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

papers, found a.deed covering 240 acres
of land in Wayne county, Michigan,
which he purchased in 1857. The docu-
ment has been missing for twenty years.
The Illinois department Of agricul-
ture reports the prospect favorable for
more than average yield of wheat per
acre, although the army-worm has strip.
ped off the blades in some of the south
ern counties.
William +. Weld removed from Bos-
ton to Philadelphia to escape high tax
alton, and died in the latter city. I'M
der the succession tax law the state of
Pennsylvania claims $3.50 900, and has
attached securities of the estate repre-
senting SIS, 000, 600.
Francis =. Weed, of Newburgh, N.
Y, caused the arrest of DR.. M. NJ.
Hedges for conspiracy with w. M. Scott
to defraud him of $4,000 at poker.
Weed has already paid defendants two
thirds of the amount, but has discover
ed the plot.
There is the widest alarm at Bridge
water, Dakota, Over the outbreak of six
cases OF smallpox. a pest house has
been ordered erected n mile outside
the town, trains are not allowed a stop,
and the village of Salem has establish
ed a quarantine.
Professor K. a. Haight, of the uni
versity at Vincennes, Ind, and Miss
Gertrude Adams, a teacher in the in
stitution, have created "a great scandal
by jointly occupying a room in a Terre
Haute hotel under false names. Their
designations have been requested.
The forest fire in Clark county, Wis
consin, is rushing northward through
a solid body of the best pine, and can
only be quenched by rain. Hundreds
of men are engaged in setting back
fires. Hewettsville was saved by a
change in the direction of the wind.
The wife of Frank Mason, one of the
Brookfield bank-robbers, accompanied
by Harry Moore. went to the farm, and
found the bottle of gold which she had
secreted in the ground under the shed.
The fact was quite apparent that other
persons had been digging for it.
Wheat harvesting has commenced in
southern Kansas, where the berry has
grown to such an unusual size as to
protrude from the hull. The yield on
a tract of one thousand acres near Par
sons is estimated at thirty-two bushels
per acre.
At an early hour Saturday morning a
masked mob of one hundred men burst
the doors of the jail at Lawrence, Kan,
secured Peter Vinegar, Isaac King, and
George Robertson, and hung them to
the bridge timbers, for the recent muir
der of Daniel Bausman.
The Mexican congress, DESTROYS to en-
courage the investment of American
capital in mining, has repealed the ex-
port duty on silver coin and bullion,
which has been in existence ever since
Spanish rule, to take effect November1.
A company of representative negroes
from Mississippi is on its way to Chi
huahua, to prospect in the agricultural
and mining region of Mexico, where a
location is sought for a colony of 200
families. ~a u
The steamship Pera, which sailed
from Montreal May 81, with two hun
dred head of cattle. struck an iceberg
and fOundered off Cape Race. Thirty
of the crew were picked up by the
steamship Lake Manitoba, but it is
feared that ten lives have been lost.
The Jacksonville Car Company whose
stock Is held almost exclusively in st.
Louis, has called a meeting of its cred
itOrs to obtain q compromise on liabili-
ties of $4,000. The main trouble arose
from the reputation of a contract by a
southern railway.
Representative Rosecrans desires it
known that the Ocean Shore railroad is
Incorporated in California, Nevada, and
Utah, is backed by some of the most
prominent railroad men in the country,
and work will be commenced as soon as
entrance to San Francisco is secur-
ed.
AT IL o'clock Tuesday evening flames
appeared in Miller's book-binding es-
adjustment, in Victoria square, Mon
treal, and quickly spread to the dry
goods stores Of s. Greenshields, Son.&
Co. and Mcintyre 81 French, and thence
to Clendinning's stove warehouse and
the cabinet-hOuse of Henry j. Shaw.
The block was the finest in the city, be-
mated at 81, 450, 1000.
A band of one thousand ormore Crows
and ArapahOes has been seen on Pow
and one hundred lodges are
reported near the fort. AS they are
said to be killing cattle for consump-
ton, scouts have been sent out to learn
what is on foot.
An immense crowd gathered Satur-
day at the spot where Colonel William
Crawford was burned at the stake by
Indians a century ago, near Upper San
O. General John. G. Lee and
Rev. d. T. Moody delivered addresses.
Ex-President Hayes and Governor Eos
attended the exercises Sunday.
AT Maiden, England, Sir Claude de
made an ascension with an
aeronaut named Simmonds, intending
to o the channel. The car struck a
house, and De Crespigny fell out and
broke his leg. Simmonds was swept
onward, and was seen over Calais in the
afternoon.
I~ron-workers In Pennsylvania are or
yanizing fishing clubs to camp out for
the summer. The mills are undergo
repairs, and have sent their horses
to pasture. AT the Bay View works,at
employees and officers of the
company are holding a prolonged con-
Nearly five hundred manufacturers,
shippers, and merchants, representing
S100. ZOO, 900 of capital, met at Syracuse,
Y. Y, and organized under the presi-
lency of John Il. Rathbone, the Albany
A committee was APP
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