The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-12-19
VERY LATEST.

A Senatorial boom for William M.
Bvarts has been started in New York.
James l.. Ruffin, for ten years chief
OF police OF Cincinnati, died Friday
morning.
The Burlington road is about to run
direct trains from Des Moines TO Kan
sas City, go miles.
Muriate OF cocoaine, the newlv-ds-
covered an8sthetic, has been success
fully applied to dentistry.
A case Of smallpox at the Coy house
has caused alarm in Council Bluffs.
The building has been quarantined.
Mr.. Blaine has instructed his attor-
neys to dismiss his suit against. the In
dianapolis Sentinel for criminal libel.
Samuel j. Randall will during the
holiday adjournment visit Louisville,
Nashville, and the Alabama iron re-
gi0na
The surprising statement comes from
Texas that two lads froZe to death,
Friday night, on the prairie near abb
lenc.
Kansas democrats intend to urge the
claims of Gen. G. w. Blair upon Mr..
Cleveland for the Secretaryship OF the
Interior.
George ID. Robinson has given score
of politicians early notice that he will
not run for governor OF Massachusetts
next year.
President Diaz has been authorized
by the Mexican congress to reform the
stamp laws and cut down the number
OF tax-eaters.
Hosiery operatives to the number of
100 have left Nottingham, England, to
take places already secured in the
United States.
Rumors are a1oat that the Wiscon-
sin Central road will be extended 10
Chicago, for lack of facilities over the
st. Paul track.
Prof. j. c. Redpath, Vice President
OF the Depauw University, has been
offered the Presidency of the Indiana
State University.
1t is thought that the portfolio of the
Interior Department will he offered by
Gov Cleveland 10 Mr.. William e.
Whitney, Of New York.
1t is rumored that tho Phillips gold
mine, near lshpeming, Michigan, has
been sold to q Chicago and st. Paul
syndicate for 900.
John r. Mclean, of Cincinnati, has
given his young bride o necklace con-
tanning fOrty-seven diamonds, the val
ne being stated at $4,000.
Mrs. Jacob Judy, who settled near
Atlanta, Illinois, in 1919, was on
Thursday followed to the grave by
seventy-five descendants.
In the mines at Coal Creek, Tennes-
see, six cOnvicts undertook to escape.
The guards killed two of them and IA
tally wounded two others.
The president of the Canadian Pa
cific road has filed at Ottawa plans for
4 bridge across the st. Lawrence at
Lachine, to cost 100000.
:. At least twenty negroes lost their
lives by the capsizing Of oyster-boats
in the Rappahanock river. Eleven
bodies have been recovered.
Exports from the Port of New York,
exclusive OF specie, during the week
ended Tuesday were $7,845, 900, against
$9,456, 900 the previous week.
Notice Of 10 per cent. reduction in
wages after the 9th inst. has been CIV
en- the employees Of the New Jersey
steel and iron works, in Trenton.
After Seventy-fOur rounds a brutal
ny Cash and pugilist named McGlade
ended with the defeat of the latter.
An oil-reGning firm of Cleveland has
OOVoiiiCN yuiShCht oSdlHob tuC lLdhC
Shore road for $4,000 for discrimina-
ti0n in freights and ST 900 for damages.
A leakage in gas-pipe in Montreal
mansion was followed by an explosion
which injured three servants almost
fatally and nearly wrecked the build
inc
The Mandelbaum party or Iuglrlves
from New York were on Friday dis
charged from arrest at Hamilton, On
tario, but the customs authorities re-
tain possession Of the diamonds seized.
Boston capitalists have contracted
for eight thousand tons of steel rails
for the Arizona Mineral Belt railroad,
and work will begin forthwith on the
section from Flagstaff to Green Valley.
w. A. Harrington, of GAINESVILLE,
Wisconsin, has been arrested at Mil
waukee for forging checks to the
amount of $4,000 to pay for purchases
made for mining company at Ishpem-
ing.
Warren Price was hanged Friday, at
Wrightsville, Georgia, for killing his
son-in-law, II. +. Perry, two years ago.
George Cook was executed atLaramie,
Wyoming, for killing his brother-in-
laW.