The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-07-28
A YACHT is being constructed at Bris-


estimated cost is $4,000.
After day of intense heat, Tuesday,
wild storm broke over st. Paul, up
roofing trees and SCATTERING windows.
Several sail-boats were capsiZed at
Minnetonka.
An ex-alderman of Brooklyn, named
James Dunno, is matched to fight Tug
| Wilson in Louisville or Mississippi for
$500 side and the championship Of
the world.
The Russian creoles in Alaska are be-
| ing decimated by scarlet fever and
measles. Brandy is said to be greatly
needed, but its Importation is peni-
Tertiary offense.
The Indians of the Turtle mountain
country have posted notices warning
white men against encroaching on
their lands until treaty is made with
the government.
A birthday party at Kinmundy, ILL.,,
was attended by thirty gentlemen and
! fifteen ladies', each of whom was over
20 years of age. The gathering was
skillfully photographed.
Many members of the Navajo tribe
are off the reservation, and are daily
committing depredations. One band
was driven back to the agency by q
company of New Mexican militia.
The steamer Rainbow, with seventy
five passengers on board, struck the
rocks at Louisville and settled in shall
low water. She remained all night in
the Indiana chute.
Colonel Comins, of Winnemucca,
New, has given to the trustees of Mid
dlebury college deed to the Rose Creek
silver mine, valued at $50, 900, on condi-
ton that the proceeds be used in build
ing the Comins hall of science.
At the Indian agency near Arkansas
City, party of Cheyennes and Conan
ches recently dropped down on the
Otoes and NeZ Perces, and urged them
to take the war-path and secure larger
rations of beef.
BY a collision on the Little Miami
road, near Fosters Crossing, o., two
engines were wrecked and two freight
cars thrown into the river. K. III. Nc
Caleb, judge advocate general of Louis
lana, was one of the five persons in
jured.
The threatened war in railway rates
to Kansas City has probably been ar
rested by the plan of placing all the un-
limited tickets in the hands of a joint
agent at that point, each road to be al
lowed one-fourth of the business.
Capitalists Of Milwaukee and Chica-
go have purchased from the st. Paul
road 5000 acres of fine farming lands
in Martin and Jackson counties, south
ern Minnesota, and will establish a
colony of Germans and Scandinavians.
Lake Michigan has yielded up the
corpse of Earnest Spencer, whose mys-
FERROUS disappearance caused such a
profound sensation in Milwaukee, the
belief having gained ground that he
had been abducted for a ransom.
A dispatch early Tuesday morning
from st. Thomas, says: One of the as
sassins Of Lord Frederick Cavendish
has been arrested in Puerto Cabello.
He gave the names of his accOmplices.
lie has been sent to Caracas, the capt.
tai of Venezuela.
The mangled remains of six negroes
were found Monday morning on the
Mobile and Ohio track, near De Soto,
Miss. They had recently been paid,
and one colored man has been arrested
on charge of having killed and robbed
the party.
A revivalist named Van Valkenburg,
in attempting to hold meetings in How
ard county, Arkansas, met the Opposi-
ton of gang of outlaws headed by
man named Merrill. In an attempt at
capture, the latter was killed, and the
vengeance of his band is feared.
Twenty-Five electric lamps are being
placed in the mining exposition build
ing at Denver, which is to open next
week. Utah has contributed q block
of refined silver valued at $11S,000.
There are three samples of high-grade
ore weighing over ton each.
The socialists of Chicago on Sunday
held meeting in honor of John McAu-
life, an agitatOr who took his own life
at Denver. Morgan, one of the speak
ers, thought McAuliffe should have
made his end glorious by sacrificing
some man whose life was Infamous.
Four hundred Hebrew refugees have
for several weeks lounged about Castle
Garden because the men refused to go
to work and let their families be sent
to Wards island. Patience having
been exhausted, the superintendent
sent the women and children to the
island and turned the men into the
street.
Miss Emily MacTavish, of Baltimore,
n granddaughter of General Winfield
Scott, and a prominent society lady, en-
tered convent last May, and was on
Sunday invested with the nuns habit,
under the name of Sister Mary Agnes.
The lady is exceedingly handsome, fine
ly educated, and has a private fortune
of $500,O00.
The almshouse at Erie, Pa, which
contains three hundred paupers, is heat
ed and lighted by natural gas. An idi-
otto inmate got into the boiler-roOm
and turned on the supply valves, and
was nearly disemboweled by the explo-
sion which followed, the building being
partly wrecked.
Anthony Comstock, followed by nine
policemen in citizens dress, raided
poOl-rOom in Barclay street, New York.
Fourteen employees were taken to the
Tombs, and $3.50 in money and $4,000
pool tickets seized. The penalty for
pool-selling is $1,000 fine or imprison-
ment for one year.
The British government has charter
ed thirteen steamships plyingto Amer
lean ports, to convey troops to Alex
andria. The teams are not known, but
on former occasions the war Office has
paid 20 to % shillings per gross ton
monthly. in addition to furnishing coal