The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-07-21
CONDENSED NEWS.


Colorado by Commissioner Loring. as
an experiment toward reclaiming the
desert sections by irrigation.
Two Louisville editors. Colonel G. f.,
Sears and John ID. Guines, INDUCED in
a shooting ARRAY Monday, the former
receiving slight wound.
/. An English syndicate is negotiating
at Milwaukee for 100000 acres of land
in southern Minnesota, probably be-
longing to the st. Paul road.
The Mississippi river is subsiding in
the vicinity of Alton. The damage to
crops around Mitchell is estimated at
100000.
The convict labor in the Wisconsin
penitentiary has been secured for five
years, at half dollar per head per day,
by M. ID. Wells a. Co., of Chicago.
Secretary Teller promises to have
Captain Payne summarily elected from
Indian Territory in the event of anoth-
er raid. ~ ~ ,-.
Seventeen Russian Jews, who have
been handling freight at New York,
quit work and applied for admission in
to the union.
The list of bodies recovered and per-
sons missing at the scene of the collis-
ion on the Ohio river has swollen to
sixty-eight.
The United States Rolling-Stock COM
pany proposes to establish at Cum
mings. near Chicago, or at Hammond.
Ind, work shops of the first magnitude.
The gold in the assay Office at New
York as shown by the recent annual
examination, is So ,6O2,S5 in coin and
SIS, 330, S39 in bullion. H
Charles Colvig, chief of scouts at San
Carlos agency, and four Indians were
ambushed by asmall band of renegades,
Colvig and three men being killed.
James B. Price, indicted with Gener-
al Brady in one of the stronger star
route cases, is said to be fugitive in
Canada.
1t is stated by the Freendn's Journal,
OF Dublin, that the government intends
to employ blOodhounds to track muir
derers. rG ae
The first bale of new cotton was re-
ceived at Houston, Tex, Thursday af-
ternoon and sold to Carson e. Ellis for
$3.50.
Serious riots are reported at Trede-
gar, Wales. Welsh miners sacked the
Irish quarter. Several persons were
killed and the troops were called out to
preserve order.
AT a meeting in Buffalo, representa-
tives of all the railroads leading west
ward decided to advance freight rates
from 3 to 10 cents per hundred pounds
July "a.
In New York, in the space of forty
hours, 10000 barrels of freight were ia
ken off the steamship City of Montreal,
an equal amount carried on board, and
900 tons of coal thrown in.
A whale caught fire on a railway dock
in Boston, and the fire department. was
called out to save the skeleton. He had
been mounted for exhibition, and the
loss is stated at $4,000.
Rev. DIR. G. A. Lotion, of st. Louis,
who was recently involved in scandal
Gus adventure on train, will preach
his farewell sermon next Sunday. He
intends to go into business in that city.
+. i. Jones, photographer of Louis
vile, Miss, who had previously killed
four men, shot in cold blood q boy
named Tom Jones, and was only saved
from lynchipg by a strong guard.
~ In the face of one of the most abund-
ant wheat harvests ever known, the
price for August delivery was forced
up cents Monday by the manipulators
on the Chicago board of trade.
A lady residing near Wabash, Ind,
suffering from an affection Of the stom-
ach, has eaten little or nothing for the
past two months, being kept from star
walton by injections.
Kansas is harvesting the largest
wheat crop in its history, the average
yield being 20.69 bushels per acre, and
the total product 30,263,7l1 bushels.
Corn is thriving, but backward.
David Carr Aldrich and other Chica-
nf -E0JI
charter for the Mckinney Tubular
company, with a capital stock of ST.
100000.
The body of Kilgour, who murdered
Gardner and shot Marshal Bryant at
Belmont, KY, was found in the woods,
terribly mutilated by hogs and buzz
yards.
Scientific investigation proves that
the boquet which Mrs. Scoville endeav-
ored to carry to Guiteau, contained
enough arsenic to end the lives of a
dozen murderers.
Inc returns or the primaries aii over
the State of Georgia show that Ste
phens will 60 into the convention with
a majority of perhaps two-thirds for
Governor.
John Scullen, principal owner Of the
Louis, has been appointed generalman-
ager Of the Mexican National railroad,
with salary Of $25, 600 per year.
The members of the lumber firm of
King, Quick 81 King, of Lowell, Mich,
have been arrested on charge of steal
ing 900 worth of logs from Flat riv-
er during the past three years. '"t~
The assessed valuation of real estate
in New York is 81 OBS, 203, S16, and Of
personal property $19S,2725S2 The
amount to be raised by taxation, this
year, is 500, 412.S31.
Six American citizens, who followed
horse-thieves across the Rio Grande,
have just been released from Jail at
Piedras Negras, and intend to present
the facts of their maltreatment to the
ooaratarv nf etata
A band of forty Apaches attacked the
town of Globe, ARIZONA. last Friday,
and were repulsed in fight which last
ed half an hours Four companies of
the Sd cavalry have gone in pursuit
from Fort Thomas. The raiders are
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