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


George Williams, colored porter in
the First National bank at Las Vegas,
suddenly became demented, Monday.
He took gun and compelled the cler-
ical force to stand in row and go
through military drill. Outsiders came
in and captured him.
Mrs. d. w. Thurber, of Springfield,
Mass, attempted to kill her husband
last Nay, and was sent to the asylum at
Northampton. In some manner she
escaped Monday and took laudanuln
because Mr.. Tnurber refused TO live
with her.
The verdict of the jury in the inquest
into the accident on he Western Mary
land railroad, near Patapsco, Saturday.
was that the accident was caused by
gross negligence and bad management
or the officers and managers OF said
road.
Kate Cotton, colOred girl of Cairo,
Illinois, poisoned the coffee in the
house of ALT Miller, who had refused to
marry her. One of the family died and
three Others are dangerously i'll. When
taken to Jail Kate took poison, and will
hardly survive it.
At Mastersonville. Pennsylvania,
while an undertaken was screwing
down the lid of a coffin, detectives step
ped forward and seized a son of the de-
ceased named Jacob Eversole, who
had broken into farmhouse and
stolen $4,000 last December.
The surgeon general reports that
Lake Michigan is annually washing
away from ten to fifteen feet of the
marine hospital grounds at Chicago,
and he will renew his request for an
appropriation OF $4,000 for grading and
turing.
Lord Coleridge. on his arrival in Bos-
ton, requested 20 be shown Faneuil
hail and the wharf where the tea was
thrown overheard in the Revolution.
An ignorant staff officer of Governor
Butler took the distinguished guest to
an entirely different pier, known as Il
wharf.
At Erwin, "a hamlet in Schuyler Coun-
ty, ILL.,, the Temple of the Pilgrims,
polygamouS sect under the control of
the Rev. G. A. Obenshain, was blown
up by giant powder and completely
destroyed. The attack was evidently
directed against the minister, who slept
in the building.
Edward d. Cowan, city editor of the
Leadville Herald, was on Monday at
tackled by Alderman Joy, who knocked
him down and jumped on his face with
heavy boots, keeping the crowd at bay
with a revolver. Joy fled to the noun
tains. Cowan will hardly survive his
wounds.
A hobby lad in st. Louis went to the
residence Of DR.. FitZporter and offered
to wait until he arrived. While the
servant was out and the DOCTORS wife
had gone to the kitchen the fellow
sneaked up stairs and secured diamonds
valued at $1,000, with which he es-
capped.
In narrow cut, near Palapsco Sta
ton, Nd, a locomotive and an excur-
sion train, bearing hundreds of passen-
gers, dashed together Saturday with
terrific force. One employee was killed
instantly, both engineers were scalded
horribly, but none of the eXcursionists
were injured. The track was blocked
for hours.
Treasurer Walshe, of New Orleans,
who was SUSPENDED by the mayor, oc-
cupied his Office Monday until the po-
lice appeared to put him out, and he
then left with the keys to the vault.
He has since procured an Injunction
prohibiting all interference with his
duties as treasurer. He still holds the
city funds.
Since the death of Chief Detective
Helms, or Phlladelph1a, two letters
written by the abductors of Charlie
Ross to his father have been given to
the public, and Mr.. Ross has only just
learned Of their existence. They de-
manded $4,000 on pain Of numbering
the lad. The money was to be paid in
New York. November "a. 1874.
Advlces from representative points
in the corn belt make it positive that
FROST has wrought great destruction.
Mcniran seems to have Jared badly
Saturday night. nearly everything in
the vegetable line having been killed
ut Bate Creek AMI SauGatuck. To-
bacco in Dane and Rock counties, Wis.,,
was ruined with the corn, and cranber-
res at Sturgeon Bay got nipped. Light
frosts are reported at Des Moines, At
lantc and Burlington. H., and ice at
Dubuque. Vegetables were injured at
ElkharU and Huntington. Ind. Ice
formed at Macomb, H., and frost was
quite general throughout the central
part of the State, but the dry atmos-
phere saved corn at some points. The
question as to the fate of the growing
corn served to give the markets unusu-
al animation on Monday. On the
Chicago board of trade corn opened 2
cents above the closing quotations of
Saturday, and closed firmly with the
improvement partially maintained.
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