The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-05
uravv anu cunning.

Uravo anu cunning.
The new Jail at Winchester, Ind,
which cost 81, 900, was put into use,
Tuesday. and within q few hours gar
roter and car-thief pried off the CRATES
| In the floor OF the corridor and escaped
through the ventilat0r. $1,000
| It Is alleged that the late managers of
the Pacific mills at Lawrence, Mass,
have been secretly throwing into the
river large amounts of fabrics ruined
through the incompetency OF heads OF
| departments. .gf tA.g
A plan for the illumination Of the
Kremlin, at Moscow, by electricity was
recently submitted to the authorities,
who have since discovered that the in
tention was to destroy the structure
during the coronation ceremonies.
The will of Miss Sarah Burr, of New
York, which bequeaths nearly So ,OO0,-
600 to charitable institutions. is to be
contested by ten second cousins, on the
ground that she was not competent to
make a will. ~ @n
Mrs. Scoville lectured on the assassi-
nation of Garfield, at an uptown thea
ter in New York, to very small audi
ence, and announced that she had for
warded 500 to Chicago to redeem her
furniture.
The Burlington road is to commence
at once laying eastward from Denver
steel rails rolled at Pueblo, and will
put down one mile per day. There is
little doubt that the gap will be closed
during the month of May.
AT Uvalde, Tex, as the result Of a
dispute about the preemption of an
eighty-acre tract, John Mitchell was
tied to tree and whipped nearly to
death, while his two sons were shot
dead in his presence by two neighbors.
S. j. Brown. shoe merchant at Find
lay, o., recently started for Fort Def
ance to enter into business with the
post trader. In New Mexico he lost
his reason, and was found wandering
about Las Vegas with draft in his
pocket for 81 900.
The duke of Manchester and party
are on American soil. The leader says
his purpose is to proceed to Manitoba
and purchase large tract of land, to be
retailed to farmers on easy terms. He
might make an investment on the
American side if the land were offered
cheap.
One hundred masked men at Lake
City, Col, took from Jail George Belts
and Jim Browning, the murderers of
Sheriff Campbell, and hanged them to a
bridge. AS the rope was being placed
around his neck, Belts asked for chew
of tobacco.
An advance guard of one hundred
farmers from Holland have arrived in
New York, and will settle on the Mis-
souri, river, in Dakota. A colonization
agent accompanies them, and has influ-
ence sufficient to bring over thousands
more OF his countrymen by favorable
reports.
Jack, noted chief of the Utes, was
killed at Fort Washable while attempt
ing to evade arrest. He had borrowed
a gun at ranch and shot a sergeant
dead. Captain Norton trained noun
tain hOwitZer on the cabin where Jack
was concealed, and blew it to pieces
with shells.
Three old books which arrived in
New York from Europe by mail were
found to have been neatly followed out
and filled with diamonds and jewelry
valued at $500. The package was adj
dressed to leading jeweler of Cincin-
natl, but found its way to the custom
house.
DIR. Lamson, who was executed in
London Friday morning, was so defect
ed and nervous that he could scarcely
descend the steps of the prison, and was
led with great difficulty over the sixty
yards of space to the gallows. He drop
ped nine feet, expiring instantly, but
his body remained hanging for an hour
At q meeting of representatives of
New England railway companies, it
was resolved that hereafter the settle
ment of balances for car service shall
be made through the railway clearing
house. 1t is believed the system will
soon be extended throughout the Unit
ed States.
Northern Texas was visited by a
storm centering near DenisOn and
Sherman. Hail-stones as large as goose
eggs are said to have fallen. Mr.. Day,
of WhitesbOrO, was killed, and many
persons were injured. Stock was badly
lacerated, and crops in the stricken belt
were ruined.
Resolutions indorsing the action of
Governor Crittenden in regard to Jesse
James were introduced in the Missouri
house, and ruled out of order. On an
appeal, eighty democrats voted to sus-
tain the chair, and forty-two republic
cans and greenbackers took the other
side.
b. f. Allen deserted his handsome
homestead at Des Moines in 1877, and
leu III run uOWn 10 Sdu degree. lie IL
now supervising its thorough renova-
ton, and it is rumored that he is about
to marry a'wealthy widow of New Y ork
and re-establish his home among old
friends i'm Iowa.
Six steamers landed about six thou
sand immigrants at Castle Garden We'd
nesday. Among the newcomers were
fifty English brewers, with considera-
BILE capital, who propose to start in bus
mess at Philadelphia. A large number
of Dutch cattle-raisers, with an average
purse of $500 each, are Ell route to Ste
vens, Tex. From Gibraltar came one
thousand Italians, many of whom are
railroad laborers.
Hon. Horace Maynard dropped dead
of heart disease, Wednesday morning,
at Knoxville, Tenn. He was born in
Massachusetts,, but went to Tennessee
after graduating at Amherst. He was
eight times elected to congress, and
served with credit as minister to Turkey
and postmaster general. During the
war he WAC exilad from his homo and