where
the hurricane did the most damage.
The loss will exceed 81, 100000, the
working classes suffering the heaviest.
Many washerwomen were blown into
tho River Manzauares. Twenty-eight
were drowned. The largest tree in
Madrid, which stood in front Of the
Parliament building, was blown down.
The hospitals are crowded with suffer
The storm was preceded by sew.
DAYS of hot weather.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
sEEssB EEws HSTSs.

A Bohemian named Alex. Los COM
mitted suicide at the st. Lawrence
Hotel, Chicago, on the 10th, by shoot
ing. He lsit a letter in ~hich q cancer
in the stomach was given as the cause
of the act
In the vicinity of Montpelier,
France, on the 18th, a hurricane killed
several persons and damaged property
to the amount of l 1,000,0 900 francs.
Five lives we're lost in the Italian town
of L0nato, and two German ships
were foundered in the river Oder.
Notwithstanding the efforts of the
defense, the trial OF Aid. Jaehne for
bribery in connection with the great
Broadway railway steal at New York
closed on the 18th, with verdict of
guilty.
The Enterprise Distillery, at Pekin,
H., toEet her with 10000 bushels OF
grain AID $4,000 gallons of alcohol,
was destroyed by an incendiary fire on
the morning of the 10th. Spellman 4
Dohenry, proprietors, offer $4,000 re-
ward for the arrest and conviction of
the inCsndiarles. The loss is $780,
600 and the firm carried $65, 900 in
surance.
Purv.s sash, door and blind factory
and lumber yard, the German Prot
estant Church, Michael McEnnery's
and J. c Boards residences, New Or
leans, were destroyed by fire, and q
number of other buildings were dam
aged, on the 10th. Loss, $4,000; in
surance $4,000.
Dan and Lon Mann, who murdered
Marshal Campbell, at Barlow, Fla,
on the 10Th, were taken from jail the
same night by mob OF 200 and
hanged No ceremony was used and
no attempt at secrecy.
BARTLEY CAMPBELL, the actor, play
writer and theatrical manager. has
been declared insane by commission
OF medical men appointed by the
court.
Greylock Hall, the most famous
summer resort of Northern Berkshire
County, Mass, burned ON the night OF
the 18th. Loss is $40, 600; O;insurance,
$4,000.
At Venice on the 14th there were
seven new cases OF cholera and three
deaths; at Bari five cases and nine
deaths; and at Brindisi one new case
and one death.
III. Pilot, an agent OF the Banque
des Compte OF Paris, who ecently fled
after successfully uttering a large
amount Of forged paper, on the 14th
suddenly appeared in the private
ot1ce OF Baron SOubeyran, the director
OF the bank, and at the point of a
loaded revolver compelled him to sign
three checks tor $4,000, with which
Pilot then made good his escape.
Three houses III Pittsburg were par.
italy wrecked on the 14th by the ex-
plosion of aquantity of dynamite used
to break up a lot OF old iron. Pieces
OF a ten-ton anvil weighing 2OOpounds
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
Labor Notes

st. Louis is threatened with partial
darkness because of a strike for eight
hours by all persons engaged in the
manufacture OF gas for the Laclede
Company.
The great strike OF the journeymen
tailors and tailoresses is virtually at
an end. The contractors offered 10
per cent. increase on piece work and
ten hours pay for nine hours work,
which was accepted and work will be
resumed.
Grocers and butchers at Chicago to
the number of $50 have agreed to
close their places of business at 7
o'clock every night except Saturday
and at 10 A NJ. Sunday.
An agreement has been reached be-
tween the garment cutters and the
manufacturers at Philadelphia and
work will be resumed. A compromise
was effected on basis OF fifty-four
hours a week.
The Western Boot and Shoe Manu-
faeturers' Association met at Chicago,
on the 18th inst. The association is
composed of most OF the manufactur-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22

