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


drought in Georgia.
The army worm has made its appear
ance in Fayette and Bond counties,
Illinois.
stephen Mead, one of the sharpest
detectives of Cincinnati, died of con-
sumption Monday.
The Southern Exposition at Louis
vile closed Saturday night. and was a
success in all respects.
The turbine wheel in flouring-mill
at Wabash, Indiana, was twice stopped
by cells from the canal.
The national convention of the Wo-
mems Christian Temperance Union is
in session in st. Louis.
The stone stables on the grounds of
Samuel j. Tilden at Greystone were
burned OIL Sunday night.
The mayor of New York has APP
pointed General FitZ John Porter to
police commissionership.
David McCulloch q well-known Ca
madam journalist, collector OF customs
at Hamilton, died Sunday.
The Steubenville (Ohio) Bottle
Works has been granted an extension
and has resumed operations.
The jury disagreed in the Rudger-
ClawsOn polygamy case in Salt Lake,
and a new trial was ordered.
The ship G. G. Rogers, costing $125,-
600, intended for the California trade,
was launched at Bath, Maine.
A tour of the United States and
Canada will next spring be made by
Prince Albert Victor of Wales.
J. V. Brown, husband of the post
mistress of Rocky Mount, Va, was ar
rested for riting registered letters.
No less than twelve hundred miners
have been sent from PittSburg to the
Hooking valley of Ohio since the strike
in July.
In some portions of Ontario snow
fell Thursday to the depth of inches.
Virginia reports the first rain for two
months.
A loss of S15O.COO was caused at Port
Clinton, Pennsylvania, 10y II collision
of freight trains. One fireman was in
jured.
A. Jeffrey, of IIallville, Illinois, has
entered for the Chicago fat-stOck show
a hog said to weigh fourteen hundred
pounds.
The Canadian Government has re-
voked the special quarantine regula-
tons adopted in August owing to the
cholera.
While firing salutes at democratic
rally in Rondout, New York, four men
were terribly injured by the explosion
of cannon.
Business failures for the week num-
Der 234, against 2O9 last week, and the
same number i'll the corresponding
period of 1883.
William Kirkwood and other Chica-
goanS have incorporated the Interna-
tional Provision company, with capt.
tai of 100000.
The chair of church history in the
Garrett institute at Evanston, Illinois,
has been accepted by Prof. Charles w.
Bennett, of Syracuse.
The Washington mills. an immense
establishment at Lawrence, Massa-
chusetts, have decided to shut down
for an indefinite time.
In the federal court at San Francis
CO, Thomas Donovan was sentenced to
three years imprisonment and fined
$500 for illegal registration.
AS the result of feud, at Dawson,
Ga, Editor G. w. Cheves, OF the Jour
nal, Saturday evening, shot dead Cap
tain Il. III. Pickett in the street.
The railway shipments eastward
from Chicago during the past week
were 1000 tons, of which the Michi-
gan Central secured nearly q per cent.
William Hall, formerly merchant
at Toledo, Ohio, and South Bend, Ind,
was killed by his son Lincoln, aged Is,
in a quarrel Thursday at Delphos,
Kansas.
Minnie Cummings, the actress, has
been awarded $4,000 damages against
policeman and dressmaker in New
L. bar folc
charges.
In the Clawson polygamy case at
Salt Lake, only nine jurors have been
obtained. Nearly every gentle has
formed an opinion, and no MOrmons
are desired.
The fire in the Calumet and Hecla
mine still continues to burn. Unless
work is soon resumed the miners and
their families must suffer for the nee
essaries of life.
The United States supreme court
has decided that the time Of service Of
a cadet at West Point must be counted
as spent in the army in computing his
longevity pay.
The electric lighting apparatus on
the Tome OF the courthouse at Wa
bash Indiana, was wrecked by a flock
of wild geese, two of whom were killed
by the shock.
Later reports say fourteen corpses
have been taken from the burning
mine at Youngstown, Penn, and two
persons rescued can hardly survive
their injuries.
Andrew Crowl. who passed quietly
away at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, was
born in Vermont in 1894, was a school
mate Of Gerrit Smith, and soldier in
the war Of 1872.
A package of $500 in currency re-
Gently disappeared from the Office of
the United States express at Youngs-
town, Ohio. Detectives have been ut
work on the case.
5. S. Smith is to be general superin-
tendent of the Union Pacific road,
with headquarters at Omaha. His
assistant will be j. Nj. Eddy, who will
be located at Denver.
Ina runaway at Columbus. Ohio,
Saturday evening, Miss Emeline Burg
ner, teacher in the public schools, was
instantly killed, and Mrs. DR.. Connell
probably fatally hurt.
About twelve hundred invitations
oxxf L. no g.. 4.