The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-09-25
MINOR NEWS NOTES.


the harhor pier. He was a widower.
and was thought to be slightly de-
mented, particularly on religious sub
1ects.
The much-talked-of glove fight be
tween the great and only John L. Sui
uVan and Frank Heard, OF Philadel-
paia, took place at the Coliseum,
atttsburg, on the evening of the 18th.
four-ounce gloves were used, but be-
foTe the close OF the second round the
''sparTlDg for points 'degenerated into
the customary slugging, and the police
inter1ered and closed the show.
Lightning at kankakee, H., on the
18th, burned the Coris wheel factory
and an adjoining building. Loss S32, :
001
A mob at Belfast, Ireland, made an
attack on the police barracks on the
18th for the purpose OF rescuing a
couple OF drunks. The crowd became
so cemonstrative that the police fred
upon them, one woman being killed.
Nnoar Pasha, Egyptian prime min
lster, has, at the request Of the British
government, started for London 70
assist IN the settlement OF Egyptian
affairs.
The hostile Arabs OF the Soudan
have assembled in force IN Dongola
and now threaten the Egyptian from
tier.
The convicts employed by the Egyp-
tan government at the Diebelzeit
petroleum works mutinied recently
and twenty-four OF the mutineers mad
90 be killed before the others could be
forced again into submission.
The Bulgarian SObranje has ap-
proved the bill appointing a court
martial to try Mai. Gruefs and the
other officers associated with him In
the coup detat on a charge OF treason.
Philadelphia had two serious fires
on the 18th. The five-story brick
building en- Market Street, occupied by
Thompson, Frye & Co., wholesale
grocers, and Coates & Bro wool
warehouse, was damaged TO otheextent
OF $4,000. In the evening the ware.
house OF Pentexter & Fitzpatrick. on
600.
A dispatch OF the 18th from Laredo.
Tex, reports the killing OF the Mexi-
can rebel, El Coyote, and eight OF his
followers by Mexican regulars, in a
fight near Lampasas.
George II. Prescott, aged As, conf
dental clerk for Wise Il MeIander.
Boston agents for the Chicago &
Northwestern Railroad, has disap-
peared, owing several thousand dol
lars.
The Wholesale clothing firm OF julius
Baum & Co., San Francisco. suspended
on the 17tn. Liabilities variously es-
timated at from S75O,O0O to 81, 0O0,-
600.
John Schryock, a wealthy farmer
living near Oluey, H., was murdered
on the night OF the 10th by unknown
parties, who robbed the place OF 50, 900
and burned the house.
John Wyatt and Demps Loitiu, two
Marshall County, (Ky.) farmers, had
a standing quarrel and had not spoken
TO each other Tor years. At funeral
on the 18TH they met and troubie
broke out. Wyatt knocked Loftin
down with rock, whereupon the lat
ter stabbed his enemy seven times
with a knife
Early on the morning of the 10Th
some unknown misCreant removed a
rail from theraIlroad track near South
Lynn, Mich, causing the wreck OF q
loaded freight train. Ell. Newman
was killed, Brakeman Campbell fatally
and Engineer Thomas Davis serious
ly hurt.
Michael Botand, William Lawler and
Thomas O'Neill have begun suit
against the authorities OF the Town OF
Lake, a Chicago suburb, for $50, 600
damages. The three plaintiffs were
arrested for the alleged robbery OF q
box car IN the Lake Shore yards IN
August, and after being imprisoned for
a week were acquitted.
The dwelling Of Leslie Cummings. on
the mountain side in Jackson County.
was crushed by huge rock which be
came detached from g point above.
and two Of Cummings sons and a
hired man were killed and two small
children fatally injured.
The Howard County Bank, at Glas-
gov, Mo, closed its doors on the 18th
and placed its business in the hands
OF a trustee. Liabilities not given.
The building occupied by Ezekiel &
Bernheim's auction rooms and stor.
age warehouse, Cincinnati, was dam
aged on the 18th 10 the extent OF $50
600.
Sir Charles Dixie has returned to
London. 1t is already announced that
he will re-enter public life as the pro-
prietor and editor OF London daily
newspaper.
The London Daily News OF the 18th.
referring to outrages by Chinese pi-
rates, urges that a patrol OF English
and American gunboats be estab-
llshed 70 prevent further piratical
acts.
Prince Bismarck's celebrated mare,
Crete, which heroGe during the Franco
Prussian war, Is dead.
Engineer Tom Buckley and Fireman
Cal Fariss were crushed to death near
Chattanooga, Tenn, by an accident
on the East Tennessee Railroad caused
by the engine running over q COW. The
engine was wrecked, but no passenger.
were hurt.
The Dd Bois Opera House, the dry
goods establishment OF Theodore F.
Swan, Peck's dry goods house and q
number OF smaller houses at Peoria,
H., were destroyed by fire on the 14th.
Loss 500, 1000.
The through lines OF the Canadian
Pacific Railway telegraph system were
opened Tor business on the 4th.
l. d. Williams, q Peoria boot and
shoe dealer, has been arrested for per.
Jury IN the easeo theinsolvent Pettin.
ell firm.
At Westport, Nd, on the 18th. Ed.
ward White, well-known citizen, was
shot dead by David Johnson. The
same night the Jail was broken into by
a mob and the murderer taken ont and
lynched.
A work train at the Chaplin mine
Iron Mountain, Mich, while on g dow