The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-10-31

was recently deserted by young wife.
The fast steamers Oregon and
America have just had race across
the Atlantic from New York, which
was the occasion Of heavy betting.
The latter reached Kinsale in days 16
hours and IA minutes. The former ar
rived at Queenstown in about 81 days.
The Elder made the passage from
Queenstown TO Sandy Hook in seven
days and five minutes.
Chicago is the only American city
which for twelve years has made fl
nancial success of its industrial expo
sition. The average paying attend
ance was this year in excess of eight
thousand per day, realizing nearly ST.
400 daily. The company would be glad
to expend 81 900 in improvements
upon an adjacent tract il the city gave
its permission.
A cyclone struck Coldwater, Mich.a
about 6:l0 o'clock Tuesday evening,
accompanied by rain. The roof OF a
business block was torn off, plate-glass
fronts were blown in, and signs were
carried the entire length of Main
street. Telegraph lines were blown
down, and much excitement prevailed.
1t is expected that much damage has
been dope in the city and county.
Through carelessness almost crimi-
nal, the gas was left on in the vaults of
the Canal bank, at Elmira, New York,
Saturday night. John Anot, the pres
ident, with a lighted candle in his
hand, threw open the doors Monday
morning, and was blown across the
room against the counter, receiving
painful injuries. Every window in
the bank was blown out, even the Of
flee door being shattered.
A number of Hungarian laborers I'M
dertook to drill out charge of dyna-
mite and giant-powder which had fail
ed to explode, at Blough's Cut, on the
South Pennsylvania railroad short
distance north of Pittsburg, last even
ing. A spark ignited the powder, and
terrific explosion followed. One man
was killed, another had his right arm
torn off, and a number of others were
badly bruised and burned.
Wreckers placed on the track of the
Boston and Albany road near Kinder
hook, on Friday evening, pile of rails
and sleepers, wedged together. A pas
senger train struck the obstruction
Engineer Davie was so terribly scalded
that he soon died, and the fireman was
fatally injured. A reward of $1,000 is
offered by the road for the capture OF
the wreckers.
E. w. Cole, the Tennessee railroad
king, purchased the fine blue grass
scented it to the state to build house
of refuge for boys and girls. He is re-
garded as great benefactor, as there
has never been anything of the kind in
the state, juvenile delinquents always
having been sent to the penitentiary,
where they were brutally treated and
demoralized by the older criminals.
Mrs. Buckner S. Morris, for many
years resident of Chicago, died Sun
day in Louisville. Her sympathy with
the south during the war impelled her
to devote time and money to the relief
of the prisoners in Camp Douglas, and
she was banished from Chicago on
charge Of entering into conspiracy
for their release. She was Il sister of
Ex-Governor Blackburn, Of Kentucky,
and her father was the pioneer in the
blooded-stock business in the Blue
grass region.
Samuel Boone, of Elmira, n. Y, has
for some time been demanding of Gov
ernor Cleveland pardon for Byron B.
Fairbanks, who was sent to state pris-
on for firing into q crowd of boys on
Halloween. Last week Boone and his
wife went to the executive chamber,
where the lady became so violent that
the governor seized her by the arm and
requested her to be calm. She fell in
an hysterical fit and was removed by
orderlies. Wednesday !morning Boone
assaulted the governor on the street,
but was seized by DR.. George H.
Houghton. Boone claims that his wife
is in dying condition.
While a republican procession was
being formed at Lacrosse, Wis.,,
Thursday evening, +. A. Burton, pres
ident of the Blaine and Logan Club,
was shot dead by a man known as
"Scotty," but no motive for the muir
der is known. The criminal was at
once arrested and hurried to the Jail,
where hundreds of men shortly after
ward gathered, determined upon lynch
ing ''Scotty." After battering, down
the doors the culprit was brought out
broke. Another was at once procured,
and the lynching was completed.
The fire at the Calumet mine at Mar
quette, Mich, is not yet entirely ex-
tinguished. Three men who went
down to the seventh. level were drag
ged up insensible, though they remain
ed down but six minutes. Later two
others made the attempt, and were
drawn out in like condition and came
near losing their lives. The stamp
mills are being operated on rock obtain
ed from the reserve burrows at the
Black Hills section. The supply will
last couple of weeks, by which time
it is thought the mine will be all right.
On Wednesday written agreement
was circulated among the mills at Fall
River, Mass, pledging to close fer a
week, commencing Saturday night. 1t
was signed by thirty-one mills, and will
stop over l 100000 spindles, OF total
of 100000 employed on print goods,
and throw out of work for q week TO-
GOO persons. The prospect is, that, UNI
less the market improves, the shut
down will continue indefinitely. The
shutdown includes every cotton-goods
mill in the city, except those making
fancy goods and few large print
works.
WASHINGTON.
Benjamin Alvord, q retired brigadier gen.
ylaa f., xnit