The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-10-03
For President,
JAMES G. BLAINE,
Of Maine.
For Vice President,
JOHN A. LOGAN,
Of Illinois.
VERY LATEST.

horter, of Chesterfield, Michigan, hang
ed himself in his barn.
A considerable quantity of pine lum-
Der from Georgia has been placed on
the market at Lacrosse, Wis.
Perry Bordeau, Of Newport. Mich,
was fatally shot by Henry Hoffman
while stealing grapes at night.
Samuel Hays, cashier of coal COM
pany at Chattanooga, was shot dead
and robbed on the railroad track.
The mercury rose to 95 degrees in
the shade at Petersburg, Virginia,
Tuesday, and one sun-strOke is report
ed.
b. q. Hutchinson, who was the cause
of the famous wheat riot in Wisconsin
in 1850, ended his days in San Francis
co.
A tramp who assaulted child at
Shelbyville, Kentucky, was within six
hours sentenced to term in the peni-
Tertiary.
The Rounds Type and Press COM
pany, of Chicago, whose liabilities are
5000, made an assignment to Samuel
d. Ward.
DR.. Abram Babcock, of Syracuse,
New York, who lay in jail on indict-
ments for abortion, killed himself with
morphine.
At Alfred, Maine, Oscar Z. Blaney
and Mary E. Barrows were sentenced
to death for the murder of the latter's
husband.
The death is announced of Commo-
dore Thomas S. Fillebrown, commo-
dore OF the Brooklyn navy-yard, from
heart disease.
Arthur n. Whiting, OF Boston, who
Inherited large estate, fell from q
window in the Parker house, and was
instantly killed.
Isaac Newton, chief engineer of the
Croton water department of New Y ork,
ended his days with razor, after a
long debauch.
Four valuable Jersey heifers belong
ing to j. V. Farwell, of Chicago, are
found to be afflicted with tuberculosis
of the lungs.
At meeting of the directors of the
Northwestern road. Gould and Dillon
resigned, and w. X. Vanderbilt was
elected to the board.
Mrs. Barbara Becht, of Louisville,
arose from her bed to hunt for cat.
Her clothes took fire from candle and
she was burned to death.
Sixty acres of ground in the north
western quarter Of st. Paul was pur-
chased by the Northern Pacific road on
which to build shops.
Mrs. Ellen S. Holt, of Gardner, Mas
sachusetts, has distinguished herself
by causing the arrest of Rev. Frank b.
Sleeper on charge of rape committed
twenty-seven months ago.
Leavenworth has been definitely Sc
lected as the site for the new Soldiers
home. The city offers $40 acres of
land and n purse of $4,000.
Henry Griggs, a social fav0rite at
Westminster, Maryland, has eloped
with a young and handsome gypsy from
camp just outside of town.
Through the efforts of French
journal in New York. the sum of SILL
TAG has been contributed for the relief
of cholera sufferers in France.
Bill Smith, colored, assaulted COL
ored girl in Franklin county, Missis-
sippi. He was taken from magistrate
by party OF men and hanged.
Francis Kernochan, q manufacturer
of Pittsfield, Mass, arose in the night
to repel burglars, but stumbled on
stairway and shot himself fatally.
The portraits of all the governors of
Iowa, with the exception of James
placed in the capitol at Des MOines.
Joseph Bunker, chief of the Cincin-
natl fire department, died from injuries
between his wagon and fire-engine.
Colonel G. J. French has resigned a
railway mail superintendency in the
southwest, and will be succeeded by
A. Burt, of the Cincinnati postoffice.
The republicans of Texas have NOM
mated Judge A. b. Norton, of Dallas,
for governor, and John Haynes, of
Webb county, for lieutenant governor.
During a political meeting at SPRING
field, Illinois, Saturday evening, an in
sulting remark led to the murder of
Percy Gilman by a man named Wha-
ley.
The directors of the New York Gen.
trail road, at a special meeting, author
lied the issue OF $15,000,00 debenture
bonds, to run twenty years at per
cent.
The freight rate on provisions from
Chicago to New York has been cut to
twenty cents per hundred pounds, and
offers are made to carry grain for III
cents.
Great alarm is felt at Atlanticville,
Long Island, over the spread of a
malignant form of dysentery, which
has brought sickness or death to nearly
every house.
Andrew j. Cooper and other Chi
cagoans have incorporated at SPRING
field a company with capital Of ST.
100000 to operate a gold mine in
Michigan.
Chicago capitalists are said to be ar
ranging to build a railroad from Mon
roe, Louisiana, to Pine Bluff, Arkan-
sas, a distance Of $50 miles, through
the cotton belt.
The late Francis b. Hayes, of Lex
ington, Massachusetts,, in willing away
$4,000, 900 or more, left $4,000 each to
Harvard aud Dartmouth colleges and
Berwick academy.
BY the fall of some framework on
the fairgrounds at Erie, Penn, a
farmer named s. G. Pheerin was
killed, and two other persons were
seriously injured.
A policeman in Boston, named Jere-
miah O'Brien, is receiving congratula-
tions for killing a ruffian who assailed
him as he was marching prisoner to
the station-house.
Emerson McColm. of Munice. Ind.