The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-06-20


or clearinghouse certificates aggre-
eating $H 600, 900 issued during the re-
cent financial furry in New York $12,-
100000 have been already cancelled.
The frigate Constellation has sailed
from Annapolis for Hampton Roads to
repair her hull, it having been found so
rotten that it could not hold herrudder.
John Flemming, who was convicted
in Chicago of using the mails TO de-
fraud, came from Dakota and surren-
dered himself to serve year in Jail.
The boiler at an oil well near Butler,
Pennsylvania, exploded Sunday, with
such force as to kill the engineer, Rich
ard Walker, and fatally wounded his
son.
ID. j. Salisbury, one of the Oldest
settlers OF Porter county, Illinois, aged
seventy-three, committed suicide by
shooting. He had been i'll for some
time.
Official reports of the crops in Michi-
gan indicate that the harvest will be
nearly up to the average as far as
wheat, corn, clover, and grass are con-
cerned.
AT Oconto, Wisconsin, an aged wo-
man, named Mrs. Charles Ritter,
Drained her husband with an AK, and
then took paris green. Both are still
alive.
The Canadian department of Gus
toms refused to citizens of Kentucky
permission to take whiskey into the
Dominion and then export it to New
York. H.-..
The superintendent of schools for
Steuben county, Indiana, reports that
there is no child in his district between
nf 70
and write.
troleum exchange have been forced to
adopt resolution to receive no oil
vouchers from banks not members Of
the clearing house.
In southern New Jersey Monday
morning the thermometer fell to SO
degrees. There were frosts in some
places, and considerable damage was
done to tender crops.
Rev. DR.. A. j. Baird, of Nashville,
who was on his way to attend meet
ing of the Presbyterian alliance in Ire
land, died suddenly in hotel at New
York, in his Goth year.
At Muncie, Ind, small child of Jno.
Shockley was badly injured by falling
into kettle of lye, and ten-year-Old
boy of William Gray was badly gOred
by a vicious cow. os
A citizen of Rockford, Dakota,
claims that near that place is a solid
body of oxide of tin nine hundred feet
wide, it being the richest development
outside of Cornwall, England.
Colonel j. G.. Bayne, a greenback
leader in Kansas, who has lately been
dev0ting his energies to the extension
of the Fort Scott road, died of heart
disease in Wichita, Sunday evening.
Fred d. Clarke, at one time prom
inent and respected citizen Of Mil
waukee, dissipated his fortune, fell to
the lowest point in the social scale,
and died in cell at police station.
A company In New York known as
Brown IL Brothers, whose sheet brass
factory is at Waterbury, Conn.,, is in an
embarrassed condition, owing to losses
of $50, 900 or so by the late treasurer.
James Clifford, who lay in Jail at
New Lexington. Ohio, on the charge Of
participating in the lynching of Rich
ard Hickey, was released by party of
friends, who managed to drug the turn
key.
II. III. Williamson, of Milwaukee,
who last year paid $4,000 to Miss Clara
Burroughs, of Rockford, to be released
from his engagement, has married the
girl he wanted and gone on a bridal
tour.
j. G. Dougherty, chief of the money
order department of the Baltimore
postoffice, has been arrested for the
embezzlement of $1,000, the larger por-
ton of which was wasted on lottery
tickets.
The democratic state convention of
Delaware adopted aresolution present
ing Thomas +. Bayard as statesman
whose nomination for president would
furnish at once the platform and the
candidate.
Senator Harrison, of Indiana, was on
Thursday given the degree of LII. ID.
by Hanover college. Rev. VIM: .Faw-
per Iowa university the degree of doc
tor Of divinity.
The stockholders of the Cincinnati,
j. Jewett at the head of the board Of
directors. The annual report shows an
excess of earnings over expenses and
fixed charges of $310,700.
Judge Edgerton, of Dakota, has
granted the motion made to quash the
indictment against Gov. Ordway, of
that Territory, on the ground that the
grand jury had no Jurisdiction over the
official acts of the Governor. :.
Three deputy sheriffs at Salt Lake,
armed with Winchester rifles, executed
Fred Hoyt, who has been three times
tried for murder. He sat upon his cof-
fin blindfolded while his executioners
fired from point ten PAGES distant.
There was collision between two
omnibuses at Maquoketa, Iowa, Thurs
day. One of them went down fifteen
foot embankment andturned complete
ly over. Three gentlemen and a lady
who were in it were badly bruised.
The Missouri Pacific road has put on
a through sleeping-car between Dallas
and Chicago, skipping st. Louis al
together. Commercial travellers from
the latter city are advising their prin-
cipals Of this discrimination against
them.
Thomas p. Searles, almost an octo-
genarian, living alone on farm near
Hastings, Michigan, who was believed
to have considerable money secreted
about his house, was on Saturday
morning murdered by unknown per-
sons.
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