Tnt strike epidemic in the mechanical
worid seems to have been followed by
an epidemic of storm in the atmos-
phere Following the Kansas CITY cy-
clone destructive wind and rain storms
are reported from all over the West.
On the afternoon Of the 18th q cyclone
struck the village Of OdaH, I'll. 1t de-
moiished one brick block, wrecked
thfee warehouses, and unrooied no.
tel, Masonic Hall and four store build
1nss lhe damage to property is es-
timaJed at $4,000 Besides the de-
scructiOn mentioned above a number
OF private residences were demolished.
The Methodist Church had one steeple
blown off. Those fatally injured are:
Lottle Zwifie, a 10-year-old girl. was
carried over 200 feet in the air and fell
on tue railroad track, smashing her
skull; George and Charles Hoke, livery
men; >. ,. Cole, hardware merchant.
Two children OF John Miller are seri-
ously hurt. The children had taken
refuge IN the brick building ard were
buried IN the ruins. The telegraph
wires We're all blown down and COM
-lunication with the outside world
was completely cut Off The damage
IN the surrounding country is compar-
atiyely slight.
! dispatch from Williamsport, Ind,
SAYS: A cyclone struck this place
this evening, destroying everything in
its track. Several houses ana barns
were carried away. Reports come
from Attica, two miles east of here,
that it struck that place about the
center OF the town and destroy ed sew
eral ot the business buildings, including
new mill, the Revere House and the
chicago & Great Southern Railway
offices. Several persons were on the
wabash River bridge at the time it
went down and all are supposed to
n I'VE been killed. At the Revere
House several are reported to have
been killed At this place two brick
houses belonging to Henry Butt were
torn down. and Mrs. Butt was badly
injured.
Specials from Streator ard Rock
iord, ILL.,, and Peru, Ind, tell OF ter
rlble wind and hail storm at those
pointS
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
Princely Prices Paid for lodgings.

From the New Ork Tribune.
The amount OF money spent in
hotels in New York must be enormous
| was chatting with a well-posted
hotel man last night who was telling
me about the prices paid by some Of
the guests. "The Hoffman House,"
said he, "has a guest who pays S115
week for his room, or over SIG g.
day, Admiral Maxse, Of the English
navy. His service and meals are ex-
ira and must bring his bills wellup to
5000 a week for himself alone. John
w. Mackay pays 500 week
for rooms at the Hoffman.
When James McHenry, the London
railroad man, was over here on New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio busi-
ness, he paid $50 a day for a suite Of
rooms with private service and table
at the Victoria Hotel. 1t was the
same suite OF rooms that President
Cleveland occupied when he held his
famous Victoria Hotel conference, to
get acquainted with the prominent
Democrats OF the country. There IS
Mr.. Dean at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
whose bills are about $50 day. He
is retired Californian and has tami-
ly and several servants. He has been
there all winter. The Windsor fre-
quently has quests who require service
amounting to $50 or $50 day.
Nine. Barrois, the widow OF the
Central American warrior, was one of
the heaviest paying guests New York
hotel has ever known. She stopped
at the Langham, where her numerous
family and large retinue OF servants
brought her daily expenses up to at
laoC+ 5000 -
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
Are We Losing Our Time Z

Those who sigh because there /. not
time enough in the twenty-four hours
for one to do what he really
ought to, in these busy times, will be
grati6ed to learn that the days are
actually growing longer. Said Prof.
PritcheUt to a st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat reporter: eyes, the days are get
ting longer-almost imperceptibly,
however, the extension being at the
rate of two seconds in a century.
This 'slow-up' on the part OF the
earth in its daily rotation is caused
by the tides, which act as friction
brakes upon the ear;h's axis, and
thus decrease the earth's velocity.
Two seconds in hundred years Is
not much, but in the imperishable fu-
ture their effect will be felt"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22

