The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-12-01
VERY LATEST.

Electrict lights have been largely in
trOduced in the government establish
ments of Japan.
A bloody conflict is said to be in
progress in Nevada between the Wa
shoe and Piute Indians.
Notice of reduction Of wages In De-
cember has been posted on the steel
mills at Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Jay GOuld's latest purchase was an
acre in Woodlawn cemetery, covering
an entire hill for $4,000.
A dividend of per cent. has been de-
clared On the preferred stock Of the
Erie road.
The Canadian Pacific company has
voted to raise the capital stock from
$4,000, 900 to 500, 100000.
Hon. Lewis d. Campbell, who died
Sunday at Hamilton, Ohio, served sew
eral terms in congress, and as minister
to Mexico under President johnson.
DIR. G. G. Cox, formerly commissioner
of pensions, a man OF fine literary
attainments died in Washington Satur-
day evening.
A criminal was publicly beheaded in
Copenhagen in manner so bungling
as to arouse the people to deep indigna-
ton.
In Paris, Monday, Gambetta shot
himself in the hand while toying with
revolver.
A bronze statue Of John Bridge, a
Puritan, was unveiled Tuesday at Cam
bridge, Massachusetts. where he flour
ished as leading spirit in 1880.
Jealousy caused John Mueller, a
TO kill his wife and himself with ra-
Dor.
Mrs. Senters, of Chattanooga, has be
come a maniac over the sentence of her
son to the penitentiary for horse-steal
ing.
General A. S. Heron, member of
congress-elect for the Sixth district of
Louisiana, died of heart disease at Ba-
ton Rouge.
Colgate Hoyt, of New York, has been
appointed government director of the
Union Pacific road, to succeed eX-Sen-
atOr Spencer.
A constable in Carroll county, Mary
land, killed one burglar and captured
two others who murdered merchant
at Reistestown while robbing his store.
The Russian police have arrested $50
students for revolutionary demOnStra-
tions. Troops fired into a gathering at
Kazan university, and killed three.
j. r. Walcott, of Minneapolis, repre-
senting large amount of capital, has
purchased four. million acres of land in
Texas for grazing purposes.
Miss Matte Chrisman, the daughter
of physician of Little Rock, took a
dose of strychnine in mistake for quiz
nine, and died in commissions.
Hon. Lot. NJ. Morrill,, of Maine, has
abandoned hope of regaining his health.
He is afflicted with chronic gastritis,
and lives almost wholly upon milk.
General Mcclellan will take up his
residence in Washington for the win
ter, greatly to the regret of society peo
pie in New York.
The Edgar Thomson steel-works at
Pittsburgh is to notify its $500 EN-
ployes of reduction of wages in all
departments in January.
Philip D. Bennett, a resident of San
Antonio for thirty-six years, the first
man to raise the union flag in Texas af-
ter the war, died Friday.
The German government has pro-
hibited the importation of American
pork after the expiration of this month.
The exports from New York have for
some time been very light.
Friends Of Hemingway, the fire-bug
OF Coldwater, Michigan, who is serving
a term of nine years in state prison,
have obtained signatures for pardon
covering $50 feet of paper.
A colored resident has brought suit
against the city of Greensboro, Ken
lucky, because his children are debar-
red from attending the public schools
for white pupils.
The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph
company was refused permission to
erect poles in the streets of Washing
ton, and was advised to try the under
ground system.
The directors of the Louisville cotton
exposition have elected b. Dupont
president. The sum of 100000 will be
raised, and extensive buildings will at
once be commenced.
The condition of the money market
in New York inspired Secretary Fol-
ger to order the redemption of 10000
600 in bonds per week, without rebate
of interest.
The congressional committee on the
needs of the Mississippi river went
down to the jetties, where soundings
showed a depth of twenty-eight to six
ty-four feet.
A contract has been let for the con-
struction Of suspension bridge across
Niagara river, below the falls, for the
use of the Canada Southern road, to be
completed next August.
A tract of $500 acres in Logan coun-
ty, Arkansas, has been purchased by
residents Of Peoria, at 81 Is per acre,
and it is intended to colonize twenty
families from Illinois next spring.
Gladstone stated in parliament that
the cost of the Egyptian campaign ag-
gregated CO, 800 600 up to October /.
since which date the expense has been
borne by Egypt.
w. l.. Fawcett, once prominent in
journalistic circles in Chicago. has ia
ken the chair of the late N. +. Whit
ing as financial editor of the New York
Evening Post.
In the district court at Omaha, Rev.
Mr.. Rockwell was convicted of using
the mails with intent to defraud. He
obtained subscriptions TO books and
papers which he never sent.
o. j. Goldrick, pioneer of Colorado,