The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-07

mitted suicide IN the once or James
Pyle, the soap manufacturer of thai
city, because of removal from his posi-
ton. M
j A man who boarded q train at Smith
field, Utah, late on Sunday night, COW
cred eight passengers and two train
men with a revolver, robbed them OF
their watches and money, and escaped
in the darkness.
| Two negroes of Edwards, Missis'
sippi, confessed having robbed the
grave of Mrs. Hattie Howell. One OF
them who attempted to escape was
riddled with bullets. The other was
taken from the sheriff and hanged.
Paul Vandervoort, chief clerk of the
railway mail service at Omaha, has
been dismissed by Postmaster General
Gresham for absence from duty while
acting as commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
James Donohue, Of Cleveland, with
out apparent provocation, killed his
step-father, Michael COnnell, and then
calmly laid down on lounge to rest. A
policeman was forced to club him be-
fore he would surrender.
Major Elijah lies, who died at Spring
field, Illinois, Tuesday, was one of five
who laid out that city in 1927, and
served in the expedition against Black
Hawk with Abraham Lincoln, Jeffer-
son Davis, and Zachary Taylor.
A railway bridge at Minneapolis
used by the Manitoba and Northern
Pacific trains was so badly damaged
by fire that the two center spans fell
into the Mississippi. The loss is $2O,-
600.
| Advices from st. Johns, N. F., con-
| firm the previous accounts OF great dis
| aSterS to the fishermen on the Banks.
| Thirty vessels are still missing, and
grave fears for their safety are enter
| tanned.
At the close of the free-thinkers'
convention in Rochester, arrangements
we're made for Rev. Thomas Mitchell
to deliver in Buffalo his defense of
Christianity, and for II. b. Wakeman to
reply, next Thursday and Friday eve
iingS.
Howard & Denig, who undertook to
erect a capitol at indianapolis, have
abandoned their contract, claiming to
have lost over 100000. Their sureties
are citizens of Chicago, who will submit
new propositions to the state-house
commissioners.
The railways running into Chicago
are again in trouble about watermelons,
as parties to whom they are consigned
refuse to receive them. Invoices from
Indiana and Missouri sold Saturday
at from SO to SO per hundred, and car
loads incumber the side tracks.
John Stinson, of Louisville, tried to
throw himself head first from the top
of freight-car, but was seized by an
officer and placed in Jail. Fifteen min
utes afterward he fractured his skull by
leap from the upper corridor of the
stone tagging.
A committee from Kansas City and
Wyandotte has gone to st. Louis to
urge upon the chief engineer for the
Missouri river improvement the imme-
date expenditure of 100000 to prevent
the channel from leaving both cities
altogether.
Citizens of Lafayette, Ind, having
donated land and guaranteed to pay
S25, 600 in cash, the Louisville, New AL.
bany and Chicago Railroad Company
finally decided Monday to locate their
repair and machine shops at that
point.
G. G. Monday went to Stanford, Ken
lucky, and reported that someone had
during the night cut his wife's throat
from ear to ear. After brief session
at his home in the country, the coroner's
jury pronounced him the murderer and
caused his incarceration.
Fred Abbott, of Chicago, a brother
of the fair opera singer, has brought
suit for divorce. alleging that he was
forced to marry Alice Osterman from
fear of assault by her father and uncle,
she having been about to become a
mother.
John Roach, the famous Pennsylva-
mia ship-builder, testified, Tuesday, be-
fore the senate committee on labor and
education that at one time he was
tramp on the prairies of Illinois, with
out dollar in his pocket. He now en-
ploys over fifteen hundred men.
Dink Davis lately bought an interest
in faro bank at Coney island. Sever
al sports from Saratoga commenced a
game last Sunday afternoon, which
ended at daylight on Monday with the
announcement by the dealer that the
bank had burst. Davis and his partner
had lost $1,000.
A son of the lates Hon. Godlove S.
Ortiz, of Indiana, by his first wife is
preparing to contest the will, which
leaves about $55, 900 to the second wife.
The latter refuses to state her inten-
tons in regard to the property. 1t is
charged that she used undue influence
to secure the estate.
The 3S5 newsboys who have regular
ly attended the Sunday school at the
Rink tabernacle in Chicago were on
Sunday given new suits of wooden
clothing, at cost of 81, 800. On Mon
day they were given a free excursion
to Woodlawn by the Illinois Central
road.
Milford S. Hunter, a New York
dentist, who killed himself with re-
volver. Friday night, had evidently be-
come deranged over the death of his
wife, as he was caught prowling about
the residence of the physician who at
tended her. Hunters father is chief-of
Police at Detroit.
Two graduates of the Toronto veteri-
nary college, after thorough exami-
nation of dead cattle on the farm of
John III. Thompson, near Flint, Michi-
gan, report that ten of them were vic
tins or Texas fever. The surgeons
say native stock is not liable to infec-