The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-12-28
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

lOr Drlu2e across tHe EnRish
mel.
OF 1000 nominations sent to the
Senate by President Harrison, l,0oO
have been so ar confirmed.
The great locomotive works OF Pater-
son, n. j., are to be moved to Chicago,
with L. T. Jetfery as general manager.
An English syndicate has secured op-
tons on seventeen Kentucky dlstliier-
les.
One brakeman was killed and another
fatally injured IN collision on the
South Shore Railroad.
Charles Shelar, at Niles, o., killed his
wife, three children and himself.
Five persons have died IN Persla from
the influenza.
The Nebraska State Bank at Pawnee
City failed.
The Emperor William has recovered
from his illness.
Ex-Coperessman Orsamus 3. Mattison
died at Utica, n. y.
j. G. Preble & Co., and J. b. Sheffield
( Son, New York paper manufacturers,
, have failed.
The Brazilian republic he's issued a
decree banishing Dom Pedro and his
family and Withdrawing assistance.
The developments in Brazil and grow
ing Republican sentiment in Portugal
cause uneasiness IN Europe.
Eight thousand miners are idle IN the
Shamokin, Pa, coal district.
The English syndicate has obtained
options on five breweries In Toledo.
A negro uprising ls reported at Potts,
Camp, Miss, and everybody is armed;
Charles Schreeves Waf shot ana killed
by Barry Cauffman, at Clarksburg, w.
Va. ;,
Christopher st. Clair fatally stabbed
his wife in New York, in Il lit OF Jeal-
| ousy.
The remains of another fireman were
found in the ruins of Boston's Thanks
giving fire. :,
ina New York hospital from cocaine
poisoning.
Gov. Thayer, of Nebraska, and party
| of American excursionlsts are III the
| City OF Mexico.
The RawIins and White River stage
was held up near Rawllns, Wyo., and
$50 taken from the passengers.
ira Smith, u years old, Of Canton, O.,
who shot and killed q little girl, WAS
| found guilty Of manslaughter.
Richards Colts was fatally shot at
Martens Ferry, O., by Walter Kelly,
| for intimacy with the latter's wife.
An enthusiastic meeting was held at
| Richmond. Va, to raise money for a
monument to the memory OF Jefferson
Davis.
Joe Lannon, Sullivan's boxing part
| ner, and Reddy Gallagher, Of Cleveland,
will fight in Boston this winter for a
s. $50 purse.
Sixteen cars and an engine were
wrecked in collision on the Plttsburg,
| TT. Wayne & Chicago road. Several
train men were injured.
Walter James, Il farmer living near
Martinsburg, w. Va, slightly wounded
| his wife IN en- attempt to shoot her
| and then cut his own throat.
B. II. Day, who founded the New
York Sun and printed its first copy IN
| 1888, died Yesterday in that city, aged
80. In three years he sold it for $40, 900.
| Day was printer.
| Joseph Woodward, delivery clerk at
the Denver post-otlice, has been arrest
| ed for robbing the mails; also w. L.
Hedstrom, mailing clerk IN the Butta-
| 10. Ny, Office, on the same charge.
| News is received that many hundreds
| Of arrests have been made IN Corea IN
consequence OF the discovery OF plot,
made by the chief ounucb, TO assasslnate
| the king.
It il reported that code messages are
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| Rio Janeiro. The Brazilian minister at
| Brussels has sent his resignation to Dom
| Pedro.
Three of Bushari's head men have
| been hanged at Bagamoyo.
| Surgeon Psrke is dangerously Ill with
| bilious fever at Zanzibar.
| The steamer City of Kingston, from
| New York for Puget Sound, ls believed
| to have been lost.
Seven thousand men and boys are idle
| in PENNSYLVANIA on account OF dullness IN
| the coal trade.
| Floods have changed the channel of
the Sacramento River, and navigation
| is endangered.
| Eight business houses in st. Law
renee, 5. d., were destroyed by ire.
The loss is $4,000, with $6,0O6 lnsur-
/ ance.
1t is estimated that the wealth of the
| United States has increased $lS,662,-
| 900 coo since 1880.
Fire destroyed six-stery building in
St. Louis occupied by the Commercial
/ Printing Company.
Alta rehearsal for a Christmas enter
| tainment in Detroit, the clothes OF
Young girl were ignited from candle,
and she was burned TO death. Several
| others were badly burned.
| The Vienna Tagblatt SAYS that num-
| Der of proclamations addressed to the
| Russians in Gahcia were found IN the
| possession O. man disguised as peas
| ent, who was arrested at PodwolocZyskl,
| in that province. Letters compromis-
| ing many members of the Russian
| Church were also found on him.
| Malietoa has been proclaimed King in
| Samoa, and has been formally so recog-
| nized by the consuls.
VI. Tirard, the French prime minis
| ter; NJ. DeFreycinet, minister OF war;
NJ. Spuller, minister of foreign affairs,
and NJ. Faye, minister OF agriculture,
are suffering from influenza.
The French government has ordered
| three new ironclads TO cost s, 400 600
! each. Two Will be cruisers, each carry
| ing eight guns. All will be built IN
| French yards.
A negro and az Irishman fatally
wounded each other IN row IN Chi
| cago restaurant.
| Miss Flora Look, who killed a man
engaged in s charivari at Des Moines,
| Ia, WAS acquitted by the Jury.
| David Bidwell, one of the best known
| theatrical managers IN the country,
| died at New Orleans.
| Gov. Francis, of Missouri, has resp
| ed William G. Mitchell, who was to
| have been hanged on the Goth.
The influenza epidemic is spreading
| in Central and Southern Germany. A
/ large number of cases are reported IN
| Munich, Mayence, Csssel and Leipsic.
The new loan of the Mexican govern
mont has been more than subscribed for
| in London.
| Wilhelm Won Giesebrecht, the Ger
man historian, is dead.
| A new railroad is projected from For
| est City, OAK, to Omaha.
| 4 resolution has been introduced in
| the Senate for the formal recognition OF
| the Brazilian republic.
Emperor William s ear has again be-
/ come troublesome and be suffers much
| pain.
| The Western States Passenger Asseci-
| alton was dissolved owing 70 the re-
| iUssl efthe Wisconsin, Central to remain
| q member unless allowed diaerentisl
| fares.
| The Senate confirmed the nomination
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