The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-05

bankers ana Merchants out OF us Il
nancial difficulties to maintain the
pool.
Poor wheat crops for the past three
seasons have caused one hundred fami-
lies in the region of Vandalia, Illinois,
to prepare for emigration to the terri
tories.
An agreement has been signed at
Cincinnati by the distillers of the
northwest to re-establish the whisky
pool, and keep within 40 per cent. of
capacity.
A young Japanese, who came re-
Gently from California, was killed by a
train at LaPOrte, Indiana, while cross
the authorities.
Henry M. Phillips, who died Thurs.
day in Philadelphia, was in the period
just preceding the war the leader of
the American party in the house Of
representatives.
At school election in Johnstown,
New York, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady STAN
ton had the pleasure of casting her
first vote and aiding in the triumph Of
lady trustee.
The window-glass factories and most
of the bottle factories at Pittsburg,
Pa, have resumed after the usual va
cation, giving employment to several
thousand men.
The centennial anniversary of the
death of Padre Sierra, the pioneer of
Catholic missions in California, was
celebrated Thursday at Monterey with
imposing ceremonies.
The Canadian government refuses to
permit the expectation of American
cattle to England on the plan proposed
by the Freemen brothers, because of
the risk of introducing disease.
Wah Lee Yon, a wealthy Chinese
resident of Cleveland, Ohio, was mar
ried in that city to Miss Mary Chafen,
a German-American girl. The event
attracted considerable attention.
Jerome q. Stratton, noted criminal
lawyer of Fort Wayne, Indiana, at
tempted suicide with pOcket-knife
on account of domestic troubles. His
wife and daughter are in Kansas.
At O'Fallon, Illinois, after a quarrel
about dress, Mrs. Crowdbar killed
Mrs. Cormack with steel file, and
then 80 seriously injured herself with a
knife that she died in few hours.
Il. d. Guinea, superintendent of Cal
vary cemetery at Chicago, narrowly es-
capped assassination at the hands of a
discharged teamster, named Daniel
Green, who fired three shots at him.
The coroners of Long Island have
decided to ask for proof that Miss Dora
Buck, of Lincoln, Nebraska, is the sis
ter Of Private Charles b. Henry before
his body is exhumed upon her order.
Samuel Roberts, late paymaster of q
large coal firm at Wilkesbarre, and q
Sunday-sch0Ol superintendent, is de-
faulter for $50, 900 or more, and has
transferred his property to his vic
Tins.
James Howell, q grape-grower near
indianapolis, fired shotgun toward
some lads whom he saw among his
vines, and soon afterward found one
of the thieves nearly dead on the road
way.
A company to work the newly-dis-
covered silver mines near Ontonagon,
Michigan, has been formed at Milwau-
kee, under the presidency of N. N.
Smith, formerly warden of the Wiscon-
sin prison.
At meeting of the Pittsburg police
committee, Tuesday night, it was de-
cided that the chief of police should
make an apology to Austrian Consul
Schamberg for his recent insult to the
Austrian flag.
William Summerfield Jingle, editor
and publisher of the Lafayette (Ind.)
Daily Courier for thirty years, died sud-
denly at Waukesha, Wis, of fatty de-
generation of the heart. He was 81
years of age. '
: The rail shipments eastward from
Chicago for the past week were about
thirty thousand tons. decrease of
MARTY one-fourth The I AXE Shore
and Fort Wayne roads each secured
1913 per cent.
In the circuit court at New York.