The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-09-29
CONDENSED NEWS.


at San Antonio, Texas, has been arrest
ed for robbing registered packages.
Milton Young, the turfman, got sos
600 from Mr.. Pate, of st. Louis. for 2
string of yearling thoroughbreds.
The German government is consider
ing project for canal to connect the
North sea with the Baltic.
Chris Davis, wife beater. fired the
jail at Detroit, Minnesota, and perish
ed in the flames.
BY vote of 724 to 1900, the people
of Des Mones refused to tax them
selves $685. 900 in aid of the Wisconsin.
Iowa and Nebraska road.
A fire at Balbriggan, Ireland, de-
stroyed Smyth' IS hosiery factory, throw
ing three hundred persons out of en-
ployment.
A shock of earthquake, lasting from
fifteen to sixty seconds, was felt at day
light Wednesday in the region between
st. Louis and Springfield.
A charity hospital will be founded
at Northampton, Massachusetts, with
100000 left for that purpose by Caleb
G. Dickinson.
Philadelphia lumbers the telegraph
wires with the programme of the BIZ
centennial celebration Of the landing of
William Penn, over month hence.
Plans are being matured for lighting
the Chicago river tunnels and new city
hall with electricity. at cost of $10,-
600 for apparatus.
The sultan has ordered that the
frontiers fixed by the international
commission be Immediately surrender
ed to Greece.
On wager of 500, Swiss residing
at Stone Creek, Ohio, carried barrel
of flour three miles in fifty-fOur min
utes.
A quadruple lynching is imminent at
TaylOrville, Illinois, where Miss Bond
is suffering terribly in her death strug-
giles.
1t is positively stated at Washington
that John c. New will succeed Secre-
tary FOlger in the treasury manage
ment.
The representatives of twenty thous-
and English miners met at Rotterdam
and voted to demand an advance of Is
per cent. in wages.
The honor of discovering the latest
comet is now claimed by three-year-
old son of James Danford residing near
Keith's, Ohio.
The Pittsburg Southern road running
from that city to Washington, Penn
sylvania, has been purchased by the
Baltimore and Ohio for $250,000.
The United Presbyterian synod an
nounces its intention to raise half
million dollars in honor of its quarter
centennial.
The democrats of Colorado nOminat-
ed James b. Grant, of Lake county, for
governor, and John II. Powers, of Bent
county for lieutenant governor.
A child of Albert w. Gridley, of
Bloomington, ILL.,, born last week, is
thus far the heir-apparent to $1,000 900,
will by the eccentric Asahel Gridley in
trust for his children's descendants.
The United States court at Fort
Smith released Oklahoma Payne and
his followers, who had been brought
round by rail from Fort Reno by Lieu
tenant Taylor.
A Spectator of New York has offered
Professor Huxley e100 for each of two
hundred lectures on popular science, to
be delivered in this country in 1888
and 1884.
An unmanageable engine on the
Manitoba road was abandoned at st.
Johns, when it ran seven miles at full
mar and killing Edward Brothers.
"A
Massachusetts, with Professor Allen in
the basket, without an anchor, but de-
scended in safety at Pompret, Connect
icut.
A rowboatr capsized in the Miami
river near South Lebanon, Ohio, by
which Ella and Newton Wallace and
Belle and Abraham Lucas were
drowned.
1t is stated that lease of the Iowa
Central road is desired by the North
western, the Wabash, and the st. Paul,
and that negotiations to that end are
in active progress.
Two soldiers were killed and several
wounded at Governors island, New
York harbor, by the explosion of
cannon being used in saluting French
men-of-war.
Manager Talmage settled the difficult
ty on the Gould roads by conceding 81
cents per mile to passenger and 4 cents
to freight engineers, 100 miles to con-
stitute days work.
1t is announced in a New York jour
nal that Jay Gould is building the fast
est steam-yacht afoat, to be ready by
July A, when he will spend two years in
voyage around the world.
On charge of heretical teaching, the
trustees of Newton Theological insti-
tute, in Massachusetts,, have dismissed
Professor +. p. Gould from the chair
of New Testament Interpretation.
Inalibel suit atMontreal, John O'Reil-
ly testified that McNamee, the founder
Of the Hibernian society, offered him
$500 to put daylight through G.. j.
Bridges, a railway magnate.
The Vanderbilt family orders 2 per
cent. quarterly dividend on the Lake
Shore stock, but offers no consolation
to the shareholders in Michigan Gen.
trail or Canada Southern.
Minister Wallace has secured from
the sultan the release of several Greeks
arrested in Janina last year for partici-
pating in u political demonstration
against Turkey.
The iron-mills Of Wheeling refuse to
resume work except on Pittsburg prices
which the Amalgamated association
declines to accept, and the strikers are
said to be seeking employment else
where.
Five thousand citizens of Elliotts-