The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1881-07-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

The star route cases go over until October
Fifteen hundred Wisconsin loggers hav,
struck for reduction of hours.
The village Wallace, sixteen miles north o.
Menominee, was destroyed by fire Monday
morning. The place consisted OF saw mil
and twenty other buildings.
The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago
aud the Chicago and Indianapolis railroads
have been consolidated by the stockholders.
Twenty-eight switchmen at Peoria, Ill.
struck Monday, and In row between them
and some st. Louis men, who We're to take
their places, one man was fatally and another
badly wounded.
Two outlaws killed five Indians near Akin
MIMI, Monday. The murderers were arrested
Paul Held, Minnesota farmer, became In
sane on Saturday and killed his wife and five OF
his children, wounded two other children des-
perately, and killed himself.
Geo. w. ingalls,, late an Indian agent, is in
dicted for presenting false vouchers.
The President is doing well. The physicians
| and others in attendance are quite confident,
although the official announcement that the
President Is out of danger does not yet come.
1t is intended before long to move Mr.. Garfield
| to Old Point Comfort and thence, after little
time, to Long Branch.
A consolidation of the iron Interests OF st.
Louis and Southeastern Missouri has been ef-
fected and will hereafter be known rs the Mis-
souri, Iron Co. 1t has capital OF $l00O0000
and will control 30 per cent Of the iron pro-
duct Of the state.
The Universal Life Insurance Co. Of
New York was suspended three years
ago, but managed Ia secure cOndi.
| tiOnal reinstatement and has maintained
a precari0us existence since has final
ly succumbed and its president is dOding
its interviewers.
The Syracuse N. Y. Opera house and sur
rounding property has been burned. Loss
$460000.
Two more star route men arrested in Phila.
elphia.
It s reported that public school teacher at
ChiIlNothe has fallen heir to an estate In
Scotland valued at $2,500000.
The Treasury Department has decided that
journalists can bring certain books for their
Libraries into the U, s. without duty, as tools
of trade
The appearance of grasshoppers Is reported
from Dakota.
During thunder storm the Chicago br ide
well was struck by lightning and three in
mates were injured.
A boiler explosion at Marietta, o., killed
three men and badly injured two others.
Sitting Bull and 200 Of his tribe have sur
rendered.
A deputy u. s. collector was shot by moon
sinners In South Carolina. t
Senator Ben Hill of Georgia underwent a
surgical operation at Philadelphia for an affec-
ton OF the tongue.
Geo. w. Seward, deaf mute, was arrested
In Philadelphia yesterday while going from
door to door OF that city soliciting aid to de- |
fend the assassin Guteau. In reply TO a cues |
ton Seward wrote on the slate 'Guiteau is a |
Frenchman, am Frenchman, he Is all right |
TO kill Garfield" The prisoner was arraigned |
this morning and remanded for further hear |
ing.
The export Of provisions, tallow and dairy |
products for the first half Of this year exceed |
the same period last year 10 per cent.
A confederate soldiers monument has been |
unveiled at Culpepper, Va
President Garfelds mother, who is at So |
lon, Ohio, Is doing well. she was not as sick |
as reported.
DIR. Bliss thinks that the President has Loot Is |
10 30 pounds. Signs OF granulation indicate |
the approaching healing Of the wound.
1t Is reported that dangerous cattle disease
exists at Halifax, N. s. DIR. Il. M. Thayer, OF
the Treasury Cattle Commission, has been or
dsred there 10 investigate It.