The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-23

A bed of salt ninety feet deep is said
to have been discovered at Boutwell,,
Ontario.
Salt Lake is to have free postal de-
livery in March, commencing with sew
en- carriers.
The legislature of Nevada has re-
elected John L. Jones to the United
States senate.
w. 8. Pate, a merchant of Louisville,
has absconded to Canada, owing about
$4,000 for goods.
Rev. G. +. Thwing, of Boston, has
been rendered the. presidency of Iowa
college, at Grinnell.
Pittsburg q Fort Wayne brakemen
who have been ON strike surrendered
Internationally Sunday.
The body of Major Charles b. Brady,
of st. Louis, was cremated Thursday,
at Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The watch factory at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, is about to move to Chi
cago, on an offer of $350,000.
A bill has been introduced into the
legislature of Dakota to remove the
capital from Bismarck to Pierre.
Barber Nichols, 100 years of age,
passed away at Lockport, New York,
after an illness OF only few hours.
Judge j. w. Dunlop, of Kansas City,
died Thursday from wounds received
by the accidental discharge Of pistol.
Richard Worthington, q book pub
Usher of New York, has made an as
signment, with liabilities OF over $780,
coo.
An emerald weighing over q pound
has been found in the Muzo mines at
Boyaca, in the United States of Col
umbia.
The supervisors of Jackson county,
Michigan, intend to offer a reward Of
$4,000 for the discovery of the Crouch
murderers.
Northern Texas is experiencing q
blizzard, and the prediction is made
that the loss Of cattle and sheep will be
very great.
The Catholics of Eau Claire are
about to eXpend 5000 on church
which will be second to only one in
Wisconsin.
The unfortunate Emma Bond, Of
Taylorville, Illinois, suffers from paral-
ysis OF the tongue and is in condition
akin to death.
A mail-robber from Winnipeg, NAM
ed Campbell, who was arrested in Chi
cagO, escaped from a Manitoba train
near Emerson.
The governor of Indiana has given
the adjutant generalship to Captain
George KOOntZ, One-armed soldier re-
siding at Richmond.
At Lincoln, Illinois, on Thursday
night, some unknown person fired a
bullet through the window of the bed
room of Lincoln Nall.
The court of appeals of New York
pronounced unconstitutional the law
TO prevent the manufacture of cigars
in tenement houses.
Thomas Barbour, the famous Irish
thread manufacturer, passed away
Tuesday, leaving an estate valued as
high as $10,000,CO0.
The North Chicago rolling-mills re-
sumed operations Monday with twelve
hundred woIkmen, at reduction Of Z
to 10 per cent. in wages.
General B. +. Butler has sued
Stephen Ii. Elkins on contract to con-
vey 100, 900 acres of land in New Next
co at Is cents per acre.
Taylor Bollard. q farmer near Frank
lin, Indiana, who refused to trust his
money TO banks, was murdered, and
robbed of 81 600 or more.
Sister Theresa, of the convent at
Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, niece of
James G.. Blaine, lies at the point Of
death from brain fever.
Horace Richardson, who died We'd
nesday at Rockford, Illinois, erected
the first buildings in Winnebago coun-
ty, where he settled in 1887.
Policemen at Evansville, Indiana,
killed two vicious chicken thieves,
named Saunders and Nally, who as
saulted the officers when arrested.
The federal jury at Chicago failed
to agree in the cases of Clingen,
Stearns, and Owen, charged with con-
spiracy to procure false registration.
The Pennsylvania legislature has
passed a concurrent resolution pledg-
ing the state TO an appropriation of
$4,000 for an exhibit at New Orleans.
The sum Of 81 $40 has been transmit
ted by cable order from England to
Texas to pay the cost Of forwarding
the remains Of the earl of Aylesford.
Bell Mann, formerly Chicago drug
gist, and two citizens of Washington
have been convicted in the latter city
of defrauding the naval medical bu-
reau.
A hurricane which swept over Steu-
benville, Ohio, Friday night, caused
damage estimated at S250,000. The
First Presbyterian church is complete
wreck.
Frederick Kemler, farmer near
Sinsinawa Mound, Wisconsin, dropped
dead of heart disease in the streets of
Galena, leaving twenty-five children to
mourn.
The discovery has just been made
that William Druse, Of Warren, New
York, was last month murdered by his
wife, who burned his flesh and buried
his bones.
An explosion Of dynamite at fac
tory near Somerset, Pennsylvania,
carried two employees three hundred
yards where they were found burned
TO crisp.
A battle is reported imminent be-
tween the Oklahoma boomers, in
trenched at Saltwater. Indian Terri
ritory, and the military force sent
against them.
Four Mormon elders have establish
ed settlement near Spartansburg,
South Carolina, and taken thither
twenty-three Indian converts from
York county.
Cuts are being made in the price of
passenger tickets across the Atlantic,