The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-14

Dougan, superintendent or the Cana
dian Pacific railway telegraph.
Noah Jackson was executed Friday
at Lake Providence, Louisiana. for the
murder Of his wife. Harrison Williams
was hanged at Corscana, Texas, for
killing his sister-in-law.
Thomas A. Hendricks has returned
to Paris ill-pleased with his trip to
Southern Europe. He considers, Italy
unhe 'lthy for Americans to visit at this
time OF the year.
William ID. Handley. who sued the
Brooklyn Eagle to recover $4,000 dam
ages for alleged libel in publishing the
report Of his arrest on suspicion OF ar
son. was awarded verdict Of six cents.
A wooden water-pipe laid in 1874 in
State street, near Washington, Chicago,
was exhumed in good condition, and
will be presented to the historical So
ciety.
Some eastern banks. finding that they
could not obtain small greenbacks in
return for mutilated currency, have
offered to accept standard silver dol
lars.
Miss Clara Barton has been rendered
the free use of the steamer Joseph V.
Throop, to go down the Ohio from
Evansville with load of supplies for
the needy.
One man was killed and two others
fatally injured by boiler explosion in
the dyeing establishments of j. Il. Trees,
at Lawrence, Mass. Three buildings
were shattered to splinters.
A snow-slide Monday evening swept
away every building in Woodstock, a
small station on the South Park road in
Colorado, seventy-fve miles southwest
OF Leadville. Fifteen persons are known
to have been lost.
Henry Richardson, a leading member
of the Vigilance committee of Brown
county, Nebraska, was hung by up-
known persons near his home at Morris
Bridge. He has participated IN the
lynching Of fourteen horse thieves.
In commemoration of the one hun
dredth birthday of Sir Moses Monte
fore, of London, the Supreme lodge Of
Kersher Shell Barrel has endowed with
Israelites at Cleveland.
An aged couple at Monroe, La,
named Rodgers, were murdered by two
men to whom they had extended hospi-
tally. The murderers failed to secure
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cealed in q mattress.
Almost panic prevails in Havana
over the monetary stringency and the
three extensive exporting and banking
houses is reported, and other firms are
regarded with distrust.
The Ontario legislature has decided
that women shall be admitted as stu
dents in the Toronto Provincial Uni
versity, and the fair sex are now petit
tioning the local government for the
right to vote.
The executor of an estate at Spartan
burg, :. G.. has been served with a
claim for SO, 600 arising from a note for
800, given some years ago, bearing
compound interest at & per cent. per
month.
Charles III. Reed steps to the front
with a statement that on the day pre-
ceding his execution Guiteau declared
most positively that no one but God
and himself knew anything OF his in
tention to kill President Garfield.
A party of ten prospectOrs who re-
Gently left RathGrum, on the Northern
Pacific road. for the CRur d'Alene
mines, are believed TO have persisted in
the snow, as they have not been heard
from for thirteen days
The Mexican government, learning
that an 8 per cent. dividend had been
declared on the common stock of the
Vera Cruz road, made demand for "a
reduction Of freight and passenger
rates, in accordance with the terms of
the concession.
Andrew j. Weaver, of Greenville,
Pa, drove his daughterfrom the house,
broke some furniture. and then killed
himself with a revolver. On several
occasions he has shown signs OF insan-
lty. His brother is "a member Of con-
gress from Indiana,
Andrew Peacock. known throughout
the southwest rs one Of the most eX-
pert drivers on the turf, ended his ca
reer Monday in the lunatic asylum ut
New Albany, Indiana. He lost his
mind through grief at the death of his
son.
The Brewers association OF Chicago
has resolved to contest the Harper law
by legal means. At meeting of the
liquor dealers and beer sellers, Peter
Hansbrough urged every saloon keeper
to take out the cheapest license and re-
tail anything he chose.
Boston capitalists have invested $2S,-
sol 500 in the Mexican Central road.
the government granting a subsidy Of
$l5, 600 per mile. Fresnillo, where the
divisions join, is $50 miles from the
American border and 475 from the City
of Mexico.
Frank Rande, the noted desperate,
who was serving term in the peniten-
tary at Joliet, committed suicide du-
ring Thursday night. BY tearing his
underclOthing into strips he made a
rope, and hanged himself to the graft
ing in his cell door.
A bill has been introduced in the
Canadian Commons to amend the pres
ent copyright law by placing dramatic
authors in the same position as to
copyright as other authors, the copy
right TO be vested in the author and his
heirs for fifty years after his death.
On street corner in Nashville, from
"A disagreement about some business
matters, William Spence killed Edward
). Wheat with a revolver. The victim
was a son-in-law of his murderer. and
succeeded him as United States Mar
shall for the Middle district of Tennes-