The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-10-05
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

An Internal machine was discovered
near the Royal palace at Geneva, ,iSwitz-
erland, on the lst. The discovery was
made just in time TO avert disaster.
Three persons lost their lives by the
accident in the tunnel near Naples. A
signal mans negligence was the cause.
The French government will prose
| cute The Intransigeant for asserting
| that war Office funds were used for cleo
| ton purposes.
B. c. Jones, son of the Chicago Street
| railway magnate, has become insane
| from dissi patton.
New York Democrats nominated q
state ticket headed by Frank Rice for
secretary of state.
Ex-State Treasurer Burke, of Louis
lana, has been indicted by the grand
jury.
The subscriptions to the fund to meet
the expenses of Mr.. Parnell in his de-
tense before the Parnel Commission
have closed. The total amount sub
scribed is e4l 900.
Thomas Mcfee, one of the oldest cap
ltains on the lakes, died at Sandusky, o.,
/ on the lst.
First reports indicate that the Repub-
slicans carried the two Dakotas and
Washington, and probably elected their
candidate for Congress in Montana, on
the lst, as well as majority of the Leg
,islatures in all four states.
Adyices from Crete are that the Turk
ish troops on the island are cruelty tor
/ mentiug Christians. Two women were
outraged by soldiers. At mass meet
ing at Athens it WAS resolved to appeal
to the Royalists attending the Duke of
Sparta wedding for protection for the
Christians in Crete.
The Liverpool cotton corner has col
lapsed.
The public debt decreased Sl3, 500, 900
during September.
The pope has approved the five bish-
ops of the st. Paul arch diocese.
Fifty persons were killed ard injured
in a railway accident near Naples on
the 30th.
The free scnool question is to be agi-
tated in England to harass the party in
power.
Ten men were killed by an explosion
in colliery at Hamburg -on-the- Rhine
on the 2Sth.
Admiral Kimberly has arrived at
Honolulu. He will make the Nipsic his
flagship.
Nellie Ewing and Mamie Lee, each
aged l5, of Mount Vernon, O., eloped
with boy companions
Capt. w. X. Jones, general manager
of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works,
died from injuries received IN the re-
cent accident at that plant.
Secretary Rusk says the new process
for making sorghum is not a success.
c. A. Plllsbury denies that a syndi-
cate has purchased the Pillsbury mills.
A syndicate has been formed to man
ufacture steel rails at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Two London syndicates have invested
100000 600 in industrial enterprises in
the United States.
The Brotherhood of Base Ball Players
leased grounds in New York at an an
nual rental of $4,000.
The investigation of the Rochester,
Mimi, asylum resulted in Supt. Bow
ers' exoneration and his resignation.
The Illinois Steel Company is talking
| Of connecting It's plant with the harbor
by means of a ship canal.
At Waterloo, Ia, on the 29th, Law
yer Billings was again found guilty OF
the death of handsome young w. l..
Kingsley, the alleged paramour of
Billings wife. This WAS the second
trial. The verdict is murder in the sec
ond degree, with a penalty of imprison-
| 'ment for at least ten years.
Ignatz n. Morgenstein, general secre-
lazy Vi Tie Ollsn NdllOHdl hllldIlCt, HAS
embezzled SI2 600 of the funds of the
,order.
Five persons were drowned in pond
at Fall River, Mass, on the 9th, by the
,upsetting OF boat.
The st. Louis express train was dltched
near Palatlne, n. Y, on the 20G, and
several persons killed.
At Baltimore on the 26th, the Mary
| Sand Democrats nominated L. Victor
| Baughman, of Frederick County, for
| state comptroller.
The Duke of Coimbia, brother of the
| king of Portugal, is dead. He was born
| November 4, 1917, and was general of
| division and inspector general of cav
| airy.
| . The Mexican Consul at Antwerp, who
| committed suicide recently, was ruined
| by losses at the gaming tables.
| There is sadness in Switzerland be-
| cause of the wholesale destruction of
| the grape and tobacco crops by an un-
| timely frost in the valleys.
-Four Italians have been arrested at
| Trieste OIL suspicion of having been con-
| cerned IN the recent bomb explosion.
Three men were Kill ed by an expios-
| ion of powder mill near Pottsville, Pa,
| ON the Goth.
| Emmons Blaine and Miss Anita Nc
! NOTHlCk were ndFFlSu AI hiCHu6lu
| Springs, n. Y, on the 26th.
BY the fall of a furnace OF molten
| metal at Carnegie's works at Plttsburg,
on the 26th, eighteen men were terribly
! burned.
| The Paris municipal comm ssion has
decided that the votes cast for. gen.
| Boulanger, IN MOntm8rtre, in the recent
| elections are null and void, and has de-
| clared NJ. Jotfrn, the labor candidate,
| who received the next highest number
| of votes, elected. The commission has
also nullified the votes cast Tor Henri
| ,ROCheiort, In Belleville. The commits
| sion confirmed the election of Count
| Dillon for the department of Morblhan.
The New York Republican conven-
| ton at Saratoga nominated the follow
| ing ticket: Secretary of state, John J..
| Gilbert, of Malone; comptroller, Mar
| tin W. Cook, of Monroe; state treas
urer, Ira W. Hedges, of Rockiand; at
| torney general, Gen. James NJ. Var
mum, of New York; state engineer,
William ?. Van Rensselaer,, of Seneca
| judge of the court of appeals, Judge A.
Haignt, OF Buffalo.
Massachusetts Republicans on the
25th nominated J. Q. A Brackett for
| governor and Henry B. Pierce for sec
retary of state.
| James L. Chalmers is the nominee of
the Mississippi Republicans for COVER
| nor.
| DOUGLASS GOES IN STYLE.