The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-10-17

The Elections.

concede as follows: The republicans
elected: In the lst district, Ben Butter
worth; I'd. Gen. Charles +. Brown;
4th, John +. Sinks; Sth, John Little;
9th, w. @. Cooper; 18th, Alphonso
Hart; l4th, G. II. Grosvenor; 18th, J.
Ezra B. Taylor; 10th, William Nc
Kinley.
The democrats elected: Fifth dis
trict, Ben Lefevre; 9Th, w. ID. Hill;
9TH, George K. Seney; 18th, E. +. Ellis
berry; 18th, Joseph Outhwaite; 18th,
Beriah Wilkins; 10th, George w.
Geddes, 2lst, N. A, F0rap, The re.
suit is doubtful in the Sd district and
sclose in the 10th, the chances fayoring
Romeis, republican.
The returns from West Virginia are
not complete, but the state has gone
democratic. The democratic manag-
ers claim a majority of 1000 to 10, 900.
The republicans concede 5000 to 5000,
: Diphtheria has become epidemic at
Astoria, Long Island.
The National Academy Of Sciences
is in session at Newport, r. /.
J. w. Jones, editor of a Welsh journ-
al, died Wednesday at Utica, N. Y.
Heavy frost fell in the Yankton dis
trict Tuesday night, but corn is safe.
VIM. F. Knitting, a well-known New
York criminal lawyer, died Monday.
Hog cholera is prevailing to an
alarming extent in eastern Pennsyl-
vania.
Near Eufaula, Alabama, two colored
men fought duel, in which both lost
their lives.
Coal mines at Jacksonville and Straits
vile, Ohio, were fired Sunday by I'M
known parties.
Rudolph Nolte, who located in Du-
buque in 1887, was carried off by heart
disease on Saturday.
Smallpox has become epidemic at
Brookings, Dakota, where four persons
have already died.
1t is rumored in New Haven that
Theodore d. Woolsey has resigned the
presidency of Yale college.
Four men were killed and two others
injured by the explosion of powder
mill at Cumminsville, Ontario.
Two children of Mrs. Poscher were
burned to death in Florence, S. g., by
the explosion of kerosene lamp.
Burton Parker. of Michigan, has
been appointed Indian agent at Fort
Peck, Montana, vice Snider, resigned.
On the track at Lexington, Ken.
lucky, Johnston paced mile in 2:0S,
and Eagle Bird, years old, trotted in
2:904.
Rev. A. w. Lightbourne, of Easton,
Maryland, was forced to resign a
Methodist passionate for attending a
circus.
The international electrical exhi-
bition at Philadelphia closed Saturday.
The net profits Of the affair were about
$4,000.
On farm near Marshall, Missouri,
the corpses of John Lowry and wife
were found on the ground near their
residence.
A meeting of business men in Pitts
burg decided to raise $3.50, 900 for the
purpose of maintaining an exposition
in that city.
Ex-President Woolsey has resigned
from the Yale corporation on account
of age and deafness. He is eighty
three years old.
Coke trains collided near Mononga-
hela City, Pa, .wrecking an engine and
twelve cars, killing q fireman, and
scalding an engineer.
The people of Worcester, Massachu-
sets, are busily engaged in decorating
the city for the celebration of its two
hundredth anniversary.
DR.. Albert Kendrick, aged seventy
five, one of the oldest physicians in
Wisconsin, and aresidentof Waukesha
since 1858, died Monday.
John Buckstaff, ST., who died at
Oshkosh Monday, leaving nine child
rem, was a soldier in the British army
at Lundy's Lane in 1872.
Judge Pratt in the New York SUI
preme Court has rendered decision
in all tax cases against elevated roads
in favor of the companies.
Petroleum declined Tuesday from 66
cents per barrel to GIG. The Phillips
well flows So barrels per hour, and the
Christie yields 253 barrels.
The fish commissioner of Pennsyl-
vania will establish at Erie hatchery
capable of turning into the lake half a
million whitefish annually.
Burglars entered the residence of
Alexander Mitchell, at Milwaukee, and
secured some watches and jewels be-
fore being frightened away.
The Orangemen of Harbor Grace,
Newfoundland, are charged with hav-
ing torn down the gates Of a convent
and flung them into the sea.
Smallpox is raging in the township
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Aurora, d. T. Eight persons have
died and nineteen more are sick.
The sheriff of Spencer county, Indi-
ana, has removed the Henderson, muir
derers from Rockport to Jacksonville,
to guard against another lynching.
The iron firm of Oliver Brothers &
Phillips, of Pittsburg, has found it ad-
visable to withdraw the notice of a
reduction of 12i per cent. in wages.
John Mccullough, the tragedian,
reached New York Wednesday, and
was at once taken to private house.
His condition is said to be assuring.
A mail-pouch hanging from crane,
ready for the express train, was stolen
Wednesday at Dowagiac, Mich, cut
open, and the letters rifled. No ar
rests.
The supreme court of New York has
declared unconstitutional the law for
bidding the manufacture of cigars in
the aforementioned of the larger
cities.
Henry Taylor, employed in the Clar-
renee House in Manchester, Iowa, ia
tally shot his wife last evening. He