The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-04-18
VERY LATEST.


Senator Mah0ne's condition is such
that he has left Washington for Peters
burg.
The ice in the straits of Mackinaw is
moving, with tina aid of q strong east
erly gale.
A lady has presented the New York
Z Presbytery with $4,000 for needy
churches.
A belt containing $1,000 in gold was
stolen by a negro from gypsy's wagon
at Metropolis, Illinois.
AT Las Vegas cowboy assassnated
Juan b. Patson, ex-Speakero of the New
Mexican Legislature.
The jewelry store of Christian Gil
bertson, of Madison, Wisconsin, has
been closed by the sheriff.
Business has been fully resumed in
the Mexican capital, and favorable re-
ports are received from adjacent cities.
Adam Badeau sent to Secretary Frel-
inghuysen cablegram rendering his
resignation as consul general at Ha-
vana.
The Elisha Graves house at North
ampton, Mass, which was over
two hundred years old, was burned
Thursday.
J. G.. Cotton, bank cashier Of New
ton, Iowa, is adefaulter to consider
able amount, and has fled to the terri
tories.
The late Mrs, A. w. Rollins. of Des
Moines, Iowa, bequeathed $4,000 to
the American Home Missionary So
ciety.
The st. Paul chamber of commerce
has passed resolutions protesting
against any suspension of the silver
coinage.
The grand jury at Fort Wayne, Ind,
was instructed to investigate Sunday
base ball playing, but failed to 1T I'm
an indictment.
4 fight between gangs of Irish and
italian railway laborers at ST. Thomas,
Ontario, resulted in several men being
severely wounded.
The Mexican government secured
peace with the mercantile class by
agreeing that only goods actually sold
shall be stamped.
Seventeen firms engaged in the manu-
facture OF vapor stoves, with capital
Of 81 500 900, have formed a cOmbina-
tiOn to equalize prices.
The leading creditors Of Brown, Bon
nell & Co., of Youngstown, Ohio, have
matured plans to place that extensive
iron-wOrks ON its feet.
a On the Chicago board of trade, Tues
day, a local operator made things lively
by selling in one lot one million bushels
OF May wheat at 84f cents.
A blast in the Calumet and Hecla
mine of the Lake Superior Mich re-
gion killed Thomas Trembreth and Sc
riously injured Nicholas Johns.
Aided by friends outside, con-
demned murderer cut hole through
the wall Of the Jail at Charlotte, North
Carolina, and secured his liberty.
The local government of Manitoba
has resigned because Of the refusal of
the Dominion authorities to grant bet
ter terms to the western province.
In the United States last week there
were It's business failures, and in Can
ada 80. In both countries the week
previous the failures numbered 212.
Daniel Campbell, an old citizen of
1illfield, Ohio, climbed a tree to the
height of sixty feet and leaped from a
limb, his death being instantaneous.
In dispute at LeavenwOrth over
dirk, 10y ear-Old lad named George
Holloway drew revolver and fatally
shot a playmate named SilaS Edmunds.
Marine circles in Buffalo have been
given new life by the chartering OF all
the c0al-carrying vessels in the harbOr
for cargoes to Chicago at rs cents per
ton.
A laborer named Alexander Lee, re-
siding In the neighborhOOd of the
Crouch murders in Michigan. became
insane, and killed himself with NOR
phine.
The supreme court of the District of
Columbia has decided that there is no
appeal from decision of the commits
sfoner of patents to the secretary of the
interior.
Burglars obtained money packages
to the amount of 1000. at Allegheny
City. They were frightened away by
the Waterman when about to blow open
the safe.
A special grand Jury, composed
wholly of leading business men, has
been impanneled at Cincinnati, to in
vestigate the riot and the burning of the
court house.
Sixteen mutilated bodies were on
Friday taken from the reOpened POca-
h0ntaS mine. near Lynchburg, Vir-
ginia, but only six of them could be
identified.
About $500 cattle were received at
the Chicago stock yards Oh Monday,
the most of any day this year, and
prices dropped Is to IS cents per hum
dred pounds.
John G. Perry. recently appointed
chief justice of Wyoming, was stricken
with paralysis Monday night while
walking with his daughter in Brooklyn,
and soon expired.
The republicans of the District of
Columbia selected Postmaster Conger
and Perry Carson as delegates to Chi
cag0, and voted down q resolution in
structing for Logan.
A. j. Hamlin, of Shelbyville, was
nominated for congress by the republic
cans Of the Fifteenth Illinois district,
and l.. Il. Payson was renOminated in
the Ninth district.
Theodore A. Hurd, of Leavenworth,
has been appointed associate justice of
the supreme court of Kansas, to sue
coed ID. j. Brewer, who was called to
the federal bench.
Roscoe Conkling is said to be respon-
sible for the selection of Blaine dele
CATION to Chicago from the twenty-sev-
enth district of New York, with Thos.
G. Plat at its head.
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