The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-18

Manitoba wheat TO Ontario, as an
enormous surplus in the former prov
ince is being frozen.
In attempting to slaughter a flock of
prairie chickens near Fort Sill, party
OF eight hunters grew so careless that
three of their number were badly
wounded.
Some Cleveland stockholders in the
iron corporation of Brown, Bonnell 81
Co., OF Youngstown, Ohio, have filed q
petition to dissolve the company and
discharge Receiver Brown.
Chancellor Runyan, of New Jersey,
has appointed Judge Ashbel Green re-
ceiver of the North River Construction
company. which holds a majority of
the stock of the West Shore railroad.
An increase of nearly ten thousand
tons in the weekly shipments of freight
eastward from Chicago is reported.
The Vanderbilt roads are still far in
advance of all competitors.
Some unknown person attempted to
fire a school house at SOmerville, Mass,
while several hundred children were
in the building. The janitor extin-
guished the flames.
The officers of Oakhill cemetery, at
GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin, have discovered
that within the past year several bodies
have been stolen, but the names are
withheld from the public.
Orange groves in the region of Mo-
bile. Alabama, suffered damage to the
amount of 81, 900, 900 by the late cold
spell. Many trees in Florida were
saved by building fires in the orchards.
John NJ. Swearingen, chief of police
at Indianapolis, dropped a revolver
from his pocket, which discharged q
ball into his bowels, in flicting a fatal
wound.
A reduction of II per cent. in wages
has been ordered by three large cotton
mills at Woonsocket, Rhode Island,
and fifteen hundred men in the rubber
works have been placed on half-Jime.
SANDY" Spencer, noted sporting
man Of New York, was convicted Of
selling liquor within forbidden hours,
and was fined 500 and sentenced to
the penitentiary for thirty days.
Some railway laborers shoveling
snow at curve near Brinton, Penn
sylvania, were surprised by an accom-
mediation train. Three men were
killed and five others were seriously
injured.
The president of the Oregon Naviga-
tion company has sent G. S. Morrison
to the Pacific coast to investigate its af-
fairs. The West Shore road has drop
ped Henry Willard from the list of d.
rectOrs.
Manager Hickson states that no suits
have been brought against the Grand
Trunk company for injuries in the re-
cent disaster near Toronto. He has
personally visited the sufferers and
made offers of generous treatment.
A bill was introduced in the Texas
Legislature, for the removal within
one year of all gates and distractions
across the roads in the state. This
would force pasture-owners to divide
up their holdings.
An insane naval officer, Lieutenant
John j. Augur, q son of the general,
dale, New York, Tuesday night, and
the party in search Of the Jeanette.
M. Waterman & Co., grain dealers of
San Francisco. have failed for $780,
OO0. Buckley & Co., dry goods mer-
chants at Utica, New York, have made
an assignment to secure liabilities Of
100000.
The corn exchange of Montreal
strongly recommends the untrammeled
interchange of the productions of Can
ada and the United States, and the alb
clifton of all burdens upon shipping by
the st. Lawrence route.
Margaret Collingwood, of Chicago,
known as Florence Elmore, the leading
lady of Il dramatic company, has filed
bill for divorce from an English ad-
venturer whom she married six years
ago.
Mrs. l.. A. Brinkerhoff, of New York,
learned after the death of her husband,
that he had obtained divorce in Con-
necticut ten years before. She asserted
her right of dover, and court gave
verdict in her favor.
Fifty mules were stolen near New
Laredo. Mexico, after the lad in charge
of them had been murdered, and run
across the Rio Grande, where they
were found by a squad of Texas rang
ers.
The citizens of Topeka are some
what agitated over rumors of pro-
posed removal of the offices of the
Santa Fe road to Kansas City, to escape
the tariff fixed by the Kansas railway
commission.
William Ii. Pownell, employed by
firm of grocers in Philadelphia, en-
bezZled $500 and lost it at faro. He
plcducu BullIy, anu WAS SeHCeuCeu W
imprisonment tor five years and three
months.
Vanderbilt has made John Newell
president of the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie road, and has secured through
line from the coke country to Cleve-
land by lease of the McKeesport road
for ninety-nine years.
A bronze statue of the late Oliver p.
Morton, over eight feet in height, for
which 500 was raised by popular
subscription, was formerly unveiled
at Indianapolis, Tuesday, q young
grandson drawing the cord.
Three highwaymen of Burlington,
Wisconsin, waylaid stock-raiser, rob-
bed him of $50, tied his feet to the
top rail OF fence, and left him hang
ing head downward. He was we'll
nigh done for when rescued.
The president of Harvard college re-
ports decrease in the number of stu
dents from New England, but an
nounces an increase in the attendance
from the middle states. The treasurer
shows investments of S4,624, 600, and
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