The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-16


and Fireman Dotzell was fatally scald-
ed.
The postmaster at Pulaski, Illinois,
appealed to Governor Hamilton for as
sistance in preventing the spread OF
smallpox, and the state board OF
health forwarded supply of fresh vac
cine.
The bondsmen of Martin o. Van
Fleet, the defaulting treasurer OF HUI
ron county, Ohio, mOrtgaged their
farms and paid in $45, 900, and ask to
be relieved from contributing the other
third.
A store in Woodward avenue, De-
troit, was during Friday robbed of
twenty-seven sealskin sacques, valued
at over $1,000. The thieves threw
aside large number Of an inferior
quality.
Edward F. Lowe, assistant general
freight agent of the Erie railway, who
has been twenty-seven years in the
employ of the company, died from ty-
phOid fever at his home in Plainfield,
New Jersey.
The steam-tug Dougherty exploded
her boiler, Sunday, near Elizabeth,
Pennsylvania, killing two men and
scalding three others. The smoke
otdCh WIS plOWu ONtI LII WV hui-
dred feet high.
The Cincinnati board of public works
has ordered the preparation OF ablll to
authorize the issue of $2,OOO,OOO in
bonds with which co repave the streets
with granite or asphalt, the city to bear
half the expense.
The striking coal-miners at New
Straitsville, OHIO, received one hun
dred Winchester rifles Tuesday. The
syndicate guards occupy tort on
Hazelton's hill. The fire in No. 5 is
burning fiercely.
In the office of O'Donovan Rosa, in
New York, Friday, an affray occurred
between Captain Thomas +. Phelan,
of Kansas City, and Richard Short,
leading Irish nationalist, both of whom
were fatally injured.
The DiaZ administration has swept
the unpopular stamp law off the statute
books of Mexico. Retail dealers can
now draw their wallets and pay taxes q
year in advance on the estimated
amount of their sales.
A suit of $4,000 damages by the
alienation of his wife's affections has
been commenced by Reuben f. Sher-
man, of Waukesha, Wisconsin, against
Merrick 5. Spaulding, owner of the
capital motel at Madison.
Since the recent arrest of Miles Ogle,
the cOunterfeiter, at Memphis. officers
of the secret service have traced out
his plates and paper, and found $780,
O0O,OO in bills near Louisville and $780,
OO0,0 at the Cincinnati stock yards.
Duncan G. Ross, the athlete, has dis
posed of his saloon i'll Cleveland and
applied for admission to theological
,i,Nr, Of Ia 1.n t,,ta
ton of entering the ministry. The
death of his wife brought about the
change.
Two men went out from Ontonagon,
Michigan, last Monday, without
were forced TO kill their dog and eat
the raw flesh, and had laid down to
die when found by searching party,
Friday.
Charles Pulliam, whose remains have
been taken to Vincennes, Indiana, is
said to have been spotter for the
Union Pacific road. and while acting
as brakeman was knocked from the
train at Abilene by some person I'M
known.
At the soda-ash works at Geddes,
New York, a distilllng vessel weighing
four tons was blown seventy-live feet
in the air. In its descent it carried
away the roof of the main building, in
juring eight men and causing loss of
$25 600.
The wholesale dry-goods house of
Isaac Zeiller's Sons, in Cincinnati,
with liabilities OF about $4,000, has
suspended payment, partly on account
Of fictitious statements made by its
bookkeeper, Herman Mack, who re
Gently hanged himself.
Joseph Gillespie, who died Wednes-
day at Edwardsville. Illinois, partici
pated in the Black Hawk war in 1881,
and as lawyer was associated with
Abraham Lincoln and General Shields.
For twelve years he was judge Of the
Twenty-fourth circuit.
Forty Mexican soldiers, stationed at
Ensenada. murdered their captain and
several other persons, and fled toward
the California line. The Mexican con-
sui at San Diego secured sufficient
United States infantry to prevent dep
relations along the border.
Governor Gray, Of Indiana, was in
augurated Monday afternoon ut the
opera house in indianapolis. The
tend to pass resolution in favor OF
placing u. S. Grant and Fitz John
Porter OH the retired list.
Manufacturers and business men of
Pittsburg, Pa, have subscribed large
sum of money to endow a church in
that city for Francis Murphy, the tenn
perance apostle. A congregation has
been formed, to be known as the
Church of Gospel Temperance.
The mayor of Dover, New Hamp-
shire, notified the Salvation army that
it must not parade with music. Cap
tain Thompson defies all earthly pow
er, and has sent to Maine for soldiers.
The mayor has given the police quiet
hint that some funerals are desirable.
The government directors of the
Union Pacific road, in asking further
favors for that unpopular corporation,
lay great stress upon the statement
that its stock is owned mainly by in
vestors, and that the new management
is making an honest effort toward re-
form.
General Grants physician states that
the former has stopped smoking, be-
cause of irritation of the tongue. He
is unable TO walk without the aid of q
crutch but there is nothing to iustifv