The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-28

The recent logging Of prisoner at
Winnipeg by order OF Attorney Gener-
al Miller forced the government to de-
mand the latter's resignation, and he
will give up his Office this week.
John G. Dore, of Chicago, has pre-
sented to the Merchants exchange OF
st. Louis plan for improving the Illi-
nois and Michigan canal, and will
probably secure its Endorsement.
AT Edinboro, Pennsylvania, on Sat-
urday evening, railway brakeman
named q. b. Williams fatally shot his
wife then killed himself. For the past
two years they had lived unhappily.
An alligator ten feet in length, which
for years has been the terror of Jeffer-
son county,. Arkansas, was last week
killed with a Shotgun by Miss Dottie
L. Steck, of Bellwood, Pennsylvania.
The trial of Daniel Holcomb, at
Jackson, Michigan, for the murder OF
the Crouch family, has been indefinite
ly postponed on account OF the death OF
Frank Il. Hewlett, prosecuting attor-
ney.
DR.. F. II. O'Connor, who has kept
drug store in Keokuk for the past
his days with laudanum, and fought
the physicians who tried to save his
life.
w. w. Crawford, who married Miss
Kate McCann at Lexington, KY, was
arrested at the instance of the BRIDES
brother on information from Column
bus, o., alleging that he has q wife
there.
An attempt is being made in Balti-
more to show that Wilkes Booth killed
President Lincoln because OF the lat
ler's failure to pardon Captain John
Yates Beall, who was shot as con-
federate spy.
A postal-clerk is authority for the
statement that in several mountain
counties of Virginia and Kentucky
; hundreds of human beings have re-
Gently died from a plague resembling
Asiatic cholera.
A mob at Davenport. Washington
Territory, refused to permit the county
records to be transferred to Sprague,
but the appearance OF Sheriff Cody
with one hundred armed men was the
signal for surrender.
Acute typhoid-dysentery is the med
ical name given to the fatal scourge
which has recently broken out in the
western portions OF Virginia. One
hundred and fifty deaths have occurred
in Wise County alone.
There were 259 failures in the United
States and twenty-nine in Canada dur
ing the week ending Friday-a total in
crease of forty-one over the week pre-
vious. The increase is mostly in the
Western and Southern States.
The sum of $150,0O0 has been SUBJ
scribed Ivy Captain A. Il. Address,
Major r. w, McClaughry, and others
70 har l,t;l
Chicago and produce painting of the
battle OF Shiloh next summer.
Leading business men of Boston met
and adopted resolutions favoring sus-
pension of the coinage of silver dol
lars, the enactment of the senate bank
ruptcy bill, and favorable action on the
reciprocity treaty with Mexico.
At Monmouth, Illinois, Texan
named III. r.. Thompson, who had sus-
tanned heavy losses by the failure of
the First National bank, fired five
shots at b. Il. D. Hubbard, the default
ing cashier, without hitting him.
One of the jurors in the Crouch MUIR
der case at Jackson, Michigan, has
been Frustrated by typhoid fever, fore
ing the court to take a recess. The
other jurors make considerable COM
plant in regard to their quarters.
The recorder of New York imposed
fine of 500 and sentence of thirty
days in the city prison upon Rev. Will
liam II. Ramscar, superintendent of
the home for children, for sending two
young girls out to beg provisions.
David Eastman, of Harlem, Illinois,
lost $4,000 farm by betting on Blaine,
and long after election day refused an
offer of $500 to draw the wager. A
young lady of Cairo is said ohave won
a husband by betting on Cleveland.
In the United States circuit court at
New York, Judge Shipman directed
the jury to return verdict for Secre-
tary McCulloch in the action brought
by A. ID. II. Lamar to recover S11O,000
for cotton confiscated during the war.
Senator Hawley's committee, APP
pointed to investigate the Pittsburg
steel-works and report upon their facil-
tiles for the production of steel for
heavy guns and naval vessels, began
its work Monday in the Smoky City,"
The governor of Virginia vetoed
bill which he claimed would place the
whole election machinery of the state
in the hands of the dominant party.
The senate promptly passed the meas
ure over his objections by a vote of %
toe.
j. l.. Cranberry, a clerk in whole
sale house IN Baltimore, lost 81, 500 of
his employers money while on aspree.
On fully recovering his equilibrium he
was so conscience-stricken as to kill
himself by severing an artery in his
wrist.
An iron foundry and a flint-glass
works at Pittsburg and three cotton
factories in New England announce
that a reduction of 10 per cent in wages
will be made next month, unless ma
terial change in the market becomes
visible.
A statue of George Brown, the
founder of The Globe, was on Tuesday
unveiled in Queens park, Toronto. by
Hon. Alexander Mackenzie. twill be
remembered that Mr.. Brown was fatal
ly shot by discharged employe four
years ago.
Senator Conger, Of Michigan, will
resign his seat in the Senate the latter
part of December to accept q judicial
appointment at Washington. The
Legislature of Michigan, which WILDE
called upon to elect his successor, is
Republican.