The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-08-21
MINOR NEWS NOTES,

At Rockford, Mich, on the 18th.
John Boyd went on drunk, stole a
pistol and shot William B. Johnson, q
prominent citizen, through the heart.
Dr. VIM. j. Cruice, of Philadelphia,
and Vivian NJ. Shaw, OF Morristown,
\. j. ;, lost their lives while bathing at
Spring Lake, n. j., on the 18th.
Mrs. David l.. Billinghammer, wife
oi the proprietor OF the Bellevue House,
CINCINNATI, dropped dead while dane
ing on the night OF the 14th. Heart
disease was the cause.
The President has left Washington
Tor months vacation IN the Adiron-
dacks, in Northern New York. He
was accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland
and her mother, Mrs. Folsom. No
mail will be forwarded to him or
opened by him during his absence.
Earthquake shocks were fel5 at Malta
on the 14th.
Fire in the Black Diamond Steel
Works OF Park Bros at Pittsburg, on
the 18th, caused a loss of S75, 900.
The business failures during gthe week
ending on the 18th, were: For the
United States, l4l; Canada, 16; total
of 157.
On the 18th dispatch from Leigh,
Lancashire, stated that terrible ex-
plosion had occurred in the Woodend
Colliery, at that place Forty OF the
14O miners who were below at the
time, were killed, ana many OF them
were shockingly burned.
Christine Nilsson vas married, at
Paris, on the 18th, to Count de
Casa Miranda, of Spain. The mar
riage was private as possible. The
couple started for Spain to spend their
honeymoon.
Quebec dispatches OF the 18th state
that Rome has finally spoken upon
the question OF the Knights OF Labor.
The society is unequivocally con-
demnel by the Holy See, and the
bishops OF the church are enioined to
proceed against it as against all the
secret societies under the Papal ban.
Twenuy-six of the principal business
houses at Folsom, Cal, burned, on
the 18th. Loss, S150,00O; insurance,
$4,000.
All the prisoners confined in the
Galesburg, ILL.,, county jail escaped, on
the 18th. They were Charles Collins,
James Tombelson, John Dillon, Hugh
Gillespie and Lewis Wagner.
England has proclaimed q pro,
tectorate over the Ellice Islands, in
the South Pacific Ocean.
Michael Metz was hanged in the
county jail yard al Uniontown, Pa,
on the 10Th inst.
+. n. Kaboke, Chicago baker, sui.
cided on the 10Th because OF trouble
with his employees, who threatened to
boycott him.
Orangemen were attacked and
stoned while parading at London
derry on the 10Th. Rev. Thos. Oh
pert, canon OF the Episcopal Cathe-
dral, and several citizens were
wounded.
Fire at Kosciusko, Miss, on the
18th, destroyed twenty stores and
offices. Loss $4,000; insurance
light.
Louise Michel was sentenced at
Paris, on the 18th, to four months
Imprisonment and fine OF 100 francs,
for 'seditious language" and ''incitine
to murder during the rioting at De
cazeville, on last May"
A Chinese murder of most horrible
character, has been discovered al
Evanston, Wyo. Two Cinnamon art
charged with numbering a Chinese
woman and chopping her remains il
pieces, which, on being weighed, were
found TO be each OF corresponding
weight to the other.
The Highland Woolen Mill at New
burgh, n. Y, owned by Miss S. A
Haigh, burned on the 11th. Loss
$4,000; insurance $4,000; fifty
hands out OF work.
Adolphus Parker, the 16-year-olG
train robber, has been pardoned by the
governor OF Arkansas.
Six men were killed by the COLLAPSE
OF railway tunnel in process OF con
struction at New Ross, Ireland, on tht
11th.
Prussia and the Vatican have signed
convention terminating the religious
controversy between them so far as il
related to secondary matters.
Several Minneapolis flour mills hav,
been forced to shut down because o
too little water.
Frank II. Hamilton, the distin
guished surgeon, who attended Presi
dent Garfield, died at New York OF
the 11th, after an illness which haC
confined him to his bed for two weeks
The cause OF his death was pulmonary
hemorrhages.
A cable message OF the 18th inst.
from Sierra Leone, announces tht
death OF the Rev. Moses A. Hopkins
minister resident and consul genera
from the United States to Siberia.
At Conneaut, O., on the 11th, Mrs
Slough, the wife OF a laborer, went tc
the river TO wash, taking her thre,
children with her. One OF the littl,
ones fell into the water and in the ef
fort to secure 1t, the mother and al
the children were drowned.
The Dungannon Patriotic Union n
Dublin, will send a deputation O
Loyalist orators to the United State,
and Canada, TO address public meet
ings throughout both countries in tn