The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-07-11
merry LATEST.

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The debt of Boston increased 81 1885,
GIT during the year.
A car load of new Delaware wheat
sold in Philadelphia at $1.10per bushel.
Six lives were lost by the sinking of
the schooner Babcock near Barnegat,
New Jersey.
Fifteen buildings at Driftwood, Pa. +,
valued at $4,000, were destroyed by
fire Tuesday.
The Bay State Casket company, of
Boston, which owes 100000, has sus-
pended payment.
In race of 81 miles at New London,
the Yale crew defeated the Harvards'
by three lengths.
Eleven men were dangerously injured
by the explosion of boiler in a flour
mill at Stryker, Ohio.
Twenty pool sellers who operated at
the Coney Island races were. indicted
at Brooklyn Monday.
The President has recognized Albert
Francis Salvador as Consular agent Of
France at st. Paul, MINI.
BY an explosion in a colliery In Brit
ish Columbia, twenty-fOur miners were
killed and several others injured.
The ladies of Flint, Mich, have pre-
sented to that city a spacious brick
building and an extensive library.
The Denver and Rio Grande road is
unable to meet interest to the amount
of $685., 917 on its consolidated bonds.
Two men were killed and ten others
seriously injured by the wrecking of a
construction train near Sumner, Mo.
The democrats of Florida nominated
General T.. A. Perry for governor and
Nj. III. Mabry for lieutenant governor.
At Huntsville, Ohio, while driving a
vicious pony, Louis Murphy was fatally
injured and his wife was instantly
killed.
j. Miller Kelly, president of the COM
mon council of Rochester, New York,
has been held to bail on an indictment
for bribery.
The Illinois Watch company, of
Springfield, has shut down for the sum-
mer, dispensing with the services OF
1000, employees.
For distance of twenty-five miles
along the Youghiogheny river the fish
have been killed by sulphur water from
the coal mines.
The Garfield Monument association
OF Cleveland has awarded the first prize
of 81 900 for a design to Geo. IL. Kell-
er, of Hartford.
Charles d. Gorham, q well-known
military official of Chicago, has been APP
pointed superintendent of the West
Shore road.
The receiver of the Newark Savings
institution has commenced to pay 60
per cent. dividend, which will require
$3,700,000.
The daughter of Mrs. George II.
Jacobs, Of Newcastle. Ohio, weighed
precisely one pound at birth, and is q
healthy child.
In San Francisco, Wednesday, VIM.
G. Milton killed Albertina Anderson
for refusing to marry him, and then
took his own life.
Under instructions from w. II. Van
derbilt, Mr.. Bair will take Maud s. to
Cleveland and keep her in condition
for use on the road.
The democrats of North Carolina
nominated Gen. Alfred M. Scales for
governor and Charles NJ. Stedman for
lieutenant governor.
Captain Andrews, 90 years of age,
has completed his walk from South
Carolina to Massachusetts, arriving in
Boston in good condition.
Joseph +. Tucker, late traffic man.
ager of the Illinois Central road, has
been rendered the general manage
ment of the Wabash road.
AT the commencement dinner at
Harvard college, President Eliot an
nounced that only $125,0O0 had been
donated during the year.
Gilbert A. Pierce, a Chicago journ-
alist, has been nominated governor OF
Dakota, and John ii. Kinkead, Of
Nevada, governor OF Alaska.
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proposed postponement of the pay
ment of the salaries of employees. All
will be paid by the 10th inst.
John OConners, of Milwaukee, near
ly killed his wife with common jack
knife, and Immediately surrendered
himself at the police station.
Four persons were killed and two
others mortally wounded by boiler
explosion in the planing-mill of j. G.
Smith, at Wausau, Wisconsin.
The st. Petersburg bank of Clarion
county, Pennsylvania, which was con-
sidered very strong institution, has
been forced to close its doors.
A charter has been secured at Spring
field, Ills, by G. r. Vandercook and
others to build q railway from Chicago
to Batavia, at a cost of $500, 900.
The Hungarian laborers in the coke
region of Pennsylvania have had
enough of free institutions, and are
sailing for home in large squads.
Dock Walker was hanged Friday at
Texarkana for the murder of Lucas
Grant. Two thousand citizens were
permitted to witness the execution.
The prohibition ticket for president
and vice president will doubtless be ex-
governor st. John, of Kansas, and
Robert Pittman, of Massachusetts.
The Waltham Watch company, of
Massachusetts, has decided to run only
four days each week in July, and to
suspend entirely for half of August.
The shore end of the Mackey- Bennett
cable has been laid in Waterville bay,
on the Irish coast, and the mid-ocean
splice will probably be made by July
20.
People about the wharves of Boston
on Friday were surprised by the arrival
of full rugged American ship with a
cargo of rock salt from a Louisiana
mine.
Mr.. Van Horne, manager Of the Ca
madam Pacific road, states that the
company can not raise the funds nee