The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-09

Alexander H. Stephens, governor OF
Georgia, is reported seriously i'll.


Georgia, is reported seriously i'll.
A Mexican woman Ill years Of age
died Sunday at New Laredo.
Phares Cassidy, of Lebanon, Pennsyl-
vania, is dead, at the age of l02 years.
Citizens of st. Louis have subscribed
$484, 900 toward the erection of an ex-
position building in Missouri park.
The public debt decreased during
February Sc, $3.50, 678. The cash in the
treasury is 1906, 266, 740.
The boiler in planing-mill at West
vile, Indiana, exploded Thursday, kill
ing o. A. Hatton and Beecher Hilton.
The new judge of the criminal court
at Nashville released M. L. Polk, the
defaulting treasurer on SO, 900 bail.
The Dominion government will not
take the initiative in the reduction of
the rate of letter postage to 2 cents.
The National Free Religious Associa-
ton is in session at New Haven, Con-
pecticut.
In future the American and the Ma
tional Baseball leagues will work in
harmony.
Forty degrees below zero was indi-
Gated by the mercury at Fort Fairfield,
Mimi, Tuesday morning.
1t is claimed that twelve hundred
persons have been converted at Decatur,
illinois, under the ministrations o
Harrison, 1.-THE boy evangelist"
Sing Lum, Chinese murderer,
cheated the gallowsat San Francisco by
hanging himself in his cell while his
guard was temporarily absent.
The empress of GERMANY has given
1000 marks to the fund being raised in
Berlin for the sufferers by the overflow
of the Ohio.
Two children of A. Evans, Of Law
renee, Ohio, were burned to death in a
stable, where they had been playing
with matches, Tuesday.
A London society for the suppression
of blasphemOus literature proposes to
make war upon the writings of the
modern philosophical agnostics.
George III. Burt, who has been promi-
nently connected with numerous enter
terprises in northern Ohio, died Mon
day at Cleveland.
AS the city of San Francisco has no
funds with which to pay gas bills, the
street lamps were extinguished and re-
moved Thursday night.
A fire at Monongahela City, Pennsyl-
vania, consumed q school building, car
riage shop, and ten houses, causing a
loss of $4,000.
A billiard match on which $40, 600 was
wagered was played in New York Fri
day evening. Davie johnson beating
Charles F. Davis by 200 to 1876 points.
The body of William Hoag, of Can
ton, Ohio, who was drowned New
Years day, was Thursday found in the
water-workS aqueduct.
Arrangements have been concluded
by which the Nickel-Plate road will for
ninety-nine years enter Chicago over
the Lake Shore tracks, and use its depot.
In the Opera-house at Galveston a
pistol which dropped from the pocket
of Sheriff Blakely killed G. e. Douglass,
of Crockett.
In Ell Paso county, Texas, Sheriff
Gonzales is short $1,000 in his accounts
and Clerk Flower is in a similar pre-
dicament.
A furnace company operating leased
works at Steubenville, Ohio, has sus-
pended payment, with liabilities of
$4,000 and assets of $4,000.
O'Flaherty, late president of the Land
league at Limerick, having refused to
pay rent, thirty head of his cattle have
been seized.
An Indian camp in Chihuahua, Mex
leo, was recently surprised by ranch
men, who killed ten bucks and captured
twenty-five squaws.
Three naval cadets from the east, the
only ones who refused to apologize for
their conduct, have been dropped from
the rolls at Annapolis.
George Holt, prominent sporting
character of Chicago, was instantly
killed Thursday by the collapse of an
apparatus for hosting coal.
A span of the Alton railroads iron
bridge over the Kankakee river at
Wilmington gave way Wednesday,
sending six cars into the water.
Jesse Williams, of Orange county,
New York, en- route to the west to buy
land, was robbed of $1,000 at the Penn
sylvania railroad station in Philadel-
phia Monday evening.
The supreme court of the United
States has affirmed the constitutionality
of the "Riddleberger law" of Virginia.
relative to an adjustment of the debt of
that state.
Mr.. John Ford, late editor-in-chief of
the Neto York Times, has secured con-
trolling yinterest in the BrOOEln Unio,,-
4rg,ts, which will be continued as a re-
publican journal.
The state of California has brought
suit against the Central Pacific road to
recover ST ,942, 500 for failing to perform
its part Of the contract by which in
terest was guaranteed on its bonds.
Harry Lippert, chief engineer of the
fire department at Milwaukee, has
rendered his resignation on the ground
of failing health, after connection Of
twenty-One years.
The board of guardians at Limerick,
. Ireland have voted Gao towards fur
nishing an outfit for three hundred
women who have been engaged for
cotton factory in New Hampshire.
Asecret revolutionary society with
a membership of six thousand is said to
have been discovered in the north of
England. the members being well sup
piled with firearms.
A brother of the late Governor Will
Jams, of Indiana, died at Jacksboro,
Texas, where he was once county
judge. For the past six months he had
been insane.
A n safe-denosit Institution i'm pbila-