The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-09-11
.uENOR sEgs NOTES,

Inc knlC gOOQS establishment OF f.
Barrows & Co., Brooklyn, was dam
aged S25, 900 by fire on the 4th.
The wholesale cracker and confec-
tlonery factory OF y. l.. Griswold and
the wholesale grocery OF s. 0. Spring
& Co., Peoria, ILL.,, were destroyed by
fire on the night OF the 4th. Loss
/ 500, 600.
| Archibald Campbell, son OF Onta-
rios postmaster general, Sir Archi-
bald Campbell, committed suicide st
Ottawa on the night OF the Sd. He
was p years old.
/ The United States government has
begun suit at East Saginaw, Mich,
| against the bondsmen OF Col. Thomas
/ Saylor, ex-land commissioner at that
/ place, to recover an alleged shortage
III his accounts of $50, 900.
A disastrous fire broke out on the
| 4tb inst. IN the Pullman Palace Car
Company's sheds in the New York,
Lake Erie & Western Railroad yard,
| at Jersey City, \. j. Several buildings
were destroyed, together with a large
quantity OF rolling stock. The total
| loss is estimated at 100000.
A fire among among the lumber
| yards at Milwaukee, Mich, on the 4th,
destroyed 100000 feet OF lumber
and large amount OF other property.
| Loss about 100000.
| Three buildings of Tug & Co.'s Iron
| Works, at Pittsburg, were destroyed
| by fire on the 4th inst. Loss, $780,
| 900.
The Tobacco Exchange building in
| Petersburg, w. Va, was damaged to
the extent OF $25, 200 by fire on the
4th. Z. Fl. Curtis, chief OF the fire de-
partment, was seriously hurt by fall
Ing bricks.
Fire on the night Of the 4th de-
stroyed q planning mill, carpenter shop
and number OF dwellings at Hunters
Point, l.. I. Loss, $4,000. Fifteen
families are rendered homeless.
Della Suffer, who jumped from a
second story window at Savannah,
| during the earthquake, died on the
9Th.
The sea serpent was seen again off
the battery by six Castle Garden work
| lngmen on the 9Th, "all of whom are
| temperance men,"
| Maclean Brown, while cunning near
Lancaster, Pa, was shot and instant
| ~ killed by the discharge of a gun in
the hands OF his companion, named
| McIntree. The men were climbing q
| fence when the accident occurred.
| Gen. Lloyd Aspinwall, OF New York,
who had been stopping in Bristol, Z.
l., With his family, was stricken with
appoplexy on the 4th, and died the
same day.
The importation OF general mer-
chandise at New York for the week
ending the Sd amounted to &c.
271, 1877.
Mrs. Emma Malloy, the well-known
revivalist, who was accused of COM
| pllcIty IN the murder OF Sarah Ora
ham, near Springfield, Mo, attempted
suicide by drowning at South Bend,
Ind, on the Sd. Her son Frank was
drowned a few weeks ago, and she
has since been respondent.
A dispatch of the Sd inst, reports
Congressman Samuel Randall serious
ly i'll at his country residence near
Philadelphia.
A shanty in which were lodged
twenty railroad laborers, near Sones-
town, Pa, caught fire during the night
OF the I'd. Seven of the party were
suffocated by smoke and their bodies
roasted.
AZ S1iI6Soj I'll lllS ~ ILSU.Y UdCOD
| Peterson and another painter whose
name is not known, fell from q scat
| fold to the ground, distance OF fifty
feet. The unknown man was instantly
killed, and Peterson was badly in
iured.
In the Joliet penitentiary on the I'd
inst, Mike Mooney, life prisoner,
chased the foreman OF the wire shop
with a red-hot furnace poker. Hewas
overpowered by the guards and placed
| in irons.
TIE big bridge OF the Rock Island
Road over the Mississippi at Fort
Leavenworth, Kas., burned on the
| 1st, with half mile of trestle work.
The loss is placed at 100000. This
cuts off the approach to Leavenworth
over this road.
G. ?. Barton's planning mill, the sup
ply and pattern shops OF the Pitts
burg q Western Railroad, and sever
al other buildings at Allegheny City,
Pa, were destroyed by fire on the 1st
inst. Loss 800, 900; insured.
4 big scare was created at New Or
leans on the 1st by the report OF the
existence OF yellow fever at the neigh
boring town OF Biloxi.
The fifth annual convention OF the
national encampment OF Sons OF Vet
/ Grams opened at Buffalo, n Y, on the
31st. The attendance was good,
twenty states being represented.
Judge Manning, of the supreme
bench of Louisiana, has been APP
pointed to succeed Gen. Jackson as
minister to Mexico.
Representatives from nineteen states
were present at the formal opening of
| the Interstate picnic OF the Patrons of
Husbandry at Harrisburg, Pa, on the
31st.
The safe OF the Fort Dearborn
| Building and Loan Association, Chi
cage, was robbed by burglars on the
night OF the 31st. About 81, 500 was
taken.
Henry Parker Todd, son OF a wealthy
New York lawyer, committed suicide
by shooting on the 31st. His parents
had just arrived home from Europe.
Two four-story brick buildings on
West Washington Street, Chicago,
| burned on the morning OF the 31st.
Loss SIS, 900.
A dispatch OF the 30th says the En-
glish-Afghan frontier commission has
been recalled. The Russian commits
sion remains on duty.
Five men were killed by an explo.
sion OF fire damp in the Fairlawn coll
iery, near Scranton, Pa, on the Goth.
Several others were injured. The men
were not at work at the time of the
disaster, but were engaged IN explor.
ing the mine.
THE first printing done IN America
was in the City OF Mexico, in 1899.
There were then 200 printing office in
/ Furape. The second press was set M,