The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-10-17

cents per day in their wages. The fac
tories are closed.
Ten thousand persons gathered in
the Northampton (Mass.) camp
| grounds Wednesday to celebrate the
centennial of the independence of
| American Methodism.
A hurricane swept over Harrisburg,
Pa, Wednesday evening, unroofing
houses and leveling trees. A section
| of the carriage bridge over the Susque-
hanna was carried away.
In the noted Granger will case, Mrs.
Changers will was admitted to pro-
bate at Syracuse Saturday. BY it Gen.
Il. N. Leavenworth gets 100000, and
her relatives about $4,000.
The late Augusta M. Huntington, of
| Cincinnati, bequeathed 100000 to
Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, to ex-
pend at Faribault on memorial build
ings and their endowment.
For the removal of the Cincinnati
| postofflce to Eden park, for preserva-
ton as a sample of pure Grecian archi-
lecture, Reuben Springer and David
Sinton tender $4,000 each.
/ Frederick Layton, of Milwaukee,
who is building an art museum to pre-
| sent to the city, has been authorized
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to be used in furnishing pictures.
James H. Phillips shot and mortally
wounded James y. Shober in WASH
ington Tuesday. Shober lived half an
hour thereafter. Both men were print
ers. The difficulty was purely per-
| sonal.
George Dolling recently caught a
| Young rat in a mine at HOnesdale,
| Pennsylvania, and made q pet of it.
The animal repaid the kindness by Bit
ing its benefactor with such severity
as to cause his death.
w. w. Cotteral, formerly auditor of
Henry county, Indiana, slipped off to
| Dakota and raised $4,000 to balance
his accounts. He writes that he will
promptly meet the commissioners and
settle his shortage.
Joe Buzzard and gang, the terror Of
Pennsylvania towns, were released
from Jail Friday at Ephrata, and cele-
brated the event by committing sew
eral daring robberies. They were
pursued, but escaped.
The handsome and spacious hall
presented to the Chicago Theological
seminary by the late Cyrus H. McCor-
mick was formally handed over by q
son of the giver. Its cost was $50, 1000,
| EXCLUSIVE Ol IuIulluTt.
Goenerweir, champion of Europe,
and Augustine Schmitt, champion of
Germany, wrestled (Swiss rules) We'd
pulled his antagonists arm out of it's
socket and won the match.
The lease of the Oregon Railroad
and Navigation company's lines for
ninety-nine years, at $4,000 per
annum, made by Henry Willard for
the Northern Pacific road, is sustained
by Judge Deahy, of Portland.
A carriage at Greylock Crossing,
Massachusetts, containing George and
Alice Hall, was struck by an express
train. The corpse of the young man
remained on the pilot, while that of the
lady was thrown on high bank.
DR.. w. H. link, trial justice of
Branford, Connecticut, was killed in
his bed with hammer. AS Robert
Dougherty had recently been fined by
the justice. it is believed that the for
mer committed the murder out OF re-
venge.
The black mare, Minnie Moulton,
owned by John Goodwin, of Law
renee, Massachusetts, having been en-
tered at the Cleveland driving park
under false name, has been expelled
from all the tracks of the National as
ISOLATION.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
withdrew from the eastern passenger
pool Saturday, coming OF its having
been thrown from the New York line
by the Pennsylvania. The result of
the move has serious forebodings in
railroad circles.
Rev. Melville Smith, of Newbury
| hoc fa1y q
an insane asylum as the result of q
wound received from a shell during
the war. Before the rebellion he had
law practice in st. Louis worth $16,.
600 per annum.
Mrs. Margaret Wilson was awarded
$500 by Brooklyn jury Tuesday in
suit under the civil damage &C
against Michael Curran, a saloon-keer
er. She alleged that her husband be-
came drunkard through visiting the
defendants place.
John L. Sullivan, the -pugilist, de.
clares that he has forever given up
drinking, and will Immediately go into
training to spar Latin and others. He
will then give some farewell engage
ments, and make a tour Of The British
Islands and Australia.
The governor of West Virginia has
c0mmuted to imprisonment for Life
the sentence imposed upon Charles
Spurlock, of Lincoln county, one OF
the gang who killed Alvin Wood. The
Hill brothers, his accomplices, were
lynched last spring.
A citizen of Oswego, named Pardee,
brought suit against the New York
Sleeping Car company for the loss OF
money in a coach. He was nonsuited,
on the grounds that the company had
not been proven guilty of negligence
and was not a common carrier.
A reward of $4,000 is now offered fol-
the conviction Of the men who caused
the explosion in the new parliament
building at Quebec. The corner
stones of the structure are so much
out of place that the whole wall will
probably have to be taken down.
Mr.. Beaudry, of Montreal, on taking
the chair Of barber, laid roll of $50
in bills on the marble slab in front of
him. Three young men who followed
him attracted considerable attention,
and when he picked up his package ii
consisted only Of waste paper.
Canadian Pacific officials and the
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