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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Wednesday. Nov. I3.

The homo of ex-senator Palmer (of
Michigan) at Detroit was Quilted by fire,
some of the loss being irreparable, one
item being n complete Worlds fair rec
ord, the only one in existence.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was 50 years
old yesterday.
The steamer Puritan (which ran aground
in Long Island sound because the fog
horns near by could not be heard, al
though they were blowing continually
has been floated.
The Lawrence Beach hotel, at Law
renee, one of the largest summer hotels
on Long Island, was destroyed by fire
with its contents TIL total loss, 1t Is
thought, will not fall short of S2OO,OO0.
Fire, which started from the pipe of a
workman in tho manufacturing building
at III to ISL Division street, Chicago, left
only the walls standing and entailcd loss
of $4,000.
The Vossischc Zeitung says that at least
ten women In Paris have official permits
sion TO wear male garb. One of these is
Rosa Bonhcur the well-known painter;
another is the proprietor of printing Of
fee: another is bearded woman; the rest
are painters and women afflicted with
bodily ailments or malformaSions.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Friday. Nov. 3.


The Republicans, as the result of the
recent elections, will, by March 4, 1897
gain five United States senators, two being
from Utah.
At McCoy's hotel, Chicago, the regular
biennial meeting of the committee of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
having jurisdiction on all the roads center
ing in Chicago is in session.
The indictments against E. V. Debs and
other officers and members of the Ameri-
can Railway Union for conspiracy during
the big strike Of last year have been dis
missed by Judge Seaman at Milwaukee.
Charles Dana Gibson, the artist, and
Irene Langhorne were married in St.
Paul's church, Richmond, Va. The we'd
ding was the most notable social func-
ton at Virginia's capital for long time,
and was attended by some of the most
prominent society people of Virginia and
New York
The attorneys engaged in the Fair will
contest deny that there is any foundation
for the statement that the contest had
been compromised
A slight earthquake shock was felt at
Rome.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
BANDITS In BIG LUCK
ROB AN EXPRESS OFFICE IN COLO
RADIO OF $4,000.

But Leave $4,000 More Behind Which
They Might Easily Have Had-swindlers
Mt Chicago Caught In the Act by Detec-
tives-Plunder Worth $4,000 Recovered
DENVER, Nov. IA special to The
News from Colorado Springs says: The
express Office at the Santa Fe depot in this
city was robbed Of 10000 last night I'm
mediately after the departure of the night
express at 9;4a, George Krout, the express
agent, stepped from the platform into his
office and was confronted by two masked
men who leveled revolvers at his head
and ordered him to open the safe. This he
did, and they helped themselves to two
packages of money containing 5000
and $4,000. respectively, and made their
escape. The money WIS part of a consign-
ment of $500 sent from Denver to Grip
pie Creek, the remainder of which was in
the safe, but was not found. Officers are
securing the country in the hope of cap
turing the hold-ups
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
HISTORY OF A WEEK
Thursday. Nov. Z.

Mrs Bloomfield Moore denies the report
that she has sold her interest in the keely
motor to John Jacob Aston.
The Minnesota supreme court has rem
dered a decision holding husbands respon-
sible for ISLANDERS uttered by their wives.
Theodore A. Sittig, an insane Chicago
lawyer, has been taken to Dr. Dewey 8
sanitarium at Wauwatosa, Wis, by order
of friends. During the stop in Milwaukee
Sittig became violent and vainly tried to
escape.
A white man named Barney Thomas
went to negro festival in Texas and
while there drew his pistol and killed
a negro named Jim Davis. He also shot
a negro woman named Laura Harris. He
has not been lynched.
Fourteen bishops of the Methodist Epis.
copal church and nearly forty laymen and
ministers are in Chicago to attend the an
niversary session of the general committee
Of the Church Extension society.
A company is being recruited among
militiamen at Indianapolis to fight for
Cuba.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Saturday, Nov. o.

