The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-10-23
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3 GENERAL NEWS. !
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DR.. J. +. Monroe of Union. s. C..
committed suicide at Atlanta. Ga, last
night by cutting his jugular vein with Il
small pocket-knife.
The barn of the Kansas City tMoD
Transfer company burned. Loss. $50
900; partially insured. Eighty horses
among them four fancy coach teams,
were destroyed.
F. c. Farnham. a mining engineer of
Seattle has just returned from the East,
where he succeeded in organizing Il COM
pany to build narrow gauge railroad
from Skaguay to Lake Bennett over the
White pass.
Omaha for the murder of Ida GaskiIi IN
November. 1893 Morgan died protest
ing his innocence. His victim was but
II years old and had been outraged and
chokcd to death.
Two Cinnamon who have been min
ing in the CaSsiar district Is. c. have
arrived at Victoria. They took ont $40
OO0 and have drafts on the Hudson Bay
company To show for it. There is much
excitement in Chinatown.
Thomas w. Adams. who was promi-
nent in the Tammany society torty-tiyr
years ago and who was chairman of the
committee which escorted the body of
President Monroe to Richmond, Va. died
at his home in Brooklyn. aged - years.
A car on the Oregon City Electric
! line was held up by two masked men at
Mcldrum station, near Portland, Or.
There were thirty-tivc passengers on
board. and the hishWaymen went
through the pockets OF all of them, get
ting about $50.
Tho whalers that wintored in the
| Arctic last year are having hard luck
this season. Only one of them succeed
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! the fleet that will return this fall will
! bring only Il small revenue TO their own
/ "rS.
A. f. Robinson, the bisamist. VIII"
! married young woman of Richlaud
| county and afterwards another woman
! in Iowa. who on being arrested for tn.
! crime, pleaded guilty. has been sentenced
! to FIVE years in the Iowa pemtcntiary.
! the full penalty for the crime in that
! state.
w. O. Downs of Cleveland. O.. com
mitted suicide by shooting himself in the
head in New York. He was an old friend
| of President Grant. a Schooimatc of Sena-
! tor j. X. Jones and an associate of
| George NJ. Pullman. He was radical
| free silver man and stumped for Bryan.
Peter f. Studehakcr. second vice
! president. treasurer and genera manager
| of the Studchakcr Bros Manufacturing
! company. NOuln lrt'Htt. I'M, ulit III ill'
sanitarium ut Alma. Mich.
/ An application was mad" at CIcvo-
! land for an inquest of lunacy III the case
! of Archibald McIarcn, Il prominent
! Scotchman. McLarcu has been for s"y-
! eral years the treasurer of the Soc.yty ut
! Scottish Clans. Recently il was diScov-
cred that he was short $1,000 in his ar-
counts.
A plan of permanent union of two
patriotic societies - nearly similar ~
name and purpose was agreed upon 1T
| Cincinnati. They are the National SO
! cicty Of the Sons of the Revolution AMI
! the general society Of the Sons of In"
! Revolution.
A tramp was badly burned in a fire
which destroyed the kohlhaas meat mar
/ ket at Calumet, Mich. There is a suspi-
cion that he started the fire himself.
Roy Smith. > years old, fell into y
! kettle of hot tomato Cat$up mt Arc0la,
| H., and was frightfuly @"aldcd. About
Il week ago the child miStook Il cup "i
! lyc for water and drank Il good portion
of the deadly drug. He is in a prccarl-
ouS condition, but it is thought hc viii
| recover.
Senator Iillman Of South Carolina is
i'll. He is suffering from catarrhal jaun-
dice.
In fight between settlers and sn =
| herds in Long Valley. Wash. asdu
named Barber was killed and several
persons injured
-Ex Senator Charles W. Jones of Flor
ida died at Detroit. He has for ncarl@
| ten wears been i'll retirement ut 81. .Iu-
! Scph'S Retreat. Dearborn. ten miles from
| Detroit. IurCciprocat"d infatuatjun for
a Detroit woman is understood 10 have
been the prime cause of the senator /,
mental troubles.
Charles r. Beck was found dead in
bed at Los Angeles, Cal. death being
due to heart failure. He was Il son of
the late Senator Beck of Kentucky. and
| son-in-law of Col SymoudS. formerly a
teacher ut West Point. He leaves 4
widow and several children.
An explosion in a tunnel being con
structed by the Mexican National rail
road near Monterey. Mex. Killed four
| men outright and ten others were S"rI-
| ousy injured.
-Adviccs just received from Manila.
capital of the Philippine stands, say that
| earthquake shocks were felt at NHniiuIu
| Turing the last days of September. Great
| damage was done to property and there
! Was considerable loss of life The worst
effects were experienced at SamauG"a
and BaSilan, where n0XiouS vapurS is
| suing from fiSsurcS i'll the earth, aSphyNi-
ated many people.
-ticorgc Jackson and Charles WI
! HHmS. WHO held up an Oregon Hallway
! and Navigation passenger Train seven
miles from Portland. Or. were sentenced
To thirty years each i'll the pcnit"ntiarE.