The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-31

the Southeastern railway at SIS, 500, 900.
John j. Hall, of New Brunswick,
New Jersey, has disappeared with near
ly $50, 900 in borrowed money.
Colonel s.. b. Smith, well-known
banker of Adrian, Michigan, died Mon
day Of paralysis.
A colored boy threw himself before
a rapidly-moving train at London,
Ohio, and was instantly killed.
Ben. Without, wealthy farmer of
Bowling Green, Missouri, used his toes
to discharge gun with which his
brains were blown out.
At Baltimore Sunday Daniel f.
White fatally shot Joseph John during
quarrel. Both are colored and young
men.
Strikes were ordered Monday on a
number of new buildings in New
York where non-union men are en-
ployed.
Oscar Wilde's play, "Vera," after one
weeks run, has been taken OF the
boards in New York. The receipts
were less than $500.
Burglars chloroformed man and his
wife at Greencastle, Indiana, and Sc
cured watches and diamonds worth
LOO.
The police of Philadelphia have
closed all the turf pool rooms, and the
proprietors threaten Ia app.y for an in
junction.
A.. A. Atherton. treasurer of Ros.
common county. Michigan. is believed
to have abscunded with about $4,000
in public and private funds.
A colored man named Henry Jones,
was hanged at Raleigh, North Caro-
lima, for the murder Of Deputy Sheriff
Blake.
The Garfield hospital board at Wash
ington has purchased double brick
house and seven acres Of land, and has
$4,000 on hand to erect wing
The Northern Pacific road has COM
pleted its Yellowstone park branch to
Cinnabar, which will open for business
next Saturday.
The lady members of the Pennsylva-
MIA board of charities pronounce the
jail at Pittsburg chamber of horrors,
with cells lighted only by grated doors.
A large party of English lords and
leaders arrived in New York Tuesday
morning as the guests of Henry Viii
lard on the Northern Pacific junket.
Lumber-yards and other property at
WilliamspOrt, Pennsylvania, to the es-
timated value of $500, 900 were on Mon
day evening destroyed by fire.
1t is stated by the Boston Transcript
that the managers of the Denver and
Rio Grande railway offer it for the
amount of its debts.
One of two negroes who attempted
to outrage a prominent lady of Col
quit, Ga, was captured Sunday, and
later was shot dead in his cell.
Continuous mail service has been Or
dered on the Northern Pacific from
St.Paul to Portland, 1920 miles, to COM
mence next Sunday.
General Sherman recommends that
the 10th infantry, now stationed at De-
troit, change stations with the 21st, now
at Fort Vancouver.
Doubtless the quietest national con-
vention of the year is that now being
held in New York by three hundred
deaf mutes.
A hail-storm in Rock county, Wiscon-
sin, Monday night, is said to have ru-
ined two thousand acres Of tobacco,
causing loss of $150,0O0.
Major F. w. Baldwin, of the United
States army, was robbed of $3.50 on a
train between Dayton, Ohio. and Rich
mond, Indiana.
i. Twelve dwellings and a factory at
st. Gregoire, in the province Of Quebec,
valued at 100000 or so, were burned
Tuesday.
Two prisoners escaped from Jail at
WyandOtte, Kansas, bnt one of them, a
noted horse-thief, was killed by Sheriff
Bowling.
Near the vicinity of East Tawas,
Michigan, forest fires are encroaching
on farm lands, and heavy losses through
the destruction of crops and fences have
already been sustained.
Near Wabash, Indiana, early Satur-
day morning the detached sections of
a freight train collided. wrecking many
cars which were loaded with wheat, re-
sulting in heavy loss.
A portion of the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore and Western railroad shops, at
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and three loco
motives, two tenders and coach were
burned Saturday. Loss, $4,000.
The postoffice, hotel, a private resi-
consumed at Mifflintown, Pennsylvania,
early Saturday morning causing loss
of $65, 200.
Judge Lowell, in the United States
court at Boston, Saturday, gave deci-
ephone was an infringement of the Bell
patent.
The closing game of the billiard
tournament at San Francisco, on Sat
urday night, resulted in the defeat Of
Sexton by Schaefer in one hundred
minutes, the score being 600 to 327.
A number of masked men at Park
City, Utah, stopped train and forced
it to run to Coalville, where they took
from Jail a man named Jack Murphy
and hanged him to telegraph pole.
1t transpires that Jack Reilly, who
was mysteriously murdered in the cal
aboose at Stevens Point, Wisconsin,
served six terms in the penitentiary at
Waupum.
Colonel Churchill, of st. Louis, received
a letter stating that his missing daugh-
ter was in Philadelphia, but the police
Of the latter city found no trace Of her
at the place mentioned.
An Indianapolis dispatch states that
the Rev. Ross G. Houghton, of Roberts
Park Church Of that city, will accept
the call of Centenary Church of Chi
cago.
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