The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-02-27
VERY LATEST.

There is an ice bridge across Niagara
river, extending into Lake Ontario for
two miles.
Farmers in the vicinity of Grand
Haven, Michigan, report finding in the
woods great numbers of frozen robins.
A stock train on the Alton road was
wrecked at Sag bridge by broken
rail, killing one hundred head of cat.
tie.
There were 25i failures in the United
States last week, a decrease of nine
teen as compared with the previous
week.
John r. Mclean has been appoint
ed receiver Of the Cincinnati and East
ern road. and has sent forward his
bond.
A train on the Burlington road was
wrecked near Charlton, Iowa, last Sat
urday evening, injuring six persons Sc
vereiy.
Lionel Levy, prominent grocer of
New Orleans, was killed on the shore
Of Lake Pontchartrain by stumbling
upon his gun.
Paul Holman, the irrepressible son
of the Indiana congressman, has been
sent to Texas with field party on a
geological survey.
b. +. Nadal, an elocutionist, was con-
victed by jury at Winterset, Iowa, of
marrying three women, and will repent
in the penitentiary.
A medical journal of New York
states that all alarming symptoms in
General Grants tongue and throat
have entirely disappeared.
Oil speculations are responsible for
defalcatiOn of 5000 or more by Ed
ward VOgely, bookkeeper of savings
bank at Butler, Pennsylvania.
A constitutional amendment was
passed by the California assembly pro-
viding that railroads shall pay tax of
q per cent on their gross earnings.
An article written by John r. Nc
Lean, casting ridicule on a fashionable
shoemaker Of Cincinnati, cost the En-
qlirer 81 COZ as damages in libel suit.
The annual report of the Illinois
Central railroad for 1884 shows a de-
crease of 1878 $40 in gross revenues and
in net revenues decrease Of $A3,-
e13.
The Dakota council has passed q
bill for constitutional convention for
the southern portion Of the territory,
to be held next September at Sioux
Falls.
The grand jury in New York. with
out summoning O'DOnovan Rosa to
testify, found an Indictment against
Yseult Dudley for assault with intent
tokill.
The committee in charge of the leg
islative ball to be held at Madison
next month gives notice that dudes
and claw-hammer coats will be ex-
Guided.
The funeral of DIR. Leopold DAM
rosch was held in the Metropolitan
opera house i'm New York, where Henry
Ward Beecher and Felix Adler deliver
ed addresses.
The Mountain institute, at Chappa-
qua, New York, was destroyed by fire,
the loss being $4,000. Seyenty,iiye
children were safely removed in their
night-clothes.
G.. M. Todd, who pleaded guilty TO
embezzling sii5.O0O from a trust COM
pany at Philadelphia, for which he was
bOokkeeper, received sentence of
thirty-two months in the penitentiary.
Some wood-sawyers at Gallon, Ohio,
stopped their work on finding that they
had cut the head from corpse iii a
hollow log. They soon discovered $500
i'm money, a pair OF rev0lvers, and some
burglars tools.
Orth Stein, who slew George Freder-
icks in Kansas City, is said to have
been the leader in general jail deliv-
cry at Independence. but cOlored
prisoner divulged the scheme.
Pitts, one Of the mail robbers who
killed Marshal Casting and his deputy
near Braunfels, Texas, fell dead within
one hundred yards of the train. Yeager,
his accomplice, was pursued eight miles
and shot dead.
Canadian steamboat-owners have re-
solved to petition for the repeal of the
act compelling them to supply lake
vessels with fog-horns, which would
cost nearly S500,000.
The Burlington road has completed
survey for line of sixty miles from
Louisiana, Missouri, to Brighton, llli-
nois, to secure direct track between
st. Louis and st. Joseph.
With the exception Of the Pepperell
company, the cotton mills of New En-
gland report a losing business for the
last half of 1884, production being still
in advance of consumption.
Jeremiah Ridgeway. an early settle"