The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-25

mat Randall Will have the solid Fenn-
sylvania delegation in the national con-
vention.
A breaker at Ashley, Penn, contain
ing three hundred tons of coal, took
ire Tuesday evening, causing loss OF
100000, and throwing one thousand
men and boys out of employment.
The postmaster general has referred
TO Judge Drummond the question OF
whether postmasters are entitled to
commissions on money order business
when the work is done by clerks.
In gambling-house kept and pat
r0nized only by negroes, at CHICAGO,
Stephen Alexander made a desperate
assault upon John Johnson, when the
latter killed him with revolver.
The public library, costing $4,000,
presented to West Bay City, Michigan,
by Henry w. Sage, of Ithaca, New
York, was dedicated Wednesday, Pro-
fessor Moses Colt Tyler delivering the
chief address.
A private dispatch from New York
states that Robert Harris has been
selected for president OF the Northern
Pacific road. An eastern journal de-
clares that the enterprise is soon to be
| utJeu OuI Will ~ ItCtlV6I.
Search is being made in Philadelphia
for an infant orphan who has fallen
heir to an estate in Virginia valued at
So 90. The babe was given away by
a penniess mother, who had eloped
with drummer.
James Egan, formerly speaker of the
assembly of New Jersey, has been fin
ed $50 and sentenced to hard labor in
the penitentiary for one month, for an
attempt to bride Assemblyman Armit-
age.
Mrs. Dukes, a sister of the murdered
Zura Burns, has left her home in Da-
kota, in company with her father, to
! give what she claims is damaging evil
dence against o. A. Carpenter, before
the grand jury at Lincoln, Illinois.
Officer Dewald, of the Chicago police
| force, shot in the back q notorious
burglar named doc" Farmer, who
had perpetrated a robbery in hard
ware store on Milwaukee avenue, in
flicting what may prove fatal wound.
The will of Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, Of
Maiden, Massachusetts,, bequeaths her
estate in trust to Rev. William Ii. Will
cox, to be distributed within two years
among educational and benevolent in
situations.
The freight shipments eastward from
Chicago for the past week were q, 466
tons in excess Of the previous seven
days, on account of the temporary low
ering of rates. The Lake Shore road
leads in the percentages.
Miss Emily G. Hewitt, of Philadel-
phia, handsome and intelligent wo-
man, who was visiting relatives at
Keokuk, shot herself in the right tenn
pie with revolver, after writing a
farewell note.
The Cincinnati chamber of COM
merce voted to request the national
board of trade to memorabilia congress
for prompt reciprocal action on the
prescription of American pork by
France and Germany.
G. A. Taudy, farmer near Lynch
burg, Va, mortally wounded a negro
for cutting trees on his land. The col
ored people made preparations to
have rallied to his defense.
Ten prisoners at Wheeling, West
Virginia, disarmed John Colby, beat
to the roof. The citizens heard the
alarm and commenced firing at the
prisoners, who went back to their cells.
The people of Cincinnati have raised
S12, 600 to pay the expenses of the
Democratic national convention, and
have sent Colonel l.. A. Harris and
Benjamin Robinson to Washington to
urge their claim.
Mrs. Ellen Long was Yesterday ar
raigned at hartford, Wisconsin, for
the murder OF lad named White
more. She pleaded not guilty, and
the case was adjourned to the June
term.
The Austrian minister Of commerce
has approved Of scheme for a month
ly line of steamers between Trieste
and New York. The Southern Pacific
road has arranged for direct line of
steamers between Trieste and New
Orleans.
The Wool Growers Association of
Brown county, Texas, sent memorial
to the legislature stating that sheep
raiSerS have been warned to remove
their flocks, Oh pain of death, and that
one man had his herd killed by mob
of armed men.
The spacious hotel at the Hot Springs
at Las Vegas, New Mexico, owned by
the Santa Fe railway, took fire from a
gasoline machine and was destroyed in
an hour. The loss is 100000, and
many guests from Chicago and st,
Louis parted with their effects.
Jesse Dean, the lad from Oshkosh,
Wis, returned to Boston Monday from
a trip ON one of the Nova Scotia steam
ers, after his photographs had been
distributed all over New England. His
father IS on the way from Wisconsin
to search for him.
There are three cases of trichiniasis
in the family of f. Vetter, near Niles,
Mich, and four Germans named He'll
man are confined to their beds neal
Wabash, Indians, from the same cause.
In the latter place the sufferers have
daily partaken of raw pork.
A train of seven coaches on the To
ledo, Cincinnati and st Louis road was
on Tuesday evening thrown off a high
trestle by the breaking Of q truck.
Four passengers were badly injured
and engineer Henderson was buried
under the locomotive.
Among the deaths reported are those
Of Samuel L. Glover, a leading lawyer
and politician of st. Louis; Senator =.
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