The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1893-04-01
NEWS PARAGRAPHS,

JE. ~. 4. ~1. CLAIR, 1OT more IMAM
twentv-seven years head of the con-
sular bureau IN the State Department,
has been removed.
THE Assumption Coal x Mining Com
pany, of Assumption, H., has shut
down. Stringency in finances is as
signed as the cause.
AT PaduCah, Ky, Jim Speers assault
ed Mat Williams. The latter defended
himself with knife and cut Speers
fatally III the bowels.
WILLIAM MAYoTT accidentally wOun /
ed himself at Stanton Junction, Mich.
with shot gun, the charge entering his
stomach. lie will die.
POSTMASTER J. II. DUFFIS, of Fort Mad
ison, Ia, has been suspended from
office after an examination of his books
by post-ofiice Inspector.
Mrs. LIZZIE SHIEI, while temporarily
insane. Jumped into a we'll at her home
near Brazil, Ind. Although rescued by
her husband she cannot recover.
THIEVES entered the home of Rev.
George NJ. Streeter, at Hammond, Ind.
and carried oil everything of value in
the line of silver plate, jewels and cloth
ing.
MRs. NJ Y. TAYLOR died at Pittsburg
wreck. She had a suit pending against
the railway company Tor so, COO dam
ages.
The German government viii raise
the Washington legation to an embassy,
IN view of a similar change being made
i'll the representation of the | nited
States in Berlin.
Tue steamboat Minnie Cornell, was
burned at keyport, \. J. The Cornell
was lying at its dock, and had DIS
charged its freight before the fire oc-
Cured. She was valued at $4,000.
RECORDER SMITH, of New York, las
imposed fines aggrcgatlng $50, 900 on the
laiesmen summoned TO attend for eX-
animation IN the Buchanan trial, but
who failed to answer to their names
when they were called.
THOMAS HALLIssEY has confessed the
murder at New York of Thomas Nc
LaughIlE, of which he was recently con-
vICted. He is an inmate of the state
prison hospital ward at sing Sing, SUI
terer from consumption.
II is probable that many of the wit
nesses in the Carlyle ". Harris mur-
der trial at New York who made false
attidavits, will be indicted for perjury.
The aficayits We're made IN the effort to
secure new trial for Harris.
TIE steamer Edwin Bailey struck q
rock half mile oil COnev Island Point
and went down in eighteen fathoms Of
water less than half an hour later.
Capt. +. NJ. Lewis and ms crew barely
escaped from the sinking vessel.
TIE marriage of John Edward Prev,
of London, and Miss Nadine CamaC
Neill, daughter of the secretary of the
American Legation in Peru, was cele-
brated first at the British legation IN
Lima and afterward in the Anglo
American chapel.
JOirN ID. GIsrrooa, tIo ruolthy- Nev,-
York pawn-broker, who heads the reg
ular tio ket as a candidate for ward at st
Andrew 5 Episcopal Church, will place
in the contribution plate Easter mcrn-
ing for the benefit of the rector. the
Rev. George Il. Van de Water, a check
for S25 ,0CO.
An attempt was made to wreck pas
sengcr train on the Ann Arbor road.
The management offers 81 goo reward
for the arrest of the guilty parties. 1t
is charged. TO strikers.
DEExEIL x Co., the well-knOwn bank
ers, have resumed their formerintimate
relations with the management of the
Reading Railroad Company, which We're
disrupted some months ago.
TIE secretary of state has revoked
the appointment Of Dean +. Curry, of
Albion, y. Y, as commercial agent at
Yarmouth, n. :. The reasons for this
action are said to be political.
TIE state Department has received
official information that Queen Victoria
has raised the rank of PaunCetote from
that OF envoy extraordinary and min
ister plenlpOtentlary to that of emb bassa
dor.
JEREMIAH GOrRvhL, a timers helper,
aged 2i years. fell ninety feet from the
top Of the new Iulman building at
Terre Haute, Ind, breaking his neck
and dying in few minutes. His home
was at Streator, Ill.
ENoCH MOWE, of Rochester, Ind. who
was convicted OF attempted bribery at
the November election, has been sem
fenced to ten days in Jail, fined S25 and
dlsiranChlsed tor ten years, the lowest
penalty under the law.
A RUNoR apparently we'll founded was
current in the Treasury Department
that the President had decided to
appoint +. 9. Graves, now of Seattle,
Wash, and formerly of New York,
nited States treasurer
SUIT has been brought at Seattle,
Wash, for the appointment of a re.
ceiver for the Seattle, Lake Shore u
Eastern Railroad and for an accounting
from the Northern Pacific, alleging
fraud in the management by the latter
road.
THE O'Neill block at Binghampton,
\. y, burned. Eta Fancher was fatally
burned. The property loss is 500, 600.
MES. NchENHA, widow of the late
Senator Mckenna, Will probably he ap-
pointed po5tmIstress at Charleston, W.
Va.
II. X. THEoBoLD, a st. Louis clerk,
killed himself by shooting as be was
about TO be arrested for embezzling
81, 900.
IT has been decided that Edward
Nanuerlng, of Roxbury, Conn, was
poisoned by his wife. She is under
arrest.
FRED PETERS, while saving wood with
circular saw at Hobart, Ind, was in
stantly killed by the saw bursting into
fragments.
joins GRorLE, gas we'll driIler, was
killed by being blown from derrick at
Curtisyi!le, Ind. He was single and 50
years old.
W. ]. EvEN~oN, a New York grocery
salesman, lost 5000 belonging to his
employers IN betting on horse races.
He has fled.
BLANCHE BrEGFr, aged years, found
q bottle of whisky at Maysyllle. XIV,
and died from the effects Of drinking
the liquor.
JouN 4. MARKHAM, serving four
year sentence in Massachusetts state
prison for assault on his wife, committed
suicide 10y haD-ing himself to the bars
Of his cell.
\ BLOODY duel was fought with swords
near the City OF Mexico by Enrique
Calderon and Enrique +. Martinez, both
journalists. CalderOu was severely and
Martinez slightly wounded.
IT Is said that the appointment Of
pension commissioner was offered 10
CONGRESSMAN Wheeler, Of Michigan.
hut that he refused it on the ground Of
in-health.
TIE DIX Neuveime Steele, a Paris
newspaper, prints rumor that VI.
EiHel has fed. \ re porter sent TO hi-