The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-09
VERY LATEST.

list. landed at New 4 0rk Tuesday, and
will deliver lectures.
Six lives were lost at Marshfleld, Or
egon, by the explosion OF the boiler of
the tug Sol Thomas.
Colonel ]. M. Frye, father of the
senator from Maine, died Thursday at
Lewiston, mt the age Of So.
A prohibitory liquor ordinance has
gone into effect AT Hot Springs, Ar
kansas, with n limit OF two years.
In billiard contest i'm Chicago Mon
day evening, Schaef,r beat SlossOn at
the champion game" by 500 to $50.
Samuel Wade, "a bank president at
Alton, Illinois, who has several times
been mayor of the city, died Friday.
Leland Stan ord can have the Cali
fOrnia senat0rship for the asking. Bal
: loting is to commence OH January 20.
j. G. Scrugham, teller in national
bank at Lexington, kentucky. is u de-
faulter for $50,0J0. and has fled to Can
ada.
Special reports from various parts of
Illinois and Indiana say that the wheat
crop is large one and in good condi-
ton.
The mayor of New York reports the
funded debt 1T S92.0I7.0t0, and the
rate OF taxation will be nearly 2.35 per
cent.
Potters at Trenton. New Jersey, to
the number or one thousand, have re-
solved to strike II Il reduction be made
in wages.
The Muncie (Indiana) National bank
has decided to go into voluntary liqui-
dation this month, on the expiration of
its charter.
At Birmingham, Alabama, Samuel
j. Randall inspected q coal mine which
has an average daily output OF twenty
five hundred tons.
DR.. j. ii. lIarrs died Friday in In
dianapolis, and. in accordance with his
request, his BODY was taken directly to
the dissecting-table.
Andrew Eichenbrecher. founder Of
the geological garden of Cincinnati,
died from heart disease, Saturday, leav-
ing large fortune.
The Grand Army of the Republic
in New Mexico has erected over the
grave of Kit Carson, in Taos county,
an appropriate tablet.
DIR. John Maxwell. who was lodged
in Jail at Springfield, Ohio. for poison
ing his three young daughters, hanged
himself in his cell.
Symptoms of revival in the iron trade
are reported from Pittsburg. Several
mills which recently suspended work
are starting up again.
Canadian millerS are petitiOning the
government to double the duty on
American flour, because 300, 900 barrels
were imported last year.
A venerable citizen of Trenton,
New Jersey, named Isaac Allen, fell
in the snow from stroke of apoplexy,
and was frozen to death.
The amputation of toe developed
blood-poisOning, which caused the
death of Rev. DR.. Noah Hunt Schenck,
of Brooklyn, in his Goth year.
The governor of Ohio renews his
recommendation that in presidential
years the election of state and county
officers be held in November.
The funeral of Russell Hancock, the
only son of Gen. w. S. Hancock, took
place Friday at st. Louis, the remains
being placed in the family vault.
Mrs. George T. Chambers, Of New
York As years of age and holding prop
erty valued well up in the millions, has
married her stepson, q years old.
Under orders Of the United States
court, the bankrupt Toledo, Cincinnati
and st. Louis narrOw-gauge road has
been restricted to one mixed train per
day.
Abner Coburn, ex-governor Of Maine,
died Sunday evening at Sh0whegan,
aged 81 years. His illness was contract
ed ut the session of the electoral col
lege.
There is every probability that the
passenger rates eastward from Chicago
are about to take drop, as the differ
entails to the weaker lines have ex-
pired.
Over one hundred citizens of Hazel
ton, Indiana, are searching the woods
for Mexican lion which escaped from
circus, last summer, at Allendale,
Illinois.
James +. Mallory, formerly promi-
nent in the oyster trade in Maryland
and Connecticut died at New Haven,
Of creeping paralysis, leaving a large
fortune.
Six large iron establishments at
Pittsburg have resumed operations, af-
ter weeks of idleness, and other con-
cerrS announce that they will soon fol-
low cult.
At Jackson, Michigan, hack con-
tanning Jud Crouch, the murderer. was
uChiOsionCu dDu tnO hOioCo hhiCo a.
locomotive, but the passenger escaped
uninjured.
Rain caused the flood in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, to gain in force
Tuesday. Tie scheme of sending
tugs to break the ice gorge has been
abandoned.
The coal walls of Bristol tunnel, one
thousand feet long, near New LeXing-
ton, Ohio, were set on fire by incendi-
aries, and its speedy destruction seems
quite certain.
Rev. Mr.. Newman, of Ripon. Wis
consin, will probably be called to the
pulpit of the Congregational church in
Washington, a comittee having made
the selection.
John S. Wise, republican member
of congress from Virginia, will proba-
bly, be called to the law professOrship
of the state university. He is son of
Henry A. Wise.
The money package lost by the
Adams Express company at Indianap-
oils was in some mysterious manner
replaced in the safe, probably by the
fVfOhfonad thiaf