The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-01-19
VERY LATEST.

Will O.UOO luis VI eOOUS.
A palace is being built at Montreal, of
huge blocks of ice, for carnival OF
winter sports.
Cleveland capitalists have organized
a company to build. at Chattanooga,
the largest stove factory in the south.
1.-The police of Cleveland have COM
pleted census which shows the pOpu-
, lation of that CITY l9S.300.
Yhe legislature of Tennessee elected
Atha Thomas state treasurer. lie is O
lawyer at Franklin.
John b. Hoffman, n Cincinnati tailor,
killed one son five years ago and re-
peated the crime Friday.
Ben Butler and his staff have accept
cd an invitation to attend the ice car
nival at Montreal.
S. r. Galloway, general manager of
the Grand Trunk road. has been elect
ed president of the Western Indiana
company.
The democratic state committee of
Maine met Thursday evening and re-
solved to make straight party nOmina-
tons hereafter.
The last spike in the track connect
ing San Antonio road with the South
ern Pacific was driven Friday by Colo
mel S.W. Pierce.
Dennis X. Sullivan, one of the Oldest
members Of the police force of Detroit.
died Sunday night, OF rheumatism Of
the heart.
Mrs. Stilwell, the Ohio fiend, was
buried Sunday at Waterford. She could
not be persuaded to retract her con-
fession of murders.
b smarck is opposed to the return of
Germans who have been naturalized in
the United States, as they thus become
exempt from military service.
The senator's reelected Tuesday are
w. L. Frye OF Maine, A. III. Garland OF
Arkansas, and ISham G. Harris of Ten
nessee.
The Texas house has passed q bill
Withdrawing the 50-cent land from
market, intending to make the mini
mum price 50.
The court of claims at Washington
has awarded the Pacific Mail Steam
ship company $S3,333 tor carrying the
United States mails on the China line.
M. Il. Polk arrived in Nashville Sat-
nrday morning, in charge OF officers.
The grand jury indicted him for the
embezzlement of S4S0,O00.
A bill to prohibit the sale of liquors
is before the senate OF Texas, and will
probably pass, although influential
whisky-dealers are lobbying against it.
During performance at a circus in
Russian Poland. Saturday, the structure
took fire, and three hundred persons
lost their lives.
William Bucknell, of Philadelphia,
has given 500, 900 to the trustees of the
Baptist seminary at Lewisburg, Penn
sylvania.
1t is generally thought in Washing
ton that ex-G Governor Tom Young will
be appointed collector of internal reve-
nue. at Cincinnati.
Michael Davitt, in speech at Birken-
head, declared that the people of Ire
land had enough of futile agitation,
and were going to fight it out this time.
The City bank Of Jersey City has sus-
pended, on account of Overdrafts, by
the president, cashier, and bookkeeper,
to the amount of the capital stock.
Governor Stoneman, of California,
urges that railroad corporations be
compelled to bear their share of taxa
ton and submit to the regulation OF
fares and freight.
In the United States court at Omaha,
+. K. Clary, formerly postmaster at
Sidney, was convicted of making false
returns as to the arrival of mails, and
fined $500.
The surviving sons of Israel WASH
burn. of Maine, have resolved to erect
a memorial granite building at the
homestead in Livermore, for use as a
public library.
A broken rail threw Wabash train
= down an embankment near Olmstead,
Illinois. Five passengers were fatally
injured and nine others seriously. Two
coaches were consumed by fire.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the commencement of bust
ness by the Drovers' National bank at
the Union stockyards, with a capital of
100000.
The New York and Western press as
sOciations are hereafter to be managed
by William Henry Smith, who will
make his headquarters in the former
city.
A severe shock of earthquake, last
ing about thirty seconds, was expert
enced early Friday morning in Missouri,
Kentucky, and southern Illinois, rous-
ing people from their sleep.
The wife Of Engineer Melville testi-
fed in a Pennsylvania court that her
husband was the first to place a glass Of
liquor in her fathers hand and to teach
her to drink.
The leading rubber factories of the
country are earnestly considering the
propriety of making a S25,000,000 con-
solidation, to handle the entire crop Of
Brazil.
Before the end of January Wander
bilt is to start for California with his
sons and daughters and their wives and
husbands. stopping at Chicago and st.
Louis.
A man in the uniform Of general
officer penetrated to room in ST.
Petersburg where secret military plans
are kept, and had nearly finished copy
ing one when arrested.
The hospital belonging TO old Fort
Crawford. at Prairie du Chen, in which
Zachary Taylor and Jefferson Davis
have seen service, was last Saturday de-
stroyed by fire.
At 4 o'clock Sunday morning flames
broke out at Neenah, Wisconsin,. and
ragged until they destroyed eight bust
ness houses. including a national bank