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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
FIRE and PANIC.
over a Hundred People Hurt at a Hospital
Entertainment.


Entertainment.
While a Christmas tree entertain
ment was n progress in the large am
phitheater OF the Cook County Hos
pital, Chicago, on the afternoon OF the
25th, the Christmas tree took fire, fill
ing the upper part OF the large hall
with fire and smoke A wild panic
and frantic stampede at once ensued,
amid shrieks and cries of "fire. /"
Visitors, cripples and patients
rushed up the steep steps OF
the amphitheater, and in the
mad struggle for escape, it is a miracle
that no one was trampled to death.
The smoke, the cries, the flames, and
the cracking tree combined to make a
scene OF mad tumult. As the tree
burned the heat rose, and those who
had crowded into the upper tiers OF
the amphitheater were the most severe
ly scorched. A patient in Ward l
Jumped from a window upon a roof be-
low and broke two of his fingers. A
woman and a child jumped from an
other window to the ground. They
were not injured, however, as they fell
on mattresses that had been promptly
placed under the windows the mo-
ment the employees heard the cries OF
fire. Employees meanwhile were play
ing on the fire with Babcock extin-
guishers. The fire lasted less than five
minutes, there being one great fierce
blaze, which presently expired when
the dry leaves of the evergreen were
consumed. At least 100 persons We're
injured, the greater part receiving
bruises by being trampled on by their
panic-stricken neighbors. A number
of the children patients who had been
brought into the chapel suffered rom
the smoke and fright, and one or two
were slightly burned. But for the cool
ness of Warden McGarigle and some
attaches of the hospital, lives would
certainly have been lost.
The following is a partial list OF the
sufferers: Nurses: Lizzie Thomas,
Miss Black, Carrie Phelps, Emma Still
well, Amelia Olson, Miss Sheldon,
Miss Johnson, Miss Brountey, Miss
Wilkinson, Miss Hewitt and Miss He
kett Patients: Robert Creeker, Peter
Peterson and William Ennis, James
GiIhouse and Alfred Kane, John DonO-
hue and Julius Kerbls, Dan. Monan,
Julius Ender and William O'Conner,
Belle Foy, Mary King, Mary
Brady, Josie Allen, Mary Mayer, W.
w. Brown, James Hynes, James No
Ian and Mrs. Weber. Among the Wis
itors injured were the following; Mrs.
A. A Carpenter, Mr.. and Mrs. A. c.
Bartlett, Mrs. Charles Cummings, Com
missioner Van Pelt, both ears burned;
f. n. May, Tribune reporter; n. A.
Macmillan, Herald reporter. The at
tending physicians say that no one
was fatally injured, and that all are
doing we'll
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
Titles of Honor in Burmah
From the Pail Mall Gazette.l


In one respect, at least, the Burmese
are the most republican OF peoples, for
they had until lately no titles OF hon
or. When one OF them got an Indian
title, few years ago, he did not know
what use tc make OF such a strange
present, but quite recently the king
decided to have decorations OF his
own. He found, for various reasons,
that this was a task ofsome difficulty
The people wanted somethingpointing
to their descent from the sun, but as
the king himself was not OF the high
solar race, he could not recognize the
lofty descent OF his own subjects IN
this manner. So, after much debate,
it was decided to establish three Or
ders to which no one could make OBJ
jection-namely, the good chief who
has received a silver sword, the good
chief with a gold chain, and, thirdly
the chief who has received medal
But the device wa. too novel, and nc
great use appears to be made OF the
orders. Unhappy Burmese Wehave
plenty of orders, and know how tt
use them. as this very Burmese cam
paien will soon show, and with oul
garters, stars, and legendary saints
we can laugh at the stupid people who
/ can do no better than talk OF a chic
with a silver sword, gold chain, O.
/ a medal.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02

An Attempt to Blow Up the Residence o
Gen. McClurg.

