The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-01-04
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

The Citizens warehouse, at Yazoo
City, Miss, 5000 bales of cotton and
seven freight cars were burned on the
2Sth. The warehouse was insured for
1900, and the cotton for $275, 900. On
ly As of the 5000 bales were not insured.
The loss on cotton is estimated at $780,
600; building, $4,000; seven freight
cars, $40, 500.
The following buildings were de-
stroyed at Meredith, n. H., on the 18th.
Hodgeson's hosiery cnill, Edwin Cox's
livery stable and carriage house; d. A.
Ambrose's furniture store; double
tenant and several small buildings.
The hosiery mill, with machinery, was
valued at 200. The loss will aggre-
gate 100000.
Fire caused the loss OF 0.000in Will
lam Brasher Il Co.'S ollcloth factory,
New York. The insurance is $4,000.
TIE Menominee Transit Company,
which is made up of leading citizens )t
Cleveland, has been incorporated with
a capital of S2,000,G coo. 1t VIII have Blk
steel steamers built next year, and more
later, with which to transport ore from
the Escanaba region to Lake Erie ports.
During fog on the River Clyde the
steamer Ovington came into collision
with the steamer Queen Victoria, and
the former sank. Five persons were
drowned.
a vein OF gold was found at depth
of 400 feet in the Grayling mine near
Ishpeming, Mich.
A Washington dispatch gives the fig
ures showing that Europe gets most Of
the South American trade.
Mrs. Robert Tyler, who presided at
the White House during Iyler's admin
istration. died at Montgomery. Ala.
The dying regret of the eX-Empress
of Brazil was that she could not see her
grandchildren and her country.
The steamer Oregon collided with and
sunk the ship Clan Mckenzie in the Col
umbia River.
Eugene Hornbocker, Of New i ork, was
knocked out in two rounds by George
Dixon, of Bosten.
Otto Leuth, II wears old, was convict
ed at Cleveland, o., of the murder OF
Maggie Thompson, aged I.
The discharge OF twenty Brotherhood
men by the Cincinnati < southern road
may lead to a striks
The Thompson collection OF cuTlos,
valued at $4,000. was burned in tbs
Western Collage, a., tire.
The influenza continues to spread in
Europe and has appeared IN large
number OF cities in the United States.
the construction Of railroads in South
America, with steamship lines to the
United States, ia projected.
Tents have been pat up in Paris for
influenza patients, the hospitals beng
crowded.
At railway crossings in Chicago go
persons have been killed the past year.
Official advices rom Brazil are that
the reports of opposition to the new
government are exaggerated.
Race troubles. preclpitatcd, it is said,
by a negro desperate, caused a conflict
at Jesup. Ga, in which ten persons
were killed.
The statement that the Washburn -four
mills at Minneapolis had been sold to all
English syndicate is denied by the COM
pany.
There have been thirty deaths from
malignant diphtheria in Russian set
tlement in Dakota.
Charles Mackay, the correspondent Of
the London Time in New York during
the civi! war. died in London.
An epidemic of scarlet fever and diph-
liberia prevails in several counties OF
South Dakota.
Pref. Brooks, of Geneva, n. ", has
discovered a new comet.
Six thousand miners have been
thrown out of work by the shutting
down of Pennsylvania collierles.
A Christmas tree celebration at Eagle
Greek, H., broke up in fight in which
one man was seriously stabbed.
At East Templeton, Ont, w. P. Ford
killed his wife Spd himself