The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-06
VERY LATEST.

G. Blaine, died Tuesday morning at
Baltimore.
For the first quarter of the fiscal
year the deficiency in the postal service
is $2,063, 900.
Charles r. Woods. q retired major
general was found dead in a bed at
Newark, Ohio.
| The Michigan house has passed bill
making six the, number of jurymen in
courts of record.
The supreme court of California has
decided that Chinese children must be
admitted to the public schools.
Mrs. John l.. Sullivan says the bruis-
er smokes opium. She tells horrible
stories OF his ill-treatment of her.
| Lloyd Breeze lost $4,000 in Detroit
since Christmas by publishing the
Evening Times, which suspended Thurs
day.
A gas war at Savannah. Georgia has
resulted in reduction of the price of
the article to so cents per thousand
feet.
The scouts in the Pennsylvania oil
| fields are said to have organized club
to control the market for their own
benefit.
Francis E. Warren, nominated by
the president to be governor of WyOm-
ing, is merchant and banker in that
territory.
So deep has been the frost on the
island of Nantucket that two houses
were filled with corpses that could not
| be buried.
B. +. Avery, who built up an extern
Sive plow factory at Louisville, died
Tuesday, in his S5th year, leaving a
vast estate.
Justus Schwab, the notorious social
| list Of New York, has been held in
| $500 each Oh charges of melting riot
and of resisting the police.
James l.. Clark, who died Friday at
| Oshkosh, spent twenty-five years in
| building up a match-splint factory
| which he sold for $350,0OO.
The New York Herald has given up
| its fight against the newsdealers, and
reduced the price to the dealers to II
| cents from Ii cents per copy.
Workmen at various shops scattered
| along the Wabash road have struck
against an increase in the honrs of Ia
Dor or reduction in wages.
Stephen Klais, a mine superintendent
| at Galena, ILL.,, has discovered in Rice
township what is thought to be an in
exhaustible vein of lead ore.
Mrs. Crandal, of Bloomsbury, N. j.,
died from fast of forty-eight days,
during which time her weight de-
creased from $50 pounds to l25.
A medical college at Des Moines
bought from his mother the remains of
| Cicero Jefferson, who was recently
lynched for the murder of his father.
Stephen Clarke, afflicted with hydro
phobia, was lodged in Jail at Picton,
| Ontario, where he takes every Oppor-
tunity to tear and bite his own flesh.
Mary A. Lincoln, of Agawam, Mass,
lays claim to the land on which Bath,
Me-, is built. She has written to Gov.
Robe offering to accept 81 100000 and
go halves.
Gas with q pressure Of twenty-five
| feet to the inch has been discovered in
well bored for water on a lot adjoin-
ing the Dayton railway depot at Gin
cinnati.
Honore Beaugrand, proprietor of a
French newspaper, has been elected
mayor of Montreal, relieving j. l..
Beaudry, who has held the position for
ten years.
Capitalists from various points have
been examining the country in the vi
entity Of Augusta, Indiana, where sill
yer ore is said to have been found in
the hills.
Orrin S. Skinner, formerly connected
with leading legal firm in Chicago,
has been lodged in the Tombs of New
York for attempting to swindle bank
ing-houses.
Albany, n. Y, was visited by de-
structive fire which consumed railway
and manufacturing property valued at
about sos, 900. Several acres of ground
were burned over.
The forty-ninth anniversary Of the
independence Of Texas was observed
at Austin by the laying of the corner
stone of the new capitol. The build
ing is to be of granite.
Scarlet fever and diphtheria are rag
ing in Sycamore, Ill. Many persons
have died and new cases are reported
every day. 1t is thought the diseases
will become epidemic.
The receiver of the First National
bank of st. Adams, Vermont, has at
tached the property of the late officers
and directors on suit to recover $500,
600 for mismanagement.
Rumors have reached the Dakota
towns that the Winnebago reservation
has been opened to settlers by order of
Une preSlQenC, ana Unere Is WIZ
scramble to secure farms.
w. III. Wilson, of Dallas, Texas, a
confederate officer under StOnewall
Jackson, claims to have been engaged
by Ell Mehdi to take charge of fortifi-
cation engineering in Egypt.
The petition of Chinese artist of
Chicago to be allowed to adopt white
babe was denied by Judge Prendergast,
for the reason that the child would not
receive suitable education and nurture.
The Legislature of British Columbia
has passed a bill, to take effect within
two weeks, imposing upon Cinnamon
attempting to enter that province fine
of $50 or imprisonment for six months.
The Ohio consistory of Scottish
Rite Masons has raised a large sum
with which to purchase and remodel
for its purposes the Seventh Presby-
terrain church, on Broadway, Cincin-
natl.
Thomas l.. Townley, farmer of
NATION, ILL.,, is going to England to
assert his claim to the TOwnley estate,
left without an heir in 1878. The >es-
tate brings an annual income of $780,
600.