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

IN that or western pennsylvania, ana
Charles IL. Rtchings, a veteran pbysi-
cianof Rockford. Illinois, who ranked
high among the Indians as medicine
maD. ~ M
An outbreak in the Kentucky peni-
Tertiary, Thursday morning, resulted
in the escape of two murtlerers. who
are heavily armed. The leader was
John II. Wolff. formerly clerk of Scott
county, sent up for forgery, who was
captured after receiving bullet in his
leg.
Warren p. Sutton, consul general to
Mexico, Is sojourning in Chicago. He
reports large emigration across the
Rio Grande, and states that $50, OOO,-
700 OF American capital has been in
vested in railroads, ranches. and min
ing In northern Mexico within q few
years. 49,.
The owners of certain vessels en-
gagged in the Michigan lumber trade
are arranging with tugs in Chicago and
Muskegon to tow schOoners from port
to port, exchanging midway in the
lake, thus saving the expense of full
crews and competing with the steam
barges.
The mercury stood at 100 Monday
noon at Dover, New Hampshire, and
several citizens were Frustrated. 1t is
said that no rain has fallen at Ply
mouth since May, and that the smaller
streams are drying up. Complaints of
a severe drought also come from south
ern Ohio and Indiana.
Michael Mcdonald, engineer in n
boX-mill at Milford, Mass, caught his
sleeve in the screw of shaft, and for
some time was whirled at the rate of
four hundred revolutions per minute.
Every stitch of clothing was torn from
his body, but when he fell to the floor
he was absolutely uninjured.
1t having been rumored that COM
promise was being arranged in New
York by which Ferdinand Ward would
be released, another order of arrest was
obtained by William III. Bingham. a
broker, who brings suit for $4,000 OBJ
tanned by the firm of Grant 81 Ward
under false representations.
An engine drawing freight train
exploded Thursday noon near Decatur,
Indiana. Barney Welsh, the engineer,
was fatally mangled, and Charles
Henderson,, the fireman, died Of his
lumber were burned, and the track was
The Louisiana field battery ordered
to New Iberia took possession of the
courthouse and turned it over to the
new sheriff. That official then caused
the arrest of the former sheriff and his
deputy by the military, and locked his
prisoners in the Jail. There is great
fear that the town will be burned.
The Frewen brothers. nephews of
Earl Dufferin, have caused a state
ment to be sent out from Montreal that
they will hereafter ship one million
Montana cattle annually 10 England by
way Of the Canadian Pacific road, load
ing three steamships daily at Montreal
during the open season OF navigation.
Mr.. LybrOok introduced in the Vir-
ginia senate resolution to repudiate
the state debt, on the ground that the
bOndhOlderS resisted all efforts for
making a settlement, and that no sub
stantial equivalent had ever been re-
ceived for the securities now atloat,
which are in the hands of adventures.
The executive committee of the anti
monopoly party assembled in Chicago,
Saturday, and nominated General A.
M. West, of Mississippi, for vice presi-
dent. 1t was resolved to issue an adj
dress urging vigorous efforts in close
congressional districts, and a union
of all the Butler forces, under the title
of the peoples party, was advocated.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
society, at meeting at Lake Bluff,
ILL.,. INDUCED in debate on the qualiti-
cations of candidates. Several of the
ladies grew sarcastic in referring to
missionaries who accepted 81 500 worth
of support and education from the So
ciety to fit them for foreign labor, and
then married and abandoned the field.
Nicholas Hubbard, who served
through the war in the Chicago Board
of Trade regiment, and has since been
a farmer near Charleston, Illinois, was
on Sunday night shot dead in his house.
A man in his employ, named Il. j..
Chapman, has been missing since the
tragedy, and all the valuables about
, the premises were found packed in his
trunk.
The citizens of Red Oak, Atlantic,
and Corning, Iowa, make serious
charges against the Governors COM
mission which selected Clarinda as the
location for the new State Insane Asy-
lum. They demand the dismissal OF
the present commissioners and the ap-
pointment of others. Each of the COM
asylum in its vicinity.
The American Bankers association
reelected Lyman j. Gage president.
In an essay on banking methods, Mr..
George, of Montreal, pronounced the
practice of borrowing on single-named
paper Legitimate. and contended that
loans should only be made on personal
application to the banker. A history
of the London Bankers institute was
read by j. j. Odell. of Chicago.
The survivors of the Arctic expedi-
ton will soon be restored to good
health, but the secretary of the navy
sill permit none of them to be inter-
viewed. A grand welcome was extend
ed to Lieutenant Greedy at Newbury-
port. Three brothers of Lieutenant
Kislingbury caused his body to be ex-
humed at Rochester, the result being
the horrible discovery that the flesh on
his breast and back had been cut out
with knives by his starving comrades.
Owing to the diminished rainfall of
this season the water In the Mississlp-
pi River is exceptionally low, and the
hour-mills and saw-mills run by water
power have sufrered-the saw-mills
most, because owing to the lack OF
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