The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1897-02-12

ranch owner and pioneer settler, near
Ukiah, Cal, was murdered by a Next
can employed as laborer on the ranch.
Judge Overs, the Leadville, Colo,
jurist who Is charged with being too
fond Of organized labor, has been pro-
hibited by the supreme court from try
ing the alleged union labor murderers
Of Fireman O'Keefe.
The st. Louis authorities will prose-
cute bucket-shop keepers and close the
tape games.
Saturday, Feb. @.
John Giesen, a German, took a horse
away from a crowd of boys at st. Louis
and drove it to his hut and killed it
for food.
Postmaster General Wilson recon-
mends an appropriation of 100000 to
cover the expenses of the meeting of
the congress of nations composing the
Postal Union.
Port Darwin, a small but important
town in Australia, has been almost en-
tirely wiped out by one of those fearful
hurricanes which periodically strike the
coast of Australia. destroying property
and very often life.
Henceforth the commissioned officers
movement organized by Commander
and Mrs Ballington Booth, will be
vested with the powers conferred upon
ministers of the gospel.
Charles Radbourn, the noted base ball
player, many years pitcher for the Bos-
ton and Providence National League
clubs, died at Bloomington. Ills, of par
esis, aged A.
The trainers of the new tariff law are
counting upon an increase of $50, 900, 900
in the revenue above what is yielded by
the present law.
Monday, Feb. 8.
Charles Moore, of Moline, Ills, be-
came violently insane in the Junction
hotel in Defiance, o., and attempted
to murder Louis West, night clerk with
a cheese knife.
Mrs. Merriwether, the mother of the
attorney who most efficiently prosecuted
the murderous Brute Duestrow. is a
petitioner for the pardon of the st.
Louis double murderer. Insanity.
DIR. O'Reilly, family physician to
Presidents Harrison and Cleveland, has
gone to Europe to bring home his insane
wife who suddenly took passage across
the ocean while demented.
The house committee on elections will
report in favor of Judge Blacks title
to the seat claimed by Tom" Watson,
late Populist candidate for vice presi-
dent.
Congress will probably appropriate
money at this session to restore the
historic frigate Constitution.
Captain /. Smith, president of the
irct nj a
has gone to California for relief from
consumption caused, the doctors say,
by inhaling it from diseased cattle.
Tuesday, Feb. o.
The senate has confirmed the nomina-
ton in executive session of Isaac II.
Lionberger, of Missouri, to be assistant
attorney general.
The Westerly r. l., Wooden company
has started up its mill after an eighteen
months shut down.
A Kansas Populist legislator has a
scheme to dispose of all state offices at
auction and do away with elections.
London is to be- fortified against a
possible invasion by forces landing on
the southern coast. The plan of fort
works dates as far back as the time of
the Duke of wellington.
The quarantine line against splenetic
fever in live stock includes the following
states: California, Texas, Arkansas,
louisiana, Mississippi. Alabama, Flor
ida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Car
DINA and Virginia, portions of Tonnes
see and the Indian Territory.
A dispatch from Bombay says that
the plague is getting beyond all control.
Even the vultures on the towers of
silence are dying.
Leading merchant tailors from all
parts of the country are gathered at
Cleveland for a convention.
Wednesday, Feb. 10.
Sneak thieves stole $500 from the Of
flee of "A. Boenert & Co., steamship
agents, 80 La Sale street, Chicago.
Undertaken Fox, of Urbana, Ills, was
about to prepare the body of a young
woman for burial when he discovered
that she was not dead Physicians re-
stored consciousness. 1t is believed she
was poisoned and arrests are likely to
follow.
At Ottumwa, la, fire in Fleming's
shoe store and Pallster Bros cigar
factory caused loss of $4,000, lightly
insured.
Senator Harriss condition is reported
considerably improved.
Miss Flo Woodbury., of Danville, Ills,
has been selected as delegate to the
national meeting of the League of
American Wheelmen. She is the first
woman ever elected as delegate to this
assembly
The calling of convention of Sea ISL
and cotton planters, to be held in Black
abaar Ia on fhp nth IA fhia vnapfh IN
demand a protective tariff against the
admission of Egyptian cotton, is one of
the political surprises of the day
II is reported at London that Sir Phil
Up Currie will succeed Sir Julian
Pauncefote at Washington.