Great excitement was created in
Chicago on the 26th by what the police
think was an attempt to wreck with
dynamite the magnificent dwelling OF
Lambert Tree, corner of Cass and
Ontario Streets. The house, which
cost 100000, has only been com
pleted within the past year, and since
his appointment as United States
minister to Belgium, where he now is,
the house has been occupied by Gen.
McClurg. One of the servants, on
going to the door about 8 O'Clock,
found the Internal machine ly-
ng IN the front porch. The
deadly cOntrivance looked like a
common lamp, and, thinking it was
put IN the porch by some practical
joker, the coachman removed it to
the front yard. On laying it down he
was Mortified to notice that q fuse was
attached to the machine. A hurried
inspection revealed that it was not
the innocent it was deemed to be, and
1T was left untouched until the arrival
OF al officer. The latter carried it to
the central station where an ex-
animation proved that the con
trivance was filed with dynamite,
and for safety it was taken
to the lake front, where in a large
open space It was fired, the officers
barely getting away with whole skins.
1t was stated that had the thing ex-
ploded on the porch of Gen. McClurg,
as was evidently intended. the house
would have been destroyed. The fuse
had been lighted but had gone out be-
fore the fire reached the explosive.
There is no clue to the perpetrators OF
the nIltrapP
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
Gems of Thought.

The yoke a man creates Tor himself
by wrOng-doing Will breed hate in the
kindEest nature.-GeOFge Eliot.
Let every man take care how he
speaks and writes of honest people,
and not set down at q venture the
first thing that comes uppermost.-
Cervantes.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth
in an aged bosom,-WiiHam Pitt
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory
nothing so expensive as glory.-Sid-
ney Smith.
Inquisitive people are the tunnels OF
conversation; they do not take in any
thing for their own use, but merely to
pass it to another.-Sir Richard
Steele.
There are three things in speech that
ought to be considered before they are
spoken-the manner, the place and
the time-SOUthcy.
There is not in nature anything so
remotely distant from God, or so ex-
tremely opposite to him, as a greedy
and gripping niggard.-BarrOw.
Profitable employments would be no
less a diversion than any OF the idle
sports in fashion, if men but be
brought to delight in them.-LOcke.
thank God that if l am gifted with
little of the spirit which is sable toraise
mortals to the skies, | have yet none,
as | trust, OF that other spirit, which
would drag angels down.-Webstcr.
God is present in the conscience OF
good and bad. He is there a remem-
brancer to call our actions to mind,
and a witness to bring them to judg-
ment.-Jeremy Taylor.
Submission is the only reasoning be-
tween a creature and it's maker, and
contentment in his will Is the best
remedy we can apply to misfortune
| Sir ". Temple.
There is something exceedingly thrill
ing in voices of children singing.-LOng-
| fellow.
To believe your own thought, to be-
lieve what is true for you in your pri-
vate heart is true for all men-that is
genius. Speak your latent conviction
| and it shall be the universal sense; fOI
| the inmost in due time becomes the
outmost, and our first thought is rem
dered back to us by the trumpets ol
! the Last Judgment.-EmersOn.
We are apt to be deluded into false
security by political catchwords, de,
signed to fatter rather than instruct
! G9rfph
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
THE STORY OF THE RAIN,

You can accurately tell the man whose married
II you'll notice how he acts some rainy day,
And observe how DER his lady friend is carried
The umbrella that should keep the rain away
II You find the lady his strong arm gripping.
And is walking very closely by his side,
While the water is upon his shoulder dripping,
You may know she IS a maiden or a BRIDE
II the drppings fall, however, on her bonnet,
And he walks about a foot or so ahead,
Then she's nothing but his wife, depend upon il
And they've been for half a score OF winters
wed.
C4Tyyg Inns DiSn4fph
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
a CITY At ITS MERCY.
The Singer Company Master of the Situa-
ton at Elizabeth, y, j.

