The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Dakota's permanent school property
is valued at 81 $3.50, 658.
The Vermont House defeated the
Local-Option Liquor-License bill-l2s
to ~.
James l.. Pugh, Democrat, has been
reelected United States Senator from
Alabama.
A coal vein has been discovered fifty
feet below the surface at Galesburg,
Illinois.
-Four men broke jail at Indianapolis
by climbing on ladder to q ventilator
in the roof.
ii. j. Jewett gives notice of his de-
sire to be dropped from the directory
OF the Erie road.
New Hampshire experienced several
further shocks of earthquake Sunday
in various parts of the State.
G. V. Marshall, sheriff of Charlotte
county, Virginia, was killed by a col
lision of trains near Keysville.
The Cherokee council, now in ses-
sion, has passed bill excluding all
white persons from the nation.
Workmen boring for natural gas at
Findlay, Ohio, struck vein of crude
petroleum at a depth of us feet.
O. M. Durham. mayor of Independ-
ence, Iowa, and III. A. Perkins, Of the
Sioux City Journal, died Saturday.
A factory at Youngstown, Ohio, is
engaged in making nickel-plated shin
giles for the New Orleans Exposition.
A fiouring-mill erected at Adrian,
Michigan. in 1929, by A. j. Comstock,
was on Tuesday swept away by flames.
A grand jury at Chicago has indicted
''Black Jack" Yattaw for the murder
of special constable on election day.
The United States dispatch Dol
phin, built by John Roach, broke down
on trial trip off the coast of Connec-
ticut.
John King, the successor of Hugh j.
Jewett in the Erie Railroad, was
elected head OF the new Board of Di-
rectors.
The superintendent of public instruc-
ton for Dakota reports fifty thousand
children enrolled in the schools last
summer.
Robert Garrett on taking the presi-
dency of the Baltimore and Ohio road,
refused to accept an increase of salary
to $4,000.
The nail factory and nail-plate mill
Of the North Chicago ROlling-Mill
Company at Bay View, Wis, resumed
work Monday.
David l.. Wells, of Milwaukee, Wis,
one of the most prominent railroad
builders in the Northwest, died Mon
day morning.
President Arthur has invited Cleve-
land to make the White House his
home during his stay in Washington
prior to March 4.
The scaffold had been made ready at
Quebec for the execution Of Mrs. Bou-
tel, when notice was received of re-
spite of eight days.
The Canadian government has de-
cided not to take part in the New Or
leans exposition, for lack OF time to
prepare exhibits.
After some weeks of hard work by
the newspapers of Denver, the acting
mayor has ordered the police to close
all gambling-houses.
During a democratic jubilee at Hick-
man, Kentucky, a rocket set fire to a
factory and caused the destruction of
property valued at 100000.
The mayor of Philadelphia recon-
mendS to the council that the old lib
erty bell in Independence hall be sent
to the New Orleans exposition.
The New England society has been
granted permission to place in Central
park, New York, a statue representing
the landing of the pilgrim fathers.
A policeman in Brooklyn picked up
in the street man stupidity drunk and
nearly frozen, in whose pockets were
found full outfit of burglars tools.
The grain commission firm of Grier
Brothers, Of st. Louis, has failed, ow-
ing $1,000 on the corn exchange. Five
years ago they were estimated at $780,
900.
Thomas p. Dunn, a young cavalry
man at Fort Leavenworth, who recent
ly lost near relative at Detroit, shot
himself through the heart with car
bine.
Mrs. j. A. Garfield has secured the
appointment of Congressman Tucker,
of Virginia, as guardian for her minor
children of the family property in that
state.
j. N. Bruen, of Monmouth, Illinois,
widely known throughout the west
from his large interests in land and
cattle, died from cold contracted in
Chicago.
The annual message of President
Arthur has been largely placed in type,
which is kept locked in vault, Pub
lie Printer Rounds reading the proofs
himself.
Mrs. John Mulliken, wealthy resi-
dent of Boston, sold peanuts at booth
on the common for twelve hours, on
an election bet, and realized 500 for
charity.
A cyclone which OH Saturday night
swept over two plantations just above
New Orleans, killed Mr.. Mialarat,
brother-in-law of the French historian.
Michelet.
The deaths are reported of Jonathan
X. Cooper, the oldest member of the
bar at Peoria, Illinois, and John Fish
back, formerly owner Of the Indionap-
Oils Sentinel.
The pillow factory of b. d. Buford &
CO., at Rock Island, is about ready to
resume business with an increased cap
ital, giving employment to over five
hundred men.
The sentence of Koerner, the In
dianapolis wife-murderer, has been
committed to imprisonment for life, at
the request of all the judges of the SUI
preme court.
Governor Cleveland intends to tender
his rpsiOnafioD tn the laoialafura Inn