The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-09-15


John and Henry Bender, aged 0 and
IL, attempted to kindle fire at Cleve-
land Sunday morning with kerosene,
but the can exploded, saturating the
boys with the blazing fluid, literally
roasting them alive. and causing their
death in great agony few hours later.
Denver dispatches allege that in his
fight at the primaries against W0lcott's
nomination for the gOvernorship, Ia
Dor stood at the polls and paid from 50
to SO each for votes, expanding 500
600 in his own ward, and then getting
beaten.
The marshal of Dallas City, Iowa,
after pursuing man who had stolen a
skiff, shot him dead as he climbed the
bank at Fort Madison. The crew of
the steamer Leclaire Belle pronounce
the shooting willful murder and an
investigation is in progress.
Charles Hicks called James Tuite out
of his house near CroftOn, Mich, Mon
day night, accused him of being over
attentive to Mrs. Hicks, and in the al
tercation that ensued shot him through
the heart. The jealous murderer is in
jail.
Bronco Sam, a cOlored ranchero in
the vicinity of Laramie City, last spring
married Cherokee squaw, grew jeal-
Gus, and Saturday evening shot her,
and then himself. The wife died Tues
day morning, and Bronco will not long
survive.
Dreadful destruction was worked in
Florida by the tornado of Sunday night.
The cotton crop suffered severely, and
in some places was totally destroyed.
Buildings were torn down, trees and
fences leveled, and many persons were
killed by the storm.
The National Department of Agri-
culture places the yield of winter wheat
at $50, 000, 900 bushels, and spring wheat
at lac, 900 900 bushels. The September
condition of potatoes has declined, but
prospects are favorable for a crop of
Isl, 000, 900 bushels.
John Brown, Jr., found the skeleton
of his brother Watson in the rooms of
the knights of Pythias at Martinville,
Indiana, identifying it by bullet hole
in the backbone, and will inter 1t in the
family cemetery at North Elba, New
York.
The election in Maine resulted in the
election of the republican ticket by a
plurality of 1000, with an increased
majority of both branches of the legis-
lature. Plaisted's losses, which are
quite apparent, are fairly distributed
over the state.
} An infected mattress thrown into
the Mississippi river lodged on State
island, and carried the smallpox to
laborer named Hunter. He went to
Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, where he
died, and there are now five cases un-
der treatment at that point.
An extraordinary falling off in the
production of the Cherry Grove district
caused excitement and an advance in
the Bradford oil market. where the sales
on Tuesday reached the unprecedented
figure of {. 1892, 900 barrels. The yield
of one well decreased in forty-six days
from 2,1S0 barrels in twenty-four hours
to one barrel.
The leading journal of st. Paul prints
copies of several letters from Chicago
wholesale merchants to retail dealers in
Minnesota, inclosing passes and tender
ing any service i'll the power of the
writer's, and proceeds to make vigorous
objections to this method of securing
trade.
A large number of leading Georgians
have petitiOned Governor Colquitt to
appoint Ben. Ii. Hill, Jr., to fill the un-
expired term of his father in the SEN
, ate, and it is probably that the move
ment will succeed. The governor and
the chief justice are candidates for the
full term.
Two more iron-mills at pittsburg re-
sumed work Monday, and were sur
rounded all day by angry union men.
John REILLY, striker who went back
to duty, will to-day be hanged in efligy.
Brown, Bonnell & Co., of Youngstown,
o., opened up Tuesday with non-union
men.
Charles S. Carter, of Brooklyn, re-
ceived SIT, 900 from the Lake Shore road
for injuries received in the Ashtabula
disaster, and kept intoxicated for four
years, when he shuffled off this mortal
coil. Now his widow sues a saloon
keeper for $4,000 for causing Carter to
become a drunkard.
The secret order known as the Sons
of Columbia, claiming lightweight
thousand members in the state of New
York, is running line of steamboats,
on the Hudson. carrying passengers up
to Poughkeepsie for ten cents, in order
to test the cost of water transportation
and to settle the question of monopo-
ly of docks.
The latest outbreak of race prejudice
occurred in the jail at Dubuque. Two
negro roustabouts had stolen $315 from
a woman sick with ague on the steam
er Mary Morton, and were imprisoned.
Several Irishmen in the jail gave them
a welcome with chair rounds and table
legs, and it required all the force in the
courthouse to quell the riot.
The iron-finishers Of Pittsburg, rep
resenting five thousand men, met We'd
nesday and discussed the situation for
four hours, resolving that the time had
arrived to terminate the strike. Presi-
dent Jarrett has called meeting of
puddlers, and if they fail to fall into
line the finishers will withdraw from
the Amalgamated association.
Rev. w. III. Scott, president of the
University of Ohio, is being tried by a
Methodist tribunal at Athens for deny
ing the trinity, vicarious atonement,
the divinity of Christ, total depravity,
and the resurrection of the body. AS
to the latter charge, an attempt will be
made to justify by citing similar views
of Bishop Foster.
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