The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-24
VERY LATEST.

SuDScrlDeQ Sl6O, 600 toward the erection
of a hundred-ton furnace.
The authorities of Boston are about
to introduce the police patrol system
which originated in Chicago.
The newest thing in Rhode Island is
proposition to nominate William
Sprague for governor next year.
The plaza in Monterey, Mexico, is
lighted by electricity, and street-cars
will commence running next week.
The Pennsylvania road has given or
ders for six thousand cars and fifty-fve
engines.
Judge j. l.. Caldwell, a leading men,
Der of the bar of Kentucky, fell dead of
apOplexy at Shelbyville.
Jim Mccullough, a troublesome citi-
zen of HOlgate, Ohio, was placed in the
lookup to get sober, when he fired the
structure and burned himself to crisp.
BY an explosion of dynamite in Bur-
rypOrt. Wales, three girls and two men
were killed, and several other persons
were wounded.
A site for an imported cattle quaran-
tine has been purchased at Waltham,
Massachusetts, by the United States
cattle commission.
The business men of Chattanooga
have appointed committees to arrange
exposition in that city in 1884.
Captain Hopkins has been dismissed
from the naval service for abandoning
the Pensacola navy-yard when yellow
fever made its appearance.
General Wolseley and ninety officers
proceeded to Windsor castle, Tuesday
morning, where the queen decorated
them for their work in Egypt.
A dangerous lunatic, named Sanders,
was arrested in London for sending
letter to Gladstone containing threats
of murder.
The common council of Buffalo elect
ed Capt. Nj. Nj. Drake to fill the unex-
pired term of Grover Cleveland as may
or.
Andrew Nupfer, postmaster at Wood
vile, Ohio. has been arrested for de-
stroying Matchmaker, and has confess
ed his guilt.
w. III. Cunningham, workman in
the rolling mills at Birmingham, Ala
bama, leaped head foremost into the
blast furnace.
The wife of Engineer Melville, hav-
ing completely regained her sanity, has
been released from the asylum at Nor
ristOwn. Pennsylvania.
Secretary FOlger is to put before con-
greSS the question of purchasing and
Al per cent. bonds in open market, and
ask for instructions.
Albert Pell, NJ. p, has left London
for the United States, to inquire into
the operation of the large cattle ranches
of the west.
The members of the fish exchange of
Boston unanimously passed resOlu-
tion to dissolve, having been ignomini-
Ously defeated by fleet of fishermen.
Ten years. penal servitude is the sem
tence Of William Brookshaw, who sent
a threatening letter to the prince of
Wales.
At his own request, Rear Admiral j.
Blakely Creighton has been placed on
the retired list, having been in the SER
vice over forty years.
Reports from 500 townships in Mich
igan show the area Of seeded wheat to
be 3 per cent. less than in 1881, and the
condition to be 80 per cent.
Abraham Marks, an attorney, struck
the opposing counsel in New York
court, and Judge Larremore sent him
down for thirty days for contempt.
The Northern Pacific road has closed
contract with land syndicate for
three million acres east of the Missouri
at ST. per acre.
The Garfield monument committee
of Cleveland is meeting with every en-
couragement in it's effort to raise $780,
600 among the Knights Templars.
Professors Soule, of the University
of California, has discovered three new
spots on the sun, which can be seen
through smoked glass with the naked
eye.
b. s. Waldron, a plasterer in Kansas
City, has enrolled company of thirty
three men to go to the Oklahoma cOun-
try with a years provisions and pre-
empt homesteads.
A glazier at Washington, in whose
putty-box lodged one of the bullets
fired at President Garfield by Guiteau,
has petitioned the board of audit to
give him position as Waterman.
A glut of live hogs is reported at Buff
falo, where prices are declining Is to 20
cents per day on account of extra ship
mOents firm Ohio, Michigan, and In
diana.
The steamship Hermoda brought to
New York fifty-one sheep of the famous
Rambouillet breed, imported by Mansi
Carp, of Texas. Some of them are
worth over $500.
The case of Samuel Wilkeson against
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher for breach
of contract has been dismissed, and the
defendant was granted an extra allow
ance Of $3.50.
The famous Foster divorce case in
New Haven has been compromised.
The parties are to separate, the wife
getting the two minor children and
alimony to the amount Of $4,000.
John Herzer, resident of Milwaukee,
who weighed 1856 pounds. was buried
Tuesday. He literally choked to death,
and no coffin sufficiently large to receive
his remains could be obtained.
The Pullman Car company has made
a rate of $50 per day, with single por-
ter, for coaches used by Knights Tenn
plars in going to the conclave at San
Francisco.
Mrs. Fanny Creighton, of Lithopolis,
Ohio, who served three years in the
penitentiary for killing her aged hus-
band with an AK, was on Tuesday shot