The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-12-07

McGregor railway. at wnicn speed OF
twenty-five miles an hour was reached.
The motor weighs but two TONS. and
once yesterday jumped the rails on q
| curve.
At Adrian, Michigan, Henry Puck
| lington was over come by gas in well.
Issac Ballou, q fellow workman, went
down TO rescue him. While being
| drawn up with the body he lost his
| grasp on tie rope and Tell TO the bot
| tom. Both were killed.
A man calling himself Colonel Thorn
as IL. Ferguson, from the Shenandoah
valley OF Virginia, who recently negO-
tiated for three farms near Irving, Hi
nois, for which he was to pay $36, 900,
| proves to be aforger, but he only Sc
cured $500 for ten days work.
The United States steamer Shenan-
doah lies in the stream off the navy
yard at Boston, but every officer sent
on board Immediately makes request
to be relieved The sailors claim that
she is top heavy, and that they are hud-
died together too closely.
Four hundred miners at Gamble 81
Risner's mines, thirl pool, Pittsburg,
struck aga nst redCct on of I of a
cent per bushel in the mining rate.
The men also object to the free coal
they are compelled to dig, which passes
through an inch and half screen.
Rev. William Mitchell, pastor Of the
CONGREGATIONAL church at Westboro,
Massachusetts,, was caught stea ing
books in two different stores in Bos-
ton. He offered $1,000 to hush the
matter. lie was once a professor in
the Presbyterian college at Montreal,
and ranks high in intellectu II ability.
Sojourner Truth, the colOred lectur-
er, died Monday morning at Battle
Greek, Michigan, lat the age of 107 years.
She gained her freedom in 1928, under
the emancipation act of New York,
and for forty years she has spoken to
the public on liberty, temperance, and
woman suffrage.
+. Jenkel. a jeweler of Dubuque, Ia,
and his two sons and friend, went
down the river to Green Island, Sum
day. with hunting dogs. Their boat
has been found capsized, and one Of
the animals lay dead near it, from
which it is believed that the four men
have lost their lives.
Charles Trum, a young German who
had been living in Chicago for some
time, shot himself twice in the head
Sunday during the services at the
grave of his intended bride in Pitts
burg cemetery. He arrived in that
city Saturday half an hour after her
death.
A dozen railway magnates, includ-
ing Huntington. Dillon, Strong, Keep.
and Mitchell. have incorporated AT
Albany an association to collect and
Distribute information to promote the
stability of securities. IL will operate
in Great Britain and throu yhout the
American continent. 1t should be
called the bull bureau.
The female baseball club which has
been exhibiting in the larger cities is
stranded at st. Louis. Their trunks
are held by the Indianapolis road for
express charges; a hotel keeper has at
tached certain property, and the man
ager applied to the mayor for passes to
New York, which were refused.
Mr.. Jameson, assistant superintend-
ent of the railway mail service, went
over the Northern Pacific road to in
vestigate delays. He made change
officials having formerly run from He
lena to Portland, and hopes that no
further trouble will occur.
On the Chicago board OF trade, Tues
day, pork advanced 81 per barrel. with
sales of TO-, 500 barrels, mainly on ac-
count of the re-admission of hog pro-
duct to France. Corn was to 2 cents
higher. Wheat rose to cents, the
transactions aggregating 2 ,OOO, 600 BUSH
els.
So serious is the strike of the freight
handlers at New Orleans that protec-
ton by the mayor was asked by the
Illinois Central and Louisville roads.
Two large bodies of new men were
taken into the city by the roads, but
the strikers initiated five hundred of
them into their union.
AT dinner-time, Monday, two men
went into the Merchants National
bank at Des Moines. Iowa. one of them
creeping in at the rear door. While
the latter grabbed $500 in currency and
fled, the former kept the cashier busy
answering questions. The theft was
soon discovered, and the pursuit was
so hot that the criminal dropped the
money in the street.
The general passenger agent of
Chicago road disguised himself as a
farm laborer and walked with u grip
sack among the hotel-runners around
the Canal street depot. 1t is only
HcCcSSdry W say IllaC lie gOC enough,
and he proposes to see that something
is done to protect the public from the
brutes.
Ii. III. Allingham, telegraph opera
tor at Fort Worth, Texas, and Miss
Minnie Odell, employed in the Western
Union Office ut st. John, New Bruins
wick, have for about eighteen months
been using the wires considerably in
making each others acquaintance.
Lately an exchange of pictures took
place, and soon afterward proposal Of
marriage was sent and accepted over
the wires. They met for the first time
in q Chicago hotel last Saturday, and
Rev. Mr.. Barrows made them one.
Details of terrible human butchery
come from Laconia, N. Ii. On Satur-
day afternoon Thomas SamOn, a cook
by trade, came to the house of James
Ruddy, laborer, TO board, bringing
with him heavy trunk. During the
night he got up and killed Rudy and
little child with a Ratchet, and as
saulted Mrs. Rudy with the same
weapon. Thinking he had murdered her
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