The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-01-11

WAS placeu III the SUdIlOI-HOuSe. JONI
l.. Sullivan undertook to take a revolt
chased ont of the building.
In the United States court at Kansas
City, Judge Krekel ordered that Frank
James be given to his bondsmen in the
Blue-cut robbery case, the state tribu-
nal having first gained possession Of
the prisoner.
A broken rail on the Illinois Central
track near Barnum, Iowa, threw train
into the ditch. Mrs. John III. Smith,
of Ohio Station, Illinois, was killed, but
the babe in her arms was uninjured.
Six other persons were cut or bruised.
In the Oxford colliery, under the city
ofScranton, Pennsylvania, an explosion
of fire-damp shook the neighbOrhOod
like an earthquake. Fourteen men in
the mine were bruised and torn, one Of
the number receiving fatal injuries.
Clementi, one of the lnen acquitted
of the Emma Bond outrage, went from
the Jail at Hillsboro to Irving, Illinois,
where the citizens gave him ten min
utes to leave. John Montgomery's
whereabouts are not known.
The Gould system of railroads is
about to establish telegraph school
at st. Louis, with view not only to
educating operators, but Of selecting
pupils from the acclimated people
along the southwestern lines.
Governor Stoneman presided ut a
meeting in San Francisco, Thursday
evening, where arrangements were
made to hold worlds exposition in
1887. 1t was resolved that guarantee
fund of Sl,OC0,000 be raised.
Thursday, Captain Bernard Schlich-
ff.o
citizens or Milwaukee, dropped dead
son Poe, an eminent jurist Of Balti-
more, also passed away.
In the mountains of Arkansas, bear,
deer, and wild turkey are exceedingly
plentiful. A hunter in Searcy county
recently had a desperate fight with a
bear weighing seven hundred pounds,
and came near losing his life.
Judge Blandin, of Cleveland, has en-
joined the Lake Shore road from dis
eliminating in its rates for the ship
ment OF, oil, on the ground that as a
common carrier it must serve the pub
lie alike.
Operations have been resumed in two
iron-mills at McKeesport, Pennsylva-
mia, and | ,O0J men have been re-em-
ployed at the iron-wOrks ut Reading,
the puddlers accepting slight reduc-
ton.
George w. McCrary, formerly secre-
tary of war, has forwarded to the presi-
dent his resignation as judge of the
Eighth circuit, and has contracted with
the Santa Fe road to be its general
counselor for five years, with head
quarters at Kansas City.
Orders have been received at Mil
waukee to commence operations at
| the Bay View iron works, which have
been shut down for nearly five months.
The wire mills ut South Easton, Pa. :,
and the iron works at Catasaqua are
again in operation.
Therecent terrible tragedy at Jack
son, Michigan, has been reopened by
| the suicide of Mrs. David Holcomb,
! the eldest daughter of Jacob ID. Crouch.
slaughter of her father and sister,
land finally destroyed herself with
| poison.
George d. Robinson was on Thurs
day inaugurated governor of Massa-
chusetts. His message states that the
funded debt of the commonwealth is
S31, 436, $50. lie recommends that week
| ly payments to employees be made OBJ
| ligatory, and orders the strict enforce
ment of the liquor law.
James A. Wallace, cashier of the
Bank of Hopkinsville,. in Kentucky,
has absconded, leaving defalcation
of $4,000 to $50, 900. 1t is supposed
that he is making his way to Mexico.
He was formerly internal revenue col
lector, and always moved in the best
society. Bucket-shops caused his ruin.
A gas company in New York threat
ened to cut off its supply from the res
idence of General Sickles unless he
paid its bill for period during which
he was abroad and his house was lock-
ed up. The supreme court has emf oined
the company, requiring it to prove its
claim.
1t has just become known that
New York confidential clerk, named
X. III. Kobbe, who fed with 500, 600,
was captured in Chicago brothel last
Friday, and taken back. On Sunday
morning he surrendered to the detect
ives 1000 in government bonds and
$4,000 in cash.
AT point on the river nine miles
from Pittsburg, the tug-boat |. n. Bun
ton was set on fire by q collision with
her tow. Most of the crew sprang
overheard, and three are still missing.
puC OOOll III DllCIllOW NdoOlg 40 viz
three coal-boats. The total loss is : So
00J.
The sheriff at Eastman, Georgia, on
opening the cell door of a colored MUIR
dererer about to be hanged, was at
tackled with knife. The doomed
man then made himself unconscious
by hacking his throat. He was taken
to the scaffold on stretcher, and sup
ported until the drop fell.
Edward Lasker, for the past ten
years the leader of the liberal party of
Germany, who has been travelling in
the United States since May, was
stricken with heart disease in the
street in New York, and expired in a
private stable where he was taken by
friend.
The directors of the Northwestern
road authorized Manager Hughitt to
join the Trunk-Line association only
upon the condition that all the other
Iowa lines did likewise. AS the Bur-
lington road refuses to enter the pool,
the Northwestern is credited with an
intention to retreat.
In the tabernacle at Salt Lake, Sun
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