The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1882-03-24

Utica, entered the Office OF DR.. May on Thurs
day and shot him. not fatally, claiming that he
was an ambassador from heaven sent by Quit
and revOlvers.
Michael Kennedy, OF Troy, N. Y, to cure
diabetes, has lived AZ days on milk alene His
weight has fallen from 24Slbs to 2l21G, and
he says Ia stronger now than for years.
huge cave near ST. Joseph, No, excavated
for leisure hours, fell in Thursday, burying
five, whose ages ranged froPS to II. All were
dead when taken out.
j. w. Johnson. editor of the Sheldon, Ill.,,
Gazette, an applicant last winter for appoint
ment rs minister to Sweden, was arrested in
Chicago, Thursday night, for forging endorse
ments to a note OF 81 100, on which he obtain.
cd the money. He escaped from the officers
who are In pursuit of him.
A fire in Philadelphia Thursday, destroyed
$4,000 worth OF stock, and the building, with
$S5,0O0 occupied by j. W. Hilton, cotton and
wooden yarn manufacturer.
The American Express Company has under
NIT orders Of $5 and under for five cents, aud
orders for $6 to $40 for eight cents These
orders will be issued atlall the OOmpany's 1900
offices, and paid at 457 OF them.
There Is not an inch OF bluff on the west side
of the Mississippi, from a point above Cairo to
there Is low, fiat land on either side OF the river,
extending back from rs and 100 miles. This
immense country is under water, and almost
isolated from the rest Of the world, and but for
the forests II would look like an immense lake
The Arkansas is boiling like mountain torrent,
washing away railroad tracks, telegraph lines,
and cutting swath OF destruction through the
state from one corner to the other. The suffer-
ings OF the population Of the Mississippi and
| Arkansas inundated districts haysn not been OK
aggerated nor adequately described.
There is probability Of quite discussion and
wrangle over the settlement with the phys
| clans, ETC., who attended tho late President
| Garfield. The committee have concluded not
| to recommend the promotion OF Surgeon Gen
eral Barnes, bat to provide that when he ls re-
tired 1t shall be at the full pay of brgadler gen.
| eral instead OF three-quarters pay. In the case
OF DIR. Woodward, instead Of promotion the
| committee recommend that he DO given pay at
his brevet rank of lieutenant colonel, which
| will give him $500 additional. In regard to
the other surgeons that they be paid sums from
$4,000 to $25,00O. Provision Is made for all
other persons connected with the case, includ-
Tag Gen. Swain and Col. Rockwell who are to
have vote Of thanks. The report Of the CON-
mittee will be submitted next week, when 1t
will probably be attacked by members com
prising the minority Of the committee, and
who propose to lot the public know all about
the bills presented.
Parmeley's dry goods store In Dayton, o.,
burned at a loss Of over $4,000.
The Ponds extracts company's works at
Williamsburg, New York, were burned Satur-
day night, with loss on stock and building Of
100000. The third floor, occupied by Schmidt
Il Co., lithographing establishment lost $4O,-
0O0
An additional grant Of $4,000 for Mississip-
pi river improvements is favored by the house
committee, the entire sum appropriated to be
spent as may be needed on the general i'm
provenent of the river from St. Paul to it's
mouth.