The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-15

About dosen whire citizens of Fair
fax, Virginia, on receiving information
that young lady was being followed
home by q negro, rode out and captur-
ed the Villain, who was given one hun
bred lashes ON the bare back.
Miss Gertrude Boomer, for some
years school teacher at Philo, Illi-
nois, covered her clothing with kero-
sene in an outbuilding and applied a
match. Although horribly burned,
she lived in agony several hours.
A colored camp-meeting which has
been in progress at LOgansport, Ind,
was closed by the arrest of Rev.
for clipping from Rensselaer, with a
white woman named Henderson.
At Switz City, Indiana, James Ran
kin was fatally wounded by his broth
er George, while being taught how to
handle self-cocking revolver. The
latter, overwhelmed with grief at the
accident, sent bullet into his own
head.
Mary Deacon, a young girl OF To
peka, who is an heiress Of $50, 900, was
placed in the insane asylum through
the efforts of her father. Her friends
caused his arrest for conspiracy, and
the matter will be thoroughly investi-
gated.
The Iowa State Veterinary Surgeon
pronounces the disease which has APP
peared among the cattle in the vicinity
of Lemars to be Texas fever. He says
that he has no fear of the spread of the
cOntagion if ordinary precautions are
taken.
Robert McLain. the agent of the
1 Do 4
Billings, Mont, has been arrested at
Pittsburg, Pa, on the charge OF open
ing various packages and appropriate
ing their contents. McLain will be
held to await requisition.
DR.. O'Donnell, the California crank,
having announced in Washington that
he would abandon two lepers on the
streets, orders have been given to have
him arrested and his sanity determined.
The railway authorities have noknowl-
edge of leprous consignments.
Jay Gould has resigned the presi-
dency of the wrecked Wabash road,
and j. +. Joy was elected his success
or. The directors adopted the plan
proposed for the reorganization Of the
company, and Mr.. Joy will personally
urge it upon the bondholders in Eu-
rope.
Sixty saloons are doing business at
Council Bluffs, Ia, and will continue
district court. Many Of the liquor
dealers at Ottumwa are selling openly
and drunkenness has visibly increased
since the prOhibitory amendment took
effect.
The democratic state committee of
Indiana, announce Wade Hampton,
Carl Schurz, and Senators Blackburn,
Bayard, and Vest among their cam
paign speakers. The republicans have
secured Senators Fry and Hale, and
Congressman John S. Wise, Of Vir-
ginia.
Near Fredonia, Texas, on Monday
evening, q horrible encounter took
place between four desperate men, in
\ which one was shot through the heart.
another was fatally stabbed, the third
| received deadly wound in the Shout
der, and the other was shot in the
| breast.
Marshall Key, Clerk of the United
States Court at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
and prominent politician of that
morning by shooting himself through
the right temple. He had been suffer-
ing some time from mental derange-
| ment.
George Westinghouse, the agent of
the Philadelphia Natural-Gas Com
pany, has purchased for that corpora
ton about four-fifths of all the natural
gas territory of Western Pennsylvania.
The purchase covers tract of 1900
acres. The price paid is not definitely
known.
William Warnke and his wife, of
Reed City, Michigan. have gone to jaiI
for ninety days for throwing the form
er's aged parents out OF the house be-
cause they refused to deed over the
farm. The junior Mrs. Warnke at
tempted to shoot the prosecuting at
torney in the court room.
A company Of Texas rangers had q
lively battle with four mounted men
caught cutting fences in Edwards
county. The offenders opened fire with
rifles. Two Of them were shot through
the heart, and the others escaped. One
or the latter was a nephew of Chief
Justice Hemphill. 1&TI aic.gp
The secretary of the Pennsylvania
board of agriculture discovered Texas
fever in one herd of cows in town.
ship near Lancaster, and found pleuro-
pneumonia in another lot a few miles
distant. He gave orders for the kill
ing of several animals, and had the re-
mainder placed in quarantine.
Returns from twenty-three of the
leading clearinghouse of the United
States for last week show decrease of
1914 per cent. in the aggregate clear
ancGs as compared with the aggregate
for the corresponding week of last
year. The decrease in New York was
1872 per cent, i'll Chicago IN.
The Chicago branch of the E. T.
Barnum wire and iron works of De-
troit, was closed by the sheriff on an at
tachment secured by Philadelphia
creditors. The main house made an as
signment last month, and the neglect
of the assignee to file, papers in Illinois
gave an opportunity for a levy.
A former inmate of the insane asy-
lum at Jacksonville, Illinois, climbed
into a wagon at West Springfield, cut
the Threats of julius Perkins and John
Colvin, threw them out upon the grass,
and drove off with their team. He has
not yet been captured. One of his
victims will probably die; the other is
recovering. ,,-c ...,4
One portion of the Minnesota State
Capitol binding at ST paul has been