The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-12-26
VERY LATEST.

LDr the Northern district or Georgia, /.
said to be becoming mentally unsOund
on account OF trouble with a son-in
law.
In the superior court at Chicago. l.
u. Letter began suit for $50. 600 agains,
Marshall Field. for the unlawful stiz
ure OF one hundred feet of city. prop
erty.
Fred III. Winston, wel-known at.
torney and politician of Chicago, has
brought suit for 100000 against the
fnter-Ocean company for libelous state
ments.
The horrors connected with the
Crouch murders at Jackson, Michigan,
received reinforcement Thursday by
the attempt OF a witness to cut his
throat.
The governor of Iowa sent two COM
panies OF militia to Angus, to deal with
striking miners. A delegation OF citi-
protest.
Hezekiah Brown, a colored school,
teacher, was lynched by masked men
in Howard county, Maryland, for init
macy with white girl named Fannie
ShultZ.
Morosini's hayward daughter has
sued a national bank in New York to
recover ST 100 deposited to her credit
by her father, on which he stopped
payment.
Andrew May, q venerable citizen of
indianapolis, was found dead in his
buggy. Henry Jones, one Of the old
est physicians OF Jacksonville, Illinois,
died Sunday.
The supreme court of West Virginia
has decided that a railroad charter is
merely license, the right to fix freight
and passenger rates being vested only
in the legislature.
An oil well in Butler county, Penn
sylvania, located half a mile from all
previous developments, was tOrpedoed,
and is flowing at the rate OF five thous-
and barrels per day.
The shipments eastward by rail from
Chicago during the past week were
65, 1856 tons, an increase of $3.50 tons.
The Michigan Central carried "a per
cent. OF the total freight.
Governor Cleveland pronounces ut
terly without foundation the story
about himself and the Virginia shoe
maker who desired to make a pair Of
boots for the Inauguration.
The receivers of the West Shore
road, after paying taxes. rentals, and
operating expenses, will have a surplus
OF 100000 on the business of the quar-
ter ending with September.
William Roger, when convicted of
murder AT Fort Wayne and sentenced
to lie Imprisonment, urged the court
to send the jury back with instructions
to order his execution.
A schedule of assets and liabilities
WAS filed by the assignee of the j. l.
Case PlOw Company at Racine, Wis,
Tuesday. The assets are S451 ,S62 and
the liabilities $733, 1866.
A large quantity of dynamite and
giant powder has been found at Vic
toria. Il. g., secreted behind q pile of
freight on the wharf or the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company.
A. l.. Ballard, well-known loco
motive engineer Of Meadville, Penn
sylvania, leaned out of his cab to look
down the track, and was fatally in
jured by Car striking his head.
Toledo iron merchants wound up the
Miller Manufacturing company of
Canton, Ohio. which had erected ex->
tensive buildings ut Crestline and
purchased we'll Of natural gas.
The national democratic committee
has selected fifty citizens of Washing
ton, with Colonel James G.. Berret as
chairman, to make all arrangements
for the inauguration ceremonies.
Frederick Sherman. one Of the best
known club men of New York, died
at his home at Fort WASH
ingtOn Sunday OF scarlet fever, which
he caught from one of his children.
The presence at Portland of the chief
engineer Of the Grand Trunk and a
party of surveyors, gave rise to a ru-
NOR that they were preparing for an
extension If their track TO Boston.
The grand jury at New orleans. AZ
ter examining over one hundred wit
nessts 8, has indicted Recorder Ford.
his brother, and several police and
court officers for the murder Of A. III.
Murphy.
The Mackey- Bennett Commercial Ca
BILE Company received its first cable
gram Friday at its New York office
from Walterville. Ireland. The new
cable will not be open Tor business for
some days.
DR.. james before, of Middlebourne,
West Virginia, who was arrested for
criminal practice on village belle |
named Mccoy, which caused her death,
has been taken TO New Martinsville to
lynching.
All the coal mines along the Monon-
gahela and YOughiOgheny Rivers will |
probably suspend work Monday, the |
operators declining to pay the extra
hal, cent per bushel demanded by the |
Convention.
Mary Brannall. who four years ago
was a favoritein the highest social cir.
cles of Baltimore, was released from |
the bridewell Thursday, and ended her
career by flinging herself on the track |
before passenger train.
Such is the excitement at Redfeld, |
Dakota, in regard to. the location of |
the county seat, that Governor Pierce !
has sent thither militia company |
from Fargo, and arranged to forward |
regulars from Fort Sully.
Mrs. Carrie M. Miller, who is a clerk
in large dry goods establishment in
New York. received a verdict of S5.C0O
against her father-in-law, Rev. Alex
ander Miller, Presbyterian clergy
man, in suit for SANDER.
General Ii. n. Prentiss, who recent
ly visited the battlefield of Shiloh,
urges that the bones of the unknown |