The Owosso times., 1881-12-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

John Ellis, wife and child were drowned
while attempting to cross south Grow creek
near San Francisco Saturday night Ellis was
prominent citizen Of this county.
The steamer British Empire from Havre
New York has $23O,OO0 in specie.
Burger Lewis, marshal of the United
States consulate at Shanghai, suicided October
20.
The Universal life insurance company has
been dissolved by the New York supreme
court.
Secretary Blaine does not intend to hand
over the state department to lis successor un
til the latter part of this week.
A dispatch from Ocala, Fla, states that Baron
A. Won Feilitssch, a Hungarian noblemaR and
an officer in the Prussian army, now in Flori
da, has been married to Miss Louise Brown,
of Cleveland, Ohio.
The anuual meeting OF the Michigan Odd Fell
lows mutual relief association Of Adrian called
out general representation OF members OF
the state.
Coal shipments from Pittsburgh Thursday,
3,988,O0O bushels in ninety four boats, 146
6dLkcb duu niuO IuOi vi tuib, EsOOo,VUO
bushels were for Louisville and $4,000 bush
els for Cincinnati.
A Toledo special says an attempt was made
near Delta, twenty five miles west of Toledo,
Wednesday night to wreck a passenger train
coming east on the Air Line division of the
Lake Shore road. A tie was laid across the
track, which the engineer discovered, but
struck before stopping The shock derailed
the front trucks Of the locomotive. An ex-
criminal at Wauseon who had been put off a
freight train the day previous, was arrested on
suspicion.
At meeting Of the joint committees OF the
two houses Of Congress on the Garfield memoir
al services, Mr.. Blaine was selected to deliver
the Grafton.
A Milwaukee dispatch Dec. 10 says, d. w
Maxon, yesterday, sold SO,s56 acres Of land, the
last Of the Sturgeon bay grant located in Wis
consn, to e. Mariner, of this county, for $685..
600 cash. The sale 10 the largest Of the kind
ever made In the state.
Benjamin H. Brewster, of Pennsylvania, has
been made Attorney General In place OF Nc
veagh.
Chief Justice Hunter, of Utah, has refused to
set aside or modify the order heretofore made
by him In Campbell va. Cannon, In which he
held that the certificate of naturalization held
by Cannon was obtained by fraud, and had
been fraudulently used, and was void on It's
face. This reaffirms that Cannon is an alien.
George william Curtis, In lecture at Buffa-
10 on civil service reform, welcomed President
Arthur into the reformed ranks, and trusted to
see him carry cut the declarations Of his inaug
ural message.
New York has organizedas general Com
mittee for the relief OF the emma fire sufferers
for President, Austrian Consul General Have.
myer, vice Presidents, German Consul Gener-
al Schumacher, John Jay and August Belmont;
secretary and treasurer, Hugo Fritsch. g.
567, have been subscribed OF which 81, 900 has
been forwarded to the Vienna committee to
got sp entertainments
The entire Michigan delegation in Congress
called on President Arthur In q body Friday
morning. They went to present the claims Of
Hon. A. B. Turner Of Grand Rapids for the po-
sition of public printer, and Hon. w. J.. Stone, a
member Of the last congress, for the position
Of commissioner of patents.