The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-11-12
Sisters Alberiina and Dionesia were
taken TO New CasSel.
GENERAL NEWS.

An earthquake shock was felt at
Summerville, s. O., Monday at Sp. m.
On account of the low prices prevail
ing for sugar, the extensive refinery at
ST. Louis has suspended operations.
p. M. Arthur, of Cleveland, has been
reelected chief Of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers for three years.
John Nj. Gavisk, an aged and infiuen-
tial citizen of Evansville, Indiana,
died of heart disease at the breakfast
table.
Almost the entire business portion
of Des Arc, Arkansas, was on Sunday
evening destroyed by fire, the loss be-
ing $2O0,000.
President Cleveland's name has been
erased from the poll-list at Buffalo Tor
the reason that lie has removed from
The district"
The first passenger train was run
Monday over the Fort Dodge and
Mason City Road, which was cOmplet-
ed Saturday night.
DR.. j. r. Green, who disappeared
recently from Fowler, Ind, has return
ed home. but does not think it neces-
sary to explain his absence.
The Piper house of Loogoote, Ind,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday night.
The newly elected auditor and treas
urer was burned to death. ,r ~.
A syndicate of New Yorker $ is at
tempting to obtain lease OF the en-
tire Cherokee strip, in Indian Terri
tory, for grazing purposes.
The only oleomargarine factory in
Connecticut-that OF Easterbrook ~
| Co., of New Haven, opera
tions because of the federal tax.
w. p. Payne, prosecuting attorney of
| Mcdowell county, West Virginia, had
a drunken quarrel with his brother AL
bert, and killed him with a revolver.
A laborer in a colliery at Kingston,
| Pennsylvania, was killed by the care
lessness of an engineer. The latter, on
learning Of the accident, blew out his
brains.
Several parties of mining experts
sailed from New Orleans, Monday, for
Honduras, to examine the district in
which discoveries of gold have been
reported.
It has been discovered that Martin
i. Casey, q clerk in the Treasury De-
partment at Washington, who died
suddenly Saturday night, committed
suicide by poison.
The shortages of eX-Treasurer Car
ter, of Pittstield, Mass, now aggre-
gates $4,000. A civil suit to recover
has been instituted, but no criminal
proceedings will be taken.
President Cleveland will attend the
250th anniversary of the founding Of
Harvard College, and will be given q
grand reception in Faneuil Hall, Bos-
ton, next Monday evening.
Mrs. Libby Sager, aged "a. wife of
DR.. Sager, committed suicide at Celina,
Ohio, Monday morning. She left a
and that the Lord wanted her.
About $500 men employed in the
beef-packing houses of Nelson Morris
yards, struck Monday against a return
to the ten-hour system Of labor.
The Sloss Furnace Company of Bir-
mingham, Ala, have purchased OF
Jacob Reese the right to use his basic
process, and will at once erect plant
for the manufacture of steel on large
scale.
The dwelling of Louis Lichleichner
at Steubenville, Ohio, was destroyed
by fire Monday morning, LichliechneI
persisted in the flames. His wife and
children escaped by jumping from a
window.
1t is rumored in Vicksburg that G.
p. Huntington and Leland Stanford
intend to open and cultivate one hun
dred thousand acres of cotton land in
the Yazoo delta, on one of their rail
way lines.
The striking miners at Shamokin,
Pa, have decided to resume work. the
coal companies having promised an
advance should an examination OF
their books show that business will
warrant it.
The International Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, which has been
in session at New York for two weeks,
adjourned Monday. They voted So
500 for distribution among the widows
and orphans of engineers.
Patrick Mccarthy, James Lamb, Al
bert Odell, John Stephens, J. II. Echols
and John w. Parrot have been sem
fenced at Fort Smith, Ark, to be
hanged Jan. IA, 1887, for murders COM
mitted in the Indian territory.
Adam Darling, wholesale importer
of chinaware at Montreal, is missing,
but his boOk-keeper says he has gone
to Toronto on business. One of
| Darling's heaviest creditors has take II
steps to have the business placed in
ilquludIlOil.
During last week the visible supply
of grain in the United States and Can
ada showed an increase Of $50, 181
bushels of wheat, $4,000 bushels Of
oats, 30,S46 bushels of rye, and II $40
bushels of barley, but corn diminished
1897 800 bushels.
Father Sentenne, Catholic priest of
Montreal. spoke against the revised
rules of the knights of Labor Monday
night, and advised those of his hearers
who we're members to withdraw, as
he considered the whole matter u trap
for workingmen.
Mrs. Cornelia Steward, of New York,
after leaving large annuities to rela-
tives, willed one-half the residue of her
estate to her brother in Paris, and be-
queathed the other half in trust to
Henry Hilton, to complete and MAIN
tain the memorial church and school
ut Hampstead Plains.
Monday afternoon at the Anchor
Barrel manufacturing company's
works, eight miles below Detroit,
George Wells, married, aged 80, fell
into huge vat Of boiling water and
the flesh was literally scalded from his
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