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

JOSIAH Is. smith ana wire, or SANTA
Ana, California, became insane on re-
ligious subjects, and murdered their
young son by cutting his throat, claim
ing that the sacrifice was ordered by
the Lord.
Colored brothers, named Milton and
Samuel Hodge, were hanged Friday at
Knoxville, Tennessee, for the murder
of their brother-in-law, j. A. McFar-
land, in presence of eight thousand
negroes.
G. b. Mahon, an agricultural imple-
ment maker of Montreal, has swindled
Canadian farmers out of $4,000 by
hypothecating notes given by them in
connection with orders for machinery
not yet delivered.
Some peasants near Galway stoned a
party of hunters from the field, struck
q magistrate, and cheered for Parnell
and the Land league. Many persons
were badly bruised, and eight arrests
were subsequently made.
Colonel F.. Loury, formerly post
master at Dayton, Ohio, who stood
$500 behind in his accounts with the
department, thrust tiny knife-blade
into his jugular vein, and died Instant
ly.
Ben Butler assumes that the demo-
cratic congress will substantially sweep
away internal taxation, and thinks
that if this be not done single short
crop would bring unprecedented finan-
cial disaster.
During a performance of Tennyson's
new drama in London theater, Tues
day evening. the marquis of Queens
bury twice arose and protested against
a travesty on the sentiments OF free
thinkers.
Rev. A. A. Overton, who was chap
lain in the Mexican war, but of late
had become untitled for the pulpit by
arrangement, fell dead in the Metho-
dist church of Madison, Wisconsin,
Sunday evening.
Samuel Barton, of the New York
stock exchange, was surprised by the
delivery of bear cub from an express
wagon, bearing note calling for thirty
quarts of milk and peck of sweet APP
pies daily.
Ellery Albee, who two years ago took
everything but the safe in the Ashue-
lot savings bank at Manchester, New
Hampshire, of which he was cashier,
pleading guilty on two indictments for
making false entries, and was led off
to state prison for ten years.
Richard Hoffman, a resident of Som
erset township, Pennsylvania, has for
years been so badly paralyzed that he
was compelled to use wheel-chair. He
states that while praying behind barn
he was ordered to rise and walk, and
now goes about in the natural way.
The corner on rubber which was
quietly engineered in New York has
had the effect to draw to that city with
in the past eight days no less than l.
500, 900 pounds, of which two-thirds
was Para. Necessarily, there was
marked decline in prices.
The British steamship Angelica, run
ming from Hull, foundered in the North
sea, and forty lives were lost. The
steamship Westphalia struck an I'M
known vessel off the English coast,
Monday morning, and sent her to the
bottom.
The feverish speculation in oil at
Bradford resulted in making the ex-
change building too small to accommo-
date the brokers, and the seats in the
gallery were sold at auction for $4,000
per annum. Another exchange is be-
ing organized.
William r. Travers, of New York,
purchased for $40, 900 the former resi-
dence of James G.. Blaine, in Fifteenth
street, Washington, simply as an in
and will furnish it for the
use of his son-in-law, Congressman
Two masked men fired the stable of
Mr.. Brandenbury, near Erin, Georgia,
and while he was attempting to ex-
tinguish the flames the robbers entered
the house, fired at the ladies, and car
ried away a trunk containing ST 900 in
and 5000 in government bonds.
In a special report to the secretary of
war, General Sherman strikes out boldly
for permanent military posts, recon-
the expenditure of $1,000,000
per annum for five years to make good
quarters for the army for the next half
century.
The first decided movement to crush
out the expanding dressed-beef trade of
Chicago has been made at Albany,
where William II. Vanderbilt and
others have organized with capital of
81 600, 900 to distribute frozen meats
the country at cost.
The mansion of Albert Bierstadt at
rvingtOn-on-the-Hu Hudson, with its
wealth of paintings and relics, was
burned Friday, the loss being estimated
at S20O,000. A fire at Newborn, North
Carolina, destroyed eight buildings,
valued at $4,000.
Henry Steussu, German farmer
near New Glarus, Wisconsin, was shot
dead by hired man named Burchard
Brahm, at the instigation Of Mrs.
Steussu, the plot having been concOct-
ed two months ago, and two attempts
at poisoning having failed.
In the trial of Arab Pasha, Sulei-
man Daoud confessed to having order
ed the burning of Alexandria on a
command from Arab
Pasha, who afterward sent instructions
to fire more places, and also ordered
him to take soldiers to Ramleh palace
and kill the khedive.
General Grant has contributed to
the North American Reuie,c lengthy
article on the case of FitZ John Porter,
that he should be de-
clared by congress to have been con-
victed on mistaken testimony, which