The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-02


III.
An Arkansas farmer is driving a
large flock of turkeys 10 miles to the
Little Rock market.
AT Dallas, Texas, q stock firm We'd
nesday sold five thousand head of cattle
for $4,000 cash.
William M. Evarts has written let
ter asking to be numbered among the
candidates for senator from New York.
at Ballyduff, Ireland, q private
vault was broken open and the coffin
of Mrs. Killers was thrown into q
glen.
The steamship Oregon has crossed
the Atlantic in six days six hours and
fifty. two minutes, the quickest passage
on record.
A boy of was thrown down stairs
at Nanticoke, Pa, by an angry school
teacher, and so badly hurt that he has
since died.
Egbert Earl and his infant daughter,
of Albany, were sufrocated by gas
from stove, and his wife and son are
in critical condition.
The president of the Mexican Cen
trail road calls on the stockholders to
take 3,00O,0 900 in new securities to eX-
tinguish the floating debt.
Work was resumed Monday by the
steel shops of Hussey, Howe IL Co., in
Pittsburg, and the Spaulding IRON
works at Brilliant, Ohio.
Specimens of rock and earth yielding
an average of $1,000 gold to the ton
have been picked up on several farms
in Clermont county, Ohio.
Exports from the Port of New York
for the week ended Tuesday, exclusive
of specie, were $6,429,0 900, against ST.
$4,000 the previous week.
The failures reported throughout the
country for last week number 367, of
which nearly one-half were in the
western and Pacific states.
A clearinghouse in New York Sat
urday took 81 500 600 8 per cent. bonds
of the Rock Island road, to run fifty
years, at figure above 103.
Major l.. II. Sanger, of the 18th in.
fantry, expired suddenly at Amboy,
Illinois. Captain Handy, of the navy
died at Tarboro, North Carolina.
Congressman Holman of Indiana says
that Mcdonald is the man TO represent
that State in the new Cabinet. AS fol
himself, he does not desire place.
John Cooper, having abandoned cot.
ton manufacture at Nottingham, has
arrived on this side with 40 of his EN-.
ployes to start factory at Providence.
The trustees of the Indiana univer-
sity selected from list of forty names
that of Professor David S. Jordan to
succeed Rev. Lemuel Moss as presi.
dent.
A small postoffice near Cincinnati
has redeemed ten raised postal notes
of the first issue. The swindle can not
be repeated with the latest form of
note.
All the horses used on the stage line
between Bismarck and Fort Yates
have been killed, because Of an out
break OF CHAMBERS in its most violent
form.
RUNNERS planing-mill at Jackson,
Michigan, was blown to pieces by a
boiler explosion. One employee was
killed and six others received serious
injuries.
A large iron hotel in process of erec-
ton near the exposition buildings at
New Orleans fell Sunday, burying
three workmen, one Of whom was taken
out dead.
Colonel A. M. Beattie, one of the
pioneers of Montana, died at Helena
from the effect of wounds received in
the army. His remains will be sent to
Rockford, Illinois.
w. K. Alderman, for many years
president of the Illinois Central road,
has been engaged to attend the general
interests of the Baltimore and Ohio
company in Chicago.
The directors of the Oregon and CAL
ifOrnia road, now completed IL the
former state for q length of 1870 miles,
have voted TO transfer the property to
the Central Pacific.
Some clothing and jewels belonging
to the deceased widow of Willard Fill
more were on Friday sold at auction in
Buffalo. The costlier articles brought
ridiculously low prices.
After being dashed to the rigging of
the barkentine Ephraim William five
days without food or water, the Cap
tain and crew were rescued by the life
boats at Cape Hatteras.
An officer OF the New York police is
said to have offered 81 900 per annum
to as many members of the Winnipeg
force as desire to resign, to be placed
on the Broadway squad.
The death is announced at Philadel-
phia, of Rev. Ii. Colelayer, who spent
tifty-seven years in Methodist pulpits.
and was one of the founders of the
University of Michigan.
George W.. Walker, leading lawyer
Oh Virginia, having suffered for years
from the amputation of his right leg
on the battlefield, killed himself with
revolver at Heathville.
A map found on the person of a
counterfeiter arrested iu Chicago en-
abled the socret-service officers to un-
earth number of plates in the woods
near Saylesville, Wisconsin.
The state treasurer of New jersey.
by whom all checks from his office
must be signed, has been dangerously
III for nearly three weeks. Not even
he smallest bill can be paid.
Marshal Bierbower, of Omaha is
said to be searching Chicago for fifteen
citizens who have been indicted for
making fraudulent homestead entries
n Brown county, Nebraska.
James Peoples, one of the wealthiest
planters in Louisiana, vas riddled
With bullets by Joseph and William
Ellington, of Rayville, for the alleged
seduction of their young sister.
The snow blockade on the Northern
Pacific road is now confined to q stretch
If seventeen miles between Portland
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