The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-07-11

met III New DIX InuTSudy. ID. II.
Jones, of Pittsburg, was elected chair.
man, and Samuel Fessenden, OF
Connecticut, secretary.
The governor of Michigan sent .
company of militia to Muir to protect
wife murderer, named Andrew Long,
from mob which three times had O
rope around his neck.
The Michigan Central road has
passed its July dividend, its net in
come for six months being only ST. 1888
after paying the due proportion to the
Canada Southern branch.
Eli ii. Murray has been renominated
as governor of Utah, and John w. Men,
drum as suryeyor-general of Wyoming.
Secretary Teller will probably be APP
pointed governor Of Dakota.
Farmers harvesting wheat in the vi
cinity of Jerseyville, Illinois, find
many fields running twenty bushels to
the acre, and report that the average
yield will be fifteen bushels.
The Marsh Binder manufacturing
company at Sycamore, Ills, suspended
work Monday. The stockholders have
made an assignment to A. ID. Starke,
the secretary of the company.
The South Platte country in Nebras-
ka, formerly regarded as almost des-
ert, now has abundant crops of grain,
and is diversified by large tracts of
timber planted by the settlers.
Judge Blodgett has entered final
| decree in the litigation over the Chi
cago, Danville and Vincennes railway,
establishing the title to the wreck In
the Eastern Illinois company.
Frank Mark, a farmer near Marshall,
Illinois, found small bunch of cheat
growing out of head of wheat, and
intends to make his discovery known
to the agricultural department..
Democratic senator's, to the number
of fifteen or twenty, intend to leave
Washington for Chicago, by special
train, on Saturday morning, whether
congress has adjourned or not.
III. r. Thompson, paralytic of Mon
mouth, Illinois, who lost $14 900
through the embezzlement of B. T. o.
Hubbard, was lodged in Jail for threat
ening to shoot the ex-cashier.
E. r. Marshall, said to be one of the
most expert forgerS in the United
States, was arrested in Milwaukee for
passing in Chicago counterfeit ESQ
notes on the Bank of England.
Walter Terrell, of Baltimore, killed
himself with a revolver on account of
rejection by young lady. He request
ed that their engagement ring and
lock of her hair be buried in his coffin.
The people of Rockford, Ills, have
contributed over $4,000 toward per-
manent fund for the seminary. Miss
Sill, who retires after teaching forty
five years, is to have life annuity of
$500.
Hudson road was wrecked near West
Rutland, N. Y, Sunday night. Some
tiends placed a number of railroad ties
across the track. Only one man was
hurt.
Colonel Cash, the South Carolina
duelist, revenged himself on the people
of Cheraw by removing the remains of
his wife and her handsome monument
from the village cemetery to his plan
tation.
AT Taylorsville, Pa, Miss Thompson
entered her fathers drug store,
weighed out grain and half of
strychnine, and calmly swallowed it.
Antidotes were administered without
effect.
The crops in the vicinity of Kings
ton, Ont, are suffering from drought,
and grain is heading out on stunted
stalks. In some places in North From
tenac the grain has not come out of the
ground.
The druggists of Marshall county,
Iowa, have agreed to sell no liquors,
even on prescription, when the prohib-
itory law takes effect, because the at
torney general decided that they must
take out permits.
w. +. Morrison, formerly q tele-
graph operator in Buffalo, has been
arrested in Mexican city for swind-
n Co A M ha, ~
forged draft, and will be brought back
for punishment.
There are S1S suits pending against
the Wabash road, involving 5000, 745.
Messrs. II. s. Hayes, II. M. Hoxie and
George Olds are about to resign from
the wrecked concern with the permits
sion of Jay Gould.
A well at. Walton, Illinois, was
pumped dry to find the body of col
Ored woman named Cook, for whose
murder her husband has been arrested.
Her throat had been cut, and furnace
doors were tied to her feet.
Eliza Blakeny, whose husband was
once prosperous shoe manufacturer
in Cincinnati, has obtained judgment
for $4,000 against Saloon-keeper, I'M
der the Adair law, for reducing Blakeny
to the status Of a drunken brute.
The Canadian Pacific railroad is now
complete to the summit of the Rocky
Mountains, nearly 900 miles west of
Winnipeg. Rapid progress is being
made through the mountains, though
much tunneling has to be done.
The extensive distillery of Fairbanks
& Duenweg at Terre Haute, Indiana,
and large amount of highwines were
burned Sunday. One hundred hogs
lost their lives, but the cattle were
rescued. The total loss is $120,000
The stock of the Federal bank. of
Toronto, deprecated IA per cent. Fri
day, causing intense excitement, but
the announcement is made that the
Canadian banks have agreed to carry
ELAINE concern through its troubles.
j. l.. Gibbons, private secretary to
Hon. Roswell T.. Flower, has taken
possession of suite of five rooms at
the Grand Pacific hotel, in Chicago, and
will have the aid of General Lester b.
Faulkner and Senator John G. Jacobs.
Gustave j. Lowengart of San Fran
cisco, having lost very heavily by
gambling, threatened the life of his un-
Gle unless 1000 was given to him.
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