The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-17
CONDENSED NEWS.


the Lutheran church.
Sergeant Ballentine, the we'll known
English lawyer, is soon to sail for the
United States, on lecturing tour.
The New York and Texas Mexican
railway has purchased four million
acres of land for colonies.
Snow fell in Toronto Monday, and
frost was visible at Dallas and Shreve-
port.
Astronomers at Keokuk claim that
the telescope on Wednesday revealed
the figures "a on the face of the sun.
DR.. G. w. Weiner, formerly of Balti-
more, was asphyxiated in his rooms at
Denver.
Henry Boas, an election inspector in
New York, has been sent to state
prison for year for violation of the
statutes.
Thurlow Weed passed his 85th birth
day Tuesday. He is too feeble to go
outside his residence, and complains
that he can not eat.
Brave Bear, a Sioux chief, was hang.
ed at Yankton Wednesday morning fOl
the murder of a discharged soldier
named Johnson.
The failures throughout the United
and exhibit greater Importance than
usual.
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks is i'm
proving so rapidly that all fears as to
the result of his illness have been dissi-
pated.
Secretary Folger has issued call for
SIS, 900 in extended bonds bearing
81 per cent. interest, redeemable Feb
ruary 10.
After heated debate, the corpora
ton of Dublin passed resolutions
against presenting General Wolseley
with the freedom of the city.
Father Stafford, of Lindsay, Ontario,
an earnest laborer in the field of
education and temperance, died Sun
day of neuralgia of the heart.
Since the bOmbardment of Alexan-
dria, Russia has ordered seven war-ves-
sells for the Baltic and two for the
Black sea.
The Northern Pacific road has acquir-
ed from the Manitoba line a right of
way into Minneapolis, with the facill-
ties of the union depot.
Sheriff Manning, of Ell Paso, Texas,
says he knows the whereabouts of
Thomas. j. Navin,. the Adrian bond
fOrger, and desires eXtraditiOn papers
for his capture in Mexico.
Work has begun on the fire-pr0of
pension Office at Washington, located
on the square bounded by + and G and
Fourth and Fifth streets. and two years
will be required to erect the structure.
Vanderbilt has recently sold to saw
ings banks in New York, in quiet
way, no less than SIC, 900 of his 4
per cent. bonds, two points below the
current market price.
At Henrietta, Texas, r. NJ. Donley,
a young lawyer, was shot dead by g.
M. Burgess, the defeated candidate for
county judge, for sentiments uttered
in campaign speech.
Edward Hanlon, the oarsman, has
gone to Toronto to close up his bust
ness, intending to become citizen of
New York to meet the stipulations of
a challenge to row next season.
Two blocks of ground in st. Louis,
at Eighteenth and Poplar streets, has
been transferred to Jay Gould, who
has bought other large pieces in the
same vicinity, to erect union depot.
William McAvoy, the labor-green-
back politician of Erie, Pennsylvania,
driven insane by the result of the cleo
lions, was placed in Jail, where he tore
down and twisted the bars of his cell.
So great is the distress in the Egyp-
tian delta from the failure of the rice
crop that many deaths from starvation
are probable unless aid is extended by
the government.
Henry George, the land and labor re-
former, called upon Secretary Freling-
huysen Friday and expressed his salts
faction with the apology made by Eng
land for his arrest.
After discussion lasting two DAYS,
the Montreal council voted bonus of
$3.50, 900 to the Canada Pacific railway
toward the erection of a depot in the
French quarter, costing $2,000,00O.
The net earnings of the Union Paci-
fic road for the first nine months Of the
year are officially reported as SIC, 49l,-
783, an increase of $S42,957 over the
same period in 1881.
DIR. K. Lutz, of Cleveland, stepped
through the open door of an elevator
in the Blackstone block and fell thirty
feet to the stone basement, fracturing
his skull.
Mr.. L. 2. Letter, of Chicago, has pur
chased of the widow of General Marcy
a connections residence in Lafayette
square, Washington. His offer of ST.
600 per month for the season for a
furnished house was declined.
The governor of Virginia has COM
muted to imprisonment for life the
sentence of Mary Booth, negro girl of
IA years, who was to have been hanged
at Surrey Court-H House for poisoning
Mrs. r. @. Gray and Travis Jones.
Pope Barrow, one of the leading law
yers of Georgia, has been elected to fill
the unexpired senatorial term of Ben
III. Hill, a son of the latter receiving
90 votes. Ex-Governor COlquitt secured
the long term, after bitter contest.
Thirty-two states are represented at
in the National grange,
which holds secret sessions. Governor
Roble, of Maine. and Congressman
Aiken, of South Carolina, are among
the delegates.
A company with a capital of $3.50, 900
has been organized in Pittsburgh by
prominent iron men to erect works for
the manufacture of nails and spikes
from steel-something which has never
before been done in the United States.
Mr.. Roeser. of the general land-Office, |