The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-20

General Wolseley ana the duke OF
Cambridge have also entered objec-
tions.
During a storm Sunday night at Fair
field. Iowa, wild ducks gathered around
the electric lights in the tower and put
out all but one, breaking several
globes. Nearly two hundred dead birds
were picked up in three hours.
The Vanderbilt party, in special
train of six cars, made the run from
Burlington to Chicago in four hours
and eight minutes, which equals fifty
nine miles per hour when allowing for
stops.
Joseph Talbot, bishop of the Episco-
pal diocese Of Indiana, has suffered q
paralytic stroke, which rendered his
right side useless. A movement for
the appointment of his successor is to
be made this week.
Oscar Wilde, who is now in Boston,
states that he did not settle suit for
damages in New Brunswick by paying
500, but will contest it to the end. He
says he is going to England at an early
date.
Chief Justice Waite paid s24, 900 for a
house on l street, Washington. When
the fact became known, values in the
region where he now resides fell 10 per
cent, with a corresponding rise in the
locality where he purchased home.
At Germantown, Kentucky, George
InscOe dared to promenade the fair
grounds with the wife of George Coop
er, an old flame, in opposition to Coop
er's wishes, and got killed for his au-
dacity.
A railroad between the Niger and
Senegal rivers, in Africa, is about to
be commenced by eighty French engi-
neers and one thousand cOlOred labor
ers. A military column will watch the
work and erect two forts on the Niger.
The board selected by congress to
audit claim for services rendered dur
ing President Garfeld's prolonged
struggle for life is waiting to hear from
Drs. Hamilton and Boynton. Nearly
every other creditor has filed his bill.
An ice company asks for 81, 1852.
The star-routers convicted at Phila-
delphia were refused new trial.
Thomas A. McDevitt was fined $500
and sentenced to Imprisonment for
one year. Christian Price was fined
500 and condemned to the penitentiary
for six months.
Because policeman arrested
drunken man at Limerick, mob
stoned the officers and fractured the
skull of one of them. The leaders were
subsequently captured. A sentry sta
toned outside the barracks was wound
ed by some assassin.
Charles s. Childs, superintendent of
the cemetery at Cambridge, Massachu-
sets, while driving on Coolidge avenue,
Saturday forenoon. was stopped by two
disguised men, who shot him in the eye
and robbed him of $3.50. He will prob
ably die of his injuries.
Bradshaw, cranky commercial
traveller, who claims to have served
term in the United States army, has
been committed for trial in a London
court for threatening to kill the prince
of Wales unless money was forwarded
to his address.
Lieutenant Danenhower testified be-
fore the Jeanette board of inquiry
that the repairs made at Mare island
navy-yard were first class, and the YES
sci was as strong as it was possible to
render her, but her model was not suit
ed to Arctic cruising.
The bankers of Chicago are earnest
and united in their disapproval of the
ruling of Secretary Folger that gold
certificates can only be procured at the
sub-treasury in New York, which
forces upon western people express
charges in both directions, on the coin
and the paper.
Recruiting for the new army in
Egypt is in progress. The strength is
to be eighteen battalions of four hun
dred men each, two regiments, of gen
darmery of seven hundred men each,
fhraa hptndrnH for tho nrhulonnn
corps, and one hundred engineers.
A train of twenty-five empty stock
cars Wednesday made a test of the
Northern Pacific iron bridge across the
Missouri at Mandan, Dakota, amid sa-
lutes from the steamboats, and locomO-
tives in sight. On the return trip eight
heavily LOADED cars were attached, and
no vibration was felt.
A corner on Para rubber has been Sc
cured by three importers of Boston
and New York, and the price has been
forced to $120 per pound. Seventy
manufacturers of New York met We'd
nesday to devise means to break the
syndicate. The common grades OF
rubber have necessarily advanced in
price.
Secretary Frelinghuysen has writ
ten to Henry George, stating that Lord
Granville caused an investigation into
his arrest and rearrest in Ireland, and
expressed the regret of her majesty's
government that the incident occurred.
The secretary invites Mr.. George to an
interview at the state department.
Three men made desperate attempt
Tuesday to rob the bank at Hagers-
town, Maryland, while the employees
but the teller had gone to dinner. One
of the gang engaged his attention
while second lodged under the coun-
ter into the vault, but fled on being
discovered.
John G. New recently told an appli-
can't for Office that he would appoint
him when he became secretary of the
treasury. The remark got afloat, and
new Mr.. New claims to have fears that
Martin /. Townsend, of New York,
will be the next treasury chieftain.
Judge Allen, of Boston, gave Ellen
Thorne a divorce from Charles r.
Thorne, Jr., and pronounced worthless