or more were thrown a distance of
more than a block.
Early on the morning of the 18th a
Chicago expressman named Bies at
tempted suicide by hanging, in his
barn. His wife discovered him in the
act and her screams brought neighbors
to the scene. These people stood
about, paralyzed, while Bies, after
struggling for moment, died from
stranguiation.
The old commission firm of Tyson
& Bros, Baltimore, made an assign
ment on the 18th. Liabilities esti-
mated at 100000.
Herr Johann Most, the leader of the
Anarchists, was arrested at New York
on the 11th.
An eastbound passenger train on
the Bloomington & Western road ran
into wasbout near Newcastle, Ind,
on the night of the 10Th. J. ". Tren-
ary, engineer, and James Hudson, fire
man, and an unknown passenger, were
instantly killed and the baggageman
and conductor severely injured.
Charles J. Bruschke, senior member
of the Chicago furniture manufacture
ing firm of Brusehke & Rlcke, shot and
seriously wounded two former en-
ployes OF the factory. The men were
trying to induce some OF the new en-
ployes to quit, when Bruschke at
tempted to arrest them and was
knocked down.
The British House OF Commons,
on the 11th, rejected the measure
abolishing capital punishment.
Gladstone. IN an eloquent speech In
the British House of Commons, on the
10th, moved the second reading OF the
Home Rule bill.
After q three days session the cor
oner's Jury selected to investigate the
fall OF the Bracket building at Mime
apolis on the 10th inst, returned
verdict censuring the building inspect
or, architect and carpenter in charge
for gross neglect.
One child was fatally and nine others
seriously poisoned at Brookville, Pa,
by eating snakeroot in mistake for
sweet myrrh.
The trial of the man known as Max
well, for the murder OF G. A. Preller, was
begun at st. Louis on the 10th.
A tornado passed through Wayne
County, Ind, on the night OF the 9th,
destroying considerable property and
killing one woman and two men
At Owego, N. Y, on the 10th, Nor
man Launsbury, aged IS, killed his
16-year-old wife and Horace Payson,
aged 35, relative Hethen shot HIM
self. Jealousy was the cause OF the
crime
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22

ers In Chicago and the West. A pre-
amble and resolutions were adopted
to the effect that the eight hour day,
after a two weeks trial, had proven
unsatisfactory, and that the associa-
tlon will return to the ten-hour sys-
tenn. About l, 500 men are affected.
The strike of the masons in Berlin is
coming to an end, a majority of the
employers having conceded the de-
mand of the workmen for fifty pfennigs
an hour.
The Chicago lumber strike is prac-
tically over, many OF the old hands
having returned to work.
In accordance with determination
of the Wholesale Clothing Merchants
Association of Chicago, gigantic
lockout was inaugurated in that city
on the 18th. All manufacturers noti-
fed their cutters that for the present
no work would be given out. About
$4,000 people are affected by this ac-
ton. The clothing making business is
carried on principally by system of
middlemen, who take the work from
the manufacturers on contract and
farm 1t out by the piece. A number
OF strikes by the piece workers have
been inaugurated for higher prices,
which it is claimed have been encour-
aged by the middlemen. The advance
asked for amounted to from 80 to so
per cent.
On the 18th the Vandalia road put
q non-union man at work in the In
dianapolis yards. The men of the
night force refused to work with him
and were discharged. Then the night
men in the other yards struck, refus-
ing to go to work until the discharged
men were taken back. They are still
out.
The strike in the sugar refneries in
and around New York collapsed on
the 11th, all who could get work going
back without any of the concessions
asked for.
The striking freight handlers at Chi
cago returned to work on the 10th,
the roads accepting all who had not
taken prominent part in the move
ment. The men went back at the old
terms. The Arbeiter Zeitung, An
archist newspaper, whose editors were
arrested in connection with the recent
riots, was evicted from it's building on
he 10th, for non-payment of rent.
The lumber yards are still idle. The
Mccormick Reaper Works started up
with 1900 men.
A bread famine is reported in Pitts
burg, owing to strike of the bakers.
More than two-thirds of the shops ere
closed.
The textile manufacturers in Phila-
delphia are organizing for mutual pro.
lection.
All the contractors and builders in
Galveston signed the nine-hour scale
on the 10th.
All the garment-cutters and trim
mers employed in the wholesale estab-
lishments in Philadelphia struck on
the 10th.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
FASHIONS Finished Females

