The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-05


fences and telegraph poles. Commune
cation east and north is retarded, and
much damage is feared.
Valley City, Dakota, sued the Times of
that place for $4,000 damages for
charging him with perjury, embeZzle-
ment, and stealing Sunday-school cop
pers. The jury awarded him cents.
The Illinois state fair realized about
$40, 900 and $4,000 from privileges. The
expenses will be about $50, 900, leaving
handsome surplus, forcing the officers
to acknowledge the wisdom of perma-
nently locating the fair In Chicago.
James Clarke, a merchant and poll
tician of Bloomington, Illinois, was ar
rested at the instance of a Philadelphia
firm for the embeZzlement of $4,000.
He gave bond and commenced suit for
$4,000 damages.
A man named Tucker, living with
his second wife in the lower part of
South Carolina, will be sent to the PEN
ltentiary for flogging a 5,year-old son
with buggy-whip until the blood
streamed down his limbs.
Henry Farnham, the wealthiest man
in New Haven, the most prominent
benefactOr of Yale college, and one of
the earliest presidents of the Rock Is
land road, lies at the point of death
from an attack of paralysis.
George Westmoreland. a negro, who
killed constable in Vicksburg, in
1866, for reading warrant for his arrest
has never since been heard from until
Sunday, when he was captured at
Brinkley, Arkansas.
Trains on the newly-opened Vets
Shore road collided at full speed on
curve near Fort Plain, New York.
Engineer Gyon and a passenger were
killed, and five persons were seriously
injured. A fireman is missing.
During a political quarrel at Liberty,
Miss, Eugene McElwee killed Sher-
iff Wilmington. A large number of
persons at once gathered about the
scene, one of whom shot the murderer
dead.
At conference of Michigan repub-
licans at Lansing, it was decided to
start new political paper in that city
in the interest of Harry Conant for
governor and Mr.. Stockbridge for
United States senator.
G. Z. Huntington has induced the
court of Davidson county, Tennessee,
to order tax to pay half the cost of
bridge across the Cumberland river at
Nashville, to be used jointly by new
railway and the public.
While engaged in joint political de-
bate with Judge Kline, at De Witt,
Iowa, Governor Sherman was seized
with an apoplectic fit, and for some
time stood dumb before the assembly.
Friends saved him from falling.
Near the Playground at York, Ne
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strong was fatally shot by John and
Walter Gilmore. The latter recently
married his victims daughter, and one
shooting affray occurred previously.
The Louisville and Nashville road
reports gross earnings for the year of
$4,2l4,82 and net earnings per mile of
1854. Jay Gould and Russell Sage
were elected directors at the annual
meeting Wednesday.
Erwin Ferguson, of Pickens county,
South iCarolina, while drinking water,
three weeks ago, lodged a lizard in a
false membrane of his throat, and re-
Gently dislodged its skeleton by taking
an emetic.
The Canadian Pacific conductors in
Ontario have been instructed to permit
no parcels, not even lunch baskets, to
be placed in passenger-coaches. Bun
dies must go to the baggage-car and
pay an express charge.
Colonel r. Ii. Stephens, of Attica,
New York. has offered TO subscribe
100000 toward the construction of
railroad sixty miles long from Attica
to Youngstown, via Akron and Lock
port.
The Clearing House Association of
no f.
ing Tuesday, at which the transactions
for the past year were reported to be
$41.352, 13S, 453, making daily average
of $127, 6O4 ,402.
Annie Clinton and male escort were
arrested Tuesday in Milwaukee, Wis
consin, on charge of stealing dia-
monds valued at $4,000 from Nine.
Winters, of st. Louis, and taken to that
city for trial.
At Rogers Park. Illinois, eleven men
and boy were caught by the giving
away of the embankment of a sewer.
Patrick O,Donnell was killed instantly,
and Henry l.. McNichols was serious
ly injured.
Seven rounds were fought Tuesday
afternoon on Long Island by Mitchell
and Sheriff, in presence of sporting
celebrities and prominent men of New
York, the result being draw. Mitch
ell drew first blood.
At Red Wing, Minnesota, party of
about seventy-ive citizens broke down
the doors of the Jail with the intention
of lynching Hiram Caldwell, the MUIR
derer of William Lampe, but Sheriff
Carlson drove them back and had the
fire bells rung to alarm the people.
At camp-meeting near Winston,
North Carolina, the appearance of a
large number of moccasin snakes caus-
ed fifty ladies in the congregation to
faint. Several persons were bitten
before the men could kill the rep
tiles.
The coroner's jury in the case of
Rose Amber, murdered near Bridge
port, Connecticut, found that she was
choked to death, and reported that sus-
picion pointed toward William Lewis,
from his relations with her and his con-
duct since her demise.
Four members of gang of burglars
who have been operating upon post
offices in Connecticut for the past four