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

cleveland, Unlo, met most horrible
death Monday while working at huge
trip hammer. He slipped and fell under
the hammer. His body was reduced to
jelly, and presented sickening spec
tacle. Young McEwen was the only
support of widowed mother.
A notorious convict alarmed the state
treasurer at Jefferson City, last Satur-
day, by pretending to reveal a plot to
rob the vaults at noon Tuesday. The
fellow seemed thoroughly informed as
to the Office fixtures and the number
likely to be present. AS he failed to
keep an evening appointment, the
treasurer thinks the scheme is q hoax.
In conversation about spiritualismI
at Hyannis, Massachusetts. last Thurs
day night, Mrs. Alphonus Bradford, of
mediumistic propensities, got her
nerves wrought up to high tension
and went into trance, from which she
had not recovered up to Monday even
ing. She lies cold and colorless, but
breathing is perceptible.
The two champion billiard men,
Schaefer and Sexton, played 1000
point game at st. Joseph, Mo-, Monday
night. Schaefer won the game, the
score standing at the end Of the twenty
second inning: Schaefer, 1000 points:
Sexton, $40. The audience was "a large
one. All manifested much interest.
Wallace, Sexton, and Scnaefer play to-
morrow night.
Duff Provost, of Elgin. Illinois. of a
highly respectable family, got into
difficulty at disreputable house Oh The
border OF Coos county, and while on
the way home III q carriage with friends
was fatally shot by some person con-
cealed in the underbrush. Charles
Westfall, a bartender, has been arrest
ed for the crime.
The birthday of Porfrio Diaz was
celebrated Saturday in the City of Mex
leo with great enthusiasm, the town be-
ing decorated with bunting. Thou
sands OF the best people took part IN
the serenade, and until midnight che
approaches to his house were crowded
to witness the fireworks. La Republica
nominated him for president.
Revenue Agent Powers, who has been
investigating the planting of distiller-
les in Pickens county, South Carolina,
has discovered three instances where
stills were located to secure from the
government the fees incidental to the
capture of an illicit distillery. Two
deputy United States marshals are said
to be the instigatOrs Of these frauds.
Nearly three thousand persons assem-
bled Tuesday morning, in Farwell hall,
Chicago, to inaugurate the Christian
convention. Rev. jeremiah Porter,
the first preacher who ever came to
that city, made the opening prayer.
Mr.. Moody took the chair and Mr..
Sankey led the singing. The best
methods of evangelical work were dis
cusSed ut great length.
1t turns out that the steamer Sag
inaw, which left Cleveland Saturday
night for Detroit with a party Of ex-
cursionists, was laid up for the season
at Detroit and her passengers trans
ferred to the Keweenaw, which put
into Pigeon Bay on the return trip to
avoid storm, resulting in the delay
which caused so much anxiety at
Cleveland.
II. w. Goldman and George Mossler,
beardless youths of Milwaukee, agreed
to fight a duel Sunday to settle dis
pute. Swords were provided by seconds
duly appointed, but the principals
awkwardness in handling the weapons
made it dangerous for their friends"
to be in the vicinity; so return to
fists was suggested, and Immediately
acted upon. Mossler was then "knock-
ed out" and carried home in a cab.
Three firemen of the steamship City
OF Berlin were recently followed by
customs inspectors in New York to
shop on Spring street, where six pack
ages OF lace were found on each man.
Afterward thirty-six other packages
were found in the building. AS none
of it was marked at the time by the
officers, the charge Of smuggling could
not be proved against the accused, and
they were discharged.
Judge Mayo, OF Westmoreland
county, Virginia, shot himself dead
Saturday, while on board the steamer
Virginia, near Fortress Monroe. He
told a clergyman who accompanied him
about his political disagreements with
his sons, one of whom is a mem DER of
congress elect, and said he felt like end
ing his troubles by blowing ont his
brains.
Two Mormon elders, engaged in
preaching near Laurel, Indiana, alb
Quoted the young daughter of a man
who had entertained them, and bap-
tiZed her into their church. She could
hardly be persuaded to return to her
family. Over one hundred citizens
took the elders to the woods at mid
night and coated them with tar and
feathers, threatening them with lynch
ing if they did not leave at once.
In Abbeville, S. c., on Sunday, while
the infant child of Betsy Jones was
playing on the floor, the mother sud,
denly seized it by the heels and beat it's
head and body against the walls and
furniture until it was dead. after which
she threw it in branch and stepped on
it. She afterward took the mangled
corpse in her arms, caressed it, and
placed it in the cradle. She was arrest
ed and adjudged insane, and was lodged
in the State l.unatic Asylum.
At Toronto, Canada, upwards of 90
900 persons witnessed Professor Will
liams ascend in n balloon from the In
dustrial Exhibition on Monday. After
rising hundred feet the lake breeze
carried him inland. On reaching a
height of 400 feet q counter current
carried him out over the lake. lie came
down TO catch the lake breeze again,
and was coming back, when he was
caught in the land breeze and carried
over the island and out INTO the lake,
where the balloon came down and gave