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

fight was given to the latter on q foul.
Telegraphic appeal for succor comes
from the stricken village of Carthage,
N. Y, where the number of people
homeless and penniless will reach 500.
The exact situation is much worse than
was at first reported, and q scene is
presented Of sorrow and desOlati0n sell
dom witnessed. There are 125 fami-
lies destitute.
The Blue Law was put in operation
at Hamden, near New Haven, Conn.,,
Sunday, when +. Hill, John Springs
teen and w. Hemlar were arrested for
walking out in the open fields with
guns on their shoulders, apparently
bent OH hunting excursion. A Ham,
den Justice of the Peace imposed a
fine of $34.
The supreme court of Ohio has de-
clared the Scott liquor tax law uncOn-
stitutional, the majority holding that
the lien clause is a license law. Nearly
all the cities in the state will be made
bankrupt in paying back the amounts
collected astyear. At Columbus the
salaries of city officials are back two
months or more.
II. ID. Cooke & Co., private bankers
OF Washington, suspended payment
Thursday. The head of the house is q
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W the governor of the District. The
liabilities are said to be $40, 900, MAIN
ly due 10 local creditors. The firm
was interested in the Florida Canal
company and the Washington and
Ohio road.
An attempt was made to poison the
family of DIR. ID. III. Buckingham, q
druggist in Philadelphia, by placing a
large quantity OF Sulphate OF copper in
the tea-kettle. 1t was discovered by
the housekeeper, who nearly lost her
life in tasting the water. The police
arrested fifteen-year-old colored boy
employed by the doctor as an errand
boy, who confessed his guilt, but could
assign no reason for the act.
The owners of the Armstrong well
No. 2, at Butler, Pa, themselves de-
ceived as to the probable outcome of
! quart shot, but neglected to have u
casing-head on, when the well respond
ed violently, flowing twenty feet above
the derrick. They finally succeeded in
putting on casing-head, and the last
hours gauge showed production of
400 barrels an hour, a rate of $500 per
day.
Thirty passengers sat down to break
fast at Dalton, Ca, on the Atlantic &
Western Railroad, Monday. Before
the train had left the station six pas
sengers were taken i'll and had to be
left. All others who ate sausage for
breakfast became i'll before the traiu
arrived at Marietta. Nine had to be
1t is expected that six of those left sick
at Marietta will die. Physicians at
tribute the cause of the wholesale pois-
oning to trichin3.
Joseph Moses Behrendt, otherwise
known as f. Barnett, was arrested at
New York by Deputy United States
Marshal Bernhard as fugitive from
| justice. He came to the United States
year ago from Elbing, in Prussia,
where he carried on farming and q
mercantile business. 1t is alleged that
before leaving Elbing he forged the
name of one Bernes to drafts for over
1,000,0 900 marks. At the time he was a
bankrupt. The complaint against him
is made by the German consul general.
At the conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, which is in
session at Bristol, Tenn, the Rev. j.
u. Lloyd of Sweetwater, one of the
most prominent young ministers in the
conference, was expelled for having,
as it was alleged, visited house of ill
fame while intoxicated. A prominent
minister who had suspected his dissi-
| patton found him at the house, and in
| the conference publicly exposed him.
Lloyd was at once expelled.
Judge Corlett, of the Supreme Court
of New York, confirmed the report of
the Commissioners in the matter of the
state reservation for an international
park at Niagara Falls, and granted an
order directing the payment of awards
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tice. The owners of Goat Island claim
ed 100000 and got $525,OOO. The
Prospect Park Company asked S1,000,-
600 and will receive S325,000. The
Bath Island paper mill was valued at
S3OO, 600 and was appraised at S156,666.
The owners of the Cataract House
were awarded $110,600 for the annex,
but wanted $377, 900. Hill 81 Murray
valued their pulp mill and property at
$25O,OOO, but will get only SSl 800.
John w. Holcomb, superintendent
of public instruction, and manager of
the Indiana educational exhibit at the
Worlds Fair in New Orleans, has is
sued q circular to county superintend-
ents. He asks each one to send copies
of the printed manuals, reports, blank
forms, and printed documents illus
trating schools. photographs of the
school buildings, county newspapers,
map Of the county on scale of three
quarters of an inch to the mile, show
ing civil townships in colors, important
streams and railways, cities and towns,
boundary lines, and the location of
school-houses.
Wilbur +. Storey, proprietor of the
Chicago Times, died Monday evening.
1t has been widely known for years that
the proprietor Of The Times was an in
valid; but few besides those nearest
him knew the nature and extent of his
illness. Disabled by severe accident
many years ago, he never fully recov-
cred the use of his injured limb, or re-
gained his general health. lie was
compelled by suffering, often most in
tense, to relinquish much of his accus-
toned labor on The Times, which pa
per, as is we'll known, his genius and
energy had practically created. Six
years ago, while in Europe, he had
dangerous attack of paralysis. which
further enfeebled him; and in October,
1882, another severe illness completely
Frustrated him. From this he never
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