The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-10-17

, Inc answer OF feuer McGe0cn In the
famous suit brought by Daniel Wells,
Jr., Of Milwaukee, has been filed.
McGeoch pleads that all their actions
trary to public policy, and therefore
void and illegal. The lard deal was
a failure, and left the firm 81 300, 900 in
debt.
Upon opening ventilator in a
tigers cage in Forepaugh's circus at
Waterbury, Conn.,, Wednesday morn
ing, Richard Clark was seized by one
Of the animals, two others Immediately
attacked him also. He was dragged
inside the cage and horribly mutilated
before being rescued, the tigers having
been beaten off by iron bars.
A fire which broke out in grist-
mill at Fairbury, ILL.,, at an early hour
Saturday morning spread rapidly, de-
stroying several business blocks and
houses. The total loss is estimated at
$4,000. Walton Bros, mill-owners
and general merchants, suffered heav-
lily. Their loss is estimated at $685.
900. The insurance amounts to but
500, 500.
Adam Forepaugh, the Philadelphia
Snowman and millionaire, has, after 20
years of loneliness, joined the great
army of matrimony. The bride is only
20, and has lived with her mother for
thirteen years in one Of Mr.. Fore
paugh's houses. The bride is beauti-
full in face and of splendid figure.
Forepaugh is "a years old. He has no
child except Adam Forepaugh, Jr.
The remains of the celebrated Iro-
quois Chief, Red-Jacket. and those of
other distinguished warriors were re-
inferred Thursday at Buffalo on the
lot donated by the Forest Lawn Ass0-
citation. A large number of Indians
were present at the ceremony. While
cedar caskets from the rooms of the
Historical Society chiefs wearing
native costumes chanted Indian funefs
al dirges.
Lolita, the actress, is dangerously ill
with pneumonia at her home in New
York, and has not been outside the
house since the night after she closed
her engagement at Days, ten days
ago. Lotta's manager has cancelled
her Philadelphia dates, and it is very
uncertain when she will be able to
play again. A council of physicians
was called in her case, but their decis-
ion has not been learned. Since her
return home. after the disastrous Lon
don season, Lolita has been ailing and
gloomy.
Clarke Hall, the principal building
at Bellevue College, ten miles south of
Rev. DR.. Herrick Johnson of Chicago
made the address. In connection with
the event was the reinterring Of the
| bones of a large number of Omaha In
dams which were eXhumed on the hill
where the college now stands. Henry
Fontanelle, the only surviving Chief
of the tribe, and the Rev. William
Hamilton, missionary to the Omahas,
came from the reservation to conduct
the ceremony.
The National league ball season
came to an end Saturday, though there
remain q few postponed games to be
played. The following is the record of
the games won by the several clubs:
Providence, SO; Boston, ~; Buffalo,
SO; Chicago, 81; New York, SO; Phila-
delphia, 80; Cleveland, "a, and De-
troit, IS. In the games played Satur-
2; Providence floored Cleveland, s to
l; New York scratched Detroit, 8 to
s; and Buffalo trounced Boston. IA to 8.
An elopement is reported from
Rockford, Ill. Instead of coachman,
young millwright named Witter, en-
ployed by Mr.. Keith. an extensive
stock-raiser at Burritt, near Rockford,
as a hired man, figures as one of the
principals. The other is Miss Mamie
Keith, the stock-raiser's youngest
daughter. The young people are sup
posed to have been married in Chicago
and are now on their way to Nebraska,
where the young man has farm. The
father-in-law can be comtorted, it is
believed. AT any rate, he is not going
to play Morosini.
The famous Swannanon Tunnel
through the Blue Ridge on the West
ern North Carolina Railroad, twenty
miles east of Asheville, N. c., caved
about 100 yards. The trains, with the
exception of q freight and con-
struction, were caught on the eastern
side of the mountain. Travel is sus-
pended. The work of removing the
debris will be begun at once, but it is
thought that it will be a month before
the trains will again go through the
mountain. Doubtless train of cars
will be sent via Danville, Va, and
Bristol, Tenn, to run on this end until
the work is finished.