The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-19
CONDENSED NEWS.

is estimated at 100000.
Reuben Chapman, ex-governor OF
Alabama, died at Huntsville Wednes-
day.
Mr.. Kirkwood absolutely refused 20
become a candidate for congress from
Iowa.
Fifty-six corpses have been taken
from a mine in Westphalia in which oc-
Cured an explosion of fire-damp.
The May report of the agricultural
bureau places the condition OF winter
wheat for the entire country at 100.
A party of men mt Henderson, Mimi,
is out hunting for tramp who outraged
a little 9-year-old girl.
Fifty Turkish soldiers were drowned
by the Bleaching of a transport In the
Bosphorus.
DR.. Joseph ID. Barnes, a son of the
surgeon general, died in Washington
Saturday.
Thirty-seven buildings at Stewards
vile, Mo-, including every business
house. were burned Tuesday morning.
At Gunnison, Col, a young son OF
Judge Kellogg was shot dead by a play
mate who was toying with a pistol.
The Central Vermont road is running
an express train between Boston and
Montreal, 334 miles, in ten hours.
Passenger trains from Kansas City to
Denver, over the Santa Fe and the Rio
Grande roads, are now running.
A marble statue of Reuben X. Spring
er was unveiled Monday at the Cincin-
natl Music hall, to commemorate his
gift of $265, 900 to the institution.
Over 10000 acres of grain in Lawrence
county, Indiana, are underground from
the overflow of the White river. The
loss is put at $1,000 600.
Maggie Ball, a Pittsburg courtesan
with a rather romantic career, shother-
self Saturday night. She is expected
to die.
Gold to the amount of $500, 600 left
New York Wednesday for Europe, with
the probability of a like sum being ship
ped on Friday.
In acknowledgment of the pension re-
Gently granted her, Mrs. Garfield has
writted to Senator Sherman to express
her gratitude to congress.
The authorities of the Choctaw ma
ton will two weeks hence shoot Reuben
Lucas for the murder Of an Indian
named Thompson Kinney.
A decree of foreclosure is about to be
entered against the Indianapolis and
st. Louis road, which has liabilities OF
$4,50 ,0O0.
A Judgment for S5s, 4sO was filed Sat
urday by a lottery man of New York
against the estate of Cornelius j. Van
derbilt.
Three men went into the old BOwkley
mines, at Wilkesbarre, Pa, to obtain
some facts for use in a pending suit,
and lost their lives by fire-damp.
Prominent sports in New York say
that Sullivan has positively determin-
ed never to engage in another prize
fight.
James G. Blaine has given to a New
England senator positive assurances
that he will not be a candidate for q
seat in the house of representatives.
The assembly of New York has pass
ed a bill wiping away all restrictions
imposed upon savings banks in buying
securities.
Orders have been issued for the ADAM
donment of Forts Fetterman and San
ders, in Wyoming, which are now gar
risoned by eleven companies.
A practical test of an electric accun-
ulatOr has been made by the steamship
Labrador. which INDUCED in lights all
the way across the Atlantic from cleo
tricity stored April % on the other side.
In a dense pine forest, ten miles
northeast of Sparta, Wis, wild pigeons
have established a rOost half a mile
wide and ten miles long, every tree con
= tanning twenty or more nests.
It is announced that Parnell, Kelly,
and Davitt have gone to Paris to confer
with Patrick Egan, treasurer OF the
Land league, and that Dayitt will visit
the United States at an early day.
Lopez Pelgrin, treasurer of the GUS
tom-house at Havana, has been remOv-
ed because duties amounting to $500
900. owed by various firms, remain un-
collected.
The Lombard Mortgage company, of
Wichita, Kas.. has caused the impr1S0n-
ment of Sheldon & Clifford, ~real-estate
agents of ~Cherryvale, for forgery and
embeZzlement.
J. B. Brown, an employee of the post
Office at st. Paul, and Miss Mae Watson.
"a belle Of Minneapolis, escaped the Wig.
lance of an unrelenting father, and
were married in Milwaukee.
A marriage has been arranged be.
tween Princess Beatrice, the youngest
daughter of Queen Victoria, and Prince
Frederick William, the eldest son Of
the landgrave of Hesse.
1t is reported in New York that Tres
ident Gowen has secured in London {
bid of par for many millions of Phila
delphia and Reading railway 5 PEI
cents.
A fund of S3.a2, raisedby The Press
of Philadelphia, was Tuesday handed
to the wife of Sergeant Mason, WHIT
promised to set aside $1,000 for TIT
baby.
Alfred Jackson. a negro, was ap
pointed a letter-carrier at the Toronto
postofice, but the rest Of the force re
fused to work with him, and he wa
given temporary employment inside.
A spree among the students of tn
university at Minneapolis ended in TIN
shooting of one of the party by Profes
O Pike, who has been arrested for as
sault with a deadly weapon.
About o%ne-fourth the fruit in III
region of Benton Harbor, Mich, wa
killed by the frost of Tuesday morning
and similar reports come in from a wild
expanse of country. q.
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