The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-09-01

leaving her $500, 900, on the supposirion
that she was married to Thorne.
The gas-well developed on Saturday
at Bloomington, H., attracts hundreds
| Of visitors. Experts say that 100000
daily, two-inch pipe showing pres
sure of eighty-five pounds. In the base
ment of David Davis block is gas
well which in winter is used in heating
the furnace.
Major Rogers, locating engineer of
the Canadian Pacific road, telegraphs
that he has discovered favorable pass
| for carrying the road through the Sell
| kirk range of British Columbia, which
will save the company millions of dol
lars. The pass is one hundred miles
north of the boundary line and directly
east of Kamloops. :,
A mob of over fifty men. headed by
the sheriff and treasurer, removed the
safe and records of Grant county, Min
nesOta, from Herman to Elbow Lake,
during Saturday night. The auditor
and register of deeds will not offciate
at the new point, and the supreme
court will be compelled to decide the
matter.
Near Elkhorn, Ind, six years ago, an
old farmer was robbed of money with
which he had intended to purchase
mill. A man named Elliot was con-
victed of the crime and sent to the pen
itentiary. Just as his sentence is to
expire, thorough search of his old
home resulted in the discovery of the
swag in his cistern, together with the
burglar tools used.
The free-thinkers, in convention at
Watkins, n. Y, Sunday, formulated
series of resolutions denunciatory of
ecclesiastical power, lauded the march
of liberalism, asserted that woman's
degradation was result Of Christiani-
ty, Endorsed the rights of labor, and
petitioned for help to erect Liberal
orphans home.
DR.. Hicks publicly states that Gui-
teau's skeleton will not be placed on
public exposition, and he denies the
allegations that he has Entrusted the
! assassin's bones to the care of the Uni
ted States Medical Museum. Caterers
to public amusement are also informed
that the skeletonic curiosity is not for
sale.
A freight train on the Canada Pacific
road, between Montreal and Ottawa,
half-mile iron bridge over North river.
The effect was to send span of $50
feet into the water. The engineer put
on the utmost pressure and broke loose,
sending five cars into the river and leav-
ing twelve standing on the brink of
the chasm. No lives were lost.
On the ground that they were coun-
I terfeits, the chief of the secret service
seized in New York thousands of dol
lars worth of plates for printing imita-
tion greenbacks as advertisements.
Now Solicitor Raynor decides that these
false notes are issued in violation of
law, but that those who use them can
not be punished for counterfeiting.
This view of the matter will doubtless
induce many of the sufferers to bring
suit against the government.
AN excursion train was run Sunday
from Toledo to Grand Rapids, o., on
the narrOw-gauge road. On the return
trip a half dozen desperadOes went
through the coaches with cooked re-
volyers and stripped everybody of val
uables. One citizen of Toledo gave up
$75, and another was relieved of his
money on the platform and thrown off
the car. The conductor was badly in
jured. Only one of the robbers was
captured.
A temperance worker at Augusta,
Me-, secured warrant against the Of
ficers of an express company for bring
ing liquors to the city. The deputy
sheriff broke the locks of the store
house and seized sixty-two cases of
beer. AS it was being loaded upon the
wagons the crowd drove away the
drivers and carried off about half the
cases, several persons being seriously
hurt.
The outbreak of yellow fever at Pen
sacOla caused Secretary Lincoln to or
der the transfer of the garrison to Mo-
bile, and the hayward will soon be
practically closed The Louisiana
board of health has prohibited the
Louisville and Nashville road from
bringing any passengers or freight in
to that state from Pensacola Brown
vile reports seventy-two new cases and
two deaths, and seven deaths in Mata-
moras. There, are several cases at
Point Isabel, at the mouth of the Rio
Grande, and two refugees recently died
near Corpus Christi.
General Wolseley reports that late on
Monday night his position at Kansas
sin was attacked by Arab Pasha, who
was repulsed with the loss Of eleven
guns. The British had eight men kill
ed and sixty-one wounded. Toulba
Pasha was poisoned in the rear of Alex
andria. Sultan Pasha has arrived at
Port Said to install representatives of
the khedive in the territory occupied
by the British. The porte now insists
that the troops of Turkey and England
shall jointly operate from Alexandria.
Three Arab sailors, guilty of mutiny,
were keel-hauled on the Egyptian
frigate SCUBA, in the harbor of Alex
andria, and soon died.
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