The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-29
VERY LATEST.


ten miles Of Granite Falls, MINI.
Montreal reports high rate of NOR
tally among infants, caused by the in.
tense heat.
Grove b. Cooley, formerly Judge OF
the municipal court at Minneapolis
died Wednesday.
nominated for governor Henry B. Har-
rison, of New Haven.
DIR. j. III. Stewart, five times mayor
I st. Paul, was carried Off by apo
slexy Monday evening.
Five men were killed by the fumes
OF gas while tunneling in mine al
Shamokin, Pennsylvania.
James G. Baird, a banker of 81
Charles, Illinois, who located at that
Joint in 1888, died Thursday.
Robert Reichert, of Springfield,
Massachusetts, shot Mrs. G. B. Graves
in the neck and then killed himself.
DIR. John Fitzpatrick, hotel-keeper
of Quincy, Illinois, died suddenly at
the age of 81 years, having never been
sick. sh,'E
The Eastern Narrow-Gauge railway
has been opened for business from
Cincinnati, to Portsmouth, Ohio, 10S
miles.
James Haggart, superintendent of
the international bridge. at Buffalo,
was killed by an engine at midnight on
Saturday.
Near Lancaster, Wisconsin, George
Neuxomburg killed his wife with a re-
volver and made an unsuccessful at
tempt at suicide.
E. NJ. Lewis, a bank president in
Philadelphia, who was the assignee Of
Jay Cooke, has been fatally stricken
with paralysis.
Eleven full blown flowers appeared
Tuesday night on a night blooming
cereus belonging to Henry Ridgley, at
Springfield, Ill.
A Catholic priest of Pittsburg,
named Charles Sharp, while in the last
stages of consumption, took his life
with revolver.
A well bored for gas at Ellsworth,
ten miles from Pittsburg, is flowing
oil and salt water, and attracts humid
reds of visitors daily.
w. III. Trego has been appointed
general manager of the Baltimore and
Ohio Express Company, with head
quarters in Baltimore.
Private Roy, of the 22d infantry,
won the silver medal in the shooting
contest at Fort Leavenworth, making
1876 points in a possible 1856.
Seven young men went out on Lake
Ontario, from Oak Orchard, in light
yacht, on Tuesday evening, and have
not since been heard from.
The democrats of Texas renominated
John Ireland for governor, and select
ed State Senator Gibbs for lieutenant
governor, both by reclamation.
Boston dispatches mention the dis
covery of a counterfeit silver dollar,
differing only slightly from the genu-
inc as to weight and thickness.
The safe in the First National bank
at Albian, New York, was finally
forced open Monday by experts and
found to contain nothing of value.
David Preston, of Detroit, in a let
ter to the people of Michigan, avows
his Willingness to accept nomination
for governor by the prohibitionists.
A coachman at Minneapolis, named
Peter Johnson, after taking a lady to
visit friend, walked out on the lawn
and shot himself through the heart.
The property of the Sprague Manu-
featuring company at Augusta, Maine,
which fifteen years ago cost s., 200, 900,
was sold at auction for about 100000.
The United States Treasurer has re-
turned to the Governor of Louisiana
SCI 900 in school bonds Of that state,
captured in 1865 by General Sheridan.
G. b. Morton. the missing assistant
postmaster OF Brooklyn, wrote to his
wife, from Rotterdam, that he had left
to save others from getting into difficult
ty.
The democrats of Kansas renominat-
ed Governor Click, and selected for
governor c. X. Holiday,
one of the directors of the Santa Fe
road.
Inquiries have been sent out to Que
bee by British cavalry officers as to the
quality and cost of horses to be obtain
ed in that region for service in Eng
land.
DR.. John G. Waters, chief editor Of
the Fenian organization, died of fever
in Indianapolis. One of his sons is the
editor of The Freenan's Journal in
Dublin.
Kate Smolsey, of Fort Plain, New
Y FORK, has for the past 1877 days taken
neither food nor drink, and is suffi-
GENTLY strong in mind to converse with
friends.
1t is asserted by the London Times
that the French consul at Pekin lower
ed his flag Thursday afternoon, China
absolutely refusing to make the con-
SESSIONS demanded.
Louis G. Paxton, junior partner in a
commission firm at the Chicago stock
Yards, has deserted a wife and two
children and absconded with $4,000
and an actress.
A rainfall of over four inches in one
night is reported from independence,
No. Heavy frosts in New England on
Sunday evening damaged the crops at
scattered points.
Some citizens of Trenton, New
Jersey, who favor cremation have pur-
chased pottery-kiln at Pennington,
ind will transform it into an oven for
burning bodies.
Sir John A. Macdonald condemns
he Wyoming cattle scheme of the
FIewen brothers as fraught with the
greatest danger to Canadian farmers
ind stock-raisers.
Oklahoma Payne and seven of his
Ollowers, captured in Indian Terri
DRY by General Hatch, are being taken
o Fort Scott to be handed over to the
.ivil authorities.