The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-12-15


have been secured.
Hon. John r. Potter, famous as a
fighting member of congress from Wis
consin In the period Immediately pre-
ceding the war, Is slowly passing away
ut his country home in Waukesha coun-
ty.
General Sidney Burbank, retired
officer of the United States army, died
at Newport, Kentucky. He was an
officer in the Blackhawk and Seminole
wars, and served in tho Army OF the
Potomac.
A schOol-teacher mt Cumberland,
Ohio. named William Frazier, was as
saulted by two pupils, named John
Hays and Charles Luse. Hayes was
killed with knife, and Luse got badly
cut.
The government has brought suit at
New York against Harrison Johnston,
formerly treasury agent, for the re-
covery Of nearly $1,000, 900 arising from
the sale of confiscated cotton, for which
he has failed to account.
John A. Cockerill issues card to the
public, alleging that the suit for 5000
brought by the widow of Colonel Stay
back was inspired by the Knapps, who
own The Republican and are determined
to crush him.
The members of the Chicago board of
trade marched four abreast to the site
of the new hall. where the cornerstone
was laid on Wednesday. Addresses
were delivered by President Durham
and Secretary Randolph.
Arab Pasha and his comrads have
been ordered to be in readiness to start
for their place of exile within ten days.
Some allowance was made them from
their estates, and the property of their
wives was not confiscated.
A report of the large yield of new
we'll broke the petroleum market in
Pittsburgh, Wednesday from 1.03t to
82 cents, and large blocks changed
hands. The price was subsequently
forced down to 80 cents, the closing
quotation being 92f cents.
The Western Union Telegraph CON-
pany has declared quarterly dividend
Of II per cent. For the twenty-fifth
time John w. Garrett has been elected
president of the Baltimore and Ohio
road.
Eleven convicts at work in the peni-
Tertiary at Little Rock disarmed the
guard and escaped. Bloodhounds were
put on their track, but the fugitives
killed three of them. The worst man
of the lot is Monroe, the Cincinnati
safe-blower.
The architect of the new capitol at
Albany was called to Columbia, South
Carolina, to inspect the state-house and
estimate the cost of completing it. He
reported the building very unsafe, and
showed that it Is slowly parting in the
center.
While dispositions were being taken
before notary in st. Louis in the suit
of Mrs. Slayback against Colonel Cock
Grill, an ARRAY took place between the
attorneys, in which John M. Glover
seized Frank Bowman by the throat
and sent him to the floor.
The stockholders in the Kelley Motor
have been assured by q prac-
teal mechanic that the inventor has ac-
complished all no claimed. A caveat
has been flied for the generator, and .
FIVE hundred horse power vibratOry en-
CINE Is being constructed.
DR.. j. H. Rauch, Of Illinois, and other
western physicians are in Washington
to aid the national board Of health in
getting deficiency appropriation of
$25, 100 out Of congress to maintain the
immigrant inspection for the remainder
Of the fiscal year.
The confiagration which ragged in
London Friday swept the building from
two acres Of ground, the boundary be-
ing London wall, Philip lane, Addie
and Wood streets. The lossi Is estimat-
ed at SIS, 000, 900. One fireman was kill
ed by falling walls.
Leland Stanford, ex-governor of Cal
ifornia, has rented the former resi-
dence of William II. Vanderbilt in
New York, in which to spend the win
ter. His wife made sensat on at q
recent fashionable wedding by an ex--
OF diamonds equaling those OF
Mrs. ]. j. Astor.
The disinherited daughter of Rev.
d. Ellington Barr, Of st. Louis, is en-
gagged in an effort to secure 500, 900
left by her father to the Episcopal so
cieties of that city alleging that through
Incorporate habits he was untitled to
make will.
The wall of boards erected in the ro-
tunda Of the national capitol, by the |
of the Garfield fair, to pro-
tect the historical paintings, turned a !
Of hot air on those works, seri-
ously injuring those representing the
baptism Of P0cahontas and the pilgrims |
~ PAoyOAs WAiSh Soo0 pAV,VVV Ooou.
Joseph p. Greaves, a stakeholder in !
The Western Union Telegraph company,
has made application to the attorney
general of New York to commence /
action against the company to revoke
It's charter, remove the directors, and
compel them to account for their con-
luct.
The explosion of a copper still in
at Belle Vernon, Pennsylva- /
MA, resulted in the death ofWilliam Luz
cans and the destruction of the distill-
,ry and the bonded warehouse, with its
stock of liquors. The loss is estimated
1t $400, 900.
In the United States court at Indian
apolis, Oscar M. Goodwin made his ap-
pearance and received a sentence of
i've years in the penitentiary for maxi
ng false entries in the books of bank
1t Logansport. Chiffon A. Terrill was
given two years for pension frauds.
1t is believed that peace has been re-
stored among the roads entering st.
Paul. The question of territorial rights
8 said to have been dropped, the issue
)eing on the formation Of pool or the
reedOm of each road to get what bust