The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-10-19
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

State University, w. |. McKenns, of
Adams County, and p. w. Hess, of
Platte County.
At New York, on the 18th, Luigi
| Landama, 5-year-old Italian boy, and
| Mrs. O'Brien and babe fell from the
| roofs of tenements and were instantly
killed.
Congressman Nutting, of Oswego, n.
y, who resigned a few days ago, died
on the 18th.
Lessing, Solomon & Rosenthal, a
wholesale dry goods firm at Waco, Tex,
failed.
Claude Marks and Sidney Woolfe,
proprietors of the Mining Record, and
| Mr.. Maux, a writer of the Financial
Times, London, have been arrested on
a warrant charging them with threaten
ing to publish libel with intent to ex-
tort money.
The floods in the Tyrol have in
creased, causing enormous damage. In
consequence Emperor Francis Joseph
has been obliged to postpone his jour
ney to see the Empress at Meran.
Sir Julian Pauncefote SAYS that he
will call on Secretary Blaine to discuss
the Canadian fisheries and Behring Sea
, interests.
Paul Mcbride, son of st. Louis law
yer, shot and killed Frank Lotus, a
member of the fire department, for
some fancied insult. Mcbride was
| drunk.
BY the capsizing of the schooner
Laura in the East River, New York,
William Jackson, James Hughes and
| Alexander Christie were drowned, and
Capt. Mclean and James Lawler severe
| ly injured.
The Central Railroad of Guatemala is
in course of sale to French syndicate.
Quartermaster Stowe, of Admiral
Foote Post, g. A. r., of New Haven,
| Conn, is short $4 900 in his accounts.
There g great excitement at Pelee
Island, Lake Erie, over case OF small
pox. Over 100 persons have been ex-
posed.
Ex-Mayor Lester screen, of Bloom
ington, Ill.,, eloped with Mrs. Baker,
the wife of a locomotive engineer. The
couple took about $500 with them.
Both leave families.
Harry Franklin, a prisoner confined
in Jail at Hillsboro, H., made desper-
ate attempt at escape. He attacked the
sheriff with slung-shot made of a towel
and powdered glass. The sheriff kept
| franklin from killing him by using his
revolver as a club. Franklin tainted
from loss of blood and was carried to his
| cell.
DR.. Tett killed f. c. Collins, at Mich
olson, Miss, and Collins brother-ln-laW
killed Tett.
A banquet was given in Berlin to the
! Princess Sophie, who is about to marry
the Crown Prince of Greece.
1t has been decided to make October
IS. the birthday of the lac Emperor
| Frederick, national holiday III Ger
many.
At Winchester, KY, on the l4th, Rich
ard Clark, son OF James Clark, who died
while governor Of Kentucky, was sent
to the poor-house. He has b,en FOR
years confirmed drunksrd: Clark is
!,re-t thor-i,, ou nf Senator Reck and Is a
man of fine education.
The Italian government has declared
q protectorate over Abyssinia.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British min
lister, and family, has arrived in New
York from Liverpool.
| The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
| Will establish line OF steel steamers be-
tween Duluth and New York.
New York was left in almost total
darkness by the shutting off Of the elec-
tric lights by the electric companies on
the night of the 14th.
The Swiss Federal Council is on the
track Of various official abuses in high
places and to remedy one of them has
introduced a bill making it unlawful for
member of the Council to hold any
other salaried office. The bill will be
| passed st once.
The entire upper portion of the Prov
ince of Corinthia, in Austro- Hungary,
! has been inundated by floods rushing
! from tie mountains and the important
| city OF klagentort, the capital of the
! province, is under water to the depth OF
several feet.
King Humbert has given IS, 600 to the
sufferers by the recent storm in the
province of Cagliari, Sardinia.
Al q meeting of the French cabinet ii
was decided to close the exhibition No
| vember 6.
The Chinese theater in New York
| closed for want OF patronage.
Mrs. Reed, of Marshall, Mimi, be-
came violently insane, set her clothes
on fire and was fatally burned.
| The Central Turnverein's new quart
ers on Seventy seventh Street, New
York, which cost s., 100000, were form
ally opened.
Admiral Porter has recovered from
| his illness.
The steamer City of New York, which
stuck in the mud in New York harbor,
| has been floated off.
James Mckinley, brother of Congress
man Mckinley, died at Pittsburg,
Senator Vest is i'll at the home of his
sister at Sedalia, Mo.
A statue of La Sale was unveiled in
Lincoln Park. Chicago.
Fifteen persons were injured in rail
way wreck near Charleston, Md.
| {. +. McGregor shot ]. NJ. W. Cody
dead in the streets of Warrentor, Ga.
4 Il 10. Do Il InoT, raI
| lumber and property valued at $175, 900.
| The deficit of ex-State Treasurer
| Burke, of Louisiana, is now figured at
100000.
The ST. Paul roads branch into the
Sioux reservation will be com pleted by
next spring.
| While wrecking crew was clearing
away freight wreck on the Lansing
| Mich Transit Railway, on the 18th,
| the hosting beam of the steam derrick
broke and fell upon group of a dozen
men, killing Peter Quinn, conductor of
| the construction train, of West Bay
City; George Ruby, of Jackson, q ma
| chinist, and John Tentile Vest, brake
man. of Bay City. The two former
| leave families. The other men escaped
serious injury.
| Iron ore freights have advanced .
cents and coal freights to Chicago ad-
| ysnced 10 cents.
]. w. Blackburn, of Utah, was ap-
pointed Judge of the supreme court of
| that territory
Axtell trCt.ed mile at Terre Haute,
| Ind, in 2:12, and WAS afterward sold
to a syndicate OF horsemen for sl05,000,
Analysis showed that the water sup
| ply of Negaunee, Mich, was very bad.
The branch line of the Milwaukee u
Northern road at Ontonagon, Mich, has
been opened.
President Harrison has appointed
John W. Blackburn, of Utah, to be an
associate justice of the supreme court Of
| Utah.
A shortage of $4,000 has been discov-
cred in the accounts of j. A. Beeman
county treasurer of Osborne County,
| kas.
Mrs. Richard J. A mbrose died at st
Joseph, Mo-, of alcoholism and starya
ton. Her husband is dying of deliriun
| tremens.
a colored porter on q Pullman sleeper
| sh6t Thomas McDeyift and his l5-year