The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-26

600.
John Lord Taylor, an eminent Con-
gregational clergyman. died Tuesday
at Andover, Mass.
Samuel s. Early, one Of the foremost
citizens of Terre Haute, died in bar
ber's chair Thursday.
F. T. Nichols, editor of the Memphis
-Ardldnche, died of paralysis while visit
ing Davenport with his family.
The tailors of Davenport, Rock
i Island, and Moline went out on strike,
Monday, and paraded the streets.
Senator Pendleton is slowly recover
ing from an illness which has kept him
confined to his house for ten days.
A factory at Wheeling produced T.
564 kegs of steel nails in fifty-five
hours, last week, beating all records.
\ The Panama Canal company has
contracted with dredging company of
New York to cut the last section in
1857
A--J. McFerran, a leading citizen of
Boyle county, Kentucky, was killed by
being thrown from his horse in corn
field.
The steam-tug Rescue has gone to
the wreck of the TallapOosa with pom
toons to be used in raising the sunken
vessel.
Seven convicts were on Saturday
whipped by the sheriff at New Castle,
Delaware, In presence OF four hundred
persons.
w. w. Pyne, formerly a leading hotel
proprietor in Dubuque, Iowa, ended his
career in the insane asylum at In
dependence.
The receivers Of the Wabash road re-
port for the summer months an excess
of $87, 1888 In the receipts above the ex-
penditures.
Three men were killed and two
others fatally injured by collision of
Hannibal freight trains near New
Cambria, Mo.
Overwork is.believed to be the cause
of the suicide Of L. ]. Brown, lead
ing dry-goods merchant of Fitchburg.
Massachusetts,.
A statue of General John F. Reyn-
olds. who fell at Gettysburg, was I'M
yelled Thursday at Harrisburg, in front
of the city hall.
Some boys engaged in stealing turn
ips at North Topeka, Kansas, unearth-
ed handkerchief in which was tied
500 in silver coin.
John Lang, of Dubuque, Iowa. after
some property, shot her in the head
and killed himself.
AdviceS from Wisconsin are to the
effect that the cranberry crop is nearly
a failure, but $4,000 acres of fine
tobacco were raised.
John s. Roush. one of the foremost
business men of Bloomington, Illinois,
was killed Saturday evening by being
thrown from his buggy.
A stroke of lightning at Elmwood,
Illinois, during Monday night, killed o
babe lying asleep between its parents,
leaving the latter unframed.
A new and fatal cattle-disease has
made its appearance in the vicinity of
Leavenworth, Kansas. The State
Veterinarian is investigating.
The Logan National bank at Yves
Liberty, Ohio, was compelled to sus-
pend because the cashier loaned nearly
all the available funds to one firm.
Standing Elk, Sioux chief engaged
in the Custer massacre, who has spent
the summer on the road with circus,
died of consumption at Brooklyn, la.
Three cases of Texas fever were dis
covered among native mich cows at
Manhattan. Kansas, but the latter are
incapable of transmitting the disease.
While changing cars at Milwaukee,
Mrs. Edward S. Bragg, of Fond du
Lac, suffered a fracture of the knee,
which threatens to render her perma-
nently lame.
James Gordon Bennett quietly
crossed the continent to visit John w.
Mackey, and narrowly escaped death
in a railway collision at Port Costa,
California.
Thomas Fawcett, banker of Lon
don, Ontaria, with liabilities estimated
as high as 100000, is in financial diff
ficulty, the Bank of Montreal having
thrown out his checks.
The grand jury of Rutland county,
Vermont, has indicted John b. Page
and j. M. Haven, eX-president and ex-
treasurer of the Rutland road, for the
embezzlement of $4,000.
A mortgage of $4,000, 900 on the st.
Paul road has been recorded in New
ments made in Chicago and Milwaukee
and others to be acquired.
BY order of the state veterinarian of
Illinois, four horses afflicted with CLAN
ders were killed on the premises of j.
w. Barber, of Decatur, after they had
been quarantined for thirty days.
Parties from New York, who intend
to form an Episcopal colony, have pur-
chased from the Santa Fe road tract
of $4,000 acres in Mora county, New
Mexico, situated in a mountain park.
Leading citizens of Eau Claire, Wis
consin. appeal to the public for aid for
the sufferers by the recent overflow of
the Chippewa river, and have appoint
ed committee to distribute contribu-
lions.
The Phillips oilwell in Pennsylvania
is flowing at the rate of $500 barrels
per day. Petroleum broke four cents
Monday, carrying down A. p. Jones, a
New York broker, whose liabilities are
$4,000.
Detectives in the PENNSYLVANIA coal
regions report that the Molly Mcguire
organizations are being secretly re-es-
tablished, and that Hungarian miners
have been assassinated by oath-bound
members.
The twenty-second anniversary of
the issue of the proclamation of eman-
cipation was celebrated by the colored
citizens of Springfield, Illinois, who
marched in body to the old home of
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