The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-10

northern and Northern Pacific roads
The warehouses and stables of the
Knickerbocker Ice company, of Phila-
delphia, were burned Tuesday evening.
Two thousand tons of ice were de-
stroyed and forty-three horses were suf
located.
The cool weather of the past ten
days in Dakota is estimated to have
been worth five million bushels of
wheat to the Red river valley. The re-
ports from northern Minnesota are
highly favorable.
An. oil barrel, half filled with water,
was sent safely through the rapids in
Niagara river Saturday. Captain j. ID.
Rhodes, noted swimmer, gives no
tice that within nine days he intends to
brave the rapids and whirlpool.
Nearly an entire block on Post street,
San Francisco, was destroyed by fire,
Saturday, the loss being 5000, 900. Hen.
ry Morgan, an actor, was burned to
death, and many others were injured
by leaping from windows.
William Mosley, undergoing a sem
tence of twelve years Imprisonment in
the county Jail at Sunbury, Pennsylva-
MIA, for murder, hanged himself in his
cell Sunday night, making rope out of
the sheeting.
Sabato Alexander. an Italian, was ar
raigned Monday at Easton, Pennsylva-
MIA, and sentenced to be hanged. While
being taken back to prison he made q
dangerous wound In his throat with o
piece of chisel.
Leonard Brown, q noted eccentric OF
Polk City, Iowa, was showered with
eggs for expressing the opinion that
tho 1aW chOr1ld haUa haan alInwad RI
take its course in the case of the MUIR
derer Hardy.
j. Proctor Knott was elected COVER
nor of Kentucky by an apparent ma.
jority of $4,000. Henry Clay, a grand
son of the statesman, was defeated for
the legislature in the Louisville dis
trict.
In an election row at Bryantsville,
Kentucky, caused by white man
selling his vote to both parties, two
negroes were killed, two mortally
wounded, and two white men seriously
injured.
The recorder of Kansas City fined
Charley Ford $500 for carrying revol.
yer without proper authority, although
the chief Of police swore that he be-
lieved such protection to be necessary
since the killing of Jesse James.
Miss H. Z. Bigelow, living alone at
Marlboro, Massachusetts, received a
letter threatening her life unless she
took $500 to the author at cider-mill
on the outskirts of the town. She pre-
vented the capture Of the scoundrel by
talking too much.
A Washington Sunday paper pub
lished story that Mexico had secretly
made an offensive and defensive alli-
ance with Germany, by which the lat
ter country receives more advantages
than are conceded in the convention
with the United States.
The st. Louis beer-sellers kept open
in great numbers Sunday. and evince
q disposition to fight the Sunday-clos-
ing statue, while the liquor men gener-
ally kept their bars closed. A thous-
and warrants have been sworn out so
far for violation of the law.
The speculative element throughout
the country is taxing Il vacation with a
venaeahc". Tnr transactions in Wall
street 81 lir " wore oniv 1856 shares,
;tad fin e retry orl - or tn, week on
III" & - - " r.! ~ trade have often
Jp"n 10 '9i.
One hundred citizens of CaStleton,
New York, incensed over the immoral
ity of young German named VOss,
took the fellow from the residence of a
friend and gave him heavy coat of tar
and feathers and warning to keep
away.
A grand reunion of Texas pioneers,
confederates, and Mexican war yet
Grams was opened Tuesday at McKin-
ney, Texas. Eight thousand persons
were present. Addresses were deliv-
cred by Governors Ireland and Hub
bard and Congressman Throckmorton.
The doors of the New Jersey State
prison have closed upon five Cinnamon
who stabbed fellow-cOuntryman for
reducing laundry prices. They made
an earnest appeal to the keeper to spare
their queues, but the law was strictly
enforced.
The officers and crews of three Nor
wegian vessels at Vera Cruz died Of
yellow fever. A passenger arriving at
New York by the bark r. w. Griffiths
was stricken Tuesday, and has been
sent to the hospital at the quarantine
station.
One of Hanlan's chief hackers for the
contest on Chautauqua lake in 1878,
which ended by the mysterious saving
Louis paper version of the affair
which makes Hanlan the party chiefly
to be blamed.
Judge Reid, of Nashville, made his
appearance in a pool-room Tuesday
evening, and was Kissed for a recent
unfriendly decision He threatened to
have the whole party before him next
morning and to send booksellers to Jail
for five years, and added that he deiied
any mob.
The Presidential party arrived at
Green River, Wy. T., Sunday forenoon,
where they encamped for the day, and
on Monday morning started for Wash
axle in spring wagons. They camped
Monday night on the Sweetwater, 100
miles from Green River, and will reach
Washable Tuesday.
War has broken out between gang
of negroes and Italians working on the
Ohio River Railroad. at Sisterville, w.
Va. The negroes put in blast and
failed to warn the Italians, two of
whom were killed. The latter are