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


has voted in favor of horse railroad
on Broadway.
Governor Cleveland, on Thursday,
left Albany for the Adirondacks, to re-
main two weeks.
Anderson Riley, formerly slave I'm
Virginia, died recently near Alton,
Illinois, claiming to be Ill years Of
age.
Il. S. McManus, well-knOwn con-
fectioner of st. Paul, killed himself
with morphine because Of financial
troubles.
On the Chicago board of trade, Mon
day, wheat dropped IS cents for Aug
ust, while corn for the same month fell
to 50s cents.
The Denver Republican and the Den
yer Tribune have been consolidated.
The new paper will be called the Til
bune- Republican.
Merchants in Mexico complain that
most goods received from the United
States are inferior to the samples
shown by drummers.
A company has been organized at
South Bend, Indiana, with a capital of
$50, 900, to build belt railway seven
miles in length.
Bragg's Iron Brigade will hold re-
ust %. Generals Gibbon and Fair
child intend to be present.
Nineteen leperS were, on Friday,
placed on the steamer Oceanic at San
Francisco, the city giving each of the
unfortunates ticket and So.
Samuel III. Drew, formerly prosecut-
ing attorney at Cincinnati, has been
lodged in Jail for embezZling $4,000 as
the agent of Mrs. Elizabeth Cox.
DIR. j. b. Weida, of Philadelphia, adj
mits his participation in rObbing the
grave of John May, who was recently
hanged at NorristOwn for murder.
The grand jury at Petersburg, Vir-
ginia. indicted the officers and several
employees of the wrecked Planters
bank for misdemeanor or for felony.
Alexander Wolcott, a resident Of
Chicago for half century, and sur
veyor Of Cook county for the greater
portion Of that period, died Tuesday.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America, in session at Chicago,
elected Rev. James NJ. Cleary, of Ke-
Dosha, Wisconsin, to the presidency.
The name of General Ross, of Waco,
will probably be presented in the Texas
democratic state convention as a can
didate for governor opposed to Ireland.
The famous cannon "Old KiokapOo;
was purchased for $1l2 from Chicago
junk-dealer by the Kansas Historical
society, and will be shipped to Topeka.
The citizens of Lumberton, Ohio,
drove from town q large family named
and burned their house when they left.
An iron firm of Louisville has sent
circulars throughout the country urg-
ing that all furnaces be banked for
foar weeks, with a hope OF increasing
prices.
Business was suspended at Kalama-
ZOO, Michigan, to receive the remains
and hold the funeral of Sergeant Ed
ward Israel, meteorological the Greedy
expedition. es
Murat Halstead and others have in
corporated the New York Extra COM
pany, with a capital stock of $4,000,
to print books, pamphlets, and news
papers.
The reduction of canal tolls and har-
Dor dues at Montreal attracted one
million bushels more grain to thatport
this season than for the same period
last year.
The propeller Mamie Glass exploded
her boiler Monday morning, while at
Madison, Indiana, killing the engineer
and causing the death of another man
by drowning.
Three children were burned to death
while smoking in barn at Circleville,
Ohio, and two others lost their lives at
McKeesport, Pennsylvania, by pouring
Oil into the stove.
A dispatch from Rock Island, Ill.
chronicles the death of VIM. Hoffman,
one of the heroes of the Mexican war,
who rose to the rank of major general
in the regular army.
Three men engaged in posting social
istic proclamations in New York were
fined So each, and Justus Schwab took
the amount from his vest pocket and
set the offenders free.
General Hatch has encamped with
six cavalry companies at a point twenty
five miles southeast of Caldwell, Kan
sas, and proposes to clear Oklahoma of
two Thousand invaders,
X The Northwestern and Wabash roads
have given formal notice of withdraw
al from the tripartite alliance, and the
latter retains only the Union Pacific,
Rock Island, and st. Paul.
A constable of Oskaloosa, Iowa. arm
ed with q search warrant, seized one
hundred barrels Of beer in brewery,
Friday. The right to destroy the
SOOuo Will NO oIOuOly IcoloVcu.
An unknown man on Sunday came
out of the bushes on an island in
Niagara river, handed a stranger a
watch, leaped into the rapids, and was
hurried over the Horseshoe fall.
Buffalo Miller thinks new whisky
pool is out of the question, as it can
not be formed before September /, and
If then postponed the dfstillers will be
chained down by cattle contracts.
Marshall Key, clerk of the federal
court at Council Bluffs, while deranged
from severe illness, ended his days with
a revolver. He was native of Ken
lucky, and for several years resided in
Chicago.
Arthur r.. Atkins, who for many
years. ranked as one of the ablest
captains on the lakes, and Of late has
been vessel manager in Chicago,
died of Bright's disease, after prolonged
illness.
The missing steamer Lydian Mon
arch, which left London three weeks
ago with 1852 passengers, put in at st.
Johns, Newfoundland, Sunday. One
of her engines tailed on the first week
of her VOYAGE l st Ir.I rr .- vCiIa