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

way near Taylorville, Illinois, a coach
load OF Italian immigrants was thrown
down an embankment, fourteen of
them being seriously injured.
In Calhoun county, West Virginia,
Friday, Mrs. Johnson gave arsenic,
mixed with sugar. to her two step
children, and swallowed some herself,
all three dying in few minutes.
A jury in New York gave William
Brady verdict for $50, 600 against G.
7. Huntington for negotiating the. pur-
chase of the Morgan railroad and
steamship lines in Louisiana and
Texas.
The dry-goods store of 4. A. Chap
man Il Co., of Milwaukee, was destroy
ed by fire Thursday evening; with the
entire stock of goods. The loss is
$500, 900 or more, and the insurance
100000.
Carl Hensen. of New York, one of
the editorial writers on Puck, was ar
rested upon a charge of having stolen
pair of diamond earrings from dis
reputable female. He was held in
81 600 bail.
The lease by which the Baltimore
and Ohio road enters Chicago will ex-
pire next Saturday. Vice President
Spencer and Smith have arrived to
negotiate with the Illinois Central for
renewal.
The miners strike along the Monon-
gahela and Yonghiogheny rivers has
completely collapsed, and every coal
pit will be in operation before the close
of the week. All the men accept the
reduction.
Arguments in the suit to take the
jersey Central road from the control
of the Reading company are being
made at Philadelphia by George M.
Robson, Roscoe Conkling, and Clar-
ence Seward.
G. w. Hazelton, from jamestown,
n. Y, who killed Mamie Thorpe in n
disreputable house in Baltimore, was
convicted only of manslaughter, and
will spend from two to ten years in the
penitentiary.
The Canadian authorities have been
advised that the landing of a detach-
ment of Toronto police at Michipico-
ten will be opposed by the liquor deal
ers by force. A party of armed men
is OH the watch.
Mary Munichan, living with John
Seueban, was brutally beaten by him,
and while the woman was unconscious
Seueban poured oil over her and then
Seueban was arrested.
The Phelps and Taylor residences at
AndovPr, Mass, were entered Friday
night by burglars, who carried off
bonds and other property in excess of
$4,000, $4,000 of which was owned by
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
The canoe Neptune, twenty feet
long, which LETT the coast of Norway
for New York, put into an English
port, Wednesday, and will soon start
across the Atlantic. Captain Johnson
is alone on the tiny vessel.
In New York Wednesday Minnie
Cummings, the actress, obtained ver-
dict of S25,000 against Police Officer
VIM. b. DeeveS and Della Murphy,
dressmaker, i'll an action brought for
false arrest and imprisonment.
improbable rumors are afoat at
Pittsburg that the Pennsylvania COM
pany is slyly buying all the floating
stock of the Baltimore and Ohio road
which can be obtained, in the hope of
overthrowing President Garrett.
The Central Pacific Road, under
acts of Congress, has selected 4,000,-
900 acres between San Jose and Sac
ramento, CAL, most Of which is already
occupied under the pre-emption and
homestead laws of the United States.
Under the new law of Pennsylvania
for the protection of laborers' wages,
a court at Allentown decided that the
Bethlehem Iron company could not de-
duct store bills from amounts due its
workmen. The suits involved about
$4,000.
In the struggle for passenger bust
ness, the receivers of the West Shore
road cut rates to l cent per mile. A
protest has been entered by the hold
ers Of ST ,000, 900 worth of the firstmort-
gage bonds, who ask the removal OF
the receivers.
The Grand Trunk road has given the
Michigan Central notice of withdrawal
from the Union depot at Detroit next
week. Trouble has arisen in Chicago
between the general passenger agents
OF these roads. fortelling war on
Canadian passenger rates.
An explosion of gas occurred in a
coal mine near Uniontown, Pa, Mon
were at work. Two corpses have been
found, and two more were rescued in a
condition next to death. 1t is believed
that twenty lives were lost.
Jacob Plyman, an employee at the
Tonkin Mill, Calhoun County, West
Virginia, returned home Unexpectedly
and found Ellis Wine with his wife.
Both men produced revolvers and be-
gan firing simultaneously. Wine was
killed. Plyman was exonerated.
Major WATSON, an army paymaster,
who has served eighteen months in the
Kansas penitentiary for embezzle-
ment, was released Wednesday. He
goes to Des Moines, where his parents
reside. He planned and superintended
a system of water-works for the prison.
The residence of j. r. Hutchins, in
Montreal, was nearly blown to pieces
by an explosion of gas. The household
effects were thrown into the street,
and two servants narrowly escaped
death. A hole nearly an inch square
was found in the pipe below the meter.
Express and stock trains on the
Grand Trunk road collided at Point
Claire Station, Wednesday night. An
engineer was killed and a fireman and
commercial traveller were seriously in
jured. The loss of property is estimat-
ed at 100000, as many sheep were
killed.
Lake underwriters are suffering