The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-30

me governor Of Lower Callrornla
| has arrived ut Yuma. Arizona, i'll the
| hope OF securing the return or the
| MexicYn mulineers recently captured
! by the United States troops.
The committee gaged in arranging
| for the inauguration of Pr, sident-elect
Cleveland expect 10 have one hundred
| thousand men III the procession, WIN
| one hundred bands o. music.
| Buffalo Is threatened with q water
famiie, on account of the accumulation
OF ice ut the supply tunnel in niagara
| river. A large force of men kept at
work blasting the cry stal blocks.
". Ii. Paaren. the Illinois veterin-
arian, ordered the slaughter of six
| horses ut TaylOrville, Illinois. on ac-
| count of gl nders. and had their man.
gers and feeding-troughs burned.
At the door of Joliet prison, after
| having served term of two years for
| burglary, Michael Muir, ny was arrested
| bv a Chicago detective for the murder
| Of Joel Prescott, the batli-hOuse keep
| er.
In n building in New York in which
| the British consul general has his office
there was discover II round tin box
| containing quantity of blue powder,
and attached thereto was a lighted
| fuse.
The outbuildings of the insane hos
| pital at indianapolis, valued at $780,
900, were burned early Tuesday morii-
| ing. There were LOO patients i'll the
main building, none OF whom were in
| jured.
by the completion of link around
| the north shOIe of Lake Superior. Man.
| iloba has secured telegraphic cOmmu-
| nicdtion with the Canadian capital out
| Side of the territory Of the United
| States.
The thermometer on Mount WASH
ington, N. H.. went down 10 so degrees
below zero Thursday morning, one de-
| gree below the record. A hurricane
WAS blowing at the lime at the rate OF
| 100 miles an hour.
Tong Sing, who was steward in the
| Greedy relief expedition, has been sem
fenced to seven years. imprisonment
| in the New Jersey penitentiary for as
saulting and rObbing one of his coun-
trymen at Newark.
In an address to the American pub
| lie Chief Engineer Melville expresses
the belief that successful voyage to
| the north pole can be made by way Of
| Franz Josef Land, and that the time
lS ripe lOr tuc dlttLlpt.
james Garneau, member OF large
manufacturing firm at Omaha, caused
the arrest OF young woman named
| Effie Davis for threatening to kill him.
| She claims that they were married in
Chicago three years ago.
The customs authorities of Montreal
have discovered that by means of
| counterfeit invoices made by brokers
the government has been defrauded to
the amount OF $4,000, which will be
levied upon the importers.
The Liberty bell was on Friday
morning taken from Independence hall,
| Philadelphia, under escort of three
hundred policemen, to car especially
constructed by the Pennsylvania road,
and started for New Orleans.
AT hamlet in. Kentucky called
Green's Store, the Widow Maguf1ng
| heard noise in her barn at night. She
stepped out with riff, fired at a NOV
ing figure, and shot through the heart
| notorious cOlored hog-thief.
Speaker Carlisle expresses the opin-
| ion that the form of an oath will
eventually be done away with in the
| courts. He thinks that each mans
evidence should have weight according
TO his credibility as witness.
The Canadian parliament is disposed
| TO extend tho application of the extra
dition treaty with the United States.
| Sir Alexander Campbell holds that be-
| tween the neighboring countries there
should be free trade III criminals.
A washerwomen ut Dayton, Ohio,
| who was recently given some clothing
| belonging 10 Il tiead woman of her ac-
Qnaintanc.. found $500 i'll currency
,Vn,i in a Al pryornunt and pron,nf-
ly returned the money to the heirs.
Simon ) one. the most daring color
ed burglar in Louisville, has been SEN
fenced TO fifteen years. imprisonment
| in the penltentiary. Unexpected that
this will end the operations Of des-
perate gang of which he was the head.
| At Chemung, Illinois, Thursday
night, George ii. Fox went to the resi-
dence of John Halliday and kicked him
| to death. Fox juStifies his action on
| the ground of wrong inflicted upon his
aunt, who was Halliday's second wife.
Ex-Congressman Epson of Texas
| says that grazing companies have taken
| possession of the public domain and
| fenced it in so that the cattle-trails are
all closed. There is no route to drive
without going hundreds OF miles out OF
| the way.
The Illinois bureau Of labor statis-
| tics reports that the coal mined in the
| state last year was over ten million
tons, requiring the use of 144.378 kegs
| of powder, Calhoun and Cass cOun-
ties have entered the field as pro-
ducers.
Gen. Augur has ordered troops at
Forts Wingate, Union, Gibson, Reno
| and Lyon to move toward Oklahoma to
| reinforce Col. Hatch. Four companies
from Fort Leavenworth will join the
other troops under marching orders at
| Caldwell.
The silver vaults in the sub-treasury
| at San Francisco are completely filled.
The secretary of the treasury finds that
| it would cost 500, 600 to transfer $40,-
0O0, 900 in standard silver from the Pa
cific Coast TO the new receptacle in
Washington.
A gang of thieves has been systemat-
ically plundering freight cars on the
Chicago 81 Alton Road. 1t Is thought
that nearly $4,000 worth Of goods