''There is a fashionable boarding
school in New York where the young
ladies are taught to enter and get
out of a carriage" says the Boston
Herald's correspondent. "a vehicle
with the proper pedal arrangements
for this sort OF exercise, which deter
mines a lady's breeding and claim to
social position, is kept in the back
yard of the educational establish
ment, and there the carriage classes
are put through the most arduous
training. Another accomplishment
peculiar to this gilt-edged academy is
learning to eat asparagus, oranges,
grapes and other juicy and unman-
ageable viands in style that shall
represent the perfection of table man
ners. OF course these are Injuries.
and like French and Italian, included
in the extras but then the social
creed OF to-day sticks at nothing. not
even at this expensive form OF higher
education. Thus it is, we fit our
daughters to become grand DANES
Noble thought"
MANY spring costumes have turbans
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
TR0UBLE F0R GLADSTONE.
A Division In the Liberal Party Threaten,
the Home Rule Bill.

A dispatch of the 18th says a meet
ing was held at the residence OF Joseph
Chamberlain, attended by many fol-
lowers of that gentleman in his oppo-
sition to G!adstone's Home Rule pol
icy. Sixty members of the House of
Commons were present. Resolutions
were adopted pledging those present
to oppose thebill. The meeting lasted
two hours. 1t was unanimously
agreed that some sort of autonomy
should he granted Ireland, but on q
basis different from that upon which
GlsdstO-c', scheme was founded. 1t
is said that the Loyalistsin in Ulster are
concealing arms, fearing that Morley,
chief secretary for Ireland, will order
the police to make raids for the pur-
pose OF disarming the people.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
HE WAS DISGUISED.
OF New York Firms Clerk I
Rob the Money Vault.

OF new 1Ork TO
Rob the Money Vault.
About the time the large dry-goods
store of Sweetzer, Peabody & Co.,
New York, was opened on the morn
ing OF the 18th, man with blonde
hair and a patch over his eye inquired
for the engineer. He was directed to
go down stairs. At the foot of the
stairs clerk was opening the vault
and taking out the books. The in
truder felled him to. the ground with
an iron bar which he had concealed in
his sleeve. The clerk called for help
and the would-be robber was secured.
In the struggle yellow wig was shaken
from his head and the patch from his
eye and he stood revealed as one of
the firms clerks, supposed to be out
OF the city on a vacation. He also
carried a bottle of chloroform which he
endeavored to get the vault clerk to
smell of.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
InnOrtant.

When you visit or leave New York City,
save baggage, expressage and SO carriage
hire, and stop at the GRAND UNION HO
TEL, opposite Grand Central Depot.
Six hundred and thirteen rooms, fitted
up at cost of one million dollars, 81 and
upwards per day. European plan. Ele-
vator. Restaurant supplied with the best.
Horse cars, stages and elevated railroads
to all depots. Families can live better for
less money at the Grand Union Hotel than
at any other first-class hotel in the city
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
TRAIN WRECK.
Three nen Killed and twenty-five Cars
Smashed,

Three Zen Killed and Twenty-Five Cars
Smashed.
A freight wreck in the mountains on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, on the
night OF the 10th, demolished twenty
five cars, killed three men outright
and obstructed the tracks so badly
that it took twelve hours to clear
them. The accident was the result OF
a heavy storm which swept a,long the
Connemaugh Valley, uprooting trees,
and blowing down fences and out
houses. A number of freight cars
were forced by the wind into the track
OF fast freight train, which was the
one smashed,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
THE GRECE4y TANGLE.

a New Ministry Almost Completed In
Greece-The People Turbulent.
A dispatch OF the 11th from Athens
says: The work of forming a new
ministry is almost completed. Delyan-
mis- has promised not to adopt an OBJ
structive policy. The Greeks are hold
ing mass meetings all over the country
to protest against the decree of block
ade issued by the powers, and to APP
peal to the people OF foreign countries
for sympathy against the tyranny OF
the powers" The allied fleet has left
Crete to resume the blocade of Greece.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
HfDROPHGREA.
Milk Communicates the Disease to Two
Little Children.

