The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-13
VERY LATEST.

merchant of Peru, Illinois, died III his
chair from heart disease.
1t is found that the strawberry
in the vicinity of Centralia, Illinois,
have not been injured by the ice.
David Davis celebrated his 10th
birthday by entertaining party of
relatives at his home in Bloomington,
III.
There were 222 failures in the United
States last week, decrease of thirty
two as compared with the previous
week.
The New York chamber of COM
merce, as a special tribute of respect,
elected Chester A. Arthur an honorary
member.
The Dakota council passed the wO-
ment submitting the question to pop
ular vote.
Two of the largest collieries in the
Pittsburg district have conceded the g.
cent rate to the miners, as have also
two smaller concerns.
The prospects for the fruit crop in
Arkansas are not flattering. In Mis-
sissippi and Texas the outlook is fair,
but the crops are backward.
A hotel at Bradford, PENNSYLVANIA,
was set on fire by the explosion of a
lamp. Two men were burned to death
and two others were injured by flames.
George w. Dean. a grain broker of
Boston, was awarded $1,000 against
the Herald, of that city, for stating that
he habitually gave short weight to his
customers.
The movement of ice along. the Des
Moines river has caused considerable
damage at various points, including
the loss of a $4,000 bridge at Pitts
burg, Iowa.
The Catholic and Protestant clergy
men of Lasalle, ILL.,, have succeeded
during the Lenten season in nearly
cutting off the attendance at the roller
skating Kinks.
The employees of the Missouri Pacific
shops at Parsons, Kansas, struck in a
body Saturday afternoon. The move
ment is general on the Gould roads in
the southwest.
Pickpockets at the Pennsylvania
railway station in Washington took
$607 from Hon. John ii. Regain, OF Tex
as, and $40 from Hon. Charles Is.
Lore, of Delaware.
1t is rumored that Governor OgleSby
will nominate for Illinois railroad COM
missioners w. Il. Johnson of Chicago,
John 1. Rinaker of Carlinville, and b.
+. Marsh of Warsaw,
A bill recently introduced in the New
Jersey legislature to govern foreclosure
proceedings proved to have originated
in the interests of bondholders of the
West Shore railway.
The Royal Irish rifles, nearly nine
hundred strong, the only regiment at
Halifax, has been ordered to make
ready for active duty, and expects to
be sent to the Soudan.
Judge Moore, of Brooklyn, sentenced
Coney Island hotel proprietor to three
months in the penitentiary and fined
him $3.50 for pool-selling. A Brooklyn
landlord was given two months.
Henry Stull, l05 years of age, who
died at Batavia, Ohio, served in the
war of 1872 at Lundy's Lane and Chip
pewa. He went to the polls last No
vember and voted for Cleveland.
Jeremiah Holden, belonging to q dis
tnguished family of Virginia, was
placed in the prisoners dock in Louis
carried out in dying condition.
President Cleveland's first official
act after the nomination Of his cabinet
was to affix his signature to the COM
mission of Gen. U. s. Grant as an Of
ficer on the retired list Of the army.
Josiah Locke, who once owned and
edited the Journal at Indianapolis, fell
dead whilst visiting that Office. Of
late years he has been interested in a
colony near Los Angeles, California.
A. M. O'Brien, tax collector of Sador-
us township, Illinois, started for Ur-
bana, last Wednesday, to deposit $1,000
with the county treasurer, since whicb
time nothing has been heard from him.
Three of the convicts who escaped
from the Michigan State prison were
tracked through the snow from Mosh-
erville to Jonesville, jaded and hungry,
and sent back to serve out their sem
fences.
A tramp was found in haystack on
farm near Lawrence, Kansas, in a
comatose condition from cold and hum
ger. After being resuscitated he said
that he had not tasted food for eight
cen days.
AT veneer factory in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, an employee entered the
steam-box when the temperature was
200 degrees, to make some repairs.
The wind blew the door shut, and he
soon persisted.
A large consignment of articles man
ufactured by prison labor in the United
States has been seized at London, On
tario, under the new Canadian law
prohibiting the importation of goods
made by cOnvicts.
Johnson Letson, one of the direc-
tors of the wrecked bank at New
Brunswick New Jersey, witnessed the
suicide of President Runyon, which SO
Frustrated him that he, on Monday,
died from its effects.
OF the $4,000 coal miners in the Pitts
burg district more than 10000 struck
Monday for the Scent rate. The OPP
orators are determined not to yield,
and a struggle of unprecedented bit
terness is predicted.
The st. Paul road reports its gross
earnings for 1884 at SOB 40 ,998, and it's
net income at $9,6l1 1863, decrease of
$27O,415. The bonded Indebtedness is
500, 254 900. and the common and pre-
ferred stock SAT AS, PA.
The promoters of the Canadian Pa
cific road sent out the surprising state
ment that inquiries have been made by
the British military authorities when
the line can be used to transport troops
between England and India.