The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-02-08
VERY LATEST.

the rope Iron and Metal Company OF
st. Louis.
DR.. Elisha Harris, who died at Al
bany, was secretary Of the New York
board of health.
Joseph M. Holbrook, representing
Delaware county in the Iowa legisla-
ture, died of pneumonia at Des MONIES.
A jury at New Orleans acquitted
Troisville Sykes OF the murder of Kate
Townsend.
H. Z. Packer, president of the Lehigh
Valley, road, died suddenly at Mauch
Chunck.
Wendell Phillips is said to be dam
gerOusly i'll from heart disease at his
residence in Boston.
Geo. w. Cable is i'll with intermit-
tent fever at the residence of Mark
Twain, in Hartford.
Charles A. Kuepper. coroner of Mil
waukee, died very suddenly at noon
Monday, in his Goth year.
The Texas senate indefinitely post
poned the bill to justify the killing of
fence-cutters caught using nippers.
The mother of Governor Pattison, of
Pennsylvania, died Tuesday morning
at Alexandria, Va.
Wesley Dawson, residing near Wa
bash, Indiana, has become a raving
maniac from losses in grain specula-
tions in Milwaukee.
The Republicans Of the Second dis
trict of Kansas have nominated Ed
ward p. Funston to succeed the late
d. &. Haskell.
A. w. Sheldon, judge of the first ju-
dicial district Of Arizona, formerly a
journalist in Baltimore, died in San
Francisco Thursday.
E. K. Johnson, agent of the Northern
Pacific road at Ainsworth, was arrest
ed at Walla Walla for embezZling a
package containing $4,000.
Eugene Rouher, the head of the Bo-
napartist party in France, died Sunday
morning after several hours Of uncon-
seriousness.
Well-borers near Urbana, ILL.,, struck
gas vein at the depth Of eighty feet,
which can be heard roaring at a dis
lance of two miles.
Frederick L. Ames is a director in
fifty-two railway companies, Jay Gould
in twenty-four, and Hugh j. Jewett in
twenty.
GENERALLY. w. Singleton reports that
twenty-one delegations in congress
favor Chicago as the place for holding
the national Democratic convention.
The latest criminal sensation on
Long Island arises from the poisoning
of Thomas Collier and his wife by I'M
known parties.
Munitions of war intended for the
insurgents in Hayti, which were seized
at Richmond, Va, have been forfeited
to the United States.
j. p. Whitehead, formerly a minis
ter Of the United Brethren church,
hanged himself at an Ohio town near
Columbus.
j. NJ. Keith, agent of the American
Express company at Hillsboro, ILL.,,
and Thomas Ball, residing at La Porte,
Ind, are missing.
The Texas legislature has passed a
law making it a misdemeanor to fence
lands not owned or leased, or to herd
stock on the same.
John Ball, one of the pioneers of the
Grand river valley in Michigan, died
at Grand Rapids Tuesday, in his Goth
year.
The democratic caucus at Frankfort,
KY, on Tuesday evening, nominated
Joseph c. s. Blackburn for senator,
giving him SO votes to 81 for Williams.
A fatal disease is said to have broken
out among the cattle near Dallas, Tex
as, and a meeting of stock raisers has
been held to devise means to check its
ravages.
The Canadian Minister of Public
Works reports the cost of operating
the government telegraph lines, last
year, at $50, 900 while the receipts were
only ST. 600.
Mr.. Locke is to introduce into the
New York assembly a bill to tax deal
ers in spirituous liquors $25 a month,
and retailers of malt beverages one
half that amount.
G. j. Russell, manager of the tele-
phone exchange at Hyde Park, Mass,
has disappeared. He is charged with
having aided professional burglar to
blow safe in store.
Marquis de Mores reports new dis
ease among sheep on the Montana
ranges, which has carried off six thou
sand head of merinos sent from Iowa
and Wisconsin.
Sixty policemen of Philadelphia
made a descent on a cock pit and cap
tured ninety-five spectators and seven
ty-two chickens. Nearly all the men
paid fines of $11.50 each.
Galena, Ills, mourns the loss of Geo.
w. Fuller, for more than half a CEN
fury a leading citizen, who was found
dead in the roadway beneath load Of
wood he was taking home.
The extreme cold weather in South
Carolina seriously damaged the oats
crop, destroyed early vegetables, and
killed doves, mocking-birds, and poul-
try.
The failures in the United States for
the past week numbered 1856, being IS
more than during the preceding
same days. About SO per cent. were
those of small traders.
Sandy Robinson, negro who had
murdered deputy sheriff, was taken
from Jail at Crockett, Texas, by one
hundred masked horsemen and hanged
to tree.
August Mohrs, an aged citizen of
Indianapolis, formerly possessing great
wealth, killed himself with a revolver
because he had become dependent up
on friends for support.
The Texas senate has passed the
house bill appropriating $50,OO0 for the
use of the governor to employ detec-
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