The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-12

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600, has closed its doors. Denver re-
ports three failures, the largest being
that of Rust, Harris Il Co., hardware
! While six men were blasting a huge
piece of iron at the Valley furnace,
near Sharon, Pa, some giant powder
was prematurely exploded. William
Ayres was killed and four Others Sc
riously burned.
Chapman, who was arrested in Mis-
souri, for the murder of Nicholas Hub
bard at Charleston, Illinois, made 10
| the sheriff voluntary confession of
his guilt, but implicated another per-
son in the crime.
Mervyn Smith, a wealthy citizen of
Montreal, who married handsome
American girl, named Kate Wheeler,
ten years ago, has become jealous of an
English coachman, and has entered
suit for a separation.
Sitting Bull, when leaving the st.
Paul opera-house, Thursday evening,
was confronted by an unknown man
with revolver, who was with great
difficulty restrained from avenging the
death Of General Custer.
DIR. McEachran, inspector Of the
Canadian cattle quarantine, urges upon
the minister Of agriculture the neces-
sity Of complete quarantine to pre-
vent the introduction of pleur0-pneu-
monia from the United States.
On reports of the state veterinarian,
| the governor Of Illinois has declared
pleuro-pneumOnia epidemic among cat
| tie in nine herds, and enjoined their
owners from transporting them with
out certificate of good health.
Z. b. Power, wealthy farmer, who
resided near Petersburg, Illinois, since
1929, celebrated his 85th birthday by
giving a dinner to five hundred de-
scendents aud friends, and was pre-
scented with gold-headed cane.
The twenty-fourth anniversary of the
loss of the Lady Elgin in Lake Michi-
gan off Evanston was observed in the
Milwaukee Catholic Cathedral Mon
day by q solemn high mass for the
faithful who persisted on the occasion.
G. A. Kincaid, representing the
governor Of Kentucky, has sailed for
Europe to secure the remains Of Joel
II. Hart. the American sculptor. The
state of Kentucky will erect q monu-
ment in the latter's honor at Lexing-
| ton.
Official reports of the state of crops
in Nebraska are encouraging. The
condition of corn is placed at LOG per
cent, wheat 100, rye 100, oats SO, barley
96a, Irish potatoes 104t, tobacco 100,
apples 1901. This is q splendid show
ing.
The demonstration Saturday in Glas-
| Cow in favor of the franchise bill took
length, comprising seventy thousand
persons, among them being four hun
dred survivors of the reform agitation
of 1882.
Three coaches were, on Monday
evening, thrown from the track of the
Memphis and Charleston road near
Corinth, Mississippi. Most of the
seventy passengers received bruises,
and colored brakeman had his jaw
broken.
The first attempt toward enforcing
the prohibitOry liquor law at Dubuque
was made Thursday, when a wealthy
citizen applied to the district court for
injunctiOns to restrain seventeen lead
ing saloon-keepers from continuing
business.
The commission dealers at the Chi
cago Stock-yardS have rendered to the
national committee ten head of cattle,
to be placed among herds said to be
afflicted with pleuro-pneumonia,a as an
experiment to decide the question OF
contagion.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood has formal
ly accepted nomination for the presi-
dency by the wOman'S national equal
rights party OF California, promising,
IL elected, to recommend a uniform
system of laws in regard to marriage
and divorce. ...
The funeral of Senator Anthony at
Providence was SignaliZed by the clos
ing of the main business houses. The
arrangements were in charge of the
senate sergeant-at-arms. President
Arthur and Senator Edmunds entered
the church together.
G. II. Trosdorff, the owner of sever
al farms near New Philadelphia, Ohio,
went to Cleveland to be treated for an
affection of the brain. When he was
advised that recovery was impossible
he went to the lake park and ended
his life with a, revolver, .pf
A determined run on the First
National bank of New Brunswick,
New Jersey, was soon followed by the
suspension of payments. Charles S.
Hill, the cashier, who committed sui
eide last week, is now known to be a
defaulter for $225, 600 or more.
The earnings of the Mexican Central
road for August are said to have been
nearly $4,000 There is some gossip
in Boston over the inability of the
former president, Thomas Nickerson,
to pay personal loan which had ma
tured in banking house IN State
street.
Andrew Jackson, a capitalist of
Hammond's Station, New \ DIRK, was
found on the railway track with both
legs severed. Before dying he accused
two neighbors of throwing him under
a train, and thew were arrested at
Mechanicsville. The feud grew out of
lawsuit.
Sergeant Fredericks, of the Greedy
expedition, who is now in Indianapolis.
says the sentence of death pronounced
upon Private Henry was executed by
himself and Sergeants Brainard and
Long, who put two bullets into his
back. Fredericks is anxious to make
another trip to the Arctic regions.
Owing to the depressed condition of
the numbering trade in Canada num-
Der of voyagers have determined to
accept the offer Of the British Govern
ment to join the Gordon relief expedi-
ton under Lord Wolseley. 1t is
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