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

! southern racine ROAD, was frozen 10
death in the street at Omaha during
Thursday night after becoming intoxl-
Gated.
b. G. Winston & Co., lumber dealers
| of st. Paul, who last month handed
forced to make an assignment. Their
liabilities are $4,000 and their assets
$125,000.
Three hundred and fifty men are
thrown out of employment by the con-
flagration which is raging in the Paint
ertown coal-mine near lrwin's Pa. II
may be several weeks before work can
be resumed.
w. Il. Taylor, of La Grange, Wis.
consin, distinguished himself by walk
ing seven miles to Palmyra, and home
again, with the mercury standing Is
degrees below zero, to receive the first
degree of Masonry.
Rev. II. II. Jones, of Ithaca, New
York, native Of England, has been
arrested for illegal voting at the Presi-
Dental election. He was brought
across the Atlantic when an infant,
and was never naturaliZed.
The schooners Lineria and Arundel.
which sailed from Manitowoc with
supplies for Manistee, were tossed
about by the waves for more than q
day, and put into Milwaukee with ice
half way TO the mast-heads.
Isaac Wright, one of the most noted
steamboat captains on the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers, who commanded
government vessels during the Mexican
war and the rebellion. died Tuesday at
Troy, Indiana, aged S6 years.
The north-bound express train on the
New Orleans 81 Northeastern Railroad
was thrown off the track by obstruc-
tionS near Purvis, Miss. A number Of
passengers were injured and the engi-
neer and fireman were killed.
In response to request by Sheriff
Boden, of Athens County, Ohio, thai
two companies of troops might be sent
to the Hooking Valley Gov. Hoadly
said that he thought the local authori-
ties could meet the emergency.
The Baptist council at Bloomington,
Indiana, found Rev. Lemuel Moss
guilty only of improper conduct to-
ward Miss. GraydOn, and decided to re-
store him to fellowship on his making
humble confession of his acts.
-Four thousand coal-miners on the
Monongahela River went out on q
strike Monday for an advance OF half
n cent a bushel. The operators say
they will close the mines indefinitely
rather than accede to the demand.
In the Chicago election fraud, Al
thur Gleason has definitely decided to
take the witneSS-Stand for the govern
ment and give the names of persons
who approached him to secure the en-
yelope containing the precinct returns
desired.
A policeman in Chicago named
Charles L. MacowitZki, became almost
distracted over the illness of his wife.
On learning that she could not be
spared TO him he killed himself with a
revolver. Her death followed in twen-
ty minutes.
At a meeting of Socialists Sunday in
Chicago, it was suggested by the Pres
ident of the society that chemists
men to experiment with dynamite with
Il view to instructing the Socialists ir
its use.
At Wheeling, West Virginia, early
Sunday morning, six masked men bat
tersd down door in the residence of
Henry Workenour, bsat the aged -1ac.
and his wife in brutal manner, GHi
carried off "a, 430 in coin, the savings
of thirty years.
w. +. Macarthur, district attorney
for Winnebago, county. Wisconsin,
was, on Tuesday, fatally shot by g
cripple named Paul Steinel. an old res
dent of Neenah. The difficulty arose
from suit in which Macarthur was
Stencils counsel.
Clearing House receipts at the prn-
cipal cities of the United States lac,
week show decrease as compared with
the corresponding week of last year of
1871 per cent. T..9 decrease in New
York is 20.7 per cent. In Chicago the
decrease is GA per cent.
Nearly fOcty members of the demo-
cratic state centrAi committee of Ne
braska held meeting at Lincoln Tues
day evening. j. Sterling Morton urged
that the u.s.! democracy select their
candidates for federal offices, and the
plan was urged uron the party.
Rudolph Schlcke, formerly book
was arrested for the embeZZlement of
$1,000. lie was permitted to step into
an adjoining room. where he took cya-
hide Of potassium, and in two minutes
was corpse. H. was to have been
married Wednesday,.
Discussions which threatened to
wreck the New Orleans exposition
have been satisfactorily settled. There
is still some difficulty with the customs
officials IL regard to the Mexican eX-
hibits. The doors will be open Sun
day, in accordance with the desire of o
majority Of the exhibitors.
=. l.. Kimberly Il Co., operating the
| Atlantic iron-works at Sharon, Penn
| sy1vanla, who have been rated at ST.
| 100000, were on Saturday unable to
pay their employees. 1t is hoped that
| their embarrassment will be only
| temporary matter, as no papers have
been filed against them.
AT Wausau, Wisconsin, Victor Deb
| liz was butchered with an AK by his
| brother Frank. Both belonged to the
Presbyterian church, and the murderer
has for some time been trying the pray
er cure upon his victim, an invalid.
The horrible deed was accompanied by
shouts of religious frenzy.
Judge Ii. X. Mccoy, of the federal
court at Atlanta, whose mind recently
gave way, was taken to Baltimore by
his brother to be tenderly cared for.
During binding snow-storm on
Thursday evening he escaped from the
house and was picked up by the police.
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