The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-10-18

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VOL. XXI.---NO. Z
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Queer Proceeding.
The Dubuque city health department
as condemned the 500, 600 county
Inspector loung's verdict
tter a thorough examination was that
be building is unfit for habitation.
Condemned by the Fire Marshal.
The Chicago fire marshal has con-
emed the Hyde Park Hotel at Fifty
rst Street and Lake Avenue. 1t must
e provided with several fire escapes
nd inside stairways at a great cost. 1t
ras recently enlarged at cost of $780,.
", and has 80 guests.
Lincoln's Birthplace.
A committee from Chicago in the in
crest of the Works Fair has visited
Washington County, Ky, and bought
le log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln
we'd as boy and where his father was
larried TO Nancy Hanks, the certificate
eing preserved there yetin the county
Jerks office.
Morrill, Goes in Again.
In the Vermont Senate on the 14th,
ustin Morrill, received y votes for
nited States senator; Edward J.
helps received l. In the House Nor
ii received 157 votes; Phelps 56. Both
louses met in a joint session at noon
lection of Senator Morrill,.
Pulitzer Will Rest.
Yielding to the advice of his ply
clans, Joseph Pulitzer has withdrawn
ntirely from the editorship of the New
ork World. The control of the paper
as been vested i'll an executive board
f its principal editors, who have been
ing in its service. The change involves
o change of men or methods.
A Prominent Maine Man Killed.
One of the most shocking accidents
yer known in Bangor occurred on the
il, depriving Name Of one Of her
oted citizens, Lewis Barker. Mr.
arker had just left his residence for
is office when he was struck by a heavy
rm cart drawn by a runaway horse.
e died from the shock two hours later.
An Old Priest Dead.
The Rev Albert Schettler, the oldest
lember of the Redemptionist Order in
he United States, died at the Communi-
, House, of St MichaeHs German
atholic Church in Baltimore on the
,th He was 81 years old, and six
ears ago celebrated his tiftieth ami
ersary as a priest of the Redemptionist
rider.
Woodruff Once More.
\ deputy sheriff is at Chicago from
.ansas, ready to take Frank Woodruff,
Cronin notoriety, back to that state,
possible, when the fellow is dis
harged from the Bridewell, where he
as sent a wear ago by the criminal
)urt. Woodruff is wanted in Kansas
II horse-stcaing but, owing to a tech
lcality, there is doubt whether he can
e eXtradlted.
\ Queer story.
The Iowa supreme court brought the
.lebrated Billings murder case to Il
inclusion on the 18th by reversing for
let court in the case. The supreme
ourt holds positively that Kingsley
suicide. Billings was con
icted of the murder of Kingsley, and
now serving out term III the pcni-
.ntlary therefor.
Gone Daft.
1t has been learned that at the close
the Russian military manwuvres in
olhynIa the Grand Duke Nicholas,
ho had the chief command of the
-mv, suddenly became insane from the
feet of the disease from which he has
,ng suffered, and that he was removed
lcognito to Gen. Martyrotf s estate in
le Don Steppes. The physicians de-
are that his condition is hopeless.
Car Works Closed Up.
The indianapolis Car and Manufacture
lg Company, a concern employing 500
ands, was placed in the hands of Il
,ceivcr on the 10th. John Voorhees,,
agent of the company, filed
lie action, alleging that he holds the
promissory note for 5000
ast due. He claims the company is
lsolvent. having debts amounting to
80, GOO, the assets being S6Oo,GO and
>, 900 Of the liabilities now due.
Rough on the Saloons.
The liquor dealers of Morgantown,
nd. !, are in a state of siege. Saturday
light Il dynamite bomb was placed I'M
er W. /. Hancock's drug store, and the
xplosion damaged his stock and the
uilding to the amount of 81, 800. \
office was posted on Joseph Norman's 5
rug store door saving his place was
ext in line. William Musselman, a
.loonkeeper, was notified TO leave
ithin twenty days or suffer serious
EIOpers Caught.
\ LoganspOrt. Ind, dispatch of the
II saws: t. B. Bruck and Clara Oln-
iusen, of Columbus, O., arrived here
lriv this morning, and were at once ar
,sted and taken to IA hotel. This after
oon two irate sets of parents arrived
ON Columbus and took them home to-
ight Bruek is the son of Mayor
ruck. of Columbus. The young lady is
right and pretty. Both are under age,
ld the opposition of their parents 10
leir marriage caused them TO make the
attempt at elopement.
Killed by an Asylum Inmate.
James NJ. Dougherty, the student who
.ade himself notorious by prosecuting
larry Anderson with his attentions, and
ho was placed in the Flatbush Asy-
I'm. shot and killed Or. Lloyd, the as
stant physician of the asylum, on the
light of the 9th. After the shooting he
ent to New York, where he was ar
asted and locked up. He confessed his
rime. He was an inmate of the asy-
lm until three weeks ago. when he es-
aped He SAYS he had determined to
Ill the officials of the asylum because
ley ill-treated him.
In Memory of Father Mathew.
\ procession numbering 50.oN per
1ns marched through the streets of
dublin on the 18th i'll honor of the
lemorv of Father Mathew, the apostle