The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1898-01-22
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
8 GENERAL NEWS.

The Peoria uHl watcrworks were
sold under decree of court to the bond
holders committee for 81 ,Joo,Oou.
The Pope's encyclical on the Manito-
ha school question was read in all the
churches of the Quebec diocese of Montrc-
al, Three Rivers, SherhroOkc. st. IIya-
cinthe, thcoutimi and Rmouski.
dawson City received no regular mail
since last August. Both American and
Canadian miners there believe their re-
Spcctlvc governments have forgotten them
So far mail facilities are concerned.
Five thousand Socialist workmcn
made a demonstration at Vienna in front
of the rathhaus, because DIR. Ieugcr. the
hurGomaster. had forbidden them to hold
4 meeting in the building. The police dis
persCd them and made several arrests.
Jacob Freund of Blue Earth. Mimi.
committed suicide. He is the Frouud
who gained such widespread notoriety mt
the time OF the drowning of pretty Annie
Obrr. He was arrested. had a double
trial and was finally acquitted.
The United States ambassador TO
Great Britain, Col. John Hay. and fami-
", Will sail from Genoa on the North
German Lloyd steamship rrinz Regent
Luitpold for Egypt for tour up the
Nile
William u. Won Meier, an cx-licutcn-
ant i'll the German army and nephew
of retired Admiral NcnZel of the Ger
man army, is accused of petty larceny by
Leon IcmoS, a Market street tailor, in
San Francisco.
Steps toward organized aid for the
Fort Smith tornado sufferers have been
taken ut Kansas City, No. President A.
+. Stilwell of the Kansas City. Pittsbur:
x Gulf road has telegraphcd Mayor Bcu-
nett $1,000 Oh behalf of his road.
1t is rumorcd at Trenton, n J.. thai
a syndicate of New York capitalists has
secured an option on about 30 per cent.
of the general ware pottcrieS in this city
and East Liverpool, Ohio, the two princi-
pal pottery ccnters of the country.
At a meeting nj Pittsburg of coal op-
orators favorable to true uniformity"
conditions. Il committee of five was APP
pointed to nominate uniformity com
mission. after which the meeting ad-
jourued to assemble again at the call of
the committee.
Owing to deficiency of $12O.oNo in
th, appropriation for letter carriers grant
ed hy Congress To the postoiiice depart
ment for the fiscal year. n general rcduc-
ton of carrcr-Seryicc expenses has been
ordered by the Washington authorities TO
begin February |.
Fred Jentgcs. charged with the en-
hcZZlemcnt of $500 from the Moon Bros.
Carriage company ut st. Louis while in
and cashier two years ago, has been ar
rested.
The Toledo ice company's mammoth
icehOuSp. III course of erection at Whit
more Lake. Mich. collapsed. killing two
men instantly, probably fatally injuriug
five and slightly injurins dozen 9th
crS.
Poker playing among the students of
the Western Presbyterian Theological
seminary. in Ridge avenue. Allegheny,
has caused trouble in that institution.
Mrs Henry B. Stone of Chicago.
whose husband was killed hy 4 fireworks,
explosion July 4 last, is a daughter and
one of four legatcoS of Edward -. Man
dell. who has just died i'll New Bedford,
Mass. leaving S1.tnHS to be divided
equally among the four.
The American line steamer Paris ar
rived from Newport News. whittier she
had gone to he ovcrhaulcd. The Paris
Will resume her place in III" New York
Southampton service on January -.
Direct testimony on the part of the
state against Adolph l.. Luctgcrt was fin
ishcd at Chicago after l9S hours in court
The court notified Mr.. Harmon of the DE-
Tense that he must hc ready la proceed
at once.