The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-20
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lege, is seriously i'll from erysipelas in
the head.
The law library of the late Charles
O'Conor is being sold at auction in
New York.
Five head of cattle near Tower Hill,
ILL.,, have died of disease believed to
be rinder-pest.
Cheyenne, for the first time since
1877, elected democratic mayor. by a
majority of 1876.
Imports of general merchandise at
the port of New York last week were
valued at $6.537 900.
Frank p. Tousey, apublisher of New
York, has made an assignment, CIV
ing preferences for $4,000.
The will of Willard Dodge, of Kala-
maZoo, Michigan, gives $4,000 to the
female seminary of that place.
The British Government has provid-
ed 925.000 for extra mail facilities with
the United States and Canada.
The receivers of the Wabash road
report deficit of $252, 1891 in the opera
tons for the quarter closing march,.
p. SpargO, postmaster at Knox,
Pennsylvania, being short in his ac-
counts, shot himself through the heart.
ID. l.. Moody, in opening a revival
at rink in Des Moines, had the COM
pany of thirty clergymen on the plat
form.
Nellie Koran, of Whitewater, Wis,
who was charged with poisoning her
sister, mother, and father, has been ac-
quilted.
The Superintendent of the Philadel-
phia mint reports having received over
fifty thousand trade dollars since
March4.
John Robbins, known throughout
the United States as manufacturer of
baggage-checks, died ut Chelsea, Mas
sachusetts.
The citizens Of Cherokee, Iowa,
posed on an editor of Davenport NAM
ed Buchanan.
Richard Woodward, a London bank
er, is soon 10 marry Miss Kate Hast
ings, OF New York, a daughter of The
deceased journalist.
A saloon-keeper at Des Moines,
named Mckee, was convicted on
thirty-five counts of an indictment,
and was fined 81 $50.
A party of twenty-four Chinese have
arrived at New York, bound to British
Columbia, and will not be allowed to
land on either coast.
There were go failures in the United
States and Canada during the last sew
en- days, an increase OF five as compared
with the previous week.
David Lee has been appointed SUI
perintende of the main line of the
| Baltimore and Ohio road, to succeed
William M. Clements.
An Ottawa dispatch says the Cana
| dian Pacific road threatens to stop the
work of construction unless assistance
is rendered by the government.
Joseph Villa. Boston millionaire, is
charged by Mrs. Sarah II. Page, of
Hallowell, Maine, with embezzling
$4,000 sent him to invest for her.
The boiler in the American tube
works at Middletown, Pennsylvania,
exploded Thursday, injuring eleven
persons and demolishing the build
ing.
Every gambling-house in Louisville
is still closed, and the chief Of police
declares that the sporting fraternity
must leave the city or find honest en-
ployment.
The body of Newberry Hills, a re-
tired Chicago capitalist, who died a
year ago, was cremlted at Lancaster,
Pa, Saturday. The ashes will be sent
back to Chicago.
A corps of engineers has left Bloom
ington, Illinois, to survey an extension
of the Lake Erie and Western road
| from that city to Peoria, q distance of
forty-five miles.
The death is reported Of p. j. Big
gers, one Of the wealthiest planters in
Georgia, and of G.. o. Thompson, presi-
dent Of the Polytechnic institute at
Terre IIaute.
ii. +. Newman, formerly doing bus
mess in Chicago rs an insurance brok-
er. has been arrested for appropriating
premiums. He is said to be default
er for about $4,000.
John Lipp, assistant postmaster at
Lincoln, Illinois, having been run
down 10y detectives, confessed having
rifed registered letters, and restored
5000 thus obtained.
The citizens of Sarahville, o., erect
ed post near the center of the village
and severely whipped a man named
Dayton, who had beaten his children
to an unmerciful degree.
j. S. Spafford, of Whiteside county,
Illinois, has been nominated by the re-
publicans to fill the vacancy in the
legislature caused by the death Of Rep
resentative II. E. Logan.
| George StruDlnSer, leauluS ClUlZeH
of Pittsfield, Illinois, while returning
with his wife from the New Orleans
exposition, was drowned from the
transfer steamer at Evansville.
Early Thursday morning, at Weno-
ma, Illinois, Charles Volling deliber-
ately leaped over the safety-gate of a
mine, landing on the cage $50 feet be-
low, crushing himself to a jelly.
Emigration from the southwest coun-
ties of Virginia to the Western States
has been progressing all winter in sufli-
cient force to be called an exodus. The
cause is drought and railway facilities.
Charles w. Stage, the stenographer
who accompanied che late Senator
Morton in all his campaign appoint
ments, was found dead i'm bed in In
dianapolis from an overdose of choral.
About five hundred marketmen of
Boston attended an auction sale of q
carload of fresh beef from st. Louis,
one quarter being disposed of at q
time. The scheme proved success