The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-07-21
CONDENSED NEWS.

Senator Ben Hills recovery.
A hail-storm III the Black Hills ruined
two thousand acres of growing grain.
Levi Scott, senior bishopof the Meth
Odist church, died Thursday at Odessa,
Del, aged so years.
A Dublin cablegram states that thir-
teen counties will be proclaimed under
the repression act.
There is good authority for the state
ment that President Arthur will veto
the river and harbor appropriation bill.
The first bank to extend its charter
under the new law was the First Ma
tional, of Findlay, o.
Major n. ID. Bangor, a retired army
officer, lies in adying condition at jack
son, Mich, from apopleXy.
The wheat harvest in Michigan has
begun, and there is said to be no poor
field in the State.
Thirty bodies have been taken from
the ruins at TeXarkana, and fifteen
persons are still missing.
John Lutheridge, OF Springfield, liz,
while EN- route to Nebraska to purchase
farm, with 81 800 in currency in his
pocket, was robbed of the whole wad
by sharper with whom he fell in at
Quincy.
The corpse of the earl of Crawford
and Balcarries, which was some months
ago stolen from the family vault III Abb
bottShire, was found in the grounds OF
the estate. A servant has been arrest
ed for connection with the theft.
The corn exchange of Little Rock
passed resolutions declaring that state
quarantine regulations against yellow
fever can not be proper safeguard to
life or to business interests, and asking
Senator Garland to do his utmost for
federal regulations and inspection.
Hon. William M. Dennis, who died
Tuesday at Watertown, Wis, was a
member of the territorial house of rep
resentatives and Of the first constitu-
tional convention. OF late years he has
been president of the Wisconsin Ma
tional bank and mayor of Watertown.
At Mandan, Dakota, on trestle-
work sixty feet high, fight occurred
between William Watson, of Saginaw,
Mich, and Peter =. Stuart, of Dali
Prairie, Mich, which ended in both go
ing over to death with their arms clinch-
| ed. n
A Washington journal asserts that
| there are traces of scheme by New
| York stock brokers to unload Northern
Pacific securities in advance of expect
ed hostile legislation, and that MEM
bers of congress are Interested In the
job. y
The liquor-dealers of Council Bluffs,
Notwithstanding the prohibitory law,
are permitted to continue business by
paving monthly fine of S25. Sixty sa-
| 1oon-keepers settled on Thursday, and
were assured that they need fear no in
| reference until August.
The funeral of Mrs. Abraham Lin
| coin was held Wednesday morning at
| the First Presbyterian church In
Springfield. Among the pall-bearers
were Governor Cullom and General Nc
| Clernand. The remains were placed in
the vault at the monument.
The assurance of good crops has CIV
| en- Wall street one of its periodical
booms. The outside demand for rail-
way stocks has increased with the adj
vance in prices, and leading commission
houses are flooded with orders. Sales
to reap profits have but little reaction
airy effect. rs
In the star-route cases at Washing
ton. Mr.. Merrick announced that the
time had arrived when the court would
be compelled to pass upon the sufficient
| cy of evidence to sustain the charge OF
conspiracy. Judge Wylie ordered that
argument on each side be confined to
three hours. ,4rr,t Il
A fire in livery stable at Chicago,
early on Sunday morning, caused the
suffocation of fifty-eight horses and a
COW. The upper portion of the build
ing was occupied as clearinghouse.
Three men leaped out of windows,
| while three women were rescued by
| firemen. ~
AS special train on the Burlington
road, conveying Manager Potter and
party, approached the bridge over
White Breast creek, on the Charlton
branch. two coaches left the rails, and
the engineer stopped them within one
foot of the high embankment, where
they would have plunged into the
stream.