Little Children.
A dog belonging to A. j. Hall, farm
er living at Cabott, near Little Rock,
Ark, went mad, and among animals
which it wounded was N ,ch COW.
On the 11th the animal began show
ing symptoms of the disease, and at
the same time the farmers two little
children, who had been nourished with
the cows milk, exhibited similar symp-
toms, and are in a critical condition,
suffering the most terrible agonies.
The other members of the family are
also i'll, but their symptoms are not
so alarming as those of the children,
and some hope is expressed that they
may recover.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
ALL EyERE DROWNED.
An Unknown Boat Capsizes Off Cone
Island Point,

Island Point.
A cat-rigged boat named Ada upset
inside Coney Island Point, New York,
on the 10th. There were several per-
sons on board. Capt. Killmer, of the
yacht Zephyr, steamed up and saw a
man clinging to the boat, but before
he could be reached he disappeared.
The boat sank soon afterwards, and
the captain was unable to identity her.
He, however, secured a portion Of her
malnsail, which may lead to her identi-
tication and give a clue to the names
OF the unfortunates who went down
with her.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22

"MIss KELLOGG" as the Critic loung-
er learns, S'has just returned from a
concert trip through the South with
one idea deeply rooted in her mind-a
desire to save the picturesque old mis-
sions OF the extreme Southwest. She
says she has seen nothing in the Old
World to compare with them for arch
itectural beauty"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
SAW THEN DROWN.
Two Wives at Tuscombia Witness the
Taking off of Thar

Taking off of Their Husbands.
Richard Higgins and Thomas Bar
rett were drowned at Tuscombia, Mo-,
on the 14th, while trying to stretch a
cable wire across the eriver. The esteam-
boat was pulling on the cable which
caught underneath the skiff and cap
sized it, throwing both men overheard.
They were drowned before assistance
could reach them. Higgins leaves a
wife and two children, and Barrett a
wife and three children. The wives OF
the drowned men were on the river
bank, and witnessed the sad affair.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
MAKE FRIENDS

Make new friends but keep the old,
Those are silver, these are gold;
New-made friendships, like new wine,
Age viii mellow and refine.
Friendships that have stood the test
Time and change-are surely best;
Brow may wrinkle, hair turn gray,
Friendship never knows decay.
For mid old friends, tried and true,
Once more We our youth renew.
But old friends, alas may die,
New friends must their place supply.
Cherish friendship in your breast,
New is good, but old is best;
Make new friends, but keep the old,
Those are silver, these are gold.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22

loud voice said: Sheridan twenty
miles away" Immediately the whole
two hundred ofthe Seventies bows who
were IN front OF the house shouted in
chorus: "But- he got there all the
samel"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22

RECENTLY in Macon, Ga, a young
man acted as godfather to the infant
OF a friend The excitement or the oc-
casion caused him 70 drop the infant
into the baptismal font, making a
Baptist of it instead of an Episco-
palian.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
TAKING OFF ROOFS.

Destructive Cyclone In illinois and
Dsmaged-rhree Persons Killed and
Two Children IDjured-WilIfamspo
and o her Places In Indiana Visited.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22

An amusing incident happened when
the band OF the Seventh New York Regi-
ment was serenading Gen. Sheridan
lately. In one of the pauses OF music
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22
A Shell with a History,

From the Se.-na tAIa.l Ilmes.I
A bombshell was dug out OF the
ground several feet yesterday in the
new lumber yard of Messrs. Welch &
Bro. 1t is an ugly lookinginstrum
and is said to have been the one that
was fired at Gen. Forrest by the
Yankee Gen. Wilson. A gentleman
who saw it said he was pretty sure
that it was the one that whistled by
Forests ear, as it was just the size
and would do Just the amount OF ''siz-
zine" that that one did.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22

PEACHES are as large as marbles IN
Fla.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-05-22

MANY spring costumes have turbans
to match made OF the dress goods.