The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-12-14
VERY LATEST.


Dukes, will begin at Pittsburg Jan. z.
DR.. John Favili, while giving testi-
mony In court room at Madison, Wis.,,
was stricken with paralysis.
John A. kasson declines reelection
to congress from the Seventh district
Of Iowa.
The directors of the Louisville expo
sition have decided to give another
show next year.
While attending the wedding of his
sister-in-law at FL Paso, ILL.,, John Til
iskei dropped dead of apoplexy.
Five desperadoes rode into Bisbee,
Arizona, Saturday night, killed three
men, and robbed store of S1.20l.
Mrs. Langtry's palace car was stoned
by rough characters as it passed through
COnnellsville, a., Saturday evening.
A fire at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, de-
str0yed two blocks Of buildings in the
center OF the city.
Five men who were out hunting on
Niagara river were drowned by the
capsiZing of their boat.
Charles G. Reed, the citizens candi-
date, was elected mayor Of Worcester,
Massachusetts, on license platform.
St. Louis reports the expenditure Of
prOvements.
lay dirt was struck at Las Vegas in
digging q foundation for courthouse,
and claims are being staked of.
1t is expected that I'resid ut Arthur
will send to congress a special message
on the Hennepin canal project, accom-
named bv reports and diagrams.
InOmaS Evans, wealthy and eccen-
trio citizen of Erie, Pa, who was re-
Gently acquitted of the charge of wash
ing postage stamps, has mysteriOusly
disappeared.
Orth Stein, reporter. who is now
serving term of twenty-five years for
killing George Frederick, in Kansas
City, has been granted new trial by
the supreme court.
Sanford Tell. OF Muncie, Indiana,
who was sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary for an attempt on the life
of Sheriff Mack, hanged himself in his
cell in Jail.
Theodore Sparks, member OF the
senior class at Williams college, has
been detected in robbing rooms, and
placed in Jail at Pittslield, Massachu-
sets.
Ninety non-union molders of Troy,
N. Y, struck for hi her wages, and
two hundred women in collar-shOp
quit work because of the impoliteness
of foreman.
A mammoth iron girder fell upon a
dozen workmen at the bridge-works at
Athens, Ia, because insufficient tack
les were used. One man was killed,
another had his back broken, and
third had leg crushed.
A. G. Ayers, railway ticket agent at
Cincinnati, having been arrested for
embeZzlement, attempted suicide by
thrusting % sharpened lead pencil into
his neck and cutting his Wrists with
broken glass.
The woman who accompanied Aven-
gnr O'Donnell to the ape of Good
Hope sailed from Liverpool Thursday
for New York, where she will certainly
have o chance to tell the reporters all
she knows about the killing of Carey.
James Nj. Underwood, the murderer
oil Robert j. l'endergrass, a we'll known
Arkansas planter, was hanged Friday
at Dardanelle. On the scatfOld he
stated that the killing was melted by
Mrs. i'endergrass.
ln the United States district court at
Chicago, John Flemming and Frank l..
LOring were convicted of using the
mails to defraud. A motion for q new
trial was made, and an additional bond
Of $1,000 was required.
representative Converse, OF Ohio,
has prepared bill to restore the duty
on wool. He claims that the people of
his state have suffered u loss of over
81 QUO 900 through the reduction made
last year.
The government of British Columbia
10 N IhinaGn
immigration. The provincial secreta-
ny says there are 200 destitute Celes-
tails on the mainland who can only
sHbsist by crime.
Four Milwaukee lads, each about Is
years Of age, formed a Buffalo Bill
combination and established pirates
den. One of them confesses that they
have within a month started II fires in
the Fourth ward.
w. W. Stewart, of Newark, Ohio,
sued George II. Green, wealthy far
mer for ST., ZOO damages for alternating
the affections of his wife, and after
trial lasting week judgement for 1
cent was rendered.
There was great excitement Monday
On the Chicago board of trade. 1t is
believed that the sales Of grain alone
aggregated 1OJ, 0O0,0 900 bushels. Corn
for May rose to 63f cents, wheat for
January closed at 99s cents, and pork
sold at $14.75.
A dispatch from Toronto states that
a sail-b0at containing seven decom-
posed bodies drifted ashore at Helce
island. They are believed to be the
romans of Captain Quick and several
sons, who left two weeks ago for trip
around the island.
The clergymen of Indianapolis met
Monday and adopted recommendations
that funerals should be private; that
there should be no public exhibitions
OF deceased people, and that ministers
should not be required to attend at
the grave.
Louis Anderson, tramp, was found
Monday under haystack in La Crosse,
Wis, where he took refuge Nov. II.
he claims that the hay toppled over
upon him, and his appearance shows
that he had endured intense suffering.
lie was placed in the hospital.
Wesley Posey, the negro who caused
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