The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-07

Hunt the information that the owner OF
the steamer Lena wants an exorbitant
price for its use for the summer, with
guarantee against loss.
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, has
paid over to III. III. Craig, of the Kansas
City police, and j. r. Timberlake, sheriff
of Clay county, the reward of 5000 Of
fered for the capture of Clarence Hite,
one of the Winston train-rObbers.
At mass-meeting of brewers and
liquor-dealers of Cleveland, their attor-
ney assured them of the constitutional
ity of the Pond liquor law, and 5000
was subscribed to take steps for it's re-
peal.
Colonel A. p. Corse, who was manager
of stove house at Troy, N. Y, and
chief Of artillery of the state militia, has
sunk in iron speculatiOns nearly $50 900
obtained by forgeries, and has disap-
peared.
The corpse of Chinaman was found
hanging in the basement of the council
chamber at Victoria, b. G.. The coro-
ner's jury was convinced that he was
hanged by his cOuntrymen as a leper,
and his clothing burned on his body to
prevent contagion.
In the superior court at New Haven,
the Malley boys and Blanche Douglass
were arraigned for the murder of Jennie
Cramer, and all pleaded not guilty.
Great pains were taken to prevent the
woman from exchanging words with
her fellOw-culprits.
In the case of Sergeant Mason, the
president will not act until the supreme
court decides on the legality of the SEN
tence. The secretary of war sustains the
Judge advocate general III pronOuncing
invalid tha prnpaadinnc of tha cn,1rt
martial.
The bill of exceptions in the Guiteau
case will fill two quarto volumes of one
thousand pages each, and will be pre-
sented to the court April "A, the first
day of the next term of the criminal
court of the District of Columbia.
The American board of foreign mis-
siOnS at Boston has been advised by ca
BILE from Constantinople that in region
of Turkey three times as large as Mass
achusetts the people are starving on &C
count of the ravages of locusts. An ur-
gent appeal for succor is made.
Prairie fires are again raging through
out Rocks County, Kansas. Last Sun
day one swept over the fine stock farm
of G. III. Buschman, burning his stable
and other outhOuses and stock. The
main losers by these fires have made re-
Ill.
but as yet without success.
General Pope and twO'members of his
staff are on their way to Fort Reno, to
prevent an outbreak by the Cheyennes
and Arapahoes. Meantime he has writ
ten letter to an officer in Washington
which is calculated to force some ration
al action in the emergency.
Guiteau has sold to q circus manager
the suit of clothes he wore when he
shot President Garfield, and a sculptor
is making q bust of assassin. George
Scoville proposes to get up petitions for
a Communication of sentence to life i'm
prisonment.
The matinee performances at the New
York theatres for actors fund were at
tended by $1,000 people, the total re-
ceipts in that city being S33 900, with
Brooklyn to hear from. AT the Grand
Opera-houSe Clara Morris read q cable
gram from James Gordon Bennett sub
scribing $4,000.
Baron Won Bechtolsheim, formerly
Austrian consul to st. Louis, who de-
frauded several of his countrymen, was
discharged by the criminal court, on the
ground that the offense only came with
in the jurisdiction of the United States
courts.
A Cincinnati Journal revives the ru-
NOR that VANDERBILT is endeayoring to
roads with the Chicago and Northwest
ern, and adds thereto a statement that
the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati
and indianapolis is to be taken into the
system.
Such Is the stagnation in ocean
freights that oil-cake is taken from
New York to Liverpool for two shillings
siXpence per ton, and half-penny is
bid and penny asked for grain by
steamer. Wheat has been received at
Baltimore for the cost of loading and
discharging.
SmytRe, "a rich landlord of West Meath,
Ireland, was fired upon while driving
home from church, Sunday, and a lady
accompanying him received the bullet.
A package of dynamite was exploded on
the window sill of the police barracks
at Limerick, destroying the adjacent
warehouse.
The immigration at Castle Garden for
the past three months reached the un-
precedented figure of 68,6S5. The con-
been renewed, the steamship companies
offering to pay 25 cents for each immi-
grant landed, and the commissioners
demanding half-dollar.
John b. Mannix, assignee of Arch
bishop Purcell, asks of the district
court of Hamilton county, Ohio, an Or
der to sell a vast amount of real estate
for the benefit of three thousand credi-
tors. The hearing commenced April A,
and may consume six weeks, as each
congregation interested has secured an
attorney.
Bishop Payne, of the African Metho-
dist church, having been elected from a
first-class car on the Jacksonville road
in Florida, the colored people of New
York held an Indignation meeting and
urged that action be brought against
the railway and carried to the supreme
court of the United States, and that the
church raise SIS, 900 for the contest
An express messenger on Fort
WaYne train heard stranoa nnises at