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

ysis i'll the Eastern penitentiary of
Pennsylvania, where he was sent for
ten years for lorging the will OF n mil
lionaire named Robert Whitaker.
The residents of Farmingdale, Long
Island. are excited over the alleged
elopement of Mrs. Elizabeth Baylis,
aged seventy, with john Barnum, a
good-looliing young peddler, with whose
appearance she had been smtten.
Some prominent citizens of Chicago,
remembering the English donations to
the pubic library made through the
efforts of Thomas Hughes, have under
Hughes library at Rugby, Tennessee.
Some student in the Industrial i'll
stitute at Worcester, Massachusetts,
recently led horse up two flights Of
stairs TO the chapel. Tweniy-eight
members of the classes have been SUE
pended for refusing to confess the de-
tails.
Augusta TuXhorn, farmer near
Mcpherson, Kansas, was fOiled in an
attempt TO kill his wife and four chill
diem. He then fired all the buildings
on his place and blew out his brains
In the burned house was 1000 in
money.
The governor Of Montana favors q
reduction in the size of Indian reser-
vations, and enters objections to the
leasing OF lands by the red men. He
recommends that no polygamistic
Mormon be allowed the right of pre-
emption.
Charles w. Farciot, formerly at the
head of wire factory near Sandusky,
Ohio, disappeared last June with $50
GOO OF the firms funds. A cablegram
from Belgium announces his arrest in
that country, and an officer will be sent
for him.
The Crouch tragedies at Jackson,
Michigan, one year ago, are recalled
by the trial of Daniel S. Holcomb,
which commenced ten days ago, o Jury
only having been secured Friday. Ex-
Governor Austin Blair manages the
prosecution.
In the matter of the estate of Wilbur
f. Storey, of Chicago, the probate
court allowed Eureka G. Storey to ap-
peal from its order appointing A. L.
Patterson administratOr-to-co on
her filing a bond for $4,000 within
twenty days.
A strong nOn-partisan movement is
on foot in Ohio to do away with the
October elections in that State. Peti-
natures and the subject will he agi-
tated at this winters session of the
Legislature.
The Elba iron-works, at Pittsburg,
have started up. after some months of
suspension. The mills at Sharon.
Pennsylvania, have stopped for lack of
orders. The strike in the lock-works
at Branford, Connecticut, has been
amicably settled.
There is great excitement at the Mex
lean capital in regard to the conversion
OF the English debt. Crowds in the
street threatened President Gonzalez
with death and marched to the resi-
dence Of General BiaZ to make him
state his position.
Two tramps, at 0 O'Clock Friday
night, visited a farmhouse near Des
PLANES, Illinois, killed Joachim Dem
low and wife with clubs and corn-
knives. and then ransaclSed the premis-
es. A lad Of 10 years was awakened,
and made his escape.
The list Of suicides for Friday con.
tanned the names of David Darling, q
well known coal dealer of Buffalo,
William Marshall, q fire-insurance
agent of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and
Mrs. Mary Smith, dressmaker of To-
ronto, related TO wealthy residents.
Judge Brewer of the United States
Circuit Court at Omaha has rendered q
decision denying the right of the
Brighton Ranch company to fence in
about 81 600 acres of Government land
and sustaining the Governments right
to remove the fences at its pleasure. .
The Burlington road on Monday
added to the bitterness of the Missouri
river passenger war by cutting rates
from Kansas City to Chicago to 81.
The Alton retaliated by announcing
that it would carry the public from
Quincy or Hannibal to Chicago for 81.
Five laborers who were engaged in
Chicago for railroad construction in
Guatemala write that on arriving at
Port Barrios they were ordered to work
as slaves under q guard OF soldiers.
These victims managed to escape to the
United States. but left 1855 other dupes
pennjless.
immigration to Canada has mater
tally fallen off during the first ten
months of 1884, when the arrivals were
I38,3S6, as compared with 163,4S5 for
the corresponding period in 1883. OF
this years arrivals $3.50 settled in
Canada and 1876 passed through to
the United States.
Some weeks ago, John Downey and
wife, of Windsor, Ontario. being des-
titute of the necessaries of life, agreed
to drown themselves in the Detroit
river. The woman promptly carried
out the contract, and the husband was
arrested for murder. Friday he hang
ed himself in his cell.
Father Egan, Of Thornhill. Ontario,
saw tit to nail board across u pew in
his church rented by Duncan McCague.
A struggle ensued at the commence
ment of the services. last Sunday, and
the priest dragged the old man to the
door and threw him with such force us
10 fracture his thigh.
Among the deaths reported in the
western states are those Of Major
William NJ. Garvey. OF piqua. Ohio,
formerly receiver OF public moneys at
Cheyenne; Edmund Nj. Perkins, of
Quincy, H., pensioner of the war OF
1872, and William j.. Pickerell, one of
the first settlers at Oskaloosa, Iowa.
The Alton road will this week per-
manently reduce passenger rates to 2
cents per mile, and nearly every line in
the country will be compelled to revise
its rate sheets. 1t is probable that q
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