The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-02-01

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four chiefs.
Mrs. Anna Ferguson, of indianapolis,
has recovered damages of 81 900 against
the Pennsylvania road for the death of
her son last summer in wreck near
Pennington.
AT meeting in the office of Com
missioner Fink, the West Shore road
was admitted to the trunk line pool
by the unanimous vote Of nineteen
companies.
AT rock cut on the new railway
near Scranton, Pennsylvania, an ex-
| ploSion OF dynamite scattered the
bodies OF two men along the mountain
side.
1ron-mills at Troy and Allentown
resumed work, Monday, employing
1.6OO men, while pipe mill ut Reading
shut down for the winter, discharging
three hundred workmen.
The snow along the Maumee river
has melted so rapidly as TO threaten
Toledo, Ohio, with flood. Great un-
easiness is also felt at Ottawa and Ma
pOleon.
A bill has been introduced in the
! New York assembly declaring void all
contracts for the transfer of stock I'M
less the seller is actually in possession
of the certificates.
A milling firm at Logansport, Ind,
sued the city for damages caused by
taking its water supply from Eel river,
| lessening the power in the dam below,
and was awarded $400 per year.
Fence cutters in Burnet county
| Texas, destroyed the Enclosures of Hon.
Norton Moses and threatened personal
violence If he replaced them. Several
reputable citizens have been ordered to
leave, under penalty of death.
1t is rumOred at Leavenworth that
Senator Ingalls, will be chosen to fill
Judge McCrary's place on the federal
bench, provided Gov. Click will appoint
q Republican to the senatorial vacancy
thus created.
Ex-Judge Ernott, of New York, has
given an opinion that no lien by con-
tractors or laborers on the West Shore
road can obtain precedence of the first
mortgage by which the outstanding
bonds were secured.
Gould has telegraphed orders to re-
duce the pay rolls at stations on his
southwestern system so per cent. The
freight agent at Dallas was compelled
to cut off $500 per month by dismiss
ais.
Frederick Robinson, smallpox pa
tient in the hospital at Louisville,
telled nurse with chair and assault
ed several patients, when he leaped
through window and ran half mile
over the snow before he was captured.
Hiram Radcliif, recluse who died
recently at Kingston, New York, left
personal property worth Sl50,000, in
Guiding a half-barrel OF pennies. III.
Il. Romeyn, the only heir, has been
granted letters of administration.
Paul n. Klose, OF Milwaukee, found
pocket-Dook containing over 500,
and was arrested for larceny for keep
ing it. His counsel took Il contrary
view and Judge Hamilton ordered the
jury to bring III verdict OF acquittal.
The Brigham Young academy at
Provo. Utah, valued at 10000, was
burned Sunday evening. there were
four hundred students in the build
ing, some of whom narrowly escaped
death.
DR.. ID. f. Salmon, of the bureau of
agriculture, who is now in Chicago,
has sent a competent man to Mexico,
Missouri, to investigate the mysterious
cattle disease III herd in that vicini-
ty.
William Meredith, whose father was
distinguished cabinet officer, was ex-
amined in Philadelphia court on a
charge of lunacy brought by relatives,
but the jury rendered verdict in his
favor.
The wife of jeweler in Pittsburg
Tuesday discovered cOlOred man at
work at the safe, and was driven back
to her room at the point of revolver.
The rObber secured goods valued at
81 200 or more and made his escape.
Ia
teur of Detroit, has made an assign
ment with liabilities of $4,000. A
savings bank is said to be his chief
creditor. He expects to secure a COM
promise.
Fred Douglass, the leader of the
colored race in the United States, was
on Thursday evening married in
Washington to white woman named
Helen M. Pitts, formerly from Avon,
New York, who has been copyist in
his Office.
A railroad official at Indianapolis
says Samuel Sloan is determined to Sc
cure an extension to Chicago for the |
Lackawanna road, and will parallel one
of Vanderbilt's lines unless the latter
Will sell track or make a traffic ar
rangement for 80 years.
Mrs. j. o. Fisher, OF Lincoln, Ne
braska, committed suicide by using |
choral, on account OF an unhappy |
married life. Mrs. Robert A. Humes,
the mother of nine children, made an |
attempt on her life near Meadville, |
Pennsylvania, during an epileptic fit.
Hiram Ii. Post, of st. Louis, after |
embezzliDg $500 from his employer,
took dose of laudanum and then |
wounded himself in the throat with a
knife. He is superintendent of Bap- |
fist Sunday school, and has wife and
two children.
Troisville Sykes was on Tuesday ar
raigned in New Orleans for the MUIR
der of the notorious Kate Townsend. |
AS he had conveyed away certain pro-
perty to his victim, Judge Houston Or
dered the Sheriff to take possession of
the entire estate.
W. ID. Newman, young mulatto of |
Chicago, has been held in $50 bail on
charge of using the mails for fraudu-
lent purposes. He represented the
American Detective association, and
was engaged in mailing books of in
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