The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-26

Jvsepii Sarver. only ID years or age.
| who murdered his father, was hanged
at Indiana. Pennsylvania. At Ebens-
burg, in the same state, Michael Muir
! ray was executed for shooting q weak
minded lad Oh the turnpike.
Positive information having been OBJ
tanned that Captain Howgate is in
| Canada, the state department has
issued warrant for his arrest, and ex-
| poets the assistance of the Dominion
authorities in capturing him.
The non-union miners at Coal Cen
tire. Pennsylvania, will each morning
receive appeals from two hundred
| wives or sisters of the strikers, who
have organized for the campaign and
equipped themselves with tin pans.
| The Buchanan brothers, president
and secretary of the wrecked distillery
company at Louisville, have fled to
Canada. They are charged with dupli-
eating warehouse receipts, and the as
signee OF the company refuses to serve.
The Observation-Disclosures company,
of Louisville. the largest whisky house
in the south, made an assignment
Monday, after attempting for the past
600 on which 1T then secured an extern
sion.
Gillie Leigh, a member of the British
parliament, lost his life in the Big
| Horn mountains of Wyoming, where
he became separated from q hunting
party ten days ago. His body was
found on Sunday at the base Of preci-
pice.
General Franklin and his associates
Of the board of managers of Soldiers
homes left Chicago Monday evening
for trip through Iowa, Nebraska and
Kansas, to select the site for the addi-
tional institution authorized by con-
gress.
Nearly all the grading for the Balti-
more and Philadelphia road has been
| completed, and freight trains are to be
run by New Years day. The Susque-
hanna bridge is to have Q span of $40
feet, and will be 30 feet above high
water mark.
Thefarmers of Green county, Illinois,
have organized to reclaim 400 acres
of rich bottom lands by the erection of
a levee, the contract for which will be
let this week. Other large tracts will
be similarly made valuable, at a cost
of $12 per acre.
So stagnant is the lumber trade at
East Saginaw that the board of trade
resolved to ask the boom companies to
suspend rafting for the season and the
mills to shut down as rapidly as posi-
BILE, thus closing business six weeks
earlier than usual.
At the request of three citizens Of
Abingdon, Illinois, the state veterina-
rian examined the Angus cattle owned
| by John Rogers. He has now brought
suit for $50, 900 against his townsmen,
alleging that they conspired to stop his
sales by false reports.
The Esmoud hotel and remainder of
an entire square Of buildings at Port
land, Oregon, were burned on Sunday
| night, the loss being $4,000. The
Parker house and nine other structures
| at Eureka, Nevada, valued at $4,000,
fell prey to flames.
Isaac Jacobson, the murderer Of
George Bedell, was executed in Chicago
Friday with such mechanical precision
that death was instantaneous with the
fall of the drop. The condemned man
appreciated the gravity of the occasion,
and was almost overcome with emo
ton.
A. NJ. Scales, democratic candidate
for governor of North Carolina, mar
rowly escaped death on Cowee noun
tain by the antics of bis horse, which
fell down a precipice Of one hundred
| feet. Scales caught in tree, and was
rescued and sent home to Green's
boro.
The governor of Kentucky refused
the request of q committee of cattle
breeders to convene the legislature to
take action as to the infected herd of
Frisbie 1. Lake, and the latter now
asks an appraisal in order that the
afflicted animals may be killed at the
public expense.
Seabury Brewster, a bachelor million
aire, who for thirty years has boarded
at the New York hotel, died Saturday.
He once ranked as the shrewdest dry
goods merchant in that city. He has
left two fine marble-front stores on
Broadway vacant for twenty-five years,
FOR personal reasons.
The commissioners appointed by the
state of New York to appraiSe prop
erty at Niagara Falls desired for an
international park have agreed upon
valuation aggregating 81 ,403, 429, the
principal awards being less than half
the prices demanded. Goat island is
appraised at S525, 900.
At Haysville, Tennessee, Tuesday
morning, Edwin Henry was shot dead
by Captain +. Il. johnson, after pur-
suit of several weeks, the cause being
criminal intimacy with the latter's
wife. 1t will be remembered that the
woman involved committed suicide at
Indianapolis last November.
A train on the Indiana, Blooming
ton and Western road was thrown
from the track near Farmer City, ILL.,,
by broken rail. Thomas A. Hend-
ricks was passenger, but escaped UNI
harmed. Eight persons were so seri-
ously injured as to be helpless, while
several others received bruises.
b. p. o. Hubbard, who embezzled
S36S,000 while cashier of the First
National bank Of Monmouth, Illinois,
was taken to Chicago and held in $l0,-
600 by Commissioner Hoyne. His
bond at Monmouth had expired, and
there were fears that the grand jury
at that point would fail to indict him.
At the annual meeting of stockhold-
ers Of the Northern Pacific road, net
earnings of $5,425,S20 were reported.
The capital stock is SIS, S07 ,06S, and the
funded debt $40, 27S, 600. The unsold
lands east of the Missouri river amount
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