The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-08-19
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Lightning struck the Eiffcl tower in
Paris ten times without material damage.
w. w. AstOr's cxpatriation is said TO
have been due to dlSappointmentS in poll
tics. He was twice defeated for Con
greSS.
Rev. G. w. Martin of Hartford City,
Ind. was using Il patent vapor bath,
when the contrlvance exploded. He was
frghtfully scalded.
Over 400 delegates attended the
twenty ninth annual convention Of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America in Studebaker hall, Chicago.
The Denver Smeter Mems union has
voted almost unanimously to continue its
strike until the American Smelling and
Refining company shall agree to pay the
wages awarded by the state board of ar
bitraton.
Col. w. +. Sim, we'll known in the
atrical circles, died at Pittsfeld, Mass.
High taxes and too much competition
are the causes assigned for the removal
of cotton mills from Maine 10 Georgia.
The postotiice department is arrang-
ing plan to have carriers register let
ters at residences.
Judge Dibell decides that Joliet. H.,
salOonkecperS must pay $1,000 license.
The liquor men will appeal.
While testing a gas main in Win
nimac, Ind. an explosion occurred. How
ard Hoch was instantly killed and his
body burned to a crisp by escaping gas.
William Stratton and Farmer Smith and
son were painfully injured.
City Marshal Luther Scheren of
Marion. Va. shot Joe Rult, killing him
instantly and fatally wounded Mrs. Rult
for resisting arrest. Scheren attempted
to take Mrs. Rult into custody on Il scri-
Gus charge when her husband interfcrcd
Count Pierre Alexandra Won Mchren-
schild was arrested III New York charged
with embeZzling 10000 rubles from the
Russian government.
Senator Il. Q. Mills sold a part of his
farm near CorSicana, Tex. including a
number of oil wells to the Standard Oil
company for S342,OOO.
Harry Groswold, convicted of killing
detective in the Pullman riots Of 1891.
after Il sensational trial, died of consump-
tion in Joliet pcnitentiary.
Ono jockey was killed and two badly
injured in Il racetrack collision ut Shelby
vile, Ill. Horses and Jockeys were
thrown i'll an indiscrminatc heap
The audience at a Chautauqua meet
ing at st. Joseph, Mo, refused to listen
to an anti-cXpansion TRADE 10y Congress
man Cochran and left the hall in a body
Annie Kronman, wife of a wealthy
New York merchant, was found in her
home with two big gaSheS i'll the back Of
her head. Who struck her is yet uH-
known.
Mrs. William Montgomery, wife of n
farmer residing near Dearborn, Mo. shot
and killed Mrs. Hannibal Collier for tcs-
gifying against her III Il recent suit for
SANDER She started for another witness
when she was arrested.
Herman HauScr. the treasurer of the
Herald Square th"atcr. who iumP"d from
| the Brooklyn bridge. WAS arragucd in
court to answer to the charge of at
tempted suicide. llauScr explained that
he was intoxicated when Ii" made the
jump. and was discharged.
-GeorSe Bond was found near River
Front park, in Denver, Col, with a bul-
let wound in his breast. Later the dead
body of Goldie McConkcy WAS found scy-
| eral blocks distant with tvo bullet
wounds i'll her breast. Bond denies hay
ing killed his sweetheart and says that
| someone unknown to him shot them both