The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1882-03-03

rency. Approved by Secretary Foger.
Ko Kun Hua, the Chinese professor at Har
ward. who recently died, was mandarin of
high rank. and was at OF time gove nor OF a
large province In China. He was probably the
les educated pagan in America.
BY agreement OF counsel, at the hearing Of
Kate Chase Spragues application fer divorce
on the 2lst., her petition was withdrawn, oil
charges Of adultery were eliminated, aud the
hearing was had mainly on the question Of
non support. Mrs. Sprague's petition was
practically granted, but the decree Of divorce
is not yet entered. The mother retains custody
Of the three girls and the boy remains with his
father.
Sergt. Mason, who fired on Gar6eld's assas-
sin, and Is still suffering confinement In mar
row dark cell, with wooden bench for bed,
not unnaturally complains at bis treatment
when Guiteau has a clean light and airy cell,
and Is allowed even to sell his pictures.
The storm Of Tuesday and Wednesday was
severe throughout the Northwest. At 81. Paul
eight inches of snow fell in six hours. Drifts
eight feet deep are reported on the Wisconsin
Central Railroad.
Senator Logan's friends begin to feel ankle.
ty about his illness.
In the construction of great stone bridge at
Minneapolis Is now engaged day force OF
300 men and night force OF 125.
Arthur Hunter. 10 years OF age, has been
committed, in d. fault Of $1,000 ball, for trial,
for attempting TO throw q passenger train
from the Dover Il Winnepiscoga railroad by
Tying logs to rail over culvert near Durham.
The train was moving slowly at the time and
broke the logs fastenif e., ellie It would have
been a terrible wreck and loss of life. The boy
was found sitting on fence waiting 10 see the
smash up" Said he had read Of the Coles
crossing disaster al wished to see one him
self.
Samuel j.. Whitaker, the great maker ard
circulator of counterfeit coin Of Wisconsin. has
been captured and brought to Milwaukee.
hungry man of Maiden, Masa,, VIM. Phoe-
nix, partook freely of poisoned fish which his
wife hfd put in lox to kill rats, and dit Of 1t
the next morning.
j. w. Norris, P0stm aster and a leading mer-
chant at Rice, Tex, was called out of bis
house Tuesday night last by two men, who
asked him to 60 to his store and sell them
goods. He went, but returned ina few min.
utes, told his wife the men had shot him, end
died almost instantly.
The amounts to be paid the doctors for SER
vices to President GaI field ere $4,000 to Agnew
and Hamilton; 10000 to Bliss and 5000 each to
Reyburp, Boynton and Edison.
The President has sent to the Senate the
name of Roscoe Conkling as Justice OF the
Supreme Court in place of Ward Hunt retired.
Referred to judiciary Committee.
Aaron A. Sargent, ex senator from Califor-
mia, was on Friday nominated for U. s. Minis
ter to Berlin, In place of Andrew d. White, re-
signed.
Charles Scott elOped from Kansas City with
the wife of A. j. Bradfeld, but was followed
by the irate husband, who boarded the same
train. When near Chicago, the parties had an
excited meeting, and In a shooting scene which
followed, Scott received four shots in different
parts Of bis btdy.
Gilbert V. Story, Superintendent Of the Gu
nard compan,s docks, New York, died at the
hospital Friday Of exhaustion and shock coca
stoned by previous accident He was stand
ing on gang plank 100 feet long when the
vessel moved out and the plank fell. Story
was fred 40 feet into the air, and fell breaking
both legs.
A deathbed confession brings out horrible
crime which occurred at Coneyvlle, KY, in
| January, 1881. DR.. Brandon confessed that
he John Whittier gill and B. F. Whittengill,
with syringe, blew chloroform through the
keyhOles into different rooms OF Wiley Embry 3
house, until the inmates were stupifi, d.; that
then they proceeded to rob the house, and
having done this, set fire to it, by which the
father and six children were burned to death.
Mrs. Embry and three children only escaping.
The House committee on elections have de-
cided that neither Campbell nor Cannon Is en-
titled to seat, but that the seat of delegate
from Utah is vacant.
At Richmond, Va. the General Assembly
Commissioner, both Of whom are Readjusters,
A bill has been passed providing govern
ment aid to laboring people who lost their all
by the overflow Of the Mississippi. One hun.
dred thousand dollars is to be appropriated.
The House Naval Affairs committee are
ready to report bill to appropriate $4,000
900 for new shipe, and $2,5OO,OOO for the com.
pletipn of the Ave ew monitors now In course
Of construction.
| Hyde Park, one Of the largest suburbs near
Chicago, Is agitating Incorporation as a city
1t has population Of 10000.
For some undiscovered reason business
block, FIVE stories high and 1853 by 4S feet in
dimensions, on Second street, st. Louie, fell al
an early hour Saturday morning, bLrying in
is ruins about $4,000 worth of the stock Of
Kraft, Holmes h Co, wholesale grocers. The
walls were 28 and ~ inches thick.
Capt. Hall Of Burlington, Iowa, has been
appointed inspector Of free delivery by First
Assistant Postmaster General Hatton.
H. q. Kenyon, Chicago, offers to settle with
creditors at rs cents on the dollar.
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