The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-08-04
CONDENSED NEWS.

Major Joseph l.. Leland, of New
York, a noted hotel-keeper, is dead.
The national debt statement shows q
decrease for July Of S13, SCOOP
General Barstow, u. s. A., retired, of
Oakland, Nd, is dead.
The revenues of Mexico for the last
fiscal year amounted to $27, 100000.
A fire at st. Petersburg destroyed fif-
ty houses on an island in the Neva.
Cetewayo, the noted African chief,
has arrived in England.
The Union Pacific earnings for twen-
ty-nine days of July were 81, 10000.
The new directory of Minneapolis
contains Is, 92S names, on which is based
claim of 1869 population.
The New York republican state con-
vention will be held at Saratoga, Sept.
Goth.
The forest fires in New Jersey have
already occasioned losses estimated at
500, 200.
Yellow fever has again appeared at
New Orleans. 1t still RACES in viru.
lent form along the Rio Grande.
The potato crop will be total loss in
some localities In New Hampshire, Ow-
ing to the long continued drought.
The National Tube Works company
of Pittsburg, Pa, resumed work We'd
nesday with $50 nOn-uniOn men.
Forest fires of large proportions are
raging in the lower counties of New
Jersey.
Jack Campbell, has been appointed
chief of police of st. Louis. Six weeks
ago he was a sergeant on the force.
Yellow-feverh has appeared in Browns
vile, Tex, and the death-rate from the
plague is on the increase at Matamoras.
Pollock castle, the most ancient fam
lily seat in the west of Scotland, was de-
stroyed by fire Tuesday.
No one has yet been intrusted by the
French president with the formation
of cabinet.
A grain overflow is anticipated at
New York, and measures are being ia
ken to meet the emergency.
The appropriations made by congress
at this session exceed those of last year
nearly S0,000,000.
A new cabinet has been formed for
the province of Quebec with M. Mos
seau as premier and attorney general.
The Pittsburgh, Pa, chamber of COM
merce has passed resolution asking a
repeal of the present navigation laws.
Hon. w. ID. Kelley, of Pennsylvania,
delivered an Grafton at the opening Of
the Denver mining exposition Tuesday.
The assessment roll of Nebraska just
compiled places the value of property
in that State at sos, 537 ,475.
The camp-meeting in progress in
Lancaster, o., has an attendance of ov-
er $4,000 persons.
Engineer Melville has given up all
hope of finding Lieutenant Chip and
his boats crew. The searching party
are at TobOlsk.
Aaron G. Burr, an adopted son of
Aaron Burr, who died Thursday in
New York, was a son of Count de
Lisle, and was born in Paris in 1908.
Rev. Harvey Stearns, of Fort Worth,
in an affray with farmer named Jeffer-
son, inflicted upon him fatal wound
with club, and has been lodged in jail
In courtroom in Dublin a shot was
fired at the recorder by a man named
Fitzpatrick, who had been non-suited
as plaintiff.
John l.. Sullivan, the pugilist, was
arraigned in the police court at Boston
and fined $50 for drunkenness and us
ing obscene language.
Anna Parnell, of Dublin, is lying at
the point of death from brain fever,
brought on by learning of the demise of
her sister.
The indianapolis and st. Louis rail-
road has been sold to the Cleveland,
Columbus, Cincinnati and indianapolis
road for 81 $4,000.
Several cases of the intermarriage of
whites and blacks have been shown to
exist in WeStchester county, New
York.
The regents of Nebraska university
are making vigorous effort to secure
Lieutenant Ducat, of the Sd cavalry, as
military instructor.
A son of one of the Russian consuls
in RoumaE;a has been arrested at Odes-
So on charge of supplying dynamite to
the nihilists.
Seth Parmalee, a noted pioneer of
TaZewell county, Illinois, has passed
away, leaving seventy-fve children and
grandchildren to mourn his loss.
For the week ending July 80 the
number of cattle passing up the trail
through Indian Territory was l ,l06,7 200.
This is the largest drive on record.
A conspicuous increase is noted in
the Importation of foreign wares. The
entries of dry goods alone for July at
New York foot up 81 ,370,050.
A blind man is locked up at Cincin-
natl for fatally stabbing an acquaint-
ance who had started quarrel with
some woman.
The coinage of the United States
minis for July was S3, 153, $50. Of this
sum more than two-thirds are standard
dollars
Trouble is brewing in the Creek ma
ton between two factions struggling
for supremacy, and there is prospect
of civil war.
O'Donovan Rosa indorses the state
ment made by Pat Grove, of Peoria,
relative to the foundation of dyna-
mite school in the interest of Ireland.
Preparations are completed for the
reception of the American Science As
ISOLATION at Montreal on the 23d inst.
1t is expected that 1.500 visitors will be
in attendance.
The sixty-ninth anniversary Of the
defeat of the British at Fort Stephen