The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-07-07

In a house in Mather street, Detroit,
where ten persons were seated. light
ming Frustrated the whole party, killing
Mrs. Zilaski.
A threatening letter, %purporting to
come from q Fenian association, caus-
ed the placing of special police around
the office of the Times, in London.
Thomas j. Foster, representing Fort
Wayne in the Indiana senate, and pub
Usher of the Journal, killed himself
with q revolver.
Large herds Of cattle are arriving at
Dodge City, Kan, and it is estimated
that within a space OF sixty miles there
are 5000 head.
Lightning demolished the marble
statue on the confederate monument at
Columbia, s. c., which was chiseled in
Italy at a cost of over $4,000.
Freight-handlers of Boston, to the
number of $50, struck Wednesday for
s .65 per day, and business is at a stand
still.
The French senate rejected the bill
to permit the importation of American
pork on the ground that sufficient guar
antees against trichiniasis were not Of
fered.
General Sherman intends to court
martial some officers who applied for
details through members of congress.
Colonel Daniel Houston, OF the 9TH in
fantry has been retired.
A jury in Chicago awarded damages
of SIS, 900 to William j. COnnell for be-
ing put off q Pennsylvania train last
year because he held a coupon ticket
issued by the Wabash road.
The steamship Alaska ran from
Queenstown to Sandy Hook in sever
days one hour and fifty minutes. Her
round trip from New York lacked ten
minutes of fourteen days.
Farmers in the region of Wichita,
Kan, have nearly finished harvesting,
and declare they never saw such fine
grain, the yield in many fields being
thirty to forty bushels per acre.
John II. Sheevey, deputy collector of
internal revenue at Hillsdale, Mich,
while suffering from Inflammation of
the groin, killed himself with a revOl-
Yer.
Five thousand representatives of the
Knights Of Labor paraded the streets
resolutions denOuncing the penal code
of New York.
p. Fitzpatrick. of Sandusky, o., arose
aO IL NloSh az liSi " 40 Va wa
ter, and used a cup half filled with
Paris green. In thirty minutes he was
dead.
The people of Iowa voted Tuesday on
the prohibition amendment to the con-
StitutiOn, and estimates are sent out
from Des MOineS that the document
will have 10000 majority.
Seven thousand wOrkingmen of Cleve-
land gathered in the public square,
Wednesday evening, to hear President
Jarrett, of the Amalgamated Iron and
Steel Association.
Pepper has been cOrnered in the New
York and Boston markets. driving the
price to II cents per pound. The syn
dictate holds in its grasp all the cargOes
to arrive up to October.
While fishing at Bayonne, Spain, the
duke of Edinburgh fell into the water,
and was four times carried under, only
reaching the shore after a struggle of
half an hour.
A siglal-service party Of twenty-four
men, detailed to take out supplies for
Lieutenant Greeley's expedition, have
gone to st. Johns, n. F., whence they
sail for the Arctic regions.
James Mccoy, an experienced miner
of Virginia City, New, has taken up a
quartz claim within the limits Of the
town, near the industrial school. The
lode is six hundred feet wide, and
traceake for two miles.
About 1900 persons witnessed the
competitive drill III the park at Louis
vile between four companies of south
ern militia. 1t is thought that the Cres-
cent City rifles will be awarded the first
prize.
The Kentucky board of agriculture
estimates the wheat crop of that state
as high as 5000, 900 bushels. Corn is
in better condition than for years, and
the acreage is 10 to ID per cent. greater
than last year.
George Brown, city marshal at Cald-
well, KAN, was shot dead by a cowboy
from Indian Territory who was Great
ing a disturbance in a saloon. The
murderer and his companion are being
pursued by a posse.
The Jewish relief committee at New
York has on its hands 1000 exiles who
will not attempt to help themselves.
The superintendent of Castle Garden
will no longer tolerate them, because of
their filth, hoggishness, and Incidence.
Edward r. Pierce, son of a prominent
Methodist minister of Tennessee, has
been indicted for robbing the mails at
San Antonio, Tex. 1t is understood
that he will plead guilty to abstracting
$500 from thirty registered letters.
At Connabell's fireworks, in Jack
son, Mich, where fifty-three men were
at work, q boiler exploded Monday af-
ternOon, killing n man and fatally
scalding another, causing a loss Of S10,-
600.
A tract of two acres in the northern
part of Wilkesbarre, Pa, is about to
cave into a coal mine operated by the
Delaware and Hudson Canal company,
but those occupying houses on the ter
ritory will await a second shock before
leaving.
Jason Richardson, q rich and respect
able farmer neal Leavenworth, kissed
his wife good-by, saying that she would
probably not see him again. He drove
to the city, mailed her a draft for a
large sum of money, and mysteriously
disappeared.
The Civil-Service Reform association
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