The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-25

large waterfront property at Port
Oxford, Oregon.
The grand jury of Essex county,
New Jersey, recommend the use of the
whipping-post for wife beaters.
About half the business portion of
Clio, Michigan, was burned early Mon
day morning, causing loss of S4l 900.
Ralph Sellew, who fell dead in St.
Louis, bequeathed $780, to educa-
tional and charitable institutions in
that city.
III. Alban, for twenty years regis
ter of the federal land office at Wausau,
Wisconsin, has been removed without
notice.
John II. Trowbridge & Son, flour
dealers of Albany, have been forced to
the wall by the suspension of Coleman
IL Co., of New York.
j. b. Hutchinson, of Chicago, pur-
chased at Louisville the mare Nellie
Hooker and thefast gelding Chance at
fancy prices.
In the federal court ut New York,
Captain Joshua Slocum, of the ship
Northern Light, paid fine of $500 for
cruelty to sailor.
Robert Harris was on Thursday elect
ed president of the Northern Pacific
Railroad company, and at once entered
upon the duties OF the position.
Owing to cold weather and search
ty of engines, there are eight hundred
loaded freight-cars locked up in the
Wabash yard at Decatur, Illinois.
The immigrants into the United
States from the principal foreign coun-
tries during the past year numbered
$50, 1855.
On account of a light yield in Florida,
three firms in San Francisco combined
and secured nearly the total crop of
oranges in California.
Robert Gordon, of Cincinnati, who
was born a slave, left 81 600 for col
ored orphan asylum and $4,000 to es-
tablish home for aged negresses.
The Maryland legislature has elected
Judge e. r. Wilson to the United
States senate, to succeed James b
Broome.
Three men were killed by an explo
sion in dynamite factory at Allen.
town, Pennsylvania, and three small
buildings were destroyed.
The death is announced of Miss Elizs
s. Quincy, whose father was president
Of Harvard college. She was SO years
of age.
Frank James, the Missouri outlaw.
is interested to the extent of $1,000 in
the estate of Maria kenton, now being
settled in Kentucky.
The st. Clair river at Port Huron
has been filled with ice since Friday
night, and the ferry-bOats have been
unable to cross.
An elevated road, adapted both tc
passengers and freight, is to be con.
structed along the levee at New Or
leans within two years.
E. Harper ,Jeffries, who became
comptroller of Philadelphia two weeks
ago, died Monday of pleuro-pneumO-
MIA.
The Atlantic mills at Lawrence.
Massachusetts, and all the corpora.
lions of Lowell will next month reduce
wages IL per cent.
The Kentucky legislature has char.
tered pier bridge across the Ohio riv-
ent suspension and railroad bridges.
Miss Sarah Alton, of Putnam, Conn.,,
claims to have been nearly cured OF
spinal disease by simultaneous prayers
offered at her home and in Boston.
William d. Ringo, an aged citizen OF
Newport, KY, who died Tuesday, left
$500, 900 to six adopted children, from
to 2 years old.
John Frazer, a lumber merchant of
Liverpool, was found frozen to death
on doorstep in New York, the morn.
ing of his arrival.
The expenditures of the Canadian
government for the past year were
nearly $12,0C0,0Oo greater than the re.
ceipts.
The Merchants association Of Mil
waukee is taking steps to secure the
erection of hotel on the East side to
cost 100000.
A jury at Detroit gave w. G. Coup a
verdict for 5000 against the Wabash
road, on the ground that its negligence
caused series Of disasters which drove
him into bankruptcy.
AT High Bridge, New Jersey, a mer-
chant named d. T.. Hill was called to
his store during the night by three
masked men, and fatally shot in the
head.
William G.. Swan, for some years an
important official Of the st. Paul road,
died in Milwaukee Of consumption. A
subscription of $1O, 900 has been made
up for his family.
The Lackawanna road has agreed to
submit its troubles with Commissioner
Fink to an independent arbitration,
and in the meantime will conform to
the rules OF the trunk line pool.
"A trust company of New York has
filed in the circuit court at Waco, Tex
as, a bill to foreclose mortgages for
$1,000, 600 given by the Texas and st.
Louis railway.
Thomas A. Dean, prominent in the
liquor trade at Indianapolis, has been
sent to the insane asylum for treat
ment, having become convinced that
he is the pope.
Specimens Of home made sausage |
sent to Peoria from Fulton county, |
Illinois, were found to be infected with |
trichin@. Three persons who ate Of it |
raw are dangerously ill.
Shocks of earthquake were felt Fri
day at Contoocook, New Hampshire,
and Wilmington, North Carolina, the
jar at the latter place being sufficient
to unlatch doors.
The people of Ouray, Colorado,
lynched Mike Cuddigan and wife on
suspicion of having murdered child
whom they took from Catholic asy-