The great lockout of 5000 men en-
ployed in tie Singer Sewing Machine
Works at Elizabeth, n. j., is ended,
and the men resume their labors. AT
a meeting of the Elizabeth city coun-
Gil, on the night of the 21st, it was
agreed that the levy for taxes on the
Singer property should be raised, the
company giving bonds to protect the
city treasurer. Aid. Smith was ram
pant in his speech against any
such cowardly surrender by the
city, and when the meeting ad-
iourned he narrowly escaped lynch
ing at the hands Of excited fac
tory men, l, 800 of whom were in and
about the city hall. The sewing ma
chine company has the city at its
mercy nov, and means to protect it
self from political and ward hummer
persecution in the future by promptly
closing the factory whenever the city
authorities attempt to enforce unjust
determinations. The company holds
$2,OOO,OOO OF the city's paper, in
Guiding @@35O,OOO of collateral bonds
which the latter threaten to throw on
the market and bankrupt Elizabeth
again. The company gave 50, 900 in
cash to fund to help their idle en-
Moves
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
STFGFE4FS DEATH.
A Laborer Dies from the Effects of q
Nervous Shock.


Joseph Walsh, a laborer aged so
years, strolled into the Brooklyn
Sugar Works on the afternoon OF the
22d, and was watching the machinery
when he fell backward into a large
circular cutting mill and was literally
chopped to pieces. None of the men
employed in the sugar house seemed
to relish the task of removing his
mangled body from the ma
chine, but Frederick Bird7 As
years of age, undertook it. He
succeeded in taking the remains
from among the knives and carried
them out on to the dock where they
We're covered with a blanket. Bird
started back to the sugar house, his
face as pale as a sheet and great beads
of perspiration standing on his fore
head. The sight had completely un-
nerved him, he said. He sat down for
a moment in chair. When he arose
he reeled and fell. He was picked up a
corpse, having died from heart disease
caused by the shock.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02

Greek characters. His classical edu-
cation is fuller than that of any per-
son in the building, and yet he can
find nothing better to do than such
work as a corntield hand might ex-
pect to do. Out OF this class OF per
haps thirty, all but two have dropped
back into just such work as he is do
ing. 1t must be remembered theNorth
does not furnish even equal opportl,n-
ity with the South for the advance
ment OF the negro into even the better
mechanical or industrial pursuits.
The suggestion forces itself therefore
that perhaps there is a good deal of
higher education wasted. 1t is hardly
fair to listen to this suggestion for
some years, by !Ehich time it may
have answered itself.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
1T 1T AGAIN.
Detroit Poles Amuse Themselves Crack
ing Heads aud Windows.


ing Heads aud Windows.
The members of the congregation OF
St. Alhere's Polish Catholic Church
broke out again On the 2Gfh. A crowd
OF some :. GOO attacked the church.
VIII. Ii is sill, closed by order OF the
hish3g. h1s G.l little damage The
Tol ce on duty we're unable to disperSe
the MOI aul seeing one Of the OpnOsi-
ton faction in a bngyv they went for
the vehicle, which was demolished
Their intended victim escaped uuhurt.
but his companion, Col Larned,
prominent Detroit lawyer, was
bit in he head with stone
and only escaped q fractured skull
by the protection OF thick
sealskin cap. About II O'Clock the
crowd seemed TO tire OF this mild spot
and began quietly moving away; but
before going a block they broke into
run, spreading ont over several
streets, but all going towards Hasting
ard Ontario Streets, where Thomas
Ioltowski, another Of the tiKOl-
asinski party, has his corner grocery.
The small force OF police on duty at
the church sent in an appeal Tor help
to be sent to the store. and three
wagons were Immediately sent out.
Before they arrived a ZoItowski's the
crowd had commenced their attack on
the building, which had been strongly
b4rricaded. IN lass than a minute all
the glass IN the building was shattered
into fragments. An unsuccessful at
tempt TO disperse the mob was
made by the police, many Of the
officers, hemme7 il by the rioters so
that they could not use their clubs.
A number Of arrests were made. and
the mob finally dispersed Duringsthe
melee many OF the policemen were hurt
with stones and chunks OF frozenmud.
the principal weapons used by the
mob. 1t is claimed that The riotous
acts OF the kolasin4ki party are not
only coHnteuanced buf planned and
directed by the depo=ed priest
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
KILLED IN AMBUSH.


