The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-25

west, ana In ILLINOIS, the nogs are EVIL
IDENTIFY being held back to consume it..
Jay Gould is said to contemplate an
other exhibition of the contents OF his
huge tin box, to allay public distrust
as to his standing. II is believed to
/ hold $4,000, 900 in Western Union,
S15,0O0,0 600 in Missouri Pacific, $40,
COO in Texas Pacific, and large
amount of Wabash and Union Pacific.
Fannie G. Walker, of Somerville,
Massachusetts, has been arrested for
| firing the Forster grammar school last
Saturday forenoon, endangering the
lives of several hundred pupils. She is
only IA years of age, and was once
nearly burned to death, since which
time she has had a mania for incendia-
ny work.
Edward Tappan, who Was arrested
on Long Island for connection with the
Townsend outrages, has made detail
ed confession of the murder Of Mrs.
Maybee and her daughter by his BROTH
er and himself. The former deliberate
ly choked them to death in the stable;
then the house was searched and plum
dered.
BY the explosion of boiler in the
shoe factory of K. Y. 81 e. Wallace, at
Rochester, N. H., four men were killed
and six injured. The engineer had
weighted down the safety-valve with q
brick. A portion of the boiler went
through the base of chimney ninety
feet high, which toppled over the fac
tory.
Judge Shepard, in the superior court
at Chicago, has dismissed three bills
for divorce, holding that when wife
separates from her husband her resi-
dence as we'll as her domicile follows
his, and that the Illinois statutes ex-
clude from it's courts all suits for di-
vorce in behalf of persons not legal
residents.
Fire on Tuesday destroyed the st.
Lawrence sugar refinery and damaged
the cigar factory of Davis q Son, at
Montreal; the Commercial hotel and a
block of stores at Cornwall, Ontario;
the Methodist church and the Caledo-
MIA national bank at Danville, VT, and
the flouring-mills of Henry Serth, at
Lenzburg, Ill.
II. b. Mccormick, traveller for the
oil house of b. V. Page e Co., of Chi
cago, was arrested in Detroit for the
ENLIGHTENMENT of 81, 200. 1t is stated
that Governor Begole refuses to grant
extradition papers because he is ac-
quainted with the culprit's father.
Another attempt to secure McCOr-
mick will be made by the victimized
firm.
Reuben B. Haywood, superintendent
of Chicago shoe factory, went to Mil
waukee last fall to buy leather, and has
never been heard from. The announce
ment Of the death of mysterious man
at Rockford, Ills, caused two Chicago
friends of Haywood to proceed thither
and examine the corpse in the vault.
They failed to identify the body, but
are more than half convinced that it is
that OF the missing man.
In the trial of young Mutt for the
murder of Dukes, the jury acquitted
the prisoner on account of insanity at
the time the act was committed. Mutt
had slept but two hours, and was so
weak that he had to be assisted to his
feet. The audience in the court room
expressed their satisfaction by loud
cheers, which were repeated in the
street. The prisoner was remanded to
Jail, to be examined as to his mental
condition.
The Democrats of Indiana are using
the names of d. w. Voorhees,, William
s. Holman, and Isaac p. Gray in con-
nection with the governorship. 1t is
said that the nomination is sought by
General M. D. Manson, Judge A. G.
Dorney, Justice Niback, and Senator
Bell. The Republicans are consider
ing the claims of Commissioner Dud-
ley and Postmaster General Gresham,
while General A. d. Streight is work
ing hard for the chair.
Burglars at Terrell, Texas, crawled
under sidewalk and tunneled through
three different brick walls until they
reached the foundations Of the bank
vault Of ChildesS & Harris, early Sun
day morning. They blew off the outer
door Of the safe, but failed to destroy
a six-inch steel door and its time-lock.
The dense smoke caused an alarm, and
the papers in the outer vault were
found by the officers to be on fire. The
safe contained $4,000 in money,
which the robbers failed to obtain.
The steamship City of Columbus,
which left Boston Thursday afternoon
for Savannah, with full complement
of passengers, sunk in gale Friday
morning, and OF the $50 passengers on
board only 80 were saved. The disas-
ter occurred in Vineyard sound, near
Gay head. Gay head is the great
premontory which makes into the sea
at the southwestern extremity of the
island of Martha's Vineyard. A first
class lighthouse surmounts it. Be-
fore reaching it tha iIi-iated steamer
had to pass through Vineyard sound,
there from ten to fifteen miles wide,
and to skirt the edge of the Hedge
fence" a long reef which lies near the
island and at low water is high and
dry. At the usual rate of progress,
the City of Columbus should have
reached the spot where she is said to
have been lost at about o'clock Fri
day morning. At that time gale was
blowing. The passengers on board
comprised chiefly people from various
parts Of New England in good circum-
stances, who were en- route to Florida
for the winter. Nine bodies from the
wreck await recognition in u Temporal
ny morgue at New Bedford. Lieuten-
ant Rhodes, of the Revenue cutter
Dexter took several survivors from the
rigging, in half-frozen state. Fiji
teen of the saved were forwarded to Bos-
ton by special train. Captain Wright
suffers terribly from the events of the
calamity. but the report that he is in