The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-07
VERY LATEST.

Jesse Stewart was hanged Tuesday
at West Point, Miss, and John Nc
Ginnis was swung off at Philadelphia.
In a starch factory at Madison, Indi-
ana, Joseph Daily had a jaw torn off by
the cogs of corn-sheller.
The steamship Arizona took from
New York for Europe S., 0O0, 900 in gold
coin and bullion.
Peter Johnson, teamster at Des
Moines, killed his wife and himself
with a revolver.
Bishop Clarkson, of Nebraska, is so
i'll from congestion of the lungs as to
excite the gravest fears.
Six persons in Philadelphia who sold
pistols to boy pupils in public school
have been held for trial.
The snow blockade near Saratoga is
so serious that no southern or western
mails reached that city Friday.
Rodney ID. Wells, a relative of Chaun-
cey /. Filley, has been appointed post
master of st. Louis.
The widow of the immortal John
Brown. of Harper's Ferry, died Friday
at San Francisco.
A committee of citizens at San Fran
cisco collected $500 in five hours for
the Ohio river sufferers.
Edmund Smith, an early abolitionist,
and an associate of Garrison, died L. st
Thursday at Boston.
The Cunard steamer Cephalonia ran
down and sank the tug Glen Island
near New York. Two lives were lost.
The senate of Iowa has passed bill
prohibiting bucket-shops and option
trading n agricultural products.
Two Chicago lads. Elmer Lyons and
Alfred Stendt, died Wednesday in the
agOnies of hydrophObia.
r.. ID. Hubbard. ex-governor of Con-
necticut. died Wednesday evening at
Hartford.
A burglar chlor0formed the night
clerk at hotel in Hannibal. Mo-, and
had started to rob the house when q
guest entered and fired at him.
Officers of the steamers running out
OF Milwaukee state that there is barely
| five miles OF clear water between that
city and Grand Haven.
DR.. Robert Coleman, who was medi-
cal inspector of the confederate army
of northern Virginia, died Tuesday at
Richmond.
An unknown man OH claim in Tur-
ner county, Dakota, nearly killed Oil
| Wei l. dlhtI anu Ills WIG Will
| an AK, and made his escape.
The governor of New York has sign
ed bill prohibiting the making of con-
tracts for the labor of convicts in the
state prisons.
Cattle near La Sale, Illinois, are
said to be suffering from a strange dis
ease of the bowels, which in many
cases has proved fatal.
BY boiler explosion in a saw-mill
near Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, three
men were killed by being blown sever
al hundred feet.
The leading spiritualists of the south
ern states have gathered at ChattanOo-
ga to secure grounds on which to erect
a tabernacle and hold annual meetings.
Harrisburg, Pa, were considerably
damaged by an explosion of dynamite,
caused by a fire in a shanty.
AS most of the plantations for hun
dreds of miles above Shreveport are UNI
der water, the loss by overflow along
the Red river will be very great.
K. III. Funston, republican, has been
elected to congress from the Second
District of Kansas to succeed the late
ID. G. Haskell.
At Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Saturday
evening, Edwin Brotheras killed Will
lam Nichols on the street for the Sc
duction of his sister.
Farmers in the vicinity of Vandalia,
Ills, are nearly unanimous in the opln-
ion that late sown wheat has been seri-
Ously damaged.
The Boston police board, in response
to petitions, has advanced the liquor
licenses OF the larger hotels from $500
to 5000.
The citizens of Youngstown, Ohio,
gave banquet and ball to Lieutenant
Harder, who brought back the bodies
of DE Long and comrades from Siberia.
Mrs. j. A. Brown, proprietress of the
Shady Side Hotel at Muncie, Ind, fell
dead in her kitchen, Thursday, from
heart disease.
Large supplies of clothing and pro-
visions have been sent from IIillsboro,
Ills, to the sufferers by the floods i'm
the neighboring towns.
w. II. Mcdowell, a murderer under
sentence of death, escaped from Jail at
San Bernardin0, California, and reached
Mexican territory on horseback.
The steamer Norseman, on arriving
at Boston from Liverpool, reported
having steamed along a solid wall of
ice for 40 miles.
The woman's Christian Temperance
association of Chicago proposes to Sc
cure q charter and issue bonds for
$350,000 to erect seven story building.
The postofllce department has re-
ceived an application for the appoint
ment of Miss Lizzie Nuttas postmaster
of Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
BY the consent of nearly all the credi-
tors, the city of Helena. Arkansas, has
compromised its debt of $2S0,0O0 at so
per cent.
George l.. Smith, an attorney of I'm
ion City, Michigan, for whose arrest a
warrant had been issued, shot himself |
fatally Wednesday.