The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-02-01

Witnessed the hanging.
Charles Reschka, a fireman in the
Mutual gas works at Detroit, was del
uged with naptha by August HeintZ,
who claims that they were playing
jokes on each other. Reschka was al
most instantly enveloped in flames,
and ran out into snow bank, but soon
died.
j. nj. Rifords and wife and two
daughters left Moriah, N. Y, three
weeks ago with good team to visit
friends in Warren, VT. AS nothing
has been heard from them it Is feared
that they broke through the ice in Lake
Champain or were frozen to death in
the Green Mountains.
A bride of month, from Marinette,
Wisconsin, slipped out of a sleeping
car near Milwaukee with S65 of her
husbands money and disappeared,
leaving with the porter note threat
ening to kill the bridegroom should he
follow her. She is thought to have
eloped with railway emplOye who had
paid her attention.
George A. Wheeler was hanged in
San Francisco Wednesday for strang-
ling his sister-in-l Adele j. TillsOn,
in lSS A crowd OF five thousand per-
sons assemble on. SIDE the Jail, and
$40 was offered for entrance tickets.
Wheeler calmly aided the hangman to
fix the straps OH his limbs, and expired
without a culver.
At Crested Butte, Colorado, an ex-
plosion took place in the mine of the
Colorado Coal and Iron company, prob
ably from leak in the air-eompres-
Sor. Fifty-seYen men are believed to
have persisted. Eleven were thrown
back to the entrance at the moment of
explosion. The engine house, which
stood one hundred feet away, was ut
terly wrecked.
Selah Sprague, n farmer OF East
Meadow, on Long Island, was on Fri
day morning attacked in his barn and
nearly murdered by muatto. The
villain then went to the house, struck
Mrs. Sprague. and began search for
money. The neighbors heard the wo.
mans screams for help, and they
secured the country until they captnr-
ed the robber. Mr.. Sprague is not
likely to survive his injuries.
On farm near Elgin. H., Friday
noon, some difficulty occurred between
William CoombS and his wife. The
latter soon made her appearance at
neighbours i'll u craZed and bloody cou-
ulIIoli. anu lCDOl liidb llCl lluSDuilu
had attempted her life and then killed
himself. 1t is generally beliav we'd that
Mrs. Coombs cut her husbands throat
i'll self-defense. COMBS brother died
last week in the insane asylum of
Michigan.
The penitentiary ut Saltwater, Min
nesOta, was destroyed by fire early Sat
urdav morning, the loss being $4,000.
All the prisoners were removed. with
the aid OF a company OF state troops.
a citizen named George L. Dodd ran
through the smoke and rescued % con-
vict from cell where he was confined.
Chief Joy had narrow escape from
death by suiiocation. The North
western Car company suffered great
damage, but Senator Sabin'S papers
were preserved.
Three brothers who were eXiled from
st. Louis by the gambling law recently
opened faro bank in Milwaukee. The
local sports caused complaints of I'M
fair methods to be made, and the Chief
of Police ordered the invaders to close
their house. The prescribed trio now
charge that the police have an interest
in the games which have so long been
to run, and it is alleged the
Milwaukee gamblers are protected by
three prominent politicians. The next
step In the complication is awaited
with interest
The Willard stocks formed very in
teresting feature in the transaction in
Wall street Monday. The announce
Drexel, and others had organized a
syndicate and purchased and with
drawn from the market 10000 shares in
the various Oregon properties, and re-
lieved the Transcontinental company
of a pressing Indebtedness. The shorts |
at once made rush to cover, and the |
brokers were simultaneously called |
upon to replace stock loaned to them. |
FOur-fifths of the share certificates of |
the Oregon Railway company were
known to be locked up and the price rose |
rom 81 to. liz, a profit of 80 points for |
the day, falling back to par when the |
squeeze was over. At one time the |
stock loaned at 8 per cent. for the day. |
Oregon Improvement advanced 8 |
points, Transcontinental q, Northern
Pacific preferred st, and common near
" 3 points, Transactions in the Viii
ards, were $4,000 shares.
Frank Williams and John Gray were
Early Tuesday morning taken from the
Jail in Rosita, Colorado, and hanged
W MdSheu NlSlldnC6S numbering ABOUT
100, who overpowered the guards and
ordered the prisoners out. Trip, who
was held as an accessory to the killing,
Gray's brother, also held on
was turned over to the sher-
fl. Williams and Gray were taken to
4 building about one hundred yards
rom the Jail and hanged, one to each
corner. Gray said: "Boys, / know
It's no use to kick; you mean business.
10 on with the hanging. The sooner
you get me up, the better" Williams,
The really guilty man, pleaded for life,
wearing that the killing was in self
lefense, but the vigilantes were un-
moved. In ten minutes from the time
he men were removed from the Jail
hey were dangling at the ropes. JUS
ice Wilson, acting coroner, cut the
bodies down, and the usual verdict in
'uch cases was rendered. The lynch
ng was vengeance for the killing Of
Klntz.
RETALTAToRY MEASURES.
The subcommittee of the house commit