The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-04-11


emDezzlea a conslderaDle amounr, was
captured in Chicago
There is not saloon in Douglas
county, Ills, and the Tuscola council
has passed an ordinance prohibiting
the sale OF liquor ut drug stores.
| The executive committee of the
Gould and Wabash systems has order
ed reduction of 10 per cent. in all sal
aries OF 500 per month and over.
Robert III. Hunter, a railroad ticket
leaving a deficit of $1,000, which is
wholly chargeable to speculation.
Lorenzo Dimick, of Buffalo, formerly
| junior partner in a marine insurance
firm, has been held in $4,000 bail for
diverting funds Of the insurance COM
panies.
J. A. Broadhead, an army paymaster,
suffered from thieving employees in Ari-
iona. He recently returned to Boston
in an insane condition, and died0of
pneumonia.
Sandy Spencer, q prominent saloon
keeper of New York, who recently
served a months Imprisonment for SELL
ing liquor on Sunday, has made an as
signment.
The Canadians express alarm over the
magnitude of the emigration to the
| United States. A party of 1926 left one
parish, last week, 200 of them to remain
permanently.
Sheriff Hawkins, of Cincinnati, has
resigned the colonelcy of the veteran
regiment, whose members refused to
obey his order to help guard the jail
during the riot.
Frank James. the Missouri bandit,
when arraigned at Huntsville, Ala
bama, pleaded not guilty to the Mussel
Shoals robbery, and his trial was set
for Wednesday next.
Fast-mail service across the cOntin-
Gnt will be inaugurated next Tuesday,
on a train to run from Ogden to San
Francisco in thirty-nine hours.
| A passenger train on the Chicago
and New Orleans road was badly
wrecked near Duck Hill, Mississippi.
| Several passengers and three trainmen
were seriously injured.
William A. Hall, formerly chief
clerk in the comptroller'so Office at New
ark, New Jersey, has been sent to the
state prison for twelve years for fOrg-
| cry and embeZzlement.
Bail in the sum of $4,000 each has
| been accepted in the cases of Judd
Crouch and Dan Hocomb. the alleged
murderers of the Crouch family at
Jackson, Michigan.
Two murderers and three thieves cut
a hole in the partition wall of the jail
at Fort Wayne, and only had the win
dow bars to cut when the plot was dis
covered by Sheriff Scheifer.
The tug Peter Smith, of Cleveland,
with two mud scows in tow, burst her
boilers and sank off Vermillion, Ohio,
Saturday. The engineer, fireman, and
one passenger lost their lives.
John Young, who died in Philadel-
phia hospital with a knife-blade inn
bedded in his skull, claims to have been
| injured in Chicago, last January, by
man named Valentine DOoner.
An express train on the Grand Trunk
road leaped the track near Wales,
Ontario. early Friday morning. The
engineer and firemen were killed, and
twelve passengers were injured.
The steamer Newcastle City, which
sailed from Halifax for Boston Friday
morning, strucka shoal in the fog, and
took water so rapidly that the captain
ordered her to be run on the beach.
The Northwestern road is to swallow
| the Sioux City and Pacific and the
Elknorn and Missouri Valley leased
| lines, 995 miles of track, assuming their
bonded indebtedness of $l8,000,000.
The grand jury at Ottawa, Ontario.
called attention to the fact that an
| American citizen charged with murder
had for thirty months lain in Jail with
out trial, during five sessions of court.
The Denver and Rio Grande stock
| holders left Colonel Dodge out of the
board of directors, filling his place with
D. N. Moffat. The annual report shows
surplus of $50, 600 over fixed charges.
Dey M. Hough, young and active
member of the Detroit board of trade,
has been wrecked by the drop in wheat.
He paid his losses as far as his means
went, and yet owes several thousand
dollars.
John Smith, residing near Rising
Sun, Indiana. after being brutally,
beaten 10y burglars, was swung back
and forth over n fire until he became
insensible. The robbers failed to get
his treasure-box.
Mrs. +. w. Metz, residing in Seventh
street, Louisville, who has been suffer-
ing from dementia, flung herself from
a third story window, early Sunday
morning, and was fatally crushed on
the sidewalk.
OyIuo II fclu- vi OtItNd, LID, " pa
| vate in the SD volunteer regiment, now
physical wreck with an invalid wife,
is about to receive So, 100 as arrears OF
pension, through the earnest efforts OF
Senator Cullom.
In the criminal court at Cincinnati a
dissOlute colOred woman was sent
enced to seven years imprisonment for
shooting with intent to kill, and John
Murtah got five years for inflicting a
fatal blow with his fist.
While ascending mountain near
Charleston. w. Va, with a party OF
friends, G. u. Willard reached one end
of a rifle cane to young lady. AS she
caught hold it exploded, sending bull
let through Wizards heart.
The jail at Cincinnati is now guard
ed by fifty extra policemen, who have
charge of the Calling gun. The man
ager of the dramatic festival says
manypersons actually afraid to visit
the city, for fear of being shot.
The democrats of Cincinnati elected
their entire ticket. with the exception
Of clerk of the police court, by MAORI
ties of from 400 to 500. In Cleveland