The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-02-23
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solution not to adjourn until an equit-
bale railroad bill had been passed and
received the governors signature.
Stock-raisers in western Texas report
n considerable loss o. cattle and the
death Of 10 per cent. Of their sheep by
the recent cold weather.
Eighty convicts in the shoe-shop at
S ne Sing prison were locked III shelr
cells Tuesday for throwing down their
tools. and further trouble is feared.
A singular and fatal disease among
swine has appeared Ill Winona county,
Minnesota. where 1t has swept OH over
three hundred.
At an iron-mill in Carondelet, Mis-
souri,, where one thousand men have
for three months been on strike, the
fires were started Monday with non
union men.
Mrs. Paulitsch has recovered damages
of ST. 800. with an extra allowance OF
$500, against the New York Central
road, for injuries which necessitated
the amputatiOn of her foot.
The Mahon Banking company of
London, Ontario. closed its doors Tues
udt CIlDDiluS oCNNA Y
ing firms. 1t is believed that depOsitors
will realize nothing from the wreck.
Isaac p. Chambers, private secretary
to William III. Vanderbilt, declares that
there is not the slightest foundation
for the rumor that the magnate was
seriously ill.
William G. Smith, an express mes
senger on the Albany and Susquehan-
ma road, retained possession of $4O, 900
alter having been shot twice by rob-
Der.
Polk, the Tennessee defaulter, is
likely to die soon if kept in prison. He
can not speak above whisper, and has
eaten nothing since last Tuesday. An
attempt will be made to compromise
his shortage at $4,000.
While dispositions were being taken
in congressional election case in Rich
mond, Captain John S. Wise slapped
the face of John +. Massey, and both
were held to appear before the police
courts.
In the Enited States court at Cleve-
land. Fayette Brown was appointed re-
ceiver Of the iron-workS of Brown,
Bonnell & Co., and gave bond in $780,
200. He closed the mills Tuesday night,
in order to take an inventory.
Frank b. Hoff, q lawyer of Kansas
30. Detectives who are at work upon
the case state that Hoff has embezzled
$1,000 from collections made for CAPT.
talists of Westchester, Pennsylvania.
A resolution has been introduced in
the Texas senate for a committee to as
certain if the contract with Chicago
parties for the construction of a capitol
can not be annulled, it being alleged
that the lands given for the purpose are
worth from SO, OOO, 900 to $15, 00O,0 600.
The raiders who started from Kansas
City for Oklahoma are in camp at Tulsa,
Indian Territory, OH the Atlantic and
Pacific railroad, where the soldiers can
not interfere with them, and expect to
move forward when the weather will
permit.
G. =. Huntington, of the Southern
Pacific road has purchased for SIS, 000,-
600 Morgan's railroad in Louisiana and
Texas and the Morgan steamship lines,
and will ask congress to amend the bill
for the consolidation of transcontinent-
al roads.
The estate of the late Edwin d. Nor
gan of New York is estimated at So
0O0, 600. His will gives his widow $780,
600 in bulk and the income from ST. ,OO0,-
600. Personal legacies amount to
1886, 200, and requests to charities over
S795.0O0. The income OF the residue of
the estate goes to a grandson bearing
the same name.
There was fifty-one feet of water at
Cairo Monday evening, and the low
lands below the city are inundated.
The work of bulkheading the Ohio
levee is rapidly pushed forward. The
water at Memphis was eight inches be-
low the danger line, but the interior
was being flooded by old breaks in the
levee at Trotter's Landing.
A fire in the grocery and spirit ware
house of d. Mason g. Co., Of Montreal,
followed by numerous explosions,
caused q loss of $12O, 900 and the MAIN
ing of two firemen. This was speedily
followed by the partial destruction Of
the provincial ref0rmatory for boys,
causing damage to the amount of $780,
600 and the wounding of three more
members of the fire department.
Twenty-one Of the persons under ex-
animation of Dublin have been CON-
mitted to answer the charge of murder
ing Cavendish and Burke. John Dwy-
er is dying in the prison hospital. 1t is
Known that the vile OF lniOrmer carey
often visited the castle, and marines
are now guarding her residence. Carey
was Missed by the spectators in the
courtroom. and as he passed the dock
James Mullett struck at him.
Buffalo people are greatly excited
over the case Of Mrs. AlonZo Cottier,
who surrendered herself to the police
as the murderer of her babe. She is
the daughter of Alvah Church, the
banker, and is beautiful and accom-
plished woman. Physicians differ as to
her sanity, but the newspapers seem to
agree that mother-in-law caused all
the trouble.
Flames made their appearance in a
attached to q German
Catholic church in Fourth street, New
York, on Tuesday afternoon. Seven
hundred children were i'm the class
rooms. The pupils were very quietly
removed from the fourth floor, when q
Sister of Charity tainted. This preci-
plated a panic, in which stair-railing
was broken. Six children were taken
out dead and eight others expired i'm
mediately after being rescued from the