The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-11

mentioned as the possible successor of
Judge McCrary.
Rev. Lawrence Walsh, formerly
treasurer OF the American Land league,
died of apopleXy in Boston.
Henner & Moore, bankers at Morris,
Minnesota, have suspended payment
on obligations aggregating 100000.
Col. j. j. Nevin, editor of the Pitts
J,ag Leader, died of Bright's disease at
Sewickley, Pennsylvania.
The father of Senator Allison Of
Iowa, who was IS years of age, died
Saturday OH his farm near Peosta.
Frank James, the Missouri pet, has
but one lung left. and is in danger
Gus condition from pneumonia.
Washington Wyatt, an old and
wealthy undertaken OF Louisville, died
suddenly Monday.
Samuel Brown, a farmer at Freehold,
New jersey, hanged himself in the log
house in when he was born.
The Chicac board OF trade elected
+. Nelson b AXE presid mt and George
Il. Smith second vice reslitnt.
The books OF the Montreal Loan {; nd
Mortgage company how that ecreta-
ny Craig is !. Ie..u L %: 0O,UOJ.
p There is co "p; son 10 bp ieve that
JOSEPH +. TdtN.r v ~ be made General
MANAGER -. IN" MS entral road,
with L. L. II ASS SAINT.
Nc;r th"s' ctiOnaI'. ;. III 81. Louis,
the 81, AMI ca.s Coo" do ana City OF
Aiionw ret ned ~ ,nr waters edge.
TLN Wire N,,f... al 8. w each.
JAMES VIE rs. Il lurrlar confined
in the Jail ~ uCmwH, eva, killed
turnkey --......... "..h :. II over, ana
made Il s nec""N.
"A pie a.r ol tain ell meat caused
tie To's'l IN of x;e, lo,rders and
thr,t - .erS tt q ronv nj IN Montreal.
Two Uf the orintr ale dan, erouSly Ill.
The failures of the past seven days
were $40 in the United States and 20 in
Canada, number greater than ever
before reported within similar period.
WI Wise, the wealthiest citizen of
Vincennes. Ind. died of pneumonia,
Friday night. Nearly - O,tOO will go
to his nieces.
David II. Bates, vice president of
the Western Union Telegraph compa-
ny, resigned. to accept the manage
ment of the Baltimore and Ohio lines.
Charles Delmonico, the famous res
taurateur of New York, who has been
regarded as of unsound mind, has mys-
teriously disappeared.
General lIazen has ordered the dis
play at signal stations of a white flag
with black center on the approach OF
cold waves.
BY the fall of scaffold on Conro's
block, Milwaukee, John Dunn was
killed and two masons were fatally in
jured.
Mrs. Anna Shock, of Chicago, who
was examined on charge of cruelty to
children at the Industrial home in La
Grange, was held in $500 to the crimi-
nal court.
A. j. Defossez, manager of French
opera troupe at New Orleans, has
turned over to his creditors property
valued at 81 100 to meet liabilities of
$4,000.
Z. p. Vining, commissioner of the
new western trunk-line association, on
Thursday arrived in Chicago to assume
his duties, with salary OF $4,000 per
year.
Some parts of Arkansas are flooded
with counterfeit nickels, made from a
substance found in the mountains, and
the federal officials at Fort Smith are
on the lookout.
Twenty-one members Of the Illinois
constitutional convention Of 1847 held
a reunion at Springfield Thursday.
Hon. David Davis was called to the
chair.
The Pennsylvania company is max
ing ARRANGEMENTS to construct its own
sleeping cars, as the twenty year con-
tract with the Pullman company is
about to expire.
ClarenceM. Barton, for several years
employed on the press at Washington,
is said to bave obtained considerable
money by forgeries and fled from the
city.
At o'clock Saturday morning the
mercury indicated 20 degrees below
zero in Chicago, 35 in Bismarck, % be-
low at Omaha, above at Denver, and
above at Buffalo.
Notwithstanding the prohibition of
American pork in several countries of
Europe, the exports of hog product
during the past year increased 30 per
cent.
Freight shipments eastward from
Chicago have reached a low figure, be-
ing twenty-siX thousand tons less last
week than for the corresponding period
in 1888.
Major j. ). Newell, manager OF the
Consolidated Trunk-Line company at
Omaha, has been relieved from duty
because of deficit of $500 in his ac-
counts.
The citizens of Bloomington, Hi
nois, propose to raise fund for Miss
Emma Bond. Clement is about to go
to Milwaukee and reside with his
mother.
Three hunters were frozen to death
in Indian Territory Saturday night.
Snow fell Monday TO the depth of four
inches at Little Rock and Shreveport,
and eight inches at Memphis.
The legislature Of Texas has been
called in extra session. The governor
recommends the repeal Of the law
permitting the inclosure Of school or
public lands.
Henry Kiefer, a brewer of Brooklyn,
who went through bankruptcy in the
panic, has again declared himself
insolvent, with liabilities Of over $780,
600.
Henry G.. Caldwell, Judge in Ar
kansas who served in an Iowa regiment
during the war, is placed in the field by
his friandq for tha pOgitiOn rpeiUned nv