The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-05

Albert tart. leading citizen or Bur-
lington, Vermont, was suffocated in
bed by gas.
At an election in Boston, Monday,
the democrats secured majority of the
city officials.
The Eastern Extension railway has
been transferred 10 the provincial gov
eminent of Nova Scotia for S1,l3S, 900.
At the postoflice III New York Mon
day the 2-cent and Accent stamps and
envelopes sold Numbered 1854
Explorers who have been at work
since April at Florence, Wisconsin,
have found a body OF excellent iron ore.
r. r. Cable has been elected presi-
dent o. the Minneapolis and st. Louis
road.
j. p. Kidder, a member of the SUI
preme bench of Dakota, died at st.
Paul Tuesday evening.
In a saloon at st. Joseph. Missouri,
a farmer named Robert b. Payne killed
a notorious character named Dan Dill
Ion, for an insult.
Boston has secured the base ball
championship by winning 63 games;
Chicago is second. with SO, and Provi-
dence third. with IS.
An iron steamer. the first vessel built
by Lieutenant Gorringe. near Philadel-
phia, was successfully launched Satur-
day.
The failures for the third quarter of
1883, as reported by Dun's mercantile
agency. We're ,St8. with liabilities Of
$500 900.
\ "incr rom Guaymas has ar
riN utN + nci G, with five cases
o.. / IA GARD, causing con-
Henry G. Vennor predicts for the
lake region, between October II and 20,
a series of severe storms, with fiurries
of snow.
Joseph Long, a private in the 4th in
fantry, was mortally wounded in the
street at Leavenworth, Kansas, by Pc
liceman Sutton, for resisting arrest.
The settlers at st. Johns, in the Tur-
tie mountain country, have called for
troops for protection against Chief Lit
tie Shell.
A gale at Lexington, Kentucky, de.
stroyed the Cincinnati Southern engine
house and unroofed bank, a news
paper Office, and warehouse.
Passenger fare on the Iron Mountain
road in three states have been made
uniform at 8 cents per mile by recent
reductions.
The Glen Wooden company, of Hamp-
den, Massachusetts, has called meet
ing of its creditors to hear statement.
The liabilities are estimated at $65, 900.
Coleman Brothers, dealers in CLOTH
ing, of New York and San Francisco,
made an assignment in the latter city,
with probable liabilities Of $500, 600.
General Hancock Is Frustrated by
kidney disease, in addition to the
trouble with his knee, and his condition
is serious.
Harry Mcneil, one of the heirs to a
large estate in Chicago. died of hemor-
rhage of the lungs in Louisville Mon
day.,
Two inmates of the Soldiers home,
at Dayton. Ohio, died from the effects
of poisoned liquor obtained in saloon
in the neighborhood.
Winter wheat from the Pacific coast,
to the amount of twenty carloads, ar
rived at Fargo, Tuesday, eight days
from time of shipment.
The first warming fire was on Tues
day placed in the blast furnace at Fond
du Lac, Wisconsin, which was COM
pleted by G. j. l.. Mayer in 1878.
An aged Indian hermit, named Isoma,
dered on Sunday night by four per-
sons, who secured $4,000 in silver.
Marcus Lins, a saloon-keeper at Day
ton, Ohio, nearly killed his wife and
himself with revolver, from jealousy
of a young man named Ritter.
Christine Nilsson has arrived in New
York, looking ten years younger than
she did last October, owing to a rest at
EurOnpan watarinp-placeS
General Roger A. Pryor sailed from
New York Tuesday for England, hav-
ing been retained as counsel for Aven-
gerO'D0nnell.
Tuesday afternoon and night heavy
rain and snow fell in Eastern Vermont,
the weight of the snow in some sections
injuring apple trees.
Henry d. Garrett, vice-president of
the Alumni society Of McGill Univer-
sity, has been arrested at Jersey City
for forgery.
Franklin b. Nixon, who has served
fourteen terms as recorder at Adrian,
Michigan, was on Saturday morning
found dead at his desk, from disease
of the heart.
John r. Flynn. formerly leading
hardware merchant of Fort Dodge,
Iowa, killed himself at hotel in that
city with a revolver, after long course
of excessive drinking.
The mills at Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, which for some weeks have lain
idle for want of water power, have re-
sumed operations by the aid of heavy
rains.
Three hundred entries have been
made for the national horse show to be
held in New Y ork this month. Among
them are two Arabian stations bred by
the sultan of Turkey.
kev. j. Morgan Smith. for many years
pastor of the First Congregational
church at Grand Rapids, Michigan.
died Of heart disease at Danville, New
York.
Passenger tickets from Omaha or
Kansas City to San Francisco have
been reduced to sos. Rates from st.
Paul to San Francisco by the Northern
Pacific will be the same as to Portland.
Timothy Eastman, the beef exporter,
has pettioned the New York board of
health for permission TO erect an abat-
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