The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-10-12
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

Mrs. Henrietta Smell will erect $685.
OG0 memorial to her husband in Union
Park, Chicago.
German financier5 fear panic on ac-
count of a drain o. their gold reserve
by South America.
A laborer in Lincoln Park, Philadel
phla, dug up $20, 900 in bank notes.
Miss Apena Zella, the Swedish songs
tress, was married to Edward A. Achorn,
young Boston lawyer.
Charles b. Bishop, member OF T..
ID. Sothern's company, died in tho
dressing room of the New York Lyceum
Theater.
Dan Coughlin says he hired the white
horse, of Cronin murder lame, but re-
turned it to the barn before DR.. Cronin
was enticed from home.
The Episcopal convention created the
diocese of Oregon with Bishop Morris at
its head.
be made up of 500 Republicans and 2ll
Opposition.
Aeronaut Rice was drowned ct Mt.
Vernon, Ind.
Germans at Des Moines celebrated
on the 9Th the 206th anniversary of the
landing OF the first German immigrant.
-Four men were burned to death in
restaurant at Winona, Miss.
Emperor William expects to remain
two weeks in CCnstantinople.
coroner's jury censured the officials
of the Rock Island road for the South
Englewood disaster.
AT Raleigh, n. c., Father Boyle, a
Catholic priest, was convicted of an
outrageous assault and sentenced to lie
hanged.
I
Ontario caused many marine disasters.
The Mile Lacs Indians have signed
the treaty opening their reservation to
settlement.
Sir William T. Robinson, blind men,
Der of the House OF Commons, commit
ted suicide.
Bishop Vail, of Kansas, died sudden
ly at Bryn Mawr, Pa, while en- route to
attend the Episcopal convention at New
York.
A terrible hurricane has visited the
island of Sardinia. One hundred per-
sons were buried in the debris of build
ings shattered bv the storm and thirty
persons were killed.
The province of Cagliari has been
ravaged by terrific storm in which 24O
houses were destroyed. Sixteen per-
sons were killed and hundreds were in
iured. The town of Cagliari suffered
severely.
The National League base ball season
closed on the 5th, the New York club
winning the pennant.
The total earnings of the st. Paul
road for September were s.. 800, ,0O0,
against $2,479,00 for Septem ber, 1888,
an increase for last month OF ST. 600.
Mrs. J. p. Sands, who liberated the
robber John Mitchell and eloped with
him, was arrested at Casselton, Oak.
A new fast mail train will be put on
between New York and Chicago.
Four German officials were killed in
collision at Posen.
Gen. Asa P. Blunt, u. s. A, died at
Manchester, n. ii.
Prairie fires are raging near st. Cloud,
Mimi.
Thirty-four vessels were wrecked in
the storm of Mexico.
The Mt. Mansfield hotel at Stowe, VT,
burned. Loss, $l05,000.
Prof. Casper Sedamowicz, of Wander
bilt University, is dead.
EX-COngressman Christopher Robin
son, of Rhode Island, is dead.
There were 172 failures in the United
States the past week against 22l the cor
RESP ronding week last year.
The Railway Age reports that during
the first nine months of the current
year, over $500 miles of main line track
have been laid, and that the probabill-
ties are that fully 5000 miles, and per
haps more, will have been completed
before the end of the year.
Several men were killed and others
injured on the Sd by an explosion in the
Calumet & Hecla mine.
The sailing vessel Minnie Swift was
sunk in a collision off st. Pierre, fifteen
persons being drowned.
The portraits of Grant, Sheridan and
Sherman were unveiled at West Point
on the Sd. Gen. Sherman was present.
Gov. Hill has called a special election
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Congressman Cox.
at Buffalo, Gen. L. B. Faulkner,
charged with wrecking the Dansville
National Bank, was sentenced to seven
years in prison.
Seven thousand golfers at Lancashire
have struck for an advance OF per
cent.
The Swiss government has adopted
smokeless powder for the army.
Since the cancellation of the contract
with tie American syndicate, the Bull
garian government has received several
offers of a loan of % 100000 francs.
The Russian government has ordered
thirty engines and 1000 carriages for
the Alexandropol-Erwan Railway fer
transportation purposes.
The Massachusetts Democrats noml-
mated William +. Russell for governor.
Grand Master Workman Powderly
says the knights of Labor are not los
ing ground.
The triennial convention of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church opened IN New
York on the I'd.
The Rotterdam dockmen's strike has
ended.
The capital of South Dakota will be at
Pierre.
The anti-Mahone conference at
Wheeling, W. Va, passed resolutions
denouncing the Virginia leader.
George William Curtis was reelected
president of the National Civil Service
Reform League.
During prayer meeting in the Pres
byterian Church at Moss Point, Miss,
d. A. McInnis was instantly killed and
his little daughter mortally wounded by
a shot fired through a window.
Secretary Blaine opened the PAN
American congress and was elected
president on the I'd. The delegates
were received bv the President, dined
by Mr.. Blaine and will start on forty
| days excursion through the country.
Late dispatches from the new states
confirm previous estimates of maJorltles.
Democrats concede the election of a
Republican congressman from Mon
| tana, while the Legislature is IN doubt,
| and probably Democratic.
ASSAULTED AND ROBBED.