The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-21

in the mines of the Southwest Vir-
GINA Improvement company at Poca-
hantas by the explosion there OH Thurs
day night. Nor can pen describe the
anguish and sadness that pervade the
little hamlet. The scenes around the
mines have been the saddest that the
human mind can conceive or the fancy
paint.
One hundred and five of the miners
are known to be lost, and to make the
disaster more awful, the bodies of the
victims will be cremated, as the mines
have been sealed and are now OH fire
and burning furiously. The victims of
the disaster are Hungarians, Welsh
men, Germans, and negroes, most of
whom are unmarried, only about twen-
ty-five of them having families de-
pendent OH them for support.
Bishop Kavanagh islying at the point
Of death at Columbus, Miss.
Malignant diphtheria is prevailing at
Geneseo. Ill.
Mrs. Cunio, an Italian woman of
Boston, has babe which at birth
weighed 2i4 pounds.
A child in Philadelphia has Just been
attacked by hydrophobia from the bite
OF dog three years ago.
The independent republicans of
Rhode Island have nominated Hon.
George ii. Corliss for governor.
The engagement is announced of Mrs.
Frank Leslie, Of New York, and the
Marquis de Leuville, of Paris.
Six fine lake steamers are being con-
structed at the Detroit ship yards, at
an estimated cost of 81 900 900.
The recent floods destroyed fifty-fve
bridges in the Ohio valley, which it
will cost $4,000 to replace.
A snow-slide on Aspen mountain, in
Colorado, caused the death of three
employees of the Vallejo mine.
Henry. the youngest brother of Sam
mel j. Tilden, died at New Lebanon,
New York. at the age of 60.
Sitting Bull is being taken to Mime
apolis by Major Mclaughlin to see
something of life among the whites.
John Boyle, city treasurer of Erie, is
defaulter for $4,000, and has disap-
peared.
The Milwaukee Merchants Associa-
ton has passed resolution calling for
the suspension of silver coinage.
Three members of the Salvation army
were fined SIT each for parading the
streets of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The inventor of system Of electric
lighting announces that he is about to
use the water-power at Niagara to fur
nish light TO siXty-five cities.
w. j. Arkell has purchased the Eren-
ing Journal, OF Albany, and has given
the editorial control to John A. Slei-
cher.
Emil Boiling. who was Il lieutenant
in the German revolutionary army in
184S, died at Hustisford, Wis, in his
10th year.
A large number of street car drivers
in Cincinnati struck because Of an or
der to remove the canvas weather
screens from the platforms.
Henry Brown, formerly slave in
Virginia, died Monday at Niagara.
Ontario, claiming to be 12l years Of
age.
Miss Eliza, eldest daughter Of Gov
ern0r Thompson, OF South Carolina,
died from burns received ten days ago
while reading at an open CRATE.
Duluth has been made an open port
by the abrogation of the contract be-
tween the railway company and the
Lake Superior Transit Company.
The Delaware. Lackawana and West
ern road has decided to extend its
tracks from Buffalo to Toledo this sum-
mer.
The laborers on the Cape Cod ship
canal struck because of dissatisfaction
with the food furnished by the con-
tractors.
John Taffe. receiver Of the land-of-
flee at North Platte, who represented
Nebraska in congress for three terms,
died Friday.
General Badeau, consul general at
Havana, presented Jay Gould to Cap
tain General Castillo, and the latter
visited the yacht ATLANTA.
II. G. Reed, school superintendent of
Bond County, Ills, will probably be re-
moved from Office OH formal charges OF
drunkenness.
Governor Robinson, Of Massachu-
sets, has signed the Meigs elevated
railroad bill. This is the result of
five years fight for an elevated road in
Boston.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
road is at war with the Western Union
Telegraph company III Texas. and sends
ten-word messages throughout that
State for Is cents.
The announcement is made at st.
Louis that the Pacific Express company
lost 100000 by Prentice Teller and his
accOmplices, and that S25 600 of the
amount is still missing.
The secretary of state of Michigan
reports that in the southern four tiers
of counties 2i1 correspondents think
winter wheat suffered injury in Febru-
airy, 27l are Of the contrary opinion.
A German couple named Jagow, at
Chicago, deliberately hanged them
selves Monday. The man was n shoe
maker. out of employment. and neither
OF them could speak English.
DR.. j. NJ. Mills, who died Monday at
Shelbyville. Illinois. was once grand
master of the Masonic lodge of Ken
lucky, and raised the first company Of
union soldiers in that State.
Mercedes, Ilolstejn cow, which took
prize cup at Chicago last fall, died of
milk fever at Iowa City. She and her
calf were valued at $4,000 Her butter
record was the greatest in the world.
The postal authorities at Chicago re-
port that not a single lottery agent is
doing business in that city, mainly be-
cause the courts here sustained the
action of the post-oflice inspector.