a Surgeon and Four United states troop
ers Laid Low.
Official information was received
at Washington on the 2lst tnat
Surgeon J. c. Maddox and four men
OF Company c, Eighth Cavalry, were
killed by Indians in a fight with Lieut..
Fountains command at White House,
about twelve miles northwest of Fort
Bayard, New Mexico. Lieut.. Cabell,
of the same troop, and one man were
wounded. There were twenty-One
Indians in the band. They were
moving west, and several de-
tachments are in close pursuit.
This is he same band that Lieut..
Fountains troop engaged December 8,
when he captured their horses and de.
stroyed their camp. The names of
the private soldiers killed were Collins,
Gibson, Hutton, and Mcmillan. DR..
J. c. Maddox was a son OF DR.. Thom-
as Maddox, OF Washington County,
Nd. He was commissioned as assist
ant surgeon in the army in October,
1881, and his first assignment to duty
was to the department OF Texas. DR..
Maddox was 33 years OF age.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
BOILED TO DEATH.
4 Man Falls Into a Boiling CauIdron and
is Taken Ont Dead

IN Chattanooga County, Northern
Georgia, on the 21st, James Startling,
who was killing hogs, used for a scald-
ing cauldron a half-buried hogshead
which was filled with boiling water.
Startling attempted to pitch hog into
the cauldron, but stumbling under the
weight. fell headlong into the seething
liquid. Although lifted out instantly,
he was literally boiled, the flesh
dropping from his body in huge flakes.
He was dead when taken out.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02

at the top OF his voice. His
coat and vest he threw from hisbody,
and ran for watering-trough, where
he dashed in head first. This qunched
the flames, but not till after his face,
neck and arms were terribly burned.
1t is feared that he is hurt internally
by inhaling the flames. The skinfell
from his face and hands and fears are
entertained for his recovery. The fire
in the store asput out without mach
6amaua
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
FALLING WALLS.
A Fire in q Massachusetts Town Results
In Ihraa


Early on the morning OF the 26th, a
fire brokeout in Bcardman's grocery,
in Adams block, Georgetown, Mass,
and extended to the Masonic block,
Equitable building, Tenny's Shoe Fac
tory and the private residence of j. G.
Tenny, al of which were destroyed,
causing a loss that will aggregate
$4,000, partially covered by in
surance. Thirteen business places
were burned out, and $50 hands
thrown out of employment. Engines
were sent from Haverhill and
Newburyport, and but for them
the entire center OF the town would
have been destroyed. During the fire
Joseph Illsley, a fireman, aged 24
years, unmarried, and George A.
Chase, aged 25 years, who leaves a
widow and child, were both instantly
killed 5y the falling walls. Clarence
NJ. Clark, a baggagemaster employed
by the Boston & Maine Railroad, had
his left leg badly crushed. Fred. Gold
smith, Arthur Tucker and Charles
Williams, firemen of Haverhill, were
also injured, Williams probably
fatally. E. A. Yeaton and another
Georgetown fireman had arms broken.
The fire is a severe blow to the busi-
ness interests OF the town.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
THEY RAN AEVAT.
Working Miners Driven Away by Masked
I'll

Strikers.
About 4 O'Clock on the morning Of
the 23d, seventy-fve masked men put
in an appearance at the Old Eagle
mines, OF w. H. Brown & Co., near
Monongahela City, Pa, and as the
workingminers approached the mines,
they were halted and compelled to
return to their homes under a
heavy fire. The strikers seemed more
desperate than upon any previous oc-
casion. All were armed and at least
twenty-five shots were fired. Supt.
Jones, OF the Old Eagle mines, says
thestrikers had evidently laid in wait
the greater part of the night in the
woods near the mines, as they were not
observed until they rushed down
the hillside firing their revolvers and
guns. The workmen were frightened
almost to death, and ran for their
lives. None of them were shot, but a
number were injured in their eagerness
to escape.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
GIVEN UP.

