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

Matt Orion ON suspicion of setting in
cendiary fires. g
The deaths in New York Sunday
numbered 1853, largely on account OF
the excessive heat. 4...-
An inexhaustible supply of natural
gas has been reached at Findley, Ohio,
at depth Of 14O feet.
Oklahoma Payne has been released
on 81, 900 bail at Fort Smith, and seven
of his followers were set free.
Lottie Meyers, of Adrian. Michigan,
died very suddenly from 0vereXertion
in roller-skatlng on the sidewalk.
An English artillery team Of twenty
two men has arrived at Quebec TO have
a contest with Canadian squad.
Miss Smulzey, of Fort Plain, New
York, has passed $50 days without food.
DIR. Aver has certified to the fact.
Ten prisoners escaped from Jail at
South Bend, Indiana, by saving the
bars of q furnace register in the floor.
John Chambers, one Of the pioneers
of Michigan, died mt Vermontville,
leaving large estate to an adopted
son.
sales of No. 2 red wheat were made
in st. Louis Saturday at 20 cents for
September, the lowest price for twelve
years. oar g
Escaping gas in a sleeping apartment
caused the death Of Charles Hill,
bank cashier, at New Brunswick, New
Jersey.
In Conway county, Arkansas, Mrs.
Richard Freeman recently gave birth
to two boys and two girls, all hale and
perfect.
Thirteen houses were destroyed and
several persons injured by cyclone In
the vicinity of Saltwater, Minnesota,
Tuesday evening.
The Nickle-Plate road recently took
to Niagara Falls an excursion train Of
thirty-seven coaches, containing eigh-
teen hundred passengers.
While boring a we'll on farm near
Savoy, Illinois, avein of gas was de-
veloped which threw water and sand
to height of forty feet.
A policeman in Washington, named
Fowler, was shot with his own revolt
yer by a colored member of the chain
gang, named John Langster.
Charles S. Parnell telegraphs Patrick
Egan his congratulations on the de-
termination to hold the Irish National
league neutral in American politics.
During sham battle at soldiers
reunion at Fremont, Nebraska, forty
spectators were injured by the collapse
OF platform, but none OF them fatally.
The prohibition state convention in
Wisconsin comprised three hundred
delegates. Hon. S. d.. Hastings was
nominated for governor by acclama-
ton.
eDaniel Sifford, of Anna, Illinois, was
IN oov IN xx,st1,
as to tear his left leg apart at the knee,
the thigh bone protruding several in
ches.
The authorities of Philadelphia have
notified the telegraph and telephone
companies that all wires must be plac-
ed under ground by the end of the
year.
Hanna Rutledge, a resident of Chi
cago since 1913, died on Saturday, in
her 103d year. On one of the coolest
days last winter she walked seven
miles,
The Northwestern baseball league
has sunk $4,000 this season. The
Minneapolis club has dissolved, and
the Milwaukee nine will follow suit
this week.
Indian Commissioner Price denies
reports of an Indian outbreak in Mon
tana, and says the stories are Originat-
ed by herderS to deprive the Indians Of
their lands.
Abraham Loeb, q Rock Island, ILL.,,
clothing dealer, gives present to ev-
cry purchaser OF goods. Several other
clOthiers had him arrested for running
n lottery.
The corporation counsel of the city
of New York declares null and void
the Broadway railroad franchise, be-
cause the special meeting of aldermen
was illegal. '
During depression in the Chicago
markets, Tuesday, wheat for October
sold at 76b cents, but the closing price
was 1888 cents. Corn for the year clos
ed at 40 cents. h q
Ben Butler was waited upon at Des
Moines by delegation of woman
suffragists. to whom he said he had no
doubt of woman's right to citizenship
under the constitution.
a deputy sheriff from Logan county,
Ohio, locked a prisoner to seat in a
railway coach at Indianapolis, and on
his return from the ticket Office found
his charge had vanished.
Edward ]. Howe, cashier of an in
surance agency in Montreal, after
openly specializing for some months,
has disappeared, leaving deficiency
of 81, 600 in his accounts.
The MaZeppa Mill company, Of st.
Paul, was carried down by the failure
of the Minnesota Elevator company,
by which Governor Hubbard is said to
have been financially ruined.
Lula Barkhouse, of Muncie, Ind,
became insane after giving birth to an
illegitimate child. 1t is said the Coun-
ty Physician refused to attend her be-
cause the child was iIlegitimate.
The Minnesota Elevator company,
with warehouses at thirty points in
that state, has made an assignment.
Its liabilities are nearly $240, 900,
chiefly due for borrowed money.
Frank Frisbee, employed in the First
National bank at Portland, Oregon, re-
Gently stole $1,000 and fed to New
York, where he was arrested Wednes-
day, on steamer lying at quarantine.
Fifty drivers on the South Sixth
street railway in ST. Louis struck be-
cause of change in the pay system
from the trip to the hour, and Transport
tation was nearly stopped for the day.
Mrs. Keller, of Reading, Pa, abb
stained from food for forty-eight days
because of Christ's fast in the wilder
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