A movement has been started at Chi
cago to build a monument to Eugene
Field children to subscribe the money.
Melville +. Stone, of the Associated Press,
Is the treasurer.
Samuel Lord, senior member of the dry
goods firm Of Lord 81 Taylor, New York,
died in sanitarium in Goshen, N. Y, where
he had been staying for the past few
months.
District Attorney Goss, of Washburn
county, Wis, issued warrants against A.
G. Probert, president of the defunct Shell
Lake Savings bank, on charge of en-
bezzlement and illegal banking. About
$4,000 has disappeared.
Thomas H. Mcdonald, of Lawrence,
Mass, has been sentenced to serve nine
months in the house of correction for COM
plicity in an aldermanic bribery case.
While fashionable wedding was being
performed in st. Georges church, New
York city, a relative of the groom expired
in the vestry. The deceased was Mary
Jane Pomeroy, 70 years old, of Stock
bridge, Mass
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Fell Heir to SIO,OOO,OOO.

ELKHART, Ind, Nov. 13.-Sylvester W.
Shumard of this city has received the In
formation that he has just fallen heir to
S10,000,000. The estate is located in Am
sterdam, Holland, and Is valued at $780,
100000. His grandfather was soldier In
the war which liberated America from the
yoke of England. After the war he re-
turned to Amsterdam, where he came in
possession of vast fortune through the
death of relative. He recently died.
leaving the estate to be divided among six
descendants, of which Sylvester Shumard
is one. He is now at Cincinnati looking
after his claim.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
WERE ONTO THEIR LITTLE GAME.
Chicago Police Officers Catch Swindlers
Red-Handed. as II Were.


CHICAGO, Nov. 12.-An inoffensive look
hg machinist tinkcred ut tho steam radi-
ator in Colonel II. S, Thompson's Office in
the Chamber of Commerce building, while
six men discussed an alluring real estate
deal with the attorney. But when one Of
the men declared himself the lawful own
er of Drexol boulevard lots worth $780, 100,
and signed an assumed name to a fraud
ulent trust deed, the pretended machinist
jumped forward, and displaying police
star, placed the supposed property owner
under arrest.
His five companions rushed for the door,
but were confronted with revolvers in the
hands of four Determined men, so that
they had no choice but TO surrender. The
five detectives, who came from Inspector
Hunts Hyde Park district, then took their
half dozen prisoners to the station. The
names of the men arrested are said to be
Samuel j. Christley, of the law firm Of
Moore 81 Christiey; b. ID. Godfrey, Will
lam Orth, Oscar Cautaut, e. H. Christen-
sen and George Ran olph, said to be the
chief promoter OF the swindle.
The men had attempted to rope client
of Colonel Thompson into a scheme for
manufacturing car heater, he to produce
81, 00U, which was to BE- secured by the
forged trust deed. All the criminals are
Chicago men.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15

1t is again asserted that hoops are
,oon to return into fashion. A feminine
authority in New York says: when
the modistes tried to force hoops on us
few years ago we were not quite pre-
pared for them. Now, with the flaring
skirts, sloping shoulders and big
sleeves, the old-fashioned hoops COM
plete the picture, and we will take
Kindly to them" How are hoops to be
'econciled with bloomers and knicker-
cookers?
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Tuesday, Nov. 12.

Enough home seekers are now in camp
near the Nez Perces reservation to take all
the desirable lands to be opened to settle
ment next Monday.
Battery ID has been rented by Chicago
labor men for monster mass meeting and
reception to Eugene V, Debs A train of
ten cars for the journey to and from
Woodstock has been chartered from the
Northwestern road.
William Il. Lamoreaux, of Grand
Rapids, Mich, known as the "bean king,
committed suicide by shooting himself in
the head
The famous Bull Run battlefield is to
be divided into small farms and town lots
and sold at auction.
The Russion thistle has been found in
western New York.
Rose Scott, a French Canadian, shot and
kill ed Frank Moore, colored, at her resi-
dence, Custom House place, Chicago.
Jealousy was the cause of the killing.
Pennsylvania soft coal operators have
formed combine to regulate the output
and prices.
Nellie BLY,, otherwise Mrs. Seaman.
threatens to shoot the paid spies whom
her aged and jealous husband has en-
ployed to shadow her at New York.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Monday. Nov. II.

