The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-16
CONDENSED NEWS.

The Sch0one Industry. which cap
sized of South Haven. Mich. is a total
wreck. Those lost were Captain King
and his son and Charles Davis, all resi-
dents of st. Joseph.
Near Lamberton, n. c., a feud be-
tween Jane McKeller and Frances Nc
Nair eliminated in a desperate fight,
the former being killed with a bowie
knife.
Miss Jane Chamberlain. of New
York, now sojourning in Europe, is
pronounced the most beautiful Ameri-
can maiden who has yet appeared at the
English court.
A vein of petroleum has been discov,
cred at Baxter Springs. Kan. II feet be-
low the surface, and $4,000 has been
offered for a tract of fifteen acres on
which the oil developed.
Parson Barnes, a well-known Baptist
preacher OF Shannon county, Missouri,
committed rape on a step-granddaugh-
ter, 13 years of age, and fled the state.
If caught he will be lynched.
Bruce, an English horse, ridden by
Archer, the phenomenal jockey, won
the Grand Prize at Paris, Sunday.
keene's Romeo met with an accident
and was unable to start.
Patrick Moran, of Brooklyn, has
brought suit for $4,000 against the
warden, deputy warden. and one of the
keepers of the Auburn penitentiary for
torturing him while he was serving a
term for passing counterfeit money.
AT Red Eye, Mimi, we're found the
bodies of a surveyor named Washing
ton and his companion, Fred Fether-
bach, who are believed to have been
murdered by John Tribbet, Is years of
age.
Within the past two weeks the Penn
sylvania Company has discharged $500
men from the shops at Altoona and
Fort Wayne. 1t is alleged that only a
half-hour's notice was given at the lat
ter point.
The Northern Pacific has purchased
the track of the Manitoba road along
the east bank of the Mississippi, and
will build a bridge at Anoka and ex-
tend the purchased line into Minneapo-
lis.
The Union Pacific has resolved to
put on its Kansas division a train run
ming 81 miles per hour, making the trip
from Kansas City to Denver in 224
hours, and to San Francisco in four
days.
The late John b. Eldridge, of Hart
ford, who left an estate valued at $780,
600, willed t%wo-thirds of it to religious |
and educational institutions. A niece,
Mrs. Alice b. Hilton, of Chicago, is |
given a residence valued at 100000.
The New York stock exchange, by a
vote of more than twO-thirds of the
governors, expelled William j.. Hutch
insOn for frauds practiced upon John
Duff, Jr., in the Hannibal and st. Joe
deal, after he had paid back $750,0 0O.
A st. Louis syndicate is said to have
expended 81 500 900 in the purchase of
mines and railroads in the coal region
of southern Illinois, with the intention
of creating a new steel-manufacturing
city.
d. w. Vanderhoof, who stole $780,
600 while bOOkkeeper of the First Ma
tional bank of ST.. Paul, pleaded guilty
on an Indictment, and wa sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary at Still
water. He lost $4,000 in one wheat
deal. .H8t w
Manager Merrill. of the st. Paul road,
has recently traversed the region be-
tween Chicago and Council Bluffs by
two routes. lie reports an immense
acreage of corn, of healthy growth, and
has no fears in regard to our great
staples.
The judges of the District of Column
bia, after full consultation, on Monday
formulated Adhesion denying a rehear-
ing in the Guiteau case. There is no
possibility of a writ of habeas corpus
being issued by any justice of the
United States supreme court.
Two men in a row-boat entered the
Alta mine, at Virginia City, New, to
hunt for their lost comrades, but were
speedily suffocated. Another, by wear
ing a helmet, penetrated nearly to the
end of the drift, and found the seven
missing men alive and well in the cool
ing-off house.
Johnnie Curtis, who eloped from st.
Louis with Mrs. Jennie Dixon, has re-
turned to his parents, leaving his fair
companion at San Antonio. His rela-
tives are negotiating for her return to
her mother. Mr.. Dixon is in Iowa with
his children, and a divorce suit is pend
ing
Workmen engaged in tearing down
the abandoned Campbellite church at
Dallas, Tex, found beneath the floor
large quantities of dynamite and nitro
glycerine and a full set of burglar tools.
Last winter a force of four hundred
citizens were kept on duty for a month
to prevent robberies.
Charles III. Reed appeared before
Judge Wylie, in the criminal court at
Washington, and asked to have the rec
ord in the Guiteau case corrected. es-
pecially the allegation that President
Garfield died in the District of Column
bia. The motion was denied, as the
judge had no personal knowledge of
the record.
The only strike among the iron-mills
of New England is at Wareham, Mass,
of 10 per cent. The strikers at Cleve-
land, by peaceful persuasion, keep
steadily lessening the force which COM
menced work in the rolling-mill on
Monday. Onenon-umionist was escort
ed home by two policemen, amid the
jeers of a large crowd.
There is widespread Indignation in
Virginia over the proposal to remove
the ashes of Thomas JeffersontoIa Gem
etery in Washington, and legal steps
have been taken in opposition to the
project. 1t is claimed that Mrs. Meik-
ethan, the sole surviving grandchild,
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