The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-14


Mitchell, the mauler. and his agent,
Madden, on leaving Kansas City for
New York, declared that they would
not risk the penitentiary by fighting
near New Orleans.
A boiler in the blast furnace of the
Cleveland Rolling Mill company, sixty
eight feet long, exploded Tuesday night.
The building was demolished and four
men were injured.
Alexander Grant, formerly produce
commission merchant in Chicago, is be-
lieved 10 have thrown himself into the
lake at Muskegon, where his body was
found Tuesday.
Dr. Abraham Babcock, of Syracuse
n. Y, has been held for performing an
abortion upon Hattie Cate. one Of tn
most attractive young ladies III the
city, causing her death.
Six of the men who defended Balti-
more in 1872, who have become toe
feeble to march round the battle monu.
ment as of yore. were taken in car.
rlages to church Sunday under escort OF
Wilson post of the Grand Army.
A tannery at Stroudsburg. Penn.
owned by Michael ID. Kistler, val
ued at Sl50. 900. was burned Sunday. This
Jackson Square pottery at Baltimore
and half the village of Deep Creek
Va, were also destroyed by fire.
A freight train going down Kenosha
mountain, in Colorado, by sections, met
with accidents which injured seven
employees, three OF them fatally. The
engine jumped the track at curve, on
grade of 800 feet to the mile.
At a reunion of Nebraska soldiers at
Hastings, Saturday, resolutions were
adopted expressing regret at the re-
moval from Office of General Wander
wort. and requesting his reinstatement
by the President.
Mr.. Blaine is said to have told GER
tain democratic leaders in Maine that,
in his opinion, il Ben Butler can again
secure the governorship of Massachus-
etts, he will inevitably be nominated
and elected president.
w. e. Holen, well known in business
circles at Omaha, has been arrested on
charge Of setting fire to his book store.
Several short, lighted candles were
found in the salesrOOm. surrounded by
shavings saturated with coal-oil.
Hon. Herman Redfield, leading cit.
jZen of Monroe. Michigan, went to his
lot in the cemetery, Sunday afternoon,
and killed himself with revolver. He
left note saying that he desired to die
on the only piece OF property he owned
At a point just outside Milwaukee,
early Monday morning, an attempt was
made to wreck The Fond du Lac ex-
press train 10y piling ties on the track,
but the engineer discovered the OBJ
structiOn in time to stop.
Treasurer Converse, of the Ameri-
can Rapid telegraph Company, at Bos-
ton, admitted Monday that efforts were
being made in the direction OF a con-
solidation with the Bankers and Mer-
chants Company.
On the McLain ranch, in Ebert
county. Col. last Sunday evening. eight
drunken cowboys had desperate tight,
in which three were killed and three
seriously wounded. The others have
disappeared.
Wendell Phillips has informed the
greenback leaders of Massachusetts
that he can no longer support Ben
Butler for office, as hopes for the pres
idency have caused the latter to aban-
don the interests OF the people.
A policeman Mt Valparaiso. Indiana,
covered by a cooked r, vOlver in the
hand of burglar witnessed the OPEN
ing of safe in Windle's grocery store
and the extraction OF $1.3 u in curren-
cy and $4,000 III securities.
AZ NdtIdGdlloSbI park. L ueSudN, u.
S. Campbell drove the PAGERS Richball
and WestmonJ TO beat the time OF
Maud S. and AL tine. They made a
half mile in ITO, but on the last quarter
Richball's girlh snapped short.
A child of "a years was abducted
from farm house in Dodge township,
near Boone, Iowa, last Saturday, in the
most mysterious manner, and search
has since been kept up by hundreds of
men.
A belt railway is to be built around
Omaha, to connect with the stock yards
and the new suburb of Edinborough.
Manager Clark, of the Union Pacific,
is the leader Of the enterprise, which
has capital of $S00,000.
A merchant in Moscow complained to
the United States consul that his clerk
had stolen 1900 rubles and fled to New
York. The police of the latter city
were informed, and on Sunday the
thief was captured. He remarked that
he thought this was a free country.
Part of the Highland mine, at Dead
wood, ILL.,, caved in Saturday evening,
imprisoning three workmen behind 100
tons of ore. One man worked his way
out through 81 feet of ore by using
giant powder. The corpses of his
comrades were recovered Sunday.
The late Horace Greeley's Chappaqua