Spencer Churchill, son of the late Lord
Randolph Churchill, has arrived at New
York. He intends to go to Cuba to wit
ness some of the fighting as spectator,
If possible.
On the plea that the crowds attracted
thereby are an injury to the property the
directors of Waldheim cemetery, Chicago,
where the anarchists are buried, have pro-
hibited the annual exercises at the graves
of the executed "reds."
An incident of the swearing in of Ger
man recruits at Potsdam was the refusal
of one recruit, Mennonite named Kali
weiles, to take the oath, whereupon the
emperor himself ordered him into custody
and to prison.
Near Grogansville, Rockingham county,
N. c., an insane father named Reed at
tackled one of his daughters with knife,
cutting her throat from ear to ear. He
then seized an axe and buried the blade
in her body, killing her instantly.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
PRECEDENT Was n Guest.

NEW YORK. Nov. 13.-Among the guests
at tho Whitney-Paget wedding was Presi'
dent Cleveland. He and Sir Julian
Pauneefote signed the marriage register az
witnesses. Tho bride is very wealthy and
the groom, though an Englishman, is in
business at ST. Paul as real estate man.
Secretaries Lamont and Herbert were also
guests. They with the president attended
the wedding breakfast, and the president
is credited with the most felicitous speech
he ever made in congratulating the young
couple. He has known the bride ever
since she was a child.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15

Mr.. ]. Pierpont Morgan has got the
railroad presidents to patch up peace,
but Mr.. Morgan will find bearing the
exchange market, preventing gold ex-
ports and changing the sentiment of
Europe mere child's play compared with
keeping the railroads from cutting
rates.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
KILLED A cHINAMAN.
The Monaghan Had Attempted to Outrage
n 13-Year-Old Girl.

CHICAGO, Nov. ll.-Edward O'Keefe,
otherwise known as Dutch" O'Keefe,
shot and kill II Lin Dock Dunn, Chi
nese laundryman az 1857 South Halsted
street. O'Ke,fe is saloonkeeper doing
business on Halsted street, near Thirty
seventh, and sent his 13-year old daughter
to the laundry.
She soon returned and said a Chinaman
at the laundry had grabbed her by the arm
and attempted to drag her into the rear
of his place of business. Mr.. O'Keefo at
once dressed himself, put revolver In
his pocket and went to the laundry, where
the girl identified Din Dock Dunn as her
assailant. O'Keefe then demanded an
explanation and says the Chinaman
rushed at him with fatiron, saying he
would kill him. O'Keefe fired, causing
the Chinaman's instant death.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Struck Against Time Work.

bred and fifty employees of Hardin &
Todd, shoe manufacturers Of this city.
struck. They claim that they were forced
to work by the week instead of by the
piece as has been the custom and that
seventy three men were laid off and re-
fused work unless they would leave the
union. Two men were unjustly dis
charged, it is claimed, last Saturday, for
damaged work which did not belong to
them. The employers refuse to treat with
the men
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Debs Reception Committee.

CHICAGO, Nov. 12.-The DebS reception
committee has practically completed its
preparations A train If ten cars for the
journey to and from Woodstock has been
chartered from the Northwestern Rail
road company and Battery d secured fol
the purpose of the evening meeting. Be.
sides Representatives Of local labor organ
izations. "A large numbcr of other persons
interested win proceed TO Woodstock on
the special train, n sDccl"f rate for the
round trip having ECCn ..Hl'.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
- When Shakespeare wrote his Hamle

- When Shakespeare wrote his Hamlet
and Othello, Macbeth and Lear, $780,
300 people spoke the English language.
Now the number using that tongue Is
estimated at 115,OOO,O0O If the Swan of
Avon had had so grand an audience in
his day, who knows but that he might
nave warbled something that would
have equaled in popular approval "a
Trip to Chinatown" or perhaps even
'Trilby."
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Fifteen-year-old Girl Horsethief.

Boston, Nov. 12.-Jennie Metcalf, Is
years old, has been commi ted to the
Massachusetts reformatory prison at
Sherburne, Mass, for two years as a
United States prisoner from Oklahoma
territory, having been found guilty of
horse stealing Jennie was a member of
the notorious Dalton gang. She was a
valuable witness in a murder case and her
sentence is an unusually light one owing
to the assistance she rendered the govern
ment and her desire to reform.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Probate Order.
STATE of MICHIGAN,

