The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-02
CONDENSED NEWS.

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An explosion in the Kohinoor colliery
at Shenandoah, Pa, killed nine miners,
Seventeen houses were burned at
Middleton, Ireland, rendering seventy
persons homeless.
Four attempts were made Sunday
evening To destroy a minor newspaper
Office in Louisville.
y fire at Abba, Iowa, originating
along the public square, burned five
stores, the estimate loss being $4,000.
Twenty eminent lawyers of Ohio are
engaged in the supreme court in a cast
brought to test the constutionality of
the Pond liquor tax.
Major Ben. Perley POOre, a veteran
among the correspondents at Washing
ton, is seriously i'll from prolonged bleed
ing at the nose.
The cattle round-upsin Wyoming are
progressing rapidly, and an immense
number of beeves will soon be thrown
upon the market.
Near Jackson, Miss, Riley Moore
was assassinated for killing a man
named Waters, of which crime a jury
had acquitted him.
Capt. Jacob Vanderbilt is in Europe
with his nephew. Knowing this, burg
lars despoiled his house on Staten island
of jewels valued at $1,000.
In a recent fight near the border Of
Sonora, w Mexicans were killed and
three American railroad laborers fatal
ly injured.
DR.. Isador Kitsie, the inventor of the
parlor cattle-car, has been granted a
patent for q device to prevent the col
liding of trains.
Walt Whitman confirms the report
that the attorney general Of Massachu-
sets forced his Boston publishers to
stop printing Leaves of Grass"
Benjamin Cowden, for the past ten
years surveyor of Harrisburg, Pa, was
accidently shot by a member of a gun
club practicing on the island.
The assembly of southern Presbyteri-
N at Atlanta decided to take no action
in approval of the revised New Testa-
ment.
Treasurer Gilfllan has received from
London and Paris contributions of 3d.
3d2 for the'G Garfield memorial hospital
at Washington.
A black bear in a park at Richmond,
Ind, grew lonesome and Joined school
picnic, where it frolicked harmlessly
with the little les until shot.
In the Malley murder trial, Judge
Granger ruled out the confession made
by Blanche Douglass at an all-night Sc
cret session of the cOroner's jury last
summer.
The Chicago house of A. Il. Stewart
" Co. is said to have invited its IN
ployes to leave, paying them to June l,
which is alleged to be contrary to prom
Use. -
w. s. Gerrish, a widely-known lum-
herman OF Michigan, died at Evart of
pyhot uyoo nrnnn,rnca ,aac ~~~1y
pox. He left to his wife and child in
surance of $4,000.
A man named Mccarthy. with stains
on his clothing and a wound on his
nose, has been arrested at Glasgow for
connection with the assassinatiOns in
Dublin.
Some of the best authorities i'm the
Michigan fruit belt state that frost has
not affected peaches or apples, but
grapes and strawberries were cut to
some extent.
The county commissioners at Denver
have arranged to ship eastward one
hundred slovenly and rebellious Italians
who were brought there to work on
railway extensions.
Balsam mountain, on the line be-
tween North and South Carolina, is
covered deeply with snow, and a tray
eler lost his way among the drifts in
the valley.
Sixty thousand pupils of the Brook
lyn Sunday schools, accompanied by all
the brass bands in the twin cities, had
their annual street parade Wednesday, a
winding up with cake and ice-cream.
M. De Lesseps states that a contract
has been signed by a San Francisco
firm to ~eXcavate the Atlantic end OF the
Panama canal, and he hopes to finish
the enterprise by 1883.
Leading citizens of Boston have caus-
ed to be painted a life-siZe portrait of
Robert G. winthrop, for the hall of the
house of representatives at Washing
ton.
Price, an Englishman confined for
life in the penitentiary of Colorado, lit
orally starved himself to death. He
was an expert knife-thrower, by which
he had killed five men.
Governor Crittenden boasts that since
the death of Jesse James travel in Mis-
souri, has preceptibly increased, even
commercial travellers taking to them
selves confidence.
A partition sale of the Bennett prop
erty in New York realized 81 1851 900,
each parcel being knocked down to j.
G.. Bennett. although there was lively
bidding. The old Herald building on
Nassau street sold for $65O,OO
Sewer county, Arkansas, boasts of a
negress 125 years of age, named Edna
Goodman. She is an inmate of the
poOr-house, and for the past quarter
century she has steadily desired to live
to see another cotton crop raised.
The grand jury at Washington has
returned new presentments against
Brady, the Dorseys, and their associ-
ates, for conspiracy to defraud the
United States on star-rOute contracts,
and warrants have been issued.
The wife of General III. G. Young, of
Cincinnati, has filed a petition for di-
vorce and alimony. The husband is be-
lieved to be worth $780, DOC, and he has
been living with a woman to whom he
gave a house and some diamonds.
The capitol at Albany, y. Y, has
already absorbed S13, 600, 1000, and an adj
ditional appropriation of 81 500, 900 has
been made. 1t is charged that every