The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-09-28
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

MINOR NEWS NOTES.
European newspapers fear that the
conference of American states at Wash
ington will result in giving the nited
States monopoly OF South American
trade
Edward NJ. Walworth descended in a
balloon into lake near Cooperstown.
n. Y, and was drowned.
The parachutist, lie Roux, in descend
ing from balloon at Rsvel, on the oath,
iell into the sea and was drowned.
The Leeds News Gays that Mr.. Will
lam II. Smith, the first lord of the treas
ury, anonymously paid for church re-
Gently at PoTtsCa, the cost of which was
G22, ,0U0.
A bill has been introduced in the
Dutch parliament allowing vessels en-
gagged in the coast trade IN the Dutch
East Indies, and sailing under foreign
flag, TO ship cargOes of sugar cane.
A fire broke out at noon on the 23d in
the lumber yards of Buckley d Doug
las, at Manistee, Mich. The entire city
and mill fire departments were called
into service. Nearly 100000 -eet of
lumber and other property was con-
sumed.
The secretary of state Of Illinois has
issued a License TO incorporate the
Electric Street Railway Company, at
Chicago; capital stock 100000; to build
and operate street railways.
The will OF the late s. s. Cox has been
filed for probate. The instrument gives
all his estate, real and personal, to his
widow.
The third annual corn palace carnival
at Sioux City, Ia, opened on the 23d
with the usual tirst-day attendance.
The formal opening occurred in the
evening with an address by President
Erwin, of the Corn Palace Association,
and j. NJ. Thurston, OF Omaha, tempo
rary chairman of the last Republican
national convention.
The emperor of China and his council
are debating memorial for the eX-
pulsiou of Americans from the empire.
After a continuous final session last
ing twenty hours, the New Mexico state
constitutional convention closed Its la
bors at O'Clock on the morning of the
23d.
The committees collecting funds for
the worlds fair at st. Louis have over
100000 of the $5,OG0,O0 guarantee
fund already pledged, and the total will
reach nearer Sc. 500 eco than S., ,O0O,O
Tie Board OF Police Commissioners Of
II
23d, ordered the chief of police to sup
press the Salvation Army in the city.
The order was issued on account of the
numerous cases of peace disturbance
at the army's headquaI ters.
The United Glass Company, of SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, has purchased all the win
dow glass plants in Illinois, being those
at Rock Island, Ottawa and Streator.
The United Company viii operate these
works hereafter.
The German government Will soon
notify England that Germany regards
herself bound by the stipulations Of the
London Sugar convention, unless the
English parliament fails to ratify them,
in which case Germany reserves the
right OF acting for her own interests.
A Portland, Ore, dispatch OF the 22d
says: During the past thirty hours
heavy rains have prevailed generally
through the valleys and have extin-
raging around Portland in several locah-
ties.
The British warship Lily sank off St.
Johns, n. F., on the Goth, with seven
men.
Marshall Field has subscribed 800, 900
to the Chicago Worlds Fair guarantee
fund.
The steamer City of Detroit, with 7G0
passengers on board, came very near
foundering in a storm on Lake Erie on
the 18th.
The steamer Florence foundered in
the Irish Sea on the Goth, while en-
route from Garston to Belfast. Nine
persons were drowned.
The marquis of Londonderry, the re-
firing lord-lieutenant of Ireland, In a
speech at Stockton, said that he be-
lieved twenty years OF coercion would
pacify Ireland.
John Burns and other leaders have
signed a manifesto on behalf of the Ma
tional Federation OF Labor Unions invIt-
ing all workmen to join IN order TO pro-
tect themselves against the masters
mbinatlons.
Lawson TAFT, the eminent gyneColo-
gist, in an interview said he was of the
opinion that the Whitechapel, Chelsea
and Battersea murders were committed
by the same criminal, probably luna
tic woman, employed in a slaughter
house, and subject to fits Of epileptlc tu-
r0r.
The Iowa Democratic state conven-
ton, which met at Sioux City on the
lSth nominated Horace BOies, of Wat
erloo, for governor; s. l.. BestOw, of
Charlton, Lucas County, for lieutenant
governor; Judge w. IL. Brannon, of
Muscatine, for supreme Judge, long and
short terms; Thomas Irish, of Dubuque,
for superintendent of pubhcinstructIon,
and David Morgan, of Poweshiek, for
railroad commissioner.
1t is reported that Miss lie Caron, the
daughter of the English spy, has writ
ten letters to a young man IN Chicago,
4 Il.
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