The Search for the Dead Miners Aban-
doned Owing to Quicksand.
The announcement was telegraphed
from Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the Goth,
that all attempts to recover the bodies
OF the miners buried by the recent ac-
cident at Nanticoke had been perma-
nently aban" oned. twas found that
the quicksand in which the rescuing
party was working filed in from above
as fast as it could be removed, and
millions Of feet would have to be re
moved before tie men could be
reached
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
KILLED BY GRE4sERs.
4 Band of Indians Surprised and Scat
tered-EIegen Killed.

tered-EIsven Killed.
A band OF Indians were surprised
by a body of volunteers while en-
camped near the railroad track be
tween Clifton and Lordsburg, Tex, on
the oath. Eleven sas ages were killed
and thirty-three horses captured. The
assaulting party was mainly composed
OF Mexican residents under the guild
ance of big jim" a colored deputy
sheriff. The attack took place before
daylight. The Indians, though well
armed, were so completely demoral-
lied that they fled without making
resistance, and are nov scattered
through the mountains.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
UNDER GROUND.
Four Hundred Miners in Wales Locked In
by an EXPLOSION.

A Dispatch OF the 23d from Pont-y-
Pridd, Wales, reports that a terrible
colliecy explosion has Just occurred at
the Ferndale Pit, near there, and that
400 miners are entombed. No details
of the catastrophe have as yet been
received. Pont-y-Pridd is village in
the county OF Glamorgan, Wales, on
the Gaf River, near Lantwit. 1t has
coal and tin mines, and a chair and
cable works.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
SANTA CLATS ~ FLAMES.

Narrow Escape of Boy from Burning
to Death in a Show Window.
At Alliance, O., on Christmas eve,
Herbert Whitstone, a 13-year-old boy,
narrowly escaped burning to death.
He was acting as Santa Claus in the
show window OF J. r. Nixon, notion
dealer, and was covered with cotton.
He carelessly came ID contact with a
gas Jet, and in an instant was in a
mass of flames. Jumping from the
window, he dashed into the street,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
BOUND For Siberia.
Russian Prisoners Sentenced to Death or
Exile,

Russian Prisoners Sentenced to Death or
Exile.
The trial, at Warsaw, OF the persons
accused Of belonging to the social
revolutionary society called Prele-
tariati, has been concluded. Bar
dowski, a justice of the peace of War
saw; Lury, a captain OF engineers, and
four others have been sentenced 10 be
hanged. In addition to these eighteen
have been sentenced to sixteen years
servitude IN the mines of Siberia; two
others to ten years in the same place
and afterward to be exiled for life in
Siberia, and two more to Siberia for
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-02
Piute Religion.

The Piute Indians have pretty good
religious notions of their own. They
believe in a heaven and a bell that
would satisfy even the most orthodox
and exacting Methodist preacher
The ruler in heaven Is "Pah-Ah," and
the presiding genius in the other place
is called Avea-Dagii. In the Piute
heaven the water Is pure and sweet,
game is abundant, and there are plen-
ty OF pine nuts. The hell Is a burning
alkah desert, walled in by rocky hills.
Those condemned to suffer punish
ment in this place are continually
tortured with thirst, buS the only
water they can find is saturated with
salt and alkah. When they approach
the bordering hills in their Efforts to
escape they are driven back by devils,
who rush out from among the rocks
and thrust frebrands against their
naked bodies. They have among
them, writes a Cincinnati Enquirer
correspondent, preachers OF their own,
who from time to time make good
talks" Not long since their old
preacher died. He was a man who
had much to say against killing, lying,
and stealing. "Poker jim" is a son
OF this old preacher. Like most
preachers sons, Poker Jim is "little
Wild" still, the Piutes have great
hopes OF him, and most of them think
that he will some day fill the place OF
his father es an exhorter OF the peo-
pie to better ways. johnson" a
Piute in some way related to the fam
lily of the old preacher, speaking OF
"Jim" the other day, said: ave think
he begin to make good preach POGO IL
empO. Him now good deal in the no
ton. Already he sometimes give peo-
pie some talk. Him not yet say much
bout for not to lie and steal, but him
make pooty good talk for not drink
whisky. Our people think POGO item
no him make some good talk for not
lie and steal, all same like ole father,
and some good talk bout heaven,
too; but you see him no can do it
now. "Why not give good talk
now" | asked. "Well," looking lit
tie ashamed, ''now him play all time
too much poker. We think POGO IL
empo quit poker and give plenty good
preach, all same like was the dead
father"