The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-30


The bill before the Michigan legisla.
ture two years ago, to restore capital
punishment, was defeated by the
speeches or SojOurner Truth.
Pastor j. b. Thomas, OF the Baptist
church at Dubuque, Iowa, took chloro-
form Friday to have teeth extracted,
Guilty.
Cowboys robbed an express train on
the Southern Pacific road. near Gage.
Arizona, killing the express messen-
booty.
An aged couple named King, living
on farm near Hickman. Kentucky.
were killed on Friday night with guns
ana knives, and the house was robbed
OF $4,000.
A company of the Sd United States
infantry and the Marquette Chasseurs
have been sent to Iron Mountain,
Michigan, to prevent the destruction
OF property by striking miners.
At Fedor, Lee county, Texas. "A
Charles o. Keuffle was closing his store
| Friday night, q r0bber entered and
| killed him and his clerk, q German
boy. The thief secured but SIS.
The assignee Of the Tintsman estate
has applied to the court Of Pittsburg
for permission to sell to a syndicate the
Mount Bradford coke works valued
at $3,5OO,OOO.
Companies Of cavalry have gone out
from Forts Bayard and Cumming in
pursuit OF the Southern Pacific train
robbers, and the road has offered q re-
ward of $1,000.
The steamer Eclipse, bound from AL.
gonna to Port Sarnia, has probably gone
down with all on board, as three bodies
with marked life-preservers washed
ashore at Wharton, Ontario.
A strange youth examined revolver
In hardware store at Parsons, Kansas,
it was handed to him, he blew out his
brains in twinkling.
Thomas A. Doyle, who for fourteen
years was mayor of Providence, Rhode
Island, has been called back to the
position in order to inaugurate reign
of progress.
After prolonged debate, the senate
OF Pennsylvania reconsidered its &C
ton on the bill appropriating $4,000
for the expenses of the extra session,
and passed it by q toe.
At Plymouth, Massachusetts,, in
making improvements on Coles hill,
the skeletons of two Of the pilgrim
fathers were exposed to view Tues
day.
1t is said that "Black Bart,n the not
ed stage-robber of California, is Charles
E. B0lles, who served three years with
credit in the 10th Illinois volunteers,
and belonged at Decatur.
Mrs. s. q. Davis, a Cleveland lady
remarkable for her beauty, was found
dead in her bed from an overdose of
chl0rof0rm, which she was in the habit
Of inhaling each night.
The strikers at Iron Mountain, Mich
igan, have been paid of. Many young
men have sought other fields OF labor,
but seventy-five have returned to work
in the Chaplin mine.
The colony of Russian Hebrews loca-
ted on farm Of eight hundred acres
In Middlesex county, Virginia. proved
an utter failure. after SIS, 900 had been
back to Baltimore.
were destroyed by the recent gale on |
the New Hampshire and Maine bor-
der. Wood choppers must suffer Sc |
verely this winter by the destruction
OF their homes.
The receipts of the Irving party at
New York for the engagement of four
weeks were In excess OF $4,000. Mr..
Irving took occasion, Saturday even
ing, to express his gratitude to the
public.
Officers at Marshall, Michigan, state
that they know who shot Byron NJ.
Sibley, the telegraph operator, and
that the killing was in self-defense.
They are not yet ready TO give the
name.
Flames are still at work on the tim
bers OF the Sumner gold mine at Kern
vile, California, formerly owned by
John Z. Jones. The works cost nearly
81 200, 600. 1t is thought the heavy ma
hinery will be saved.
The stockholders of the Baltimore
and Ohio road held their iifty-seventh
annual meeting Monday. The surplus
fund OF the company Is SAG, 763, 400, and
It's net earnings for the year were S.
105,S23, an increase Of 81 ,251 ,16l.
Half the business buildings i'm Al
DDany; Wisconsin, were destroyed by
ire, Tuesday morning. Edward Dodge
was killed by falling wall, and eight
lther persons were seriously burned.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
At st. Louis the Mississippi River
Committee adopted call
or convention for the improvement
II the Mississippi River and its naviga- I
de tributaries, to be held in Washing
on, Feb. 5, 1884.
Log-cutters even from the forests of
Maine are pouring into Eau Claire,
Wisconsin, to secure work in the camps
or the winter. AS the supply largely
xceedS the demand wages are from Is ,
o 70 per cent. less than last year.
A German girl arrived in St. Louis
tuesday to meet her afIianced, who
eft her in Westphalia three months
go. She found him In Jail on charge
4 having murdered his partner In q ,
aloon.
A contribution box containing $40
vas taken from the German Catholic
hurch at Massillon, Ohio. Armed =
1en entered two saloons at that place
nd forced the proprietors to serve
'batever was wanted.
GENERAL MARKETS.