The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-03-24

THE project to build an electric rail-
way between Milwaukee and Chicago
has been revived.
THERE were 1000 families along the
Kansas border awaiting the grand
rush to the Cherokee lands and it was
thought that the Indians were anxious
to close the sale of the strip. If the
opening is delayed until fall 5000 peo-
pie will be destitute.
A PETITION was presented to the
Massachusetts legislature which pro-
vides that Intoxicating liquors shall be
sold only by salaried appointees of the
state.
A MAIL pouch containing over S25,-
900 in drafts mysteriously disappeared
somewhere between Akron, o., and
Pittsburgh, Pa
LEWIS A. WRIGHT aged II, has con-
fessed to starting the recent large fires
in Boston.
WILLIE DUFFEY, aged Z; James
Dougherty, aged II, and Willie Gettis,
aged 10, who were picked up on the
street in Pittsburgh, Pa, by the police,
were found to he unconscious and in a
dying condition from the effects Of
liquor.
THE new American passenger steam
er New York arrived in New York in
six days and twenty-five hours from
Southampton.
HERR MOST, the chief of anarchists,
has been expelled from all anarchistic
circles in New York. He is accused OF
betraying secrets to the police.
POSTMASTER GENERAL BissELL or
dered the discharge of thirty-nine
fourth-class postmasters in Illinois, In.
diana, Kansas, Kentucky and Virginia
SHERIFF RUTHERFORD, of Anderson
county, was killed in free-for-all fight
at Caryville, Tenn, and three other
men were MORALLY wounded.
NICHOLAS SMITH, of Stroudsburg, Pa,
aged 95, who has been totally blind for
twenty-seven years, has reaained his
eyesight.
Mr. AND Mrs. HENRY BoEDECKER
were burned in their home at Free
port, Ill. 1t was thought that a rob-
Der killed the couple and then fired the
premises
THE aggregate collections fl ON in
ternal revenue for the first eight
months of the current fiscal year were
S107, $40, 542, an increase over the cor
responding period of the previous fiscal
year of 81, 1874, 1914.
The largest shaft ever forged in
America was sent from the Bethlehem
pa iron works to the worlds fair.
1t weighs SO, $50 pounds.
FLAMES in the distillery of James
Walsh e. Co. at Covingtor, KY, caused
a loss of $3.50, 900.
GEORGE PRICE, farmer, on trial at
Bloomington, ILL.,, for the murder of
John Hay, also farmer, was found
guilty, The jury sentencing him to the
penitentiary for forty years.
FLAMES in Milwaukee in the build
ing occupied by the Friend Bros. Cloth
ing company and the Straw and Els
worth company, manufacturers of hats
and gloves, caused loss of 500, 900.
Il. j. w. MORSE Sc Co.'S large brick
cotton thread factory at South Easton,
Mass, was destroyed by fire, the loss
being $500, 900.
Historic fremont temple was to-
tally destroyed by fire in Boston, the
entire loss being $500, 600. The temple
was owned by the Union Baptist
Temple society and portions of it were
leased, among the occupants being six
newspapers and the offices of the Bap-
fist foreign, home and state mission so.
cieties.
WHILE Oscar Brown and wife were
visiting some of their colored brethren
at Cheneyville, La, their cabin caught
fire and two of their children persisted
in the flames.
A MEMBER of the Winnobago tribe
died on the reservation near Pender,
Neb., at the great age of 100 years.
JESSE JONES (colored) who shot Sher-
ifRJohn Burnett at Jacksboro, Tenn,
was tal5en from jail by mob and
lynchcd.
The government expenditures up to
date this month are S22, 131, 600, exceed
ing the receipts by S405, 0O0
NEW YORK and Brooklyn Cinnamon
are reported to have raised $50, 600 to
test tho constitutionality. of the >Geary
registration law.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The annual national convention OF
the National Republican league will be