The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-12-28

r A turkey shoot near Paris Kentucky,
ended in the killing of two negroes.

ended in the killing of two negroes.
A. il. Chandler, of Cleveland, has
been appointed general manager OF the
Baltimore and Ohio telegraph lines.
No less than 800 laborers were dis
charged Friday from the West Shore
road, on account of the heavy snow.
The Canadian Pacific road is opera
ting trains with new men, and has re-
opened its works from Thunder BAY
10 the Rocky Mountains.
Mr.. Coll and his family and six board
ers, of Bloomington, Illinois, are Attic
ted with trichiniasis, and two of the
party cannot recover.
A new coal company at La Sale,
Illinois, has purchased twelve thou
sand acres of land, with coal right to
eighteen thousand more.
Burglars at Grand Rapids, Michigan,
took $4,000 from the residence of L. j.
lI0ppins, deputy collector OF internal
revenue.
The board of aldermen in New York
passed an ordinance requiring electric
light companies TO place their wires
nnder ground after May next.
Capitalists from Virginia have pur-
chased $1,000 acres of land near Great
Bend, Kansas, with the intention of
establishing colony of Dunkards.
III. II. Jones, president of suspended
Drank NJ De Pere, Wisconsin, was ar
rested at Milwaukee for receiving de-
posts after insolvency was proclaimed.
Rev. John b. Wright, the oldest
Unitarian clergyman in the United
States, died Thursday at Wayland,
Massachusetts,.
Vanderbilt has purchased the fran
elise of the Pittsburg and Atlantic
railroad, running from Shippensburg
TO Connellsville.
The failures for the past week aggre-
gated $50, an increase OF 81; but the
greater portion of the insolvents were
small traders.
Captain Gordon, who abducted
child from Astoria, Long Island, has
been fined 81 400 and sentenced to five
years hard labor.
The supreme court of Michigan has
sustained the verdict of S2I.0m for Ii
mel obtained by Professor Donald Mae
Lean against the Detroit Ne,cS.
Eight business houses ut Stewards
willie. Missouri. valued with their con-
tents ut $4,000, were burned Friday
morning.
y. j. Osborne, retired merchant OF
Wheeling West Virginia, has been ar
rested for mailing scandalous letters
10 ladies' and using cancelled stamps.
The president of Mexico has ordered
a strict enforcement Of the law III re-
gard to nickel money. There have been
80 further outbreaks.
BY the explosion of Il boiler at Boli-
var. New York, George Westervelt and
William McNorton were instantly
killed
Carl Gull died Sunday evening at
Bloomington, Illinois, from eating raw
pork sausage, which has since been
found to be alive with trichinp.
The importation of Sclavonians to
the coke region OF Pennsylvania has
caused warning circulars to be posted
ut various points.
The citizens OF Mason. Michigan, Of
fer $1,000 10 any railway company
that will build u road east or west from
that place.
Hon. John. y. kassOn has accepted
an invitation 10 deliver an address ut
the formal opening of the new capitol
of Iowa, next month.
\ family of six persons. named Gray,
believed 10 have been from Illinois,
were drowned in attempting To ford
stream in Logan county, Arkansas.
In a fight between whites and blacks
at YaZoo City, Mississippi, three of the
latter race were killed and two others
wounded.
The work of hauling logs is going on
vigorously i'll the pineries OF Michigan,
where the snow is from five to ten
inches deep.
1t is said that the Willimantic
Thread company, of Connecticut, is
considering proposition TO sell It's
new mill to the Pullman Car company
for an eastern branch.
Henry IIagedon, of Cleveland, and
two of his children, had a narrow eS-
cape from death by the inhalation of
coal gas, his wife and daughter being
suifocated.
Adam Crooks, late minister of edu-
cation for the province of Ontario, now
I'm inmate of the insane retreat at
Hartford, has been placed in charge Of
Il commission 10y a Canadian court.
The marriage is announced of Frank
II. Walwortb, formerly of Saratoga,
who killed his father in New York
hotel, and Miss Corinne b. Bramlette,
OF Louisville.
Judge Van Brunt, of New York, re-
fused to commit &. i. Morosini for
contempt of court for failing to pro-
duce the books of Jay Gould's firm,
holding that he had done his best.
Rev. c. z. Collins, of Cleveland,
started on Thursday for Yonkers, New
York. to regain his health, but died
soon after reaching the home of his
father.
The Louisiana democratic state con-
vention adopted a resolution demand
ing a law to suppress lotteries, which
demoralize society and corrupt pol
itics.
Live stock dealers scattered along
the line from New York TO Cheyenne
have incorporated the Ogalalla Cattle
company, with capital of $5,000,000,
the main Office being at Omaha.
The striking engineers of the Cana
dian Pacific railroad offered to return
to work in body, but Superintendent
Egan refused to reinstate those who
abandoned their trains on the road.
Shaw Brothers, the bankrupt New
England tanners, offer their creditors