The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23

Sunset Cox declares that he is in the
ring for the speakership TO stay.
Yale college has invested funds of
S1,924,32S. Its expenses for the past
fiscal year were $500, S27.
Isaac H.. Brownley is to succeed
Hugh Hastings as editor or the Com
mercidl Advertiser, of New York.
s. III. White. civil engineer on the
Denver and South Park railway, was
murdered by tie-cutter at Robinson.
James.Doyle has been fully identified
as the murderer Of the Maybee family
at Brookville, Long Island.
A banker in New York received
100000 francs in gold from Europe,
Tuesday.
A loss of 500, 200 was sustained at
Ottawa, Kansas, by the burning Of the
railway depot and machine shops.
Seven railways interested have estab-
lished the Ohio river pool by signing
contracts to take effect December /.
A fire at Harrodsburg, Kentucky,
swept away hotel and six stores on
Main street, causing loss OF $4,000.
S. b. McCulloch, clerk of the circuit
court at Wheeling, West Virginia, has
mysteriously disappeared.
Hon. G. A. WinslOw, a member of
the supreme court commission of Mis-
souri,, died Sunday at Jefferson City.
1t is said that Colonel Morrison, of
Illinois, is in favor OF Carlisle for the
Speakership.
A grave robber Of Syracuse, New
York, has been sentenced to four
years and six months in state prison.
Jacob Melting, the Ada Atkinson
murderer, was taken from Jail at Fow-
Ter, Indiana, Monday morning by
mob and hung.
Rev. j. III. Magoffin, of Cheboygan,
Michigan, died from erysipelas caused
by running rusty nail in his thumb
two weeks ago.
The system Of standard time went
into operation Sunday very generally
throughout the United States, having
largely been adopted by local jewelers..
Frederick M. Ker, the embezzling
bookkeeper Of Preston, Kean & Co., OF
Chicago, has been sentenced to impris-
onment for ten years.
Isaac w. England, publisher of the
New York San, lost his elegant resi-
dence at Patterson, New Jersey, by
fire, scarcely anything being saved.
Thomas Reed, thirty-five years old,
drunk, was mangled to pieces Sunday
night by Michigan Central train
near East Saginaw, Mich.
The first child born TO Chinese pa
rents in Boston came to the world
Saturday. Its mother, Mrs. Tam Wah
Kee, is only sixteen years old.
Forty-one saloon-keepers at Des
MOines, Iowa, have renewed their Ii
censes at 81, 900, and eighteen are still
delinquent
A Mormon elder passed through
Kansas City, Saturday, with seventy
eight proselytes from the southern
states.
William Henry. a farmer near Swan
ton, Ohio, killed his wife with an ak,
fatally cut his daughter, and then took
his own life with razor.
In the United States court at Grand
Rapids, an attorney named Shuster
was convicted OF retaining 81 $50 from
pension of 81, 800.
Mrs. j. E. Moulton, of Beloit, Kan
sas, shot her husband in the heart
for contributing to the support of 9th
er women.
The Jail at Charlottesville, Virginia,
is guarded by company of militia to
prevent the negroes from lynching q
colored murderer named Joe Barbour.
A cargo OF one thousand Ontario
sheep for England is detained at Mon
treal, scab having appeared on four
teen of the number.
A. III. Rowland, clerk of the courts
at Pittsburg, has been held to bail for
the embeZZlement of $4,000 during
two terms of office.
The Dom inion government will not
entertain the claim of the Hudson
Bay company for compensation for
losses in the northwest rebellion.
General Lewis Ruffner, who was
prominent in the early history of Vir-
ginia, died Monday at Charlestown, in
his S9th year.
In the United States court at Chica-
60, II. w. Shapley and Fred Erby were
convicted for being agents for southern
lotteries, and will be fined.
Flipper, the colored man who was
dismissed from a lieutenancy in the
army, has gone to Mexico with a rail-
way surveying party.
William G. Phelan, the Boston for
ger and blackmailer, has been sentence
ed to fiveyears' Imprisonment for pass
ing counterfeit money.
The sufferings of General A. c.
Dodge, of Burlington, Iowa, ended
Tuesday afternoon. He was II years
of age.
Byron w. Sibley, day operator in the
Michigan Central depot, at Marshall,
Michigan, was mysteriously murdered
on the street Monday night.
The police of Kansas City have ar
rested two men who slaughtered and
sold to city butchers eleven head of
sick or disabled cattle.
Sixty-fve rounds were fought Tues
day in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, by
James Golden and Patrick Scullian,
the latter winning on foul.
George &. Munroe, prominent citi-
zen of Newport, Rhode Island, died
suddenly from the excitement of win
ming an important suit which had been
pending for eighteen years.
The federal grand jury at New York
found true bills against a teller in the
Wall Street National bank for certify
ing checks in excess Of the amount on