The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-08
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Barnum Wire-works at Detroit LEVIED

I>dIuuul WlTe-WOIkS " -DetrO1t levied
on its property to secure advances
made, and forced an assignment. The
concern employed five hundred men.
A gentleman from Philadelphia has
shown the secret-service officers in
Chicago "a $50 ftreasury note made
wholly with.a- pen, its execution being
so complete as TO deceive akeen expert.
A fire inside the walls of the peni-
Tertiary at Chester, Illinois, destroyed
the dry-hdhses and machinery belong
ing to theIbricS contractors, and m
cured the Blacksmith shop ofAthe pris-
on.
7, Col. j. l.. Murphy, president of the
Mobile (Ala.) Life insurance company,
was killed at his home near Mobile on
had been Qua rrelins about = Land tres
w. L. HALEY, postmaster of Camden,
n. j., has been arrested for the en-
bezzlement Of, So, OOO, 4 Warrant l1fss
beeIlissled for the apprehension Of Ills
assistant, jesse K. Mines, on the same
charge.
John Hill, who represented a New
Jersey district in congress for three
terms, andywas largely Finstrumenta in
securing scent postage and the postal
card, died Thursday at Boonton, in his
Thomas J.fNavin. the absconding
mayor of Adrian, Mich, has mailed
from a Cuban town letter opening
for q compromise with the
estate OF E. s. Clark, which he robbed
of $4,000.
Early Saturday morning, in Minnea-
polls. Officer Mclaughlin was fatally
shot by a gang of roughs. The villains
We're captured, but q large force of -pO-
lice was required to prevent them from
being ,lynched. A
III adrpnken sqhabble at Upperville,
Virginia. JohnR Rawlings was shot
dead by Herbert Lester. his cousin.
Both were rich farmers. The murderer
lost his feet in one of Stonewall jack
sons battles. e W f/EIE tf
The Burlington road is running over
its lines locomotive from which the
steam and gas escape through iron
pipes at the side, whitening weeds and
grass for a space OF two feet on each
side OF the track.
Shipley 81 Wells, the. largest boiler
shop and iron foundry at Binghamton,
n. Y, have notified Their men of n cut
in wages Of 10 per cent. Tie alleged
cause is the dizziness in trade. The
men accepted the reduction.
The vessels of The Greedy relief ex-
petition sailed from st. Johns Friday.
The surviving explorers will disem-
bark at Portsmouth, and the bodies of
the dead will be placed in charge of
Gen. Hancock, on Governors Island.
Colonel E. w. Cole, of Nashville,
has purchased the greater portion Of
Lookout mountain, and intends to set
engineers at work on railway from
Chattanooga to the summit, after the
model of the Mount Washington road.
A land attorney of Huron, Dakota,
named Captain j. B. Weeks, has been
held in $4,000 to answer the charge of
perjury. He was formerly citizen of
Chicago, where he obtained declara-
tory statements from sixty veteran SOL
diers.
Fifty-one men have been placed in
jail at Pittsburg for criminal treatment
of demented girl who wandered
hela river. Her jewelry, valued at
$500, was found in shanty at Eliza
beth.
The Mississippi River Logging
company, at a meeting held "Wednesday
in Clinton, Iowa, resolved that all mills
be shut down for the season September
10, with the concurrence of seven
eighths Of the mills in the northwestern
states.
In the suit brought by wholesale
jewelers. of New York to compel M. q.
of Chicago, to refund $1O,-
200 for diamonds for which he gave.
chips to gambling salesman, Judge
BlOdgett decided in favor of the de-
A reduction OF 20 per cent in the sal
aries and wages Of the officers and
men of the Bethlehem Iron company
Is announced, to take effect August I.
The reduction is made, it is said, to
enable the company to sell its steel
rails at market prices.
w. S. Covett, now in Jail at Frank
in, Kentucky, for criminal assault
IN his daughter, is guarded by spec
al force of fifty citizens summoned by
he sheriff. The county judge appeal
I'd to Governor Knott to order out the
militia to prevent lynching.
An inventory of the estate of the
ate Cyrus Ii. Mccormick, of Chicago,
shows stocks and bonds aggregating
y, 0O0, 600, an interest of 81 900 in
he harvester company, and real estate
producing an income, Of $128,775, be-
tides vast amounts Of other property.
John w. Mason, one Of the pioneers
If Kendall county, Illinois, who pass
I'd away last week, owned one thous-
Ind acres of choice land, but chung like
! hermit to an old Toulouse in the
part Of a large grove. He
preserved every newspaper he ever re-
,eived.
A party of masked citizens of Sabina,
Ohio, drove the inmates of brothel |
nto the street, early Wednesday morn
ng, and blew up the house with giant
powder. The keeper of another disor-
lerly place was taken from bed, given |
! coat of tar and feathers, and warned |
o leave town.
One hundred head of cattle at Brady |
sland, in western Nebraska, have |
lied from Texas fever. and as many |
more are doomed. Representative |
tock-raisers are OH the ground making |
|. thorough inquiry. Dispatches from
Kansas City deny the existence of
ever in that region.
Near Pocomoke City, Maryland. Irv-
ng Mills went riding with young |
widow, the daughter of Capt. l.. l.. G.
Davis, who objected TO his attentions.
The father rode out TO meet the couple, |