The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-28

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In an affray near Macon, Georgia
arising from q settlement for some cot.
ton, Ben Beck and his son were shot
dead by John and Stephen Stubs.
Sarah Faro, colored woman of
$50 against Frank Parmelee for having
her buggy overturned by an omnibus.
The safe in the dry goods store OF
David Beigle, at Touchdown, Ohio
was blown open with dynamite and
robbed OF $4,000 in money and notes.
The supreme court of Utah has re-
fused to grant writs of habeas corpus
in the cases of Clauson and Evans, the
polygamists, and they were sent to Jail.
The wOolen-mills at Waukesha, Wis
evening destroyed by fire, throwing
one hundred men out of employment.
| Incendiarism is said to have been the
cause of q conflagration at Brunswick,
| Georgia, which swept away about sew
enty buildings, causing a loss of $780,
900.
During Democratic jubilee at
Wellington, Kansas, Mrs. John
Schnarr was killed by sky-rocket,
and two other persons were seriously
wounded.
The safe Of the Texas express COM
pany at Bryan was on Saturday night
unlocked and robbed of $10,800. A
young Spaniard has been arrested for
the crime.
Many farmers III the vicinity of
Fargo, Dakota, refuse to part with
their No. hard wheat at As cents per
bushel, the lowest rate ever known in
that region.
Maryland has shipped to the New
Orleans exposition eight carloads of
exhibits, including four hundred pieces
of native wood and two hundred speci-
mems of stone.
A drunkard now enjoying the bene-
fits of the wOrkhouse at Leominster,
Massachusetts, Is one of the heirs to
the large estate of Asahel Buffum, of
Lincoln, Illinois.
Mrs. Hopkins, wife of farmer in
Sardinia, Erie County, n. Y, who is a
grandmother, has elOped with George
Wiley, aged twenty-three, one of her
husbands employees.
The demise is chronicled of William
A. Duncan, just reelected to Congress
from the Gettysburg district of Penn
sylvania, and of Dean O'Reilly, of
Hamilton, Ontario.
Lieutenant Greedy, despite the adj
vice Of his physicians, has gone to
Washington to prepare his report. He
walks slowly, but claims to fully have
recovered his memory.
Advices from Panama are to the eff
feet that laborers and machinery for
the canal continue to arrive, and that
fifty thousand men will be employed
during the dry season.
AS train was crossing q bridge at
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, q passenger
leaning out of Il car window was caught
by a support, dragged out on the track
and instantly killed.
The explosion of ten tons of giant
powder at point four miles from To-
ledo, Ohio, was heard forty miles.
Windows were broken i'll the city and
limbs were blown from trees.
b. ii. Black, a prosperous merchant
of Blossom Prairie, Texas, who was re-
Gently elected sheriff Of Lamar county,
was at midnight Sunday called to the
door of his house and Shot dead.
The Continental hotel, at Fargo,
Dakota, took fire at 3 o'clock Monday
morning and was soon wholly consum-
ed. The guests and servants were res
cued. The loss is about $4,000.
Four Canadians who on Wednesday
night started across the st. Lawrence
in row-boat TO witness democratic
celebration at Cape Vincent. New
York, have not since been heard from.
The trustees of Lombard college, at
Galesburg, Illinois, have appointed a
committee 10 confer with Mrs. Lydia
Bradley, of Peoria, who offers the i'll
stitutiOn 100000 to remove to. that
city.
Arthur ID. January, Deputy State
Treasurer of California, was arrested
Friday charged with the embezzlement
Of public funds. lie confesses the
theft of $500, which he gambled
away.
RumOrs are in circulation at Niagara
Falls that the bride of President-elect
Cleveland will be the daughter of his
former law partner, Oscar Folsom, a
young lady possessing beauty and
intellect.
After strike of nine months, the
coal miners of the Monongahela val
ley, hungry and half-naked, are resum-
ing work at the old rates. There are
sixty or more still in Jail in Washing
ton county.
Three burglars fell into a trap at
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store where a raid was anticipated
shot one intruder dead, seriously
wounded the second, and hit the one
who escaped.
Twenty-Five leading business houses
at Goldsboro, North Carolina, were on
Sunday destroyed by flames which
arose from boys smoking cigarettes
near lot of cotton. The loss is esti-
mated at 500 600
When leaving the court room at
Dallas, Texas, q lawyer named Frank
l.. Irvine was stabbed in the back by
local politician named Fred Cullen. 1t
appears that the latter was an unwill-
ing witness i'll murder trial.
a passenger train on the Houston
and Texas Central road was thrown
from the track near Hampstead by
rail misplaced by wreckers. Eight per-
sons are said to have been killed, and
fifteen others were wounded.
The Sac and Fox Indians have leas-
ed two hundred thousand acres of
grazing land to Kansas parties for ten
years, at $4,000 per annilm, the wire
fencing to revert to the Indians at the
expiration of the lease.
Postmaster General IIatton orders
hof 1o;t n1 lAA To-