COUNTY OF SHIAwAssEE, DO
AT q session of the Probate County for said
County, held at the Probate ONCE, in the City OF
Corunna, on Monday the 18th day of November
in the year one thousand .elght hundred and
ninety-five.
Present, Matthew Bush, Judge of Probate
In the matter of the estate OF John o. Hink-
lev. deceased.
On reading and filing the petition Of David e.
Hinkley, praying that administration OF said
estate may be granted TO the petitioner or some
other suitable person.
1t is ordered, That the 9th day of December,
next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at said Pro-
bate Office be assigned for hearing said petition.
And IL is further ordered That a copy OF this
order be published three successive weeks pre-
vious to said day of hearing, in THE TIMES
newspaper printed and circulating in said coun
ty of Shiawassee. MATTHEW BUSH
BY KATHERINE f. KELSEY, Judge of Probate
Probate Register
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Pingre. Heads Another Movement.

DULUTH, Nov 11.-Mayor Lewis, of this
city, has received a telegram from Mayor
Pingree, of Detroit, Mich, inviting him
to participate In the movement for the
abrogation of the treaty between the
United States and Great Britain prevent
ing the building of vessels at ports on the
great lakes. Mayor Lewis is heartily in
favor of the movement and will accept the
invitation
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
BIG LOT OF STOLEN PROPERTY,
Accumulation of "A Notorious Thief Who I.
Now i'm the Penitentiary.

Accumulation of Notorious Thief Who Is
Now i'm the Penitentiary.
BOSTON, Nov. 1.-The largest amount
of stolen property recovered by the Bos-
ton police for years is in the inspectors
office in Pemberton square. According to
the story of James Stevenson Chaffee, in
whose possession the property was found,
it was brou9 1t from New York city q
week ago anu was given to him by Will
lam Barrett, notorious criminal, who is
serving life sentence for murder
The plumber, which is valued at S20, 900,
consists of ivory, bric-a-brac, silverware,
furs and rare postage stamps. The arrest
of Chaffee grew out of an attempt to sell
a collection of postage stamps to Ferdinand
Trifet a stamp collector, who recognized
the collection as one sold by him years ago
to Nathaniel Kidder, of Milton, and which
was subsequently stolen.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Terms Of the Circuit Court IN the 35th
JUDICIAL Circuit.

Pursuant to the statute In such case made
and provided, 1 90 herebv fix and appoint the
time for holding the several terms of the Cir
cult Court In the Thirtv.nfth Judicial Circuit
for the years 1896 and 1897. AS follows:
sHTAwAssBr COUNTY
On the fourth Monday In February and
November, the second Monday In May, and the
first in September.
LIVINGSTON COUNTY
On the second Mondays In February aud
November, and the third Mondays In April
and June STEAHNs r. SMITH,
October 90 1895. Circuit Judge.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15

i Chicago jury was permitted to
smoke in the court room, and 1t listened
attentively to all the lawyers had to
say. Nothing more is needed to show
the low nature of the jury. 1t will do
almost any foolish thing II its tastes are
pandered to.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15

It is all very well to poke fun at the
callow college graduate and his COM
mencement grafton. But how many
paccalaureate sermons are preached in
any year that make any better showing
for originality of thought or capacity
to change the course of the world?
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15

In spite of the pertinent query Of
Miss Willard. "Why can't men be beau
tiful? Chauncey M. Depew is re-
ported to be entertaining the idea that
he has sufficient attractions to over
come the new woman"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15

Japan and Russia look as IL they
might entertain us with the next war.
Russia undoubtedly seeks to get a foot
hold in Corea for her great Siberian
railroad, and she certainly is opposing
Japanese influence. How long Japan
will cease to resent this action depends
On the ability of Japan to control her
temper.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15

Henry Schwab stepped into eleva-
tor at Chicago and fell four stories.
Strange to say he was not injured be-
yond a shaking up. But as he stag
gered out of the basement door of the
shaft a wag remarked that he had had
drop too much.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
THE MARKETS.
New York Financial.

NEW YORK, Nov II
Money on call nominally Loo per cent. ;
prime mercantile paper, 3l6t9514 per cent;
sterling exchange dull but steady, with actual
business in bankers bills at 14t9iS912 for
demand and 4S7 9C94S734 for sixty days; posted
rates 4S515 aud 40; commercial bills, 1864.
Silver certificates. 6734@6S14; no sales; bar
silver 671S. Mexican dollars, 54
United States government bonds Us reg
n higher, others steady; new As reg, l2l;
do. coupons ILL SIS reg. ll494 SIS coupons,
lis; As reg, 11lM; coupons, liz; Us reg,
07 Pacific SIS of ~. l02.
a. .,,I
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Requisition for Oscar Smalley.

