The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-06-18
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

car repair shops of the st. Louis x
Suburban Railway. Loss, $50, 900; part
ly insured.
Two lads were drowned at Muscatine,
Ia, while playing on a raft.
| Mrs. JULES LEROY. wife ola coal miner
at Imperial, Pa, tried TO hasten the
| breakfast by pouring kerosene on the
| Kitchen fire. An explosion followed,
and Mrs. Leroy and her two children,
aged and 10 years respectively, were
burned 80 badly that the youngest child
| died III an hour. and the mother and
| other child cannot recover.
! TIE clothing firm of Fred Eversman
& Co., of Toledo, failed. The liabilities
are SIS ,O00, while the stock is estimated
a. $50, 900.
ONE of the largest fires that ever Wis
| tied the water front of Baltimore start
| ed a few minutes after , O'Clock on the
nth, on the Old Bay Line wharf at the
| foot of Union Dock. The loss, as near
as can be estimated, is nearly 81 900, 900.
| TIE tenth annual convention of the
| Association of Master Plumbers of the
United States metal Washington on the
| 18th, with 2.j7 delegates present. Near
| ly all OF the important cities IN the
| country were represented.
| TIE Danube River has risen fourteen
and a half inches IN one night. At Raab,
which is situated siXty-seven mics
| northwest of Buda Pesth, at the con
! fiuencc of the River l;aab with an arm
Of the Danube, the waters Of the i,aab
| have commenced rising ana the town is
already isolated from the surrounding
| country by the flood.
DISPATCHES from Calcutta say that the
cholera is raging with increased mortal
~ 4 f,,h. IS,fp
Of stopping its progress, as the sanitary
| condition of the country is the worst
| possible.
| Local customs officers at Seattle,
! Wash, after a desperate fight with a
| gang of Cinnamon, seized SO pounds
| OF smugglcd opium i'll wash house
| Three Chinese, one Il woman, We're
| badly wounded by the officers one of
| the officers was cut by Il dagger used by
| the woman.
+, THE deadlock in the labor situation at
I Wallace, Idaho, is broken. A commit
| tee from the Miners Union and the
| owners of two Of the principal mines
| have signed an agreement by which the
| men are 10 return TO work at union
prices. The mines Will start up i'm
mediately.
FIRE at birmingham, Ala, destroyed
|
| houses and Il hotel ana furniture factory
at Cullman, the famous Alabama Ger
| man colony, entailing ii loss of $4,000;
| partially insured.
Tue toresters have elected the fol-
| lowing officers High chief ranger,
John {. Schubert, Chicago; vice high
chiefrdngcr, +. Isitchol, Montreal: hi,rh
secretary, Thomas IL. Cannon, Chicago;
| high treasurer, Henry Ditmer, Chicago.
IHEoJGH the careleSSnesS of a stage
carpenter, who lit a match TO see what
was wrong with the gas meter, Powers
Opera House, the largest thca.er IN
Grand Rapids, Mich, was damaged TO
the extent Of 1000, and the block in
which it is situated Will require $50 900
more before II Is repaired. Edward
Warrington, the man who started the
| fire, turned OFT the Gas before escap-
lrg. lie was but slightly burned. Sew
cral women Were rescued with difficulty
from the upper stories Of the block the
fire spreading with marvellous rapidity.
THERE came near being horrible ac-
cldent on the Andovcr Mass. electric
road on the llth. Two cars going down
hill coiiided. and rs Il result an uu-
known boy Is dead, lady passenger
has both legs broken, Il motorman and
conductor have broken limbs, and half
dozen others are injured.
IL. \. Cox, residing near Nevada
Mo, while digging under floor of his
| residence III the course of some re-
| pairing, discovered a large kettle full of
money, supposed TO have been buried
there during the war. The discovery
WAS made four weeks ago, but the news
has only now leaked out Cox is re-
ported as saying the find amounted to
| $1,000.
TIE comptroller OF the currency has
| authorized the new Duluth National
| Bank, of Duluth, Mimi, and the Home
National Bank, OF Royersford, Pa, TO
begin business each with, a capital OF
O,0On.
Ir is announced that the recent inter
view between United States Minister
Coolidge and Minister itbot was purely
OF a social character, and that the eX-
tradition and commerciai treaties were
not discussed.
THREE persons were killed and Il
dozen injured by collision on the
Midland hallway near llkley, England
"IorS resulting from Il strike have oc-
Cured III Catalonia. Serious conflicts
took place between the rioters and the
police and several persons were badly
wounded. DurIngthe disorders num-
Der of workmen of san Martin attacked
| IL mill proprietor with stones and seri-
ouslv injured him.
NATHANIEL RorHScIuLp, of Vienna,
| announces that he has decided TO retire
from the turf and that he will dispose
OF his stud, which Is the largest in the
| county. This decision will prove Sc
rlous blow 10 the turf in Austria.
y DESPATCH from sydney, New South
| Wales. SAYS that the British ship Way
ertree, from London for sydney. had
| most Of her inward cargo, valued at e5S, :
| OUO, destroyed by fire. The vessel va :
| but slightly damaged.
DISPATCHES from Madrid say that 9
| hailstorm has done great damage at Lin
! ares, town in the province Of Jaen,
| and destroyed the crops. Two women
aud two children, who were working in
| the field, were struck by lightning and
| Killed.
The London Times says in regard to
| the proposal To reconstruct the New
Oriental Bank, which suspended with
| liabilities placed at c1,25G. coo: "If the
! object Is 10 cover the losses by relying
! upon the ultimate general adoption Of
| hl-mctallISm the less support the scheme
| receives the better"
II the British admiralty's expert
| ments with the brennan torpedo one
! torpedo did not work and the other
| plunged to the bottom of the sea IN
/ stead OF seeking an enemy near the
surface. The results have created a
/ dcCldcd sensation, rs tile torpedo has
| cost England elOe, GOO. The newspapers
are all demanding Sn inquiry as 10 the
| acquisition 81 the Brennan invention by
! the government.
TuE president Of the Argentine Re
pubic has issued orders for the release
| from custody of Or. Alem, the leader Of
the radical party, and the other con-
! sp'raturs imprisoned with him. They
| were engaged IN = plot to assassinate
| President Pelligtini and establish q
dictatorship.
| y MANIFESTO in reply 10 the pope's
recent cicyclieal has been issued by
royallst members of the French
| chamber OF DEPUTIES. "French royal-