The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-02-13
HKNOR NETys NOTh5.


The casket containing the remains
of the late President Garfield was on
the 9th placed in a 81, 900 bronze sar-
cOphagus at the Lake View Cemetery,
Cleveland.
Great excitement was caused by the
erection OF barricades in the streets OF
st. Quentin, near Paris, by the strik-
ing factory operatives. The military
was called out, however, and the work
suppressed. Fitty-three strikers were
arrested.
A little boy named Mark Jadman
was found dead in a snow drift in Chi
cago on the 9Th inst. 1t is supposed
he jumped into the drift head first,
and, was unable to extricate himself
Mrs. Marie Brambher, aged so years,
committed suicide at New York on the
9th inst, by jumping from the center
span of High Bridge into the Harlem
River. She was made desperate by
long continued illness.
Unusually cold weather prevails in
the valley Of Mexico. The cold is not
felt on the coast nearly as severely in
proportion as here, on the table-land
Several poor persons have died in the
The Adams Tobacco Company OF
Montreal has gone into liquidation
The liabilities are SITS, 900. the great
er portion OF which is due to the Mer-
chants Bank of Canada.
The Sibley breaker, five miles from
Scranton, Pa, was destroyed by fire
on the 9th. The loss is $40, 900; in
surance 100000 Two hundred and
y, -
ment.
During a heavy fog at New Orleans
the British steamer Castle Craig be-
came unmanagaable aud bumped
about among tue other vessels in the
harbor till she had done damage to
the amount OF $4,000.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
refused a proposition to grant am
nesty OF political offenders.
Benjamin Phillips, an Old soldier,
committed suicide at Bowling Green,
O., on the 9Th, by taking morphine.
Alexander Grabner took a big dose
Of laudanum at the Metropolitan
Hotel, Council Bluffs, on the 9Th. He
was dead when discovered.
Nets tannery, at Grand Haven,
Mich, was partially destroyed by fire
on the 7th. The stock was saved, but
the machinery was badly damaged.
Loss S35, 900; insurance $4,000.
Frank Bowler, while hunting rabbits
south of Indianapolis, Ind, on the 7th
inst, was fatally injured by the ac-
cidental discharge OF his gun.
Rev. Father William Fennelly, pas
tor OF a Roman Catholic church at
Oneida, n Y, was killed by the cars
at that place on the 9th.
Leonard Wood, of the firm OF Hal
lett Il Wood, dealers in dressed beef,
Bridgeport, Conn, hanged himself on
the 9th. No cause assigned.
Capt. James King, OF the steamer
George Mackey, had an alteration
with w l.. Thomas, at Augusta, KY,
on the evening OF the 4th inst, which
resulted in the latter being fatally in
iured by q blow from hammer.
At midnight on the 4th inst, fire de
stroyed the stores and stocks of l..
Rothschild, K. G. Mcpherson, Muliane
4 Co, Greenville, sc. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000.
In a quarrel in the dining-room of
the MCClelland Hotel, Galveston, Tex,
on the night OF the 4th inst, J f. Gra-
ham, St. Louis drummer, shot Will
lam Lamb so that he died in a few
hours. Lamb was a drummer for a
Chicago house.
81 Meadville, one of three men who
murdered Samuel Baldwin, in Lead
vile, Col, October Is, 1884. was
hanged on the 5Uh.
John Mcmahon, the defaulting reve-
nue. collector of Hoboken, y. J., has
been sentenced to five years in state
prison.
Two brothers, named HARRISON, sold
their wheat at Bartlett, near Devils
Lake, d. T., and started home ;ntox-
icated and lost their way at night
One brother froze to death and the
legs OF the other will have to be am
putated.
At Toronto, Ont, or the afternoon
of the 3D. inst, a tObOggan, with man
and three women aboard started on
its passage down the slide, before it
was noticed that the gate near the
bottom was closed. The toboggan
struck the obstruction with terrific
force. One woman's skull was crushed
and the other women were frightfully
cut about the head. The mau escaped
injury.
The Territorial Normal school build
ing. at Madison, ID. T., was burned to
the ground on the night OF the 4th.
Loss, 5000 no insurance.
4 woman and two children were
burned to death in fire in a draper's
establishment at Maestricht, town
Of the Netherlands, on the Sd.
The block OF buildings occupied by
Hamilton & Co., Batten & Co., and
Peak & Co, Manchester, Eng, burned
on the Sd inst. Loss $500, 900.
Charles Sisk, conductor OF "a freight
train, was killed in collision, on the
Baltimore & Ohio Road, at Dillon's
Falls, O., on the Sd inst
BY collision on the Chesapeake &
Ohio Road at Staunton, Va, caused
by a misplaced switch, on the I'd inst,
two engines We're smashed and a mum
Der OF train men injured. No one was
killed.
BY an explosion OF gas on the night
OF the 1st, the Sheridan furnaces at
Sheridan, Pa, were burned. The
boiler houses, stocks. trestles, hoists,
fourteen cars and engine house were
burned. Loss about $4,000.
William Baker & Sons dry goods es
tablishment at Trenton, y. J., was
damaged $50 1000 by fire early on the
morning OF the ID.
The Nova Scotia Slpar Rafipipg Con,