The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-12-14

judges body.
he first railway locomotive crossed
the new Cantilever bridge over the
Niagara river between the Falls and
the old suspension Bridge, Thursday.
The new bridge connects the Michigan
| Central road with the New York Cen
trail. 1t is an important event In the
history of these roads. --
The boiler in Shipley Brothers saw
mill at ClaypoOl, Indiana, exploded
Monday morning. One mans head
was blown off, another's lungs were
exposed to view, and third had leg
blown away. A piece of iron weighing
three tons was carried three hundred
yards.
x. A. Phinney, president of the
Workingmen's association of Lynn,
Mass, who has always been an en-
thusiastic supporter Of Ben Butler,
has issued an appeal to wOrkingmen
throughout the country to organ re,
call a national convention, and make a
nomination for president.
Recent false statements in regard to
Mrs. Theodore TiltOn have developed
the facts that she lives with her chill
dren in family in one OF the best
streets in Brooklyn, receives ST 300 per
|
her time and talents to the study and
teaching of music.
L. II. Brukland, a llnatic, who great
ly annoyed the family Of General Sher-
man at st. Louis, has for several days
been laying siege to the residence of
Mrs. Garfield in Cleveland, and insisted
upon seeing Miss MOllie. Tuesday he
was locked up for writing to her and
| lOafing about the front gate.
From his quiet home in st. Louis
General Sherman sends out a denial
of the story that he predicted an armed
contest between capital and labor. The
grizZled veteran, losing sight of the
weekly list of failures, expresses the
opinion that at no period has the coun-
try enjoyed larger measure OF pros
perity.
Four ladies named Martin, daughters
of former member of congress from
Ohio, reside in Baltimore. Flames
broke out in their house Monday morn
ing. One of the ladies dislocated her
spine by leaping from the second story,
and another received serious injuries
by dropping from the balcony to out
stretched mattresses.
The announcement that an agree
ment for twenty-five years had been
made by representatives of the st.
Paul, Union Pacific, and Rock Island
roads was regarded in Wall street as
the opening chapter Of vigorous war.
The bears made raid OH the lines
chiefly affected, Union Pacific falling
to Tot. The aggregate sales were 52l,-
600 shares.
The failures for the past week in the
United States and Canada are reported
at 7, the period having been the most
disastrous in many years. Levy ro's.
ASSIGNMENT, riday, with liabilities of
50, 47O, $50 and actual assets of ST. ,7l2, PAP.
viii lam T. Adds, a lumberman of
oyne, Michigan. has suspended pay
ment on liabilities of $4,000.
All the trains on the Canadian Pacific
railway, rom Winnipeg westward,
have been abandoned, and every work.
| shop has shut down. \ deputation of
engineers submitted to the superin-
| tendent q schedule of wares demanded,
and he replied by presenting an agree
ment for them 10 sign. This brought
about general strike, one man aban-
doning his train at Whitemouth. The
company has telegraphed east for en-
| gineers, and trouble is feared.
Christopher G. Brooks, aged IL, whose
remains were inferred at Baltimore
Saturday, had foretold his death. While
employed at New York he grew i'll and
his mother was summoned from Eu-
rope by cable. To her he stated that
| a deceased friend had appeared to him,
telling him that he would die Wednes-
day, Dec. 5, at 3 o'clock, p. M, and
young Brooks expired the specified day
at $40 in the afternoon.
a dispatch from Duluth gives a let
ter from man who claims to have
been passenger on the wrecked
steamer Manistee. He states that all
the life-boats but one were swept away
in the storm. Nine persons floated
about in small boats for three days.
and three Of them landed at HoughtOn.
Captain Mckay refused to leave his
ship, and went down in her Off Eagle
Harbor.
About a year ago poor widow OF
White Pigeon, Michigan, named Cath
crime Beard, was murdered in her bed,
and a clay pipe was found lying beside
her. A desperate character named
Bully Brooks recently confessed to his
brother-in-law that he feared a pipe
would give him away in q murder. The
remarked caused his arrest, and the
officers have discovered other strong
evidence that he killed the woman.
A New York dispatch says: A re-
port that James r. Keene had failed in
consequence of his operations in Ore
gon Transcontinental was in circula-
ton and generally disbelieved by all
respectable operators on the street.
Mr.. Keene said to reporter: "There
is not one scintilla OF truth in the story.
Since the stock was sixty-nine l have
not even held a single share of it, or
had anything to do with it,"
Fannie Zimmerman, daughter of a
clergyman in Baltimore, engaged her.
self to two gentlemen and fixed Mon
day as the wedding day. One lover,
from Pennsylvania, went to her resi-
dence with q license, and as he was
about to drive away with her to q min
ister's his rival, from Virginia, made
his appearance. After race through
the streets, the latter was arrested and
detained until the ceremony had been
performed.
In February last, DIR. French, of
Erie. Pa. was sentenced to the peni-