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


ousiy disappeared three months ago,
returned with a statement that he was
rendered half insane by business
troubles, and took q trip to Europe.
Near Long Creek, Oregon, Tuesday,
a party of whites stole upon a band OF
Indians, and shot and killed two
braves. The feeling against the alb
origines is intense among the whites,
and an Indian outbreak is threatened.
While intoxicated Wednesday in
RADON county, Ga, Eugene Beck shot
and killed his wife and her sister. then
threw himself on the floor. and was
asleep beside the corpses when arrest
ed. The indications are that he will
be lynched.
AT Reading, Pa, Wednesday, a To-
connective and two cars jumped the
track and fell through a t~restle, the
engine tumbling upon the Reading
Iron Works boiler house, and demol-
ished it. Two persons were hurt, and
travel was delayed.
Rev. &. b. Scoville. pastor of the
Free Methodist Church in Elgin, ILL.,,
has been found guilty of improper in
timacy with Mary Dove, u watch
factory employe. for q period of eight
cen months. He will be dismissed
from the ministry.
A slx-story building in Chicago.
owned by Charles E. Culver and occu,
pied by several manufacturing firms,
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
$4,000. James Carr, foreman of d
cigar-box factory, conducted thirty OF
his employees to the f~ire-escape, and
lost his life by falling from q window.
sill.
In the Lutheran cemetery in Brook.
Ign, on Saturday afternoon, a gentle
mar found q 3-year old English girl
with a handkerchief tied tightly around
her neck, her face being nearly purple.
When able to converse, she gave hel
name as Lizzie Engleman, and SAID
she had been on a big ship with hel
parents.
Near Huntingdon, Pa, early Mon
James Holt and George Rogers took
fire. The men threw their wives and
children from an upper window, and
then jumped themselves. All were
badly hurt, and the four children OF
Holt are believed to be fatally
wounded.
Hurricanes, Sept. 90 and Oct. 7, on
the coast of Lower California, were
the Severest known. The steamer Es-
tado de Sonora was lost, and the fifty
seven persons on board persisted. The
schooner Doralt was also wrecked, and
nine sloops and coasters went to the
bottom, but the number of lives lost
is not exactly known.
The crew and passengers of the
steamship Maasdam, burned at sea,
reached New York Friday on the
Rhein, which picked them up on the
evening of Oct. "a. During q gale the
petroleum tank on the Maasdam began
leaking, and while a sailor was looking
for the assure his lighted lamp touched
the tank, which exploded, and caused
the burning of the vessel.
Recorder Smyth. of New York, has
filed his decision on the reports of the
commission appointed to determine
the mental condition of William G.
Rh%inelander, who shot Lawyer John
Drake on June 10. The Recorder
agrees with the minority report pre-
sented by Commissioner Edward Pat
terson declaring Rhinelander sane,
and fixed bail pending trial under IN
dictment at $4,000.
A dreadful railroad accident occur
red at Maquoketa, Ia, Sunday. While
on the way to church a farmer named
David Whitmore, his wife and three
children were struck by a locomotive
going at a high tate of speed, and all
received fatal injuries. The mother
and two children were killed instantly.
The father and the other child were
hurled a long distance from the track,
and sustained injuries from which they
cannot survive. The mother and one
child were caught on the cow-cather.
The horses became unmanagcable and
backed on the track.
1t will be remembered that while
Ghiteau was on trial for the murder of
President Garfield, q young butcher
named Bill Jones shot at the assassin
while he was being conducted in the
prison van from the court house to the
Jail. Jones rode on horseback behind
the van until it reached the open
grounds surrounding the capitol build
ing, when he suddenly rode up along
side the vehicle and fired into it, the
ball from his pistol passing through
the left sleeve OF Guiteau's coat and
grazing his arm. AS oon as he fired
the shot Jones galloped away, eluding
the guard attending the prison van,
and avoided arrest for several days.
When apprehended he was sent to
Jail, but was shortly released OH bail.
This incident occurred in November,
1881, three years ago. Monday Jones
was called for trial on the charge Of
assault and battery with intent to kill
Charles j. Guiteau. The witnesses
for the prosecution, who were the Off
Gals attending the van, fully identi-
fled the prisoner, and testified to the
shooting as herein related. The jury,
after an absence of twenty minutes,
found a verdict of not guilty.