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


The failures of the week in the Uni
ted States and Canada number 1888.
Ann Stamp, an aged widow of Col
anbia, Ohio, killed herself with strych-
nine because of the loss OF pet dog.
E. L; Phillips, a venerable citizen of
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, member of
the state senate in 1860, died Thursday.
The ice-harvesters along the Hudson
river have entered upon their annual
strike for an increase of wages.
The public debt of New York was
reduced 1886. 600 during the year, and
is now S92,546, 900.
California has about so, 900 tons of
wheat to send to Europe, exclusive of
the amount now loaded on ships.
A fire in Boston cut off all telephone
connection by burning the wires Of
5000 instruments.
The orchards in the peach belt of
Michigan passed uninJured through
the recent severe weather.
The shops of the Tennessee state pris-
on at Nashville took fire at midnight,
Sunday, and the loss was very heavy.
General Hancock and wife are in
CoahOma county, Mississippi, visiting
their son. a planter.
The members of the rapid transit
commission of New York are in Chica-
60 to examine the construction and OPP
Grafton OF the cable system.
At an auction sale at Des Moines,
Wednesday, twenty-seven head of
Galloway and Angus cattle brought
from $235 to S6l0 each.
The circuit court at Burlington, Iowa,
has disbarred John r. Wing and John
E. Tinke, prominent lawyers OF Daven-
port, for dishonest practices.
ID. w. Wakefield, leading druggist
of San Francisco, fell in fit on Broad
way, New York, and soon expired at
the hospital.
Fond du Lac boasts of the finest new
courthouse in Wisconsin, and its cost
was only $1,000 in excess Of the origin
al estimate.
Bridget Cronin, formerly organist of
the Rev. Florence McCarthy's church
in Brooklyn, was awarded cents dam
ages for alleged assault by the pastor.
The Arctic and Quidneck mills, be-
longing to the Sprague estate, have
been sold to the Union company for
$28O,0OO.
Three physicians of Erie, Pennsylva-
mia, are dangerously i'll from blood
poisoning, caused by carelessness at
post-mortem examinations.
On the ground of insanity, Mrs. DIR.
G. G. Stuart has been acquitted of the
murder of William Ii. Brown, Mt North
Henderson, Ill.
Hon. Pliny Hoagland, who died of
heart disease at Fort Wayne. built the
railway from that city to Crestline, and
served in the Indiana senate.
Investigations at st. Paul show that
passenger rates to the eastward are
being cut by both scalpers and regular
ticket agents over all roads.
w. p. Rathburn, bank president of
Chattanooga, who was identified with
several large interests in that region,
died Friday.
Nearly one thousand workmen In
the three LARGEST tobacco factories at
Petersburg, Va, have struck against
a reduction of wages.
The overflow of branch of the Kan
awha river in West Virginia caused
the lumber companies along the banks
loss of nearly 100000.
Buffalo people mourn the removal of
the glucose industry from that city to
Peoria and Leavenworth, and the
shutting down of two stove factories.
DIR. II. A. Dubois, of New Haven,
q
lineal descendant of a Huguenot who
settled on the Hudson in 1875.
The foreign exhibition at Boston,
representing forty-six countries, is to
be removed to Chicago during the sum-
mer.
Hog cholera has been doing great
damage in the vicinity of Champaign,
Illinois, where one farmer lost III fat
porkers.
Henry B. Payne was on Tuesday
elected United States senator from
Ohio. The republicans voted blank
tickets.
John Martin native of Ireland, died
Tuesday at Alton, Illinois, at the age
of 102 years. His wife is "a and his
eldest son 20.
William b. Allison was unanimously
re-nominated for senator at the repub-
lican caucus in Des MOines, and is on
his way back to Washington.
The Canadian parliament will be
asked to authorize railway tunnel
under the st. Clair river from Sarnia
to Port Huron.
Mrs. Valeria Stone, who died Tues
day at Maiden, Mass, has within ten
years given over $1,500,0o0 to educa-
tiOnal institutions.
Canada is raising standing army of
/ 200 men, to serve for three years.
The full number applied at the re-
cruiting office in Montreal, where the
quota was only 10.
A defective flue caused the burning
of the female college at Columbus,
Ga, the estimated loss being $4,000.
There were 100 pupils in the building,
all of whom made their escape.
4, John Sherman refused to accept the
presidency of the Northern Pacific
road because his resignation from the
senate would throw that body into the
hands of the Democrats.
A blaze in the yards of the Minneso-
ia penitentiary, believed to have been
started by convicts, caused loss of
100000, of which $75, 200 falls on the
state.
Morgan Machenere. railway ticket
agent at Huntsville, Ohio, fixed q gun
trap for thief, but forgot about the
matter and received the entire con-
tents in his own groin.
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