The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-28

once In That city with Jwo-0unce DOT
tie of hydrant water. Under the mi
croscope it developed group OF rest
less brown worms the size OF eyelashes.
II. III. Meng, postmaster at Vidalia,
Louisiana, was arrested for r0bbing
the mails, and confessed his guilt. A
similar record Is made of j. III. Cr0n-
inc, mailing clerk in the postoffice at
Roanoke, Virginia.
An assignment for the benefit of
creditors was filed Tuesday morning in
New York by +. Mayer & Co., dealers
in wooden goods. whose liabilities are
said to exceed $l,000,000. Preferences
to the amount OF $4,000 were given.
Judge Baxter, of the Ohio district,
has notified Judge Drummond of his in
tention to remove Receiver Dwight, OF
the Toledo, Cincinnati and st. Louis
road, and requests conference in To
ledo next Saturday.
The administrators of seven of the
girls who were roasted alive in the rag
warehouse at Cincinnati have fled suits
for $4,000 each against the owners of
the building, alleging that they knew
the danger and neglected to provide
exits.
The city of Montreal has surrendered
claim of 10000 against the Grand
Trunk road, the latter binding itself to
erect within two years q mammoth
depot, modelled after the Grand Central
in Philadelphia, and depositing 500, 900
in bank as forfeit.
Henry Willard has informed the
Astoria chamber of commerce that If
terminal facilities be furnished, he
will build the Astoria Forest Grove
sxyfx, In ,f,sa nfNr
per mile in first-class mortgage bonds,
and 900 per mile in seconds.
John Bull, of Gallon, Ohio, the old
sylvania and Ohio road, died from in
juries received in a collision at Tai
madge last Saturday. He chung to his
post and saved the passengers at the
expense of his own life.
Work on the Washington monument,
which for the past two months has
been temporarily suspended, will be re
sumed on Monday. 1t is expected that
by the end of the working season this
year the shaft will have reached a
height of 40 feet.
An umbrella-mender, with consider
able money on his person, was lodged
in the jail at Ashville, Ohio, for a pet
ty crime. During the night the build
ing took fire and he was burned to
death. 1t is believed that he was MUIR
dered.
An insane young lrishman, named
John A. Feeney, went to the British
consulate in New York, and fired two
shots into the Offices without injuring
anybody. When captured he said he
had come from Canada to kill the con-
sui for libeling his character.
In the habeas corpus case of Freder-
lex M. Ker, the Chicago defaulter,
Judge McAllister held that while the
prisoner may have been illegally
brought from a foreign country, in q
criminal case that made no difference.
Ker was remanded to the custody OF the
sheriff.
Captain Bracket, of the New York
custOm-house, is determined to stop
smuggling by dressmakers. He Mon
day arrested women from St. Louis
and Philadelphia, and sent twenty
seven trunks from the steamship Alas
ka to the custom-house seiZure-room
with goods valued at $4,000.
The cornerstone of the Burnside
Memorial hall at Bristol, Rhode Island
was laid Tuesday by President Arthur
Judge Colt delivering the Grafton. Al
a lunch which followed at the residence
of Governor Bourne, the table-cloth and
silver used did similar duty at a recep-
ton to Washington in 1880.
The passenger agents of the eastern
trunk lines have made contract fol