The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-02-13

IRE Oh The part of Eads TO keep his
promises 10 Congress.
The federal court of Dallas. Texas,
has decided that the Star Insurance
company must pay $1,000 for the de-
struction OF the Endy hotel at Green
vile during cyclone in 1883. Payment
was resisted on the ground that the
structure blew down.
Two Pittsburg lads named Spraull
and McGrigon, slipped on the Ice at
the head Of Sixteenth street. and drop
ped over y bluff one hundred feet
high, striking on the rocks. The for
mer was fatally injured; The latter es-
capped with Il broken wrist.
An express train of four coaches was
wrecked Friday morning ut Greenville,
n. j., OH the Reading road, by the
breaking of wheel. Twenty-Five pas
sengers were wounded, eight of them
only slightly. "A special train was sent
out from Jersey City for the sufferers.
The Baltimore and Ohio road has
hundreds OF men at work i'll the Bris-
tOl tunnel, which was fired by incen-
diaries. Water is taken to the scene
by trains from both sides. 1t will re-
quire month to lengthen the northern
approach, on account of fall of
rocks.
A correspondent in the Oklahoma
country reports that over third of a
million cattle have persisted in that
section through starvation and severe
cold. There are million cattle in the
Cherokee Strip, and if the cold weather
holds out week longer half of them
will die.
General John w. Phelps was found
dead Monday at GuilfOrd, Vermont.
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He served in the Florida and Mexican
campaigns, and was the first officer
who armed the slaves in the REBEL on,
resigning because his course was dis
approved.
w. Is. Thompson, second assistant
postmaster general, states that by con-
centrating the mails between Chicago
and Omaha the fast service has become
self-supporting. The only quick IA
cilitieS which fail TO pay are those be-
tween New York and New Orleans by
way of Richmond and Savannah.
A Reading dispatch chronicles the
demise of Sallie Kitner, 81 years of
age, who for half her days lived III Il
dilapidated hut near Bonneville, keep
ing twelve dogs and nineteen cats.
Her eccentricities were due to disap-
pointment III love, and she ever after
ward fled from men as from tigers.
Efforts are being made TO develop
an oil-iicld in the vicinity of Buffalo.
-Four thousand acres of land at East
Aurora have been leased by Bradford
firms. and one well is being drilled.
Colin Scott has leased thirty-eight
large tracts. and will await the result
OF operations by the Pennsylyanians.
A sensational report from Pittsburg
conveys intelligence Of an anticipated
outbreak Of Socialists, who lave stored
large quantities of arms and ammuni-
ton in that city ana are ready for
an attack upon the capitalists. Mon
from the Hooking Valley and else
where are said to be ready for disturb
ance.
A marked improvement in the iron
trade is visible at Philadelphia. Nails
will soon be advanced to $500, on ac-
count of the exhaustion of stocks.
Steel rails III large quantities are being
held at S27. The Edgar Thompson
steel -works will resume this week, and
business has recommended in one of
divers mills at Pittsburg.
Herman Kranisch. young German
farmer, was taken i'll at hotel in Por-
tage, Wis. A friend undertook to re-
lieve him by administering fifteen
drops of aconite, which caused the pa
TENTS death in q few minutes. When
the sympathetic friend saw what he
had done he hung himself, but was
cut down before life was extinct.
The national board of trade adopted
resolutions originating in Chicago,
asking Congress to take measures to
remove the discrimination made in
certain foreign countries against
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President to prohibit the importation
of adulterated articles of food or
drink.
Late Saturday night an explosion of
dynamite occurred in New York City.
SCATTERING the fronts of Garry Bros
and Ridley Bros dry goods stores, cor
ner Of Grand avenue and Allen street.
The damage amounts to $1,000. Five
arrests were made. Striking employees
are charged with responsibility for the
explosion.
The enthusiasm Of the friends of the
Oklahoma boomers in Kansas has been
decidedly dampened by the capitula-
ton of the colony at Saltwater. Capt.
Couch says that he was compelled to
surrender for lack of supplies and re-
Inducements. 1t is thought that an
other attempt at colonization may be
made in the spring.
Lizzie Bogart, Is years of age, whose
father is assistant superintendent OF
the Lackawanna road, eloped from
Scranton with q handsome young
brakeman named George j. Fowler:
They were married by an alderman,
and on reaching Binghamton they tel
egraphed their good wishes to the
irate father of the girl.
Two German cabinet-makers from
Cincinnati arrived at Vincennes, In
diana, on Saturday. They took walk
to the outskirts, when one shot the
other three times, took his watch and
$50, dragged him to deep ravine and
buried him in the snow. The victim
soon recovered sufficiently to reach q
house and relate his adventure.
A resolution was adopted by the Ma
tional Board of Trade at Washington
asking an investigation into the cause
OF the enormous waste of the country's
wealth by fire. Mr. Covington, who of
fered the resolution, said there was not
the slightest doubt that the annual loss
by fire in the United States could be
reduced from $3.50, 1000, 900 to sec, 000, 900.
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