The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-12-28

with tine ADVICE or a majority OF MS
executive council to issue pardon to
George j. Hathaway, the Fall River
culprit.
w. II. Alderman, first vice president
Of the Illinois Central road, has resign.
ed, because Of q controversy as to the
proper duties of the superintendent
and traffic manager.
An assignment has been made by the
banking firm of Lamborn & Gray, Of
Alliance, Ohio. The senior partner
was contractor on the Cleveland,
Youngstown and Pittsburg road.
Patrick O'Brien, residing near La
Sale, Illinois. who is still able to do a
far days work, will be l years old
on st. Patrick's day, and his wife is III
good health at 95.
In q church near Moncure, North
Carolina, Mrs. Olive Gunter and her
daughter and granddaughter were
person.
The members of the Western Nail
association have resolved to shut down
for six weeks. Shorter hours have
been adopted in several factories at
ZULU, anu OuO AdCIthCly COMPANY
discharged two hundred men.
The directors of the Union Pacific
road met Thursday in New York. The
tripartite agreement was unanimously
ratified, and resolution was passed
inviting the Burlington, Wabash, and
Northwestern roads to become parties
Henry Babst, of Belleville, Illinois,
fatally shot Miss Mary Hammer and
fpAly rot int ha IxHrou A-k ~
At that place he undertook to kill son
of the sheriff, who threw up the pistol,
by which Babst was instantly killed.
Dubuque has lost a Loted character
by the death of Mexican Henry, who
served under General Scott in the Mex
lean war, and later in the 1st Iowa reg
iment.
Missouri, held property valued at ST.
their own lives. w. s. Connect died
Thursday evening in an insane asylum
at Cincinnati.
diana, captured four persons engaged
in the manufacture or circulation of
counterfeit money, one OF them being
real estate.
The name of Hon. J. G. Blaine fails
to appear in the list of taxpayers at
building site of Hon. William Walter
Phelps and has not had it recorded.
Jerry Cox, q negro. was hanged at
Georgetown, South Carolina, for the
murder Of III. III. Rembert. lie had Sc
fnI in, hi hnn i,
which he intended to kill the sheriff
on his way TO the scaffold.
A lady employed as cashier in a
Chicago dry goods store was recently
discharged for theft because sale
ticket for S1.25 was missing. She took
the matter to the superior court asking
damages of $4,000.
Several hundred cars of freight have
accumulated at the junction of the
Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk,
near Montreal, on account of dispute
about the rights purchased with the
North Shore road.
Whilethe jailer at Des Moines was
i'll the hallway, Sunday evening, get
ting the empty supper dishes, live priS-
oners rushed past him and gained their
liberty. One of them struck the jailer
al OCNClC DlON III OilC
T.. G. Breckenridge, one Of the three
men who witnessed the murder of Cap
tain Mutt by Dukes, at Uniontown,
Pennsylvania, has been annoyed by
anonymous letters threatening his
life.
A huge snow-drift near Milford, Con-
nGcticut. caught New York and New
Haven train, eXtinguishing the Dire in
the locomotive. An explosion follow
ed, in which the engineer and fireman
were killed.
The wife of Patrick O'Donnell, the
slayer of Informer Carey, arrived in
New York Monday. On the voyage
she was cheered by dream that her
husband had been respited and that
she would again see him alive.
Charles Harvey, who killed Henry l..
Custin, at Petersburg, Indiana, was ia
ken from Jail Sunday morning, by sew
enty-fiye masked men, and hanged to
tree on the very spot where the murder
occurred.
The government of Canada is max
ing inquiry into the statement that
two of its citizens who had deserted
from the United States army, were
seized upon Canadian soil and taken to
a military prison in Minnesota.
Henry Herbert, M. .,of Irel and, ar
rived at Baltimore Wednesday to mar
ry Miss Williams, a daughter of the
president of the Maryland senate. On
calling at her residence he was in
formed that the engagement would be
broken because of her poor health.
The grand jury at Washington has
found true bills against pension attor-
neys named N. w. Fitzgerald, S. G.
Fitzgerald and A. b. Webb for the il
legal use of the mails and for devising
q scheme to defraud soldiers and their
widows.
The breach of promise case of Miss
Helen McPheeters against l.. S. Block
som, which was on trial in the federal
court at Indianapolis, was stopped by
the payment of $500 as compromise.
The lady had seven lawyers, among
them Senator Voorhees,.
During the late unpleasantness fed
eral soldier aimed at q hog in south
ern cornfield, and hit contraband who
was stealing roasting ears. The darky
has forwarded to. his congressman
a for a Yancinp tv.iol, haa,,