The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-16
CONDENSED NEWS.

Fleming's flaX-mills, valued at $1,000.
Counterfeit $40 treasury notes, of the
series of 1875, are afloat in Boston.
The death is announced of John Scott
Russell, the famous English engineer.
Foxhall, the American racer, won the
Ascot gold cup in England Thursday,
taking 1000 sovereigns.
Thirteen of the principal business
houses of LIE Mars, Iowa, were burned
Sunday, the loss being estimated at $780,
600.
The army-worm has appeared at sew
eral points in the Kanawha valley, but
has not done much damage.
The democrats of Arkansas are quite
certain to nominate Judge j. ii. Berry,
of Benton county, for governor.
New oats from Texas sold at auction
in st. Louis at 55 cents per bushel in
bulk.
Fifteen business places at Dowagiac,
Mich, were burned Tuesday, the loss
footing up $50, 1000.
Rev. Cornelius Brett, who bears the
Garfield memorial volume prepared for
Queen Victoria, has sailed for Europe.
The Apollo iron-works of Laufman &
Co., near Pittsburgh, have started up
successfully with men from outside the
union.
Algernon Sartoris, son-in-law of
General Grant, is hunting and fishing
at Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
An invoice of 5000 bushels of new
Texas wheat was sold at auction on the
produce exchange In New York at S1.50
per bushel.
wheat corner in Chicago is being engi-
neered by p. ID. Armour, John Plankin-
ton, and Alexander Mitchell.
Samuel III. Adams. the noted builder
of Baltimore, who claimed to have
erected the first store on the ruins of
Chicago, has passed from earth.
Charles Mari, who fought beside Col
onel Hecker in the German revolution
in 1s4S, was buried Sunday at Lincoln,
Illinois.
Peter LOutZenheiser, a pioneer of
Stark County, Ohio, died Thursday, as
also A. Ritter, of Youngstown, who
served four years under Napoleon /.
The democrats of Alabama unani-
mOusly nominated E. A. O'Neal for
governor. III. G. Tompkins was select
ed for attorney general.
For the third time in its history, the
Lehigh colliery at Wilkesbarre, Pa, is
on fire, and one hundred men are en-
gagged in fighting the flames.
John S. Prince, of Boston, rode a BIZ
cycle fifty miles in 2 hours, SO minutes,
and 10 seconds, beating the American
record.
Several petitions have been filed at
Washington for the pardon of Thomas
Ballard the famous counterfeiter, who
is serving a term in the penitentiary at
Albany.
A break occurred Fridayi in the reser-
voir at Portland, Me-, cutting a chasm
ten feet wide in the billy part Of Grove
street, and carrying away pavements,
curbstones, and shade trees.
Reports from nearly all parts of Min
nesota are to the effect that corn is
making upon lost time, while wheat on
high land. begins to show the need of
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The board of trade of East st. Louis
has raised a rumpus by appointing an
inspector to overhaul all grain arriving
by rail or going out by barge, and make
it conform to Chicago standards.
Fred w. Newburgh, who secured $50
600 from the Ohio state treasury by for
geries, pleaded guilty ON two out of fif-
ty-twO indictments, and was taken to
the penitentiary for six years.
Recent rains at Denver have rendered
20,000,O00 brick unfit for the market. A
waterspOut nea the city swept away
some wooden houses, and caused a loss
of two lives. ~
A bin has been introduced in the
Spanish chamber of deputies for the
immediate abolition of slavery in Cuba,
with civil rights for the emancipated.
Rev. DIR. Burns, of Hamilton, Ont,
after a trial of ten days before the Lon
don conference, has been found in full
accord with the doctrines of Method
ism
Boston capitalists have commenced
work on the Bee line railroad, which is
to run from San Diego, CAL, through
a.
Hewitt Chandler, a leader among the
Shakers at New Gloucester, Me-, quiet
ly proceeded to Boston with Mary I'll.
Grant, where a clergyman made them
one.
Three MormOns have started for
Washington, to present to congress the
new state constitution for Utah. Ex-
Delegate Hooper declined to make the
trip.
Judge Temple, of the California SUI
perior court, has made, perpetualthe in
junction obtained by the farmers in the
Sacramento valley against the hydraul-
ic mining companies.
The authorities of the insane asylum
at Utica, N. Y, suppressed for one
month the publication Of the fact that
David Poulton, a crazy convict, killed
an inmate.
I. L. Baker. who for a week past has
been on trial at Lancaster, o., for EN-
bezzling $4,000 while county treas
urer, has fled the town, forfeiting S4,-
600 bail.
A heavy rain-storm at indianapolis
flooded Pogue's run and swept away a
rotten foot-bridge at the depot tunnel,
by which eight persons were drowned.
The destruction to property is estimat-
ed at $500, 600.
Envoy Prescott. in his latest letter to
Secretary Frelinghuysen, expressed the
opinion that the hesitation of Chill to
make peace arises from the conviction
that the Peruvians will never negotiate
in earnest while they have hopes of in
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