The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-16
VERY LATEST.

William Hale, governor of the terri
tory of Wyoming, died Tuesday even
ing at Cheyenne, at the age Of as.
William M. Evarts is said by the
Albany Journal to have clear major
ity for the New York senatorship.
Ben Butler has brought suit for
heavy damages against the Boston
Herald for attacking his war record.
A collision on the Pensacola and At
lantic road, near Chipley, Florida,
caused severe injuries to six persons.
Twin boys born at Grand Haven on
election day are to be christened Gro
YER Cleveland and Thomas Hendricks.
A boa-constrictor eighteen feet long
is said to have been found at Fisher
Station, Indiana, frozen into a solid
knot.
At the January meeting of the Alton
Horticultural society the members re-
ported plenty of peach buds for good
crop.
Captain c. w. Folger. only son of
the Secretary of the treasury, died of
consumption, Sunday, at Geneva, New
York.
General ]. S. Robinson has resigned
his seat in congress for the Ninth Ohio
district and taken the oath as secretary
of state.
General Jackson's day was celebrat-
ed by democratic banquets. at Wash
ington, Boston, Columbus, and Des
Moines.
A patent-medicine house in Roches-
ter has contracted with Philadelphia
glass factory for five hundred carloads
of bottles.
Mine No. 3, of the Hooking valley
property, at Straitsville, Ohio, the
largest in that region, has been fired
by strikers.
Nashville reports the burning of a
freight and passenger depot and one
hundred loaded cars, the losses aggre-
eating 100000.
The auditor of Illinois reports So
9O2,5l1 III the treasury at the end OF
September, with $4,000 of bonded
debt outstanding.
James III. Bingham, formerly lieu
tenant governor of Wisconsin, died
Thursday morning at Chippewa Falls,
after brief illness.
The reduction ordered in the IRON
works Of Oliver Brothers at Pittsburg
will place the wages Of a number of
employees at So cents per day.
The Hudson's Bay company is alarm
ed as to the safety of one of its finest
vessels, the Prince of Wales, carrying
furs valued at nearly $50O,OO0.
Joseph Rankin, who represents
Wisconsin district i'll congress, is Sc
verely ill at Washington from what is
believed to be Bright's disease.
Enoch w. Eastman, formerly lieu
penal features of the prohibitary liquor
lnw died nf EllOra IN SATURDAY.
The Denver chamber of commerce
invites all friendly to the unlimited
coinage of silver to meet in national
convention i'll that city on January
%.
The widow of Mark Hopkins, the
California railway promoter, proposes
TO construct at Great Darlington, Mas
sachusetts, q residence to cost $5000,-
0OO.
The suicide is reported of Major
Charles B. Brady, of st. Louis, former
ly one of General McClellan's body
guard, leaving wife and two daugh-
tiers.
The defendants in the election fraud
cases in Chicago intend to waive n trial
by granger juries, and ask Judge Blod-
gett to decide upon their guilt or inno-
cence..,
The 10th birthday of Sir John A.
Mcdonald, the Canadian statesman,
was celebrated at Montreal, by grand
demonstration without regard to
party.
A cyclone, whose roar could be heard
for miles from its path, swept through
Georgia and Alabama, early Monday
morning, carrying away buildings and
fences.
The directors of the New Orleans
exposition have designated February
2S as travelling mems day, with free
use of the music hall and committee
rooms.
The legislature of Connecticut bal
loted for state officers Thursday, elect
ing the republican nominees of Novem-
Der, headed by Henry B. Harrison for
governor.
The wife of Armet Richmond.
wealthy stationer of Detroit, asks the
appointment of guardian for him, ON
the ground that liquor has shattered
his mind.
Milton Skinner, wealthy farmer
near Elmira, New York, having re-
Gently been adjudged incompetent to
transact business, set fire to his house
and barns.
1ue mdyOIS VI elS1Iecn VI Vic larger
cities of Iowa report an increase in
the number of saloons and no success
full attempts to enforce the prohibitory
liquor law.
Flames swept away large building
at Yonkers, New York, occupied by
manufacturers, valued at $500, 600, and
Parnel's malt-house at Auburn, in the
same state.
Tradesmen Of Toronto, having been
duped to the amount Of $4,000 by
man named Morris Long, take revenge
by sending out the statement that he
has a glass eye.
Some fiend put paper of poison in
4 coffee-pot used at party in East
Liverpool, Ohio, by which means
child lost its life and ten other persons
were made violently ill.
The deaths are reported of Professor
Henry /. Eustis, of Harvard college;
Captain S. X. Mahon, retired officer
of the regular army, and M. G. Kell, a
leading citizen of Centralia, Ill.
President Arthur has accepted the
resignation Of Paymaster William III.
Smyth, who recently became intoxi-