The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-12-24
NEWS SUMMARY.

George a. West, counsel for 11DOc"
Wilson In the MOeR suits, has with
drawn from the case. -
q. The Hon. Newton Sheets. reoopder
of Benton county Indiana, died Fri
day at his home in Fowler.
Rufus X. Garland. brother of the
attorney general. died Monday MORN
ing at prescott, iArkansns.
thrown from q carriage at Detroit,
Thursday. and severely injured.
Mayer OrBrien, of BOSTON, was pe-
Republican and labor candidates.
Ina six-hovr trial trip at Fortress
Monroe, Va, the United States steamer
Dolphin made fourteen kRois an hour.
England has decided to reduce the
standing army of Egypt to 1000 men
and the army 0fOccupation to half that
Mrs. Mary Chadek, on trial at Mil
waukee last week on a charge of MUIR
dering her husband, was acquitted
Saturday.
William Reed, ex-treasurer of the
pany, has pleaded guilty of embezzling
RMtOsOOVs
5 The schools at Pittsfeld. III. have
There are twelve cases and two victims
have died.
4 Ida Baldridge, of Greenburg, Penn
sylvania, has been arrested for rob-
bing the mails while her father was
postmaster.
Congressman-e elect Jehu Baker, who
caned q Belleyille lIll,) reporter, has
pleaded guilty OF assault and has been
lined g. and costs. .....a.-l,
The dairy commissioner of Iowa
states that lie has thus far failed To find
deliberations in samples of butter
fresh from the farms. 9E
Eleven hundred coopers in Cincin-
natl and Riverside quit work Tuesday
because their scale of prices was not
signed by the proprietors.
Fire Friday forenoon swept away
the business section of Attica. Ohio,
creating a loss of $50. 600. The lnsur-
ance aggregates $75, 100.
The election of Nicholas H. Kane TO
the Flftieth Congress from the Albany
IN. Y J district will be contested by
Congressman Swinburne. ME
y The domestic servants at Green
vile, Pa. have formed a union tor the
advancement of wages. Objectionable
employers will be boycotted.
The reelection OFT j. Vail as Sec
rotary of the National TrOtting Asso-
citation has been received with con-
siderable dissatisfaction.
One of the largest iron mines in the
Negaunee district is arranging to ship
three hundred tons of ore daily to
Cleveland by rail during the winter.
DIR. Dow. author of the Ohio liquor
terrain Church, of which he is a MEM
Der, for certain liberal features of that
act. .,fR
Mgr Capel proposes to bring suit
for damages against the San Francisco
Argondm and certain eastern papers
for the SANDERS circulated with regard
to him. al
G. M. Croswell, twice governor of
Michigan, expired Monday morning at
Adrian. at the age Of 81. For many
years he was partner of Judge Il. M.
Cooley. ~
The agricultural department. has
telegraphed DIR. Paaren, of Chicago,
to proceed to Texas and investigate
the cases alleged to be pleuro-pneu-
mOnia. ~
BY the explosion of boiler in the
Of Charles Hogenberth, at
Evansville, Indiana, one man was
killed and seven others received severe
injuries. nfff
Delegates from the live stock ex-
change of Chicago, Kansas City. st.
Louis and Omaha met at ST. Louis and
decided to form National Live Stock
Exchange.
Congressman Abraham DOwdney ex-
pired Friday morning in his residence
at New York city. Thus far the death
list of the Forty-ninth Congress num-
bers twelve. F
Terms having been made with the
Knights of Labor, eleven knitting
mills resumed operations Monday at
Cohoes New York, after lockout of
nine weeks
Andrew j. Wightman, the private
detective who was recently convicted
at New York Of blackmail in the Sears
divorce case, was sentenced to three
years imprisonment.
Warrants are said to have been is
sued for the arrest of Trenton, N. j.,
on charges of bribery in
connection with the letting of con-
tract for rubber hose.
The Trades Union Congress, in ses-
sion at Columbus, has adopted the
name American Federation of Trade
and Labor. and will hold its next
meeting at Baltimore.
Charles Robinson, one of the earliest
governors OF Kansas, has been appoint
ed superintendent of the. industrial
school for Indians at Lawrence, Arthur
Grobouaks having resigned. ivy M
Coal, in immense quantities, is re-
ported to have. been discovered in
Henderson and Smith counties, Texas.
One vein, twenty feet thick, is but
thirty feet below the surface.
Bohu, the only wo-horned rhinoc-
eros in the United States. lately pur-
chased in New Orleans for the Central
park menagerie in New York, has
been installed in his new quarters.
Ihe Standard Oil company has voted
$3.50 900 to commence the erection of
new refinery at Franklin, Pa. The
new works will be larger than the
Eclipse works, which employ 400 men.
Pete Nolan, the pugilist, settled a
quarrel with "Bill'' Jordan, noted
rough at Cincinnati, Wednesday night,
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