GUTHRIE o. IT,, Nov. Ex-Governor
Renfrow has granted a requisihon made
by the governor of Michigan for the re-
moval to that state of Oscar Smalley,
wanted at Allegan, Mich, for robbing n
Chicago and Western train Ang. 20 and
afterward shooting and killing an officer
who had arrested him. Smalley was cap
tured few days ago in the Cherokee
striD
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
One Cent Papers at Chicago.

CHICAGO, Nov. 11.--All the papers in
this city are 1-cent papers for six days in
the week now, the Tribune, Times-Herald
and Inter Ocean, having come down to
that price this morning. The Tribune
Stnrted the reduction
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Wants to Know How 1t Happened.

BURLINGTON, H., Nov. 9.-Will w. Car
yer disappeared mysteriously over month
ago. The country has been secured ever
since. Last night a message was received
from him at Elmwood, Ills, asking how
he came to be there
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15

r., $, .,ov.. l.--'.i.t '-hea, who
WI. csINI. fse -, thc jnu dof OF Robert
Ross u, tnt = IL OF Aiarcn g, 1874, has
bcrn s,ntrnt Z death DJ electricity dur
ing the WNr'. commencing Dec. 70. lie
still declares his Innocence.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Chicago Grain and Produce.

CH1CAtO NOV IL
The following were the quotations on the
Board of Trade today Wheat-November,
opened $3.50, closed 5G34c; December opened
5714c, closed 579sc; May opened 6l1ac, closed
6l5Ac Corn--November, opened 2S1sc closed
&c., December opened z74c, closed 272sci
May opened 2hc, closed 297sc. Oats-Novem'
Der, opened 1870, closed lSAc; December
opened 1910, closed 1870; May opened SJ5ac
closed 2U9Sc. Porlk-November, nominal.
closed SSO5: January, opened Sllo,
closed SQO71b. Lard-November nominal,
closed s5471S; january opened s5.621a closed
$500
Produce: Butter - Extra creamery, 20
per Id; extra dairy, 19c; packing stock, 9
@l1c. Eggs-Fresh stock, 1914, per dos- Poul'
try-Spring chickens. so, per Id: old hens
&c; ROSTERS. 4c; turkeys 793c; ducks,
90olSc; geese $j0JD07j per doz. Potatoes
Burbauks, 22cd24c per bu; sweet potatoes, ILL
nos, $l5Jg2OJ per bbl Apples-Fair TO
choice. s.2S955o per Dbl Honey-White
clover, lib sections, fancy, lS9l4c; broken
comb, l00l2c; extracted, 5Gjc perlb. Cranb
ries-Caps Col, S.50G9OJ per Dbl
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15
Chicago Live stock.

Live Stock-Pricss at che Union StooI
yards today ranged Us follows; d,gs-E't
mated receipts for the day, BOD sales
ranged at $z2EaJj5; pigs SJ.4) 9J % light,
s335eD35O rough packing. $3S@l75 mixed
and $3.55@3SJ heavy packing ana shipping
lots
Cattle.Estimatsd receipts for tho day
6,00O; quotations ranged at A.6oOL0J choice
to extra Shipping steers, aOE9A5J good to
choice do, So 450L0j fair to good, s309l5o
common to medium do, s2.91(93iO butchers
steers, 81 lSlt2s) stockers s3oJ9SD feeders,
sl.2OC035O cows, 81 40@l7O heifers, $L759l8o
bulls, $2.60(1325 Texas steers, s2SoI@3g) west
ern range steers, and s3.O)0too veal calves
sheep-Estimated receipts for the day,
1000; sales ranged ut $l.759S15 Westerns
sl75t2 40 Texas, sl.7SlDa ~ natives. and s2.SJ .
400 lambs
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-15

It will cure Tho orst forms of female
complaints, all ovarian troables, inaam-
nation and liberation, falling and dis
placements of the womb, and consequent
spinal weakness, and is peSxNarly
adapted to the change of life.
Every time IL will cure