The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-23

Sylvester McCarter, well-known
citizen Of Rochester, Indiana, received
fatal injuries Wednesday by being
struck in the forehead by a flying frag-
ment from an emery wheel.
David +. Swami, who embezzlcd $751;
600 from the Northern Pacific Office at
st. Paul, entered plea OF guilty, and
was sentenced to thirteen years and
six months at hard labor.
Eighteen members Of a jury at Dali
las, Texas, published a card favoring a
state law making the carrying. OF dead.
ly weapons o felony, punishable by i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary.
4 The steamer Chesapeake, of the
schOoners engaged in illegal dredging
near Norfolk, and turned over to the
sheriff their force OF sixty men.
Two Of the mills of the insolvent
firm of Oliver Brothers & Phillips, of
Pittsburg, were running Friday as us
ual. A formal statement of assets
and liabilities will be made soon.
The Ohio legislature has adopted a
resolution for joint committee to in
quire into the cause of the strike in the
Hooking valley, and report on the con-
dition OF affairs within month.
Freight trains OH the Nickel-Plate
road cOllided Tuesday morning neaI
Grand Crossing, Illinois. killing an ell
gineer named Charles Ellis, and caus-
ing damage to the amount Of $4,000.
Thomas Campbell, junk boatman
at Parkersburg, West Virginia, who
has been jailed for stealing chickens, is
graduate OF Paris and Berlin univers-
tiles and "a grandson of the Scotch
poet.
George p. Curry, banker of Angus
| ia, Georgia, who failed last year, con-
verified to his own use bonds placed in
his care, for which Offensc he has been
sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary.
The severe cold weather in Texas
has already caused the death of five
| thousand sheep in the counties of LAM
| pasas and COryell There will be great
loss among cattle not provided with
shelter.
r. Ii. Thomas, commissioner Of
| Pennsylvania at the New Orleans ex-
position, threateans to close his head
quarters unless the legislature appro-
PIRATES $4,000 to secure a display of
exhibits.
In the federal court at Wichita,
| Kansas, Nellie G. Bailey was acquit-
ted of the charge of numbering G. G.
| IL l.
Il revolver and taking his money and
sheep herd.
Customs collectors in the vicinity Of
the gulf coast have been ordered to be
watchful as TO tillbustering operations.
The revenue steamers Dix End For
| ward are now OH the lookout for Sus-
piciOuS vessels.
| While George and Ray Sweet, small
boys of Kalamazoo. were playing doc
| tor, the former administered strych-
nine to his brother, who died in few
minutes. The package was found
above the clock.
The insolvent Oliver firms, of Pitts
| burg, report liabilities of $2,470,7 40,
and ask an eXtention of five years. with
annual payments, at g per cent. inter-
est Another meeting of creditors will
he held January 90.
After an idle period of several
| months, work has been resumed by
four large tobacco factories at Lynch
burg, Virginia, and others are prepar-
ing to start. giving employment to two
thousand colored laborers.
Charles Downing, the noted hOrti-
cnlturist. died at Newburg. New York,
1T his SD year. John b. Clarke, who
was member of the convention which
framed the constitution of Iowa, was
buried Monday ut Postville.
Judge Tuley at Chicago decided 10
allow the widow of the late Wilbur +.
Storey $500 Il month for the present.
lie ALSO granted III allowance of $50
II month 10 Arson l.. Storey, and q
ike amount TO Mrs. Farrand
Dr.. TausZky, the insanity expert of
New York. who recently attempted to
Kill himself, has been adjudged a luna
tic. His estate is valued at $50,0O0,
and the supreme court will appoint
committee to take charge of it.
At meeting of the Western Iron
Manufacturers Protective Alliance at
Pittsburg, Wednesday, a considerable
reduction in wages was determined up
on. 1t is not known as yet what action
will be taken by the employees.
II. V. Bemis, Of Chicago, has obtain
ed judgment for $500 against yacot
f. Studebaker, of South Bend, Indiana,
for damages in connection with the
joint purchase of a trotting mare from
Adirondack" Murray, Of Boston.
A tank in tho packing-house Of j. f.
BOoge 81 Co., at Sioux City. Iowa, ex-
ploded Tuesday morning, tearing down
part Of fOur-story building, killing
four men and slightly scalding eight
others. The damage amounts to $22,-
900.
The death of Amos Henderson, of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was speedily
followed by the suspension of his
clearinghouse, which is believed to
have been wrecked by speculation in
Wall street The deposits aggregate
$4,000
The Daily Herald, founded in Mon
treal fifty years ago, has been sold to
Peter Mitchell, M. F., for $4,000. The
paper has been losing ground on ac-
count, it is believed, Of having of late
years been the organ of the Canadian
Pacific Railway.
Ten persons belonging to the Saliva
ton army escaped punishment for OBJ
structing the streets at Dayton, Ohio,
by the failure Of a jury to agree. The
offenders testified that they would keep
up their street parades in defiance Of
the civil authorities.
Advices from the Eau Claire lumber
region are to the effect that the cut will
be very heavy, as laborers will do twice
rs much work in cold weather as in o
higher temperature. Two narrow
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