The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1897-02-19
Saturday, Feb. 13.

Arthur PRESTON IN Australia.
Saturday, Feb. Is.
1T is reported that there is more snow
in the mountains of California now than
at any corresponding period for many
years.
A band of 1000 elk recently passed
near Craig, Routt county, Colo. having
been driven out of the mountains by
snow.
Andrew Sauer, ex-cashier of the De-
fiance, o., Savings bank has been ac-
quilted of the charge of making a false
report of the banks condition.
Linn Boyd Porter C'Albert Ross"),
the novelist, OF Cambridge, Mass, has
succumbed to melancholia and nervous
prostration and is confined in private
santarium
The Spanish minister has accepted the
offer made by Miss Clara Barton, of the
Red Cross society, to go to Cuba to care
for the wounded an relieve distress.
1t is officially stated that 2,750,0O0 per-
sons are now employed on the famine
relief work in the different districts
where the scarcity prevails in India.
Monday, Feb. 10.
The comptroller of the currency has
received notice that the Merchants Ma
tional bank, of Helena, Mont has sus-
pended.
The grand jury at Bloomington, Ills.
has indicted the mayor Of that town for,
as alleged. releasing a pickpocket from
Jail "for consideration"
Nine. Modjeska, the actress, has been
compelled to cancel all her engage
ments. She is i'll with appendicitis, but,
her physicians think, will recover with
out an operation.
Attendance at the bicycle show at
New York last week reached the ag-
gregate of $4,000.
Homer d. Martin, the well-known
landscape painter, died late Saturday
afternoon at ST. Paul
President Cleveland took home to
Washington thirty ducks for his days
shooting Saturday.
A blizzard, the worst of the season,
ragged over the northwest Saturday.
Minnesota has had over four feet of
snow this winter
Tuesday, Feb. lG.
Joseph r. Dunlop, the Chicago editor
who was convicted of sending obscene
matter through the mails COPIES Of his
J,
court to have the verdict set aside or
modified and will have to spend two
years at Joliet.
Two Italians fought a duel at the
foot of the Columbus monument in
Lake Front park, Chicago, and the chal-
lenger, Batiste Melleri was shot to
death by Joseph Bernascerie.
G. L. Merris, who was shot by Squire
Irwin Rigg at Deep Water, W. Va. is
dead. Riggs wife was visiting a neigh
Dor with others, including Merris, when
Rigg entered and fired without warning
or provocation.
The San Francisco police raided the
gambling dens of Chinatown, and ar
rested 500 Chinese.
Senior Cuestas. the official candidate,
has been elected president of the senate
of Uruguay.
Harry Davis, charged with the muir
der of Night officer Joseph Baker at
North Baltimore, o., June 81, 1896, has
been arrested in Denver, Colo. Davis
was betrayed to the police of Denver by
his younger brother. Guy.
Wednesday, Feb. II.
Mrs. Josephine Rowley, member of an
influential Roman Catholic church of
st. Louis, has been accommodated be-
cause she married DR.. w. l.. Whipple,
Protestant, in defiance of the mandates
of Archbishop Kahn.
r. M. Livingston, of Listowell, Ont,
fell off Canadian Pacific railway train
east Of Winnipeg and was killed. He
was nephew OF DR. Livingston, the
famous African explorer.
Idaho may go into competitive bust
ness with Nevada to secure prize fights
as a means of advertising the state and
promoting the art of self-defense.
The Kansas house of representatives
has voted down a bill giving women
the right TO vote for presidential cleo
tors.
According to the annual report of the
London fire department, just issued,
there is an average of ten fires q day
In the British metropolis. One hundred
and six lives were lost by fire during
1896.
Frank Frink and George Peyton were
overcome nv gas at Centeryille. Ind.