The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-01-19

competed next saturday, anu tnt CITY
council has closed Peel street for aweek
to make coasting surface mile long
down the side of the mountain.
A fire in Tweddle hall block in Alba
ny, which contained an opera-house, a
bank. and ten stores, caused a loss OF
$4,000. Erastus Corning's residence
was saved by the determined efforts OF
citizens.
A number of st. Louis merchants
formally presented Fire marshal Sexton
with a handsome driving-whip, to re-
! place one worn out on a fellow who In
suited ladies in the street.
There were eleven shocks of earth
/ quake Tuesday in the town of Archena,
! Spain, and mass was said in the fields
because the church was considered un-
safe.
In the Chicago gambling cases, Judge
Rogers has decided that gambling i'm
/ plements can not be summarily destroy
ed by officers selling them. and that the
! police force can not serve warrants
! issued to sheriff or constable.
Miss sherwood. whose father is chief
engineer of the United States navy, was
thrown to the ground in the Murray
hill quarter of New York, in daylight,
and robbed OF pocket-book and ear
rings.
The British note in regard to Egypt
proposes that in time of war the stay of
naval vessels in the SueZ canal shall be
limited; that no hostilities shall be per-
mitted in its waters, and no fOrtifica-
tions shall be erected in it's vicinity.
The children and grandchildren of
the late Humphrey Griffith, of Indian
apolis, are the only heirs to the fortune
of Hugh M. Griffith, who died in
London last week, leaving an estate
valued at $2,000,O00.
j. +. Bush, wagon-maker in Cleve-
land, drove crowd Of mischievOus
boys out of his shop. They went to the
rear of the building, pushed long iron
rod through hole in the wall, and
gouged out one of his eyes.
Charles l.. Brown, IA years of age,
employed in the sheriff's Office in Bos-
ton, made fruitless attempt to open
the safe. and to divert suspicion put on
handouts and gagged himself with
newspapers.
Liquor merchants in Chicago and
Milwaukee claim that q whisky ring ex-
lists in the Sixth internal revenue dis
trict of Michigan, and facts are being
gathered to place before the authorities
at Washington.
At Paramount, West Virginia, Mrs.
Hettie Cunningham threw her young
son from the suspension bridge into
the MOnongahela river, and leaped off
herself. Both fioated over the dam, but
were rescued and resuscitated.
The Pennsylvania company secured
the Columbus, Chicago and Indiana
Central road for $13, 900, no other
bid being made, and deposited 81 .OO0, 900
of the mortgage bonds to bind the
bargain.
of Niagara Falls has been formed in
New York. under the presidency of
Howard Potter, and bill for the pur-
chase of the surrounding lands will be
introduced in the legislature at Albany.
A deep sensation was created in Eu-
rope by the Milwaukee calamity. The
Daily Ne,cs, of London, finds it difficult
to understand how people can sleep
night after night in place known to
be dangerous.
Miss Alice Livingston, of New York,
who sued merchant named Henry
Fleming for breach Of promise, was
awarded $4,000. The verdict was fol-
lowed by deafening applause, which the
court was unable to suppress.
The New York court Of appeals has
affirmed the conviction of Joseph Bork,
formerly city treasurer of Buffalo, who
embeZZled nearly $40O,OOO. He has
been rearrested, and sentence will be
asked at the next term of court.
Nicholas Felix, an inmate of chari-
table institution at Allegheny City,
commenced last July to starve to death,
and completed his labOrs Tuesday.
Small quantities of milk and whisky
have been regularly forced down his
throat.
George Scheller, proprietor of the bar
in the Newhall house. has been arrested
on warrant for firing that building,
and was placed in Jail for fear of lynch
ing. The chief engineer of the hotel,
William Linehan, has located the source
Of the fire close to the bar-roOm.
At Brooklyn, Missouri, Mike Van
derberg and Mat Woodstock settled a
quarrel by duel with shot guns, at
twenty PAGES. The former lost both
eyes and received fatal injuries; the
latter was quite well perforated in the
breast. cheek, and neck.
1t is said that III. b. Payne and
Amasa Stone. of Cleveland, resigned
from the directory Of the Lake Shore
road because Vanderbilt forced the is
sue of about 1000 900 in bonds to pay
for the Nickel-Plate stock he pur-
chased.
Since the butchery of the Cooke fami-
ly by Frederick Mann, in Canada, a
young girl died from inflammation Of
the brain on seeing a stranger with an
AK over his shoulder, and several per-
sons in the Ottawa valley have been
Frustrated by nervousness.
Secretary Folger has ordered legal
proceedings to recover from J. M.
Hurst, agent of the Presbyterian board
of publication at Nashville, $500 sent
to him to be placed to the credit of the
conscience fund in the federal treasury,
but withheld.
General w. B. Bate was on Monday
inaugurated governor of Tennessee.
After the firing Of cannon, an eagle was
set free from Capitol hill with medal
inscribed with the names of Cleveland
and Bate for president and vice presi-
dent
CLAW SEXTON chief Of tho fire depart-