The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-02

suddenly, Monday. or heart disease.
The Mexican Central road has salts
factorily placed a loan Of $8.000,OOO.
General Diaz and other distinguished
Mexicans have started on a tour Of
Yexas.
A fire on the public square at Wash
ington, Iowa, destroyed six business
houses, causing loss of $4,000.
Citizens of st. Louis have subscribed
$484, 900 toward the erection of an ex-
position building in Missouri park.
Charles Bleton, journalist of New
Orleans, formerly an officer in the
French army, is dead.
Mrs. Macrae died in Montreal OF
drunkenness, and her husband rendered
her corpse to medical college.
DR.. John M. Duke, one of the ablest
physicians in Kentucky, died at Mays
Vile, Of paralysis.
The elections in Ontario Tuesday re-
suited in victory for the Mowat re-
form administration.
John G. James, chief engineer of the
Canadian Pacific road, died at Winni-
peg Tuesday.
The last spike in the Clark's Fork
division of the Northern Pacific road
was driven Monday at Wellsville, Mon
tanR.
There have been thirty-five cases of
smallpox at Berlin, Wisconsin, five of
which have proved fatal, giving rise to
the most alarming falsehoods.
A sister of Senator Sharon endeavOr-
ed to kill herself with penknife in
bathroom of the Palace hotel at San
Francisco.
At a packing-box factory in New
York, Mrs. Bernheimer fell through
skylight upon rip-saw in rapid motion,
and was instantly cut in two.
Nine Americans have been imprison-
ed at Panama on suspicion of taking
$50, 900 from the vault Of the railroad
company.
There being no divorce law in South
Carolina, o farmer in Chesterfield cOun-
ty was compelled to pay fifty cents for
rat poison to rid himself of his wife.
The residence of Peter Dennan, Mt
Montague, Michigan, was burned Mon
day morning, and his three children
and q servant persisted in the flames.
The lead-mills at Bonnie Terre, Mis-
souri,, valued at over 5000, 900, and en-
ploying several hundred men, were
swept away by fire Sunday morning.
Craft, one Of the murderers of the
Gibbons girls at Ashland, Kentucky,
was on Friday convicted, and the death
penalty was affixed by the jury.
Milwaukee dispatches announce the
death of Mrs. Fanny Driscoll White,
who won fame for her poetical produc-
tiOns.
The auctioneer is about to dispose of
Horace Greeley's farm in Westminster
county, New York, known as Chap
paqua.
With the exception Of one or two
ranges on the plains, cattlemen agree
ter will not exceed per cent.
General McAdaris, who is now in
Paris, enters denial of the charge of
connection with the murder of Caven-
dish and Burke.
Hon. Thomas Smell, O millionaire of
DE Witt county, Illinois, has gone to
Commissioner Raum.
Both houses of the Indiana legisla-
ture have passed bills appropriating
100000 for the sufferers by overflow in
that state.
\ The medical officer of county Donegal,
Ireland. reports the children much ema-
ciated, largely resulting from the use
of seaweed as their chief meal.
The city of Altoona, Pennsylvania,
which is without paved street and
has defective sewers, is in hopeless
financial condition.
The governor and adjutant general of
Virginia have started out against oyster
pirates with two steamers and large
force of troops.
The Princes Victor and Louis, sons
Of Prince Napoleon, will enter the SER
vice of Italy, the former as an attache
of the kings staff.
Matilda SchlOtter, leading soprano in
st. Paul's Episcopal church, New Y ork,
attempted suicide by taking laudanum,
and was resuscitated with difficulty.
An earthquake startled the citizens
Of Norwich, Connecticut, Tuesday
evening, and was followed by q bril-
liant meteor.
John Crawford, auditor of Arkansas,
finding his accounts short, handed the
president of the senate mortgage on
his real estate, running two years.
A patient in the Western lunatic
asylum, of Virginia. tempered with the
medicine used, and five inmates have
died and two are fatally poisoned.
Margaret Mather is alarmingly ill
from pneumonia in a Boston hotel. A
council of physicians was held Sunday
with results far from assuring.
Revivalist Harrison held q jubilee
meeting Sunday at Decatur, Illinois,
where he has made thirteen hundred
conversions in one hundred days.
A leper sent from Honolulu to I'hila-
delphia, some months since, for treat
ment by an eminent surgeon, has been
returned uncured.
Alexander s. Hogg, prominent citi-
zen of Baltimore, has been held to the
criminal court for an attempt to outrage
servant-girl.
The faculty seats in the chapel at
Dartmouth college were recently larded,
and many sopbomores have been sus-
pended for refusing TO give the names
of the offenders.
+. B. Lewis,a hack-driver of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, was arrested by postoffice
inspectors for robbing the mails at the
depot. He made full confession, and
returned S2,4O0.
Ben Butler, in appointing the annual
Fast day for Massachusetts, exhorts