The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-12-19


killed her two children with a knife
and then destroyed herself.
The miners relief committee at Nell
sonville, Ohio, has received draft for
$50 from cowboys in Texas.
Cash wheat in the Chicago market
Monday closed at " cents per bushel,
the lowest price oil this crop.
The gunboat Coridad recently cap
tured Off the Cuban coast boat con-
tanning five well-known bandits.
Jacob Cassel, ST.. who has resided in
the vicinity of Vincennes, Indiana,
since 1918, passed away Monday.
Chauncey l.. Higbee, presiding judge
of the appellate court at Springfield,
Illinois, died of apoplexy Sunday.
The plague in Wise county, Virginia.
which swept of nearly three hundred
persons, is decreasing in intensity.
Henry w. Fyffe, one of the pioneers
of Iowa City, Tor many years hotel
keeper. died on Sunday, aged IS years.
The death-rate in Chicago for No
vember was 16.S to the 1,00O-the low
est of any of the large cities OF the
world.
w. II. Vanderbilt has filed in the
county clerks office at New York n
judgment against General Grant for
$155,O00.
The steamers Alliance and Pochard
foundered Monday off the coast of
England, causing the loss OF sixty or
more lives.
Thomas Smith, lumberman of Che
boygan, Michigan. whose wealth is es-
timated at $500, 900, died Tuesday, of
consumption.
The steel cruiser Boston was OH
Thursday launched at Chester, Penn
sylvania, i'll presence of large num-
Der Of naval officers.
John l.. Butler, an attorney in Bos-
ton. who has borne an excellent repu-
tation. Was arrested for forging
$1,000 mo: tgagc deed.
The Wholesale liquor-dealers of Chi
cago have decided 10 abolish the GUS
tom Of making Christmas presents to
their retaillrg patrons.
The aldermen of New York have
passed over the mayors veto Il resOlu-
ton permitting the construction or
surface railroad i'll Broadway.
Joe Williams, the negro who MUIR
dered Minnie Brooks and Giles Hunt
in Chicago, was found guilty and SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life.
Wade Hampton was on Tuesday re-
elected senator from South Carolina,
receiving every vote in the legislature
except those of five colOred men.
Willie Brewster, n lad of II years,
whose father is postmaster OF Mid
land, Michigan, has been arrested for
taking sos from registered letters.
In discharging employees from it's
ear-shops at Mount Clare, the Balti-
more and Ohio road placed the names
of four veterans on the pension list.
Exports from the port of New York
during the week ended Tuesday, ex-
elusive of specie, were S9,456, 0O0-an
increase of 81 ,1S3. COO over the week be-
fore.
AT a mining village near Shenan-
dOah, Pennsylvania, during Monday
night, Thomas Barlow and five MEM
bers of his family were burned to
death.
Josiah s. Colgate, a New York
broker well known throughout the
country, received fatal injuries by fall
ing down fight of stairs at his Office
in Broadway.
Orlando J. Beam, the banker and
merchant who failed last week at Avon,
Illinois, is charged with forging notes
for considerable amount, and has fled
the country.
u.
buQue, scattered $250,0OO among his
friends and relatives, his private Sec
rotary being given $4,000 in govern
ment bonds.
For the purpose of establishing a
Catholic university, the sum Of $780,
600 was offered to the plenary council
by Miss Mary Caldwell, of New York,
and was accepted.
A third elopement from the infected
spot on Long Island occurred Mon
day, when the wife of wealthy farm
ar, with three young children, ran
away with a negro.
The wife of Rev. W. A. Downs,
leaving two young children, eloped
from Riverhead, Long Island, with
Deacon G.. M. Terry. They have prob
ably gone to Florida.
b. Il. o. Hubbard, the defaulting
bank cashier of Monmouth, Illinois,
has been lodged in jail at Chicago, be-
cause of inability to secure bondsmen
under the indictment.
At Rockford, Illinois, Mrs. George
Cunningham drew from her side with
q pair OF scissors, needle which she
swallowed two years ago, from which
she has suffered great pain.
The fact has developed at Washing
ION tnaC senator Bayard made trip TO
Albany last Saturday, remaining atthe
executive mansion with the president
elect until Sunday afternoon.
Parties from Kalamazoo have pur-
chased the white pine standing on
three thousand acres of land in John
son county, Tennessee, and will erect
large factory at Chattanooga.
Nearly one hundred deaths from
smallpox have recently occurred in
the village of Stoco, one hundred miles
east of Toronto, and other sufferers
are dying for lack of attendance.
Boatmen at Victoria, British Colum.
bia, receive $25 from each Chinaman
landed in Washington territory. An
other vessel engaged in this trade was
recently lost, with twelve Celestials.
G. G. Shoyer, one of the wealthiest
citizens of Leavenworth, formerly o
surgeon in the army, died of blood
poisoning, caused by carelessness in
giving himself morphine injections.
The sheriff ut Mount Sterling, Ken
lucky, has arrested seven men of a
band of regulators who recently killed