The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-02
William Sprague voluntarily gave
permission To a trustee for Mrs. Kate

robe, to be transferred to Edgewood,
and the goods have already been sent
from Narragansett Pier. t4H4
The citizens of Washington have re-
solved TO receive Lieutenant Danen-
hover in public, and j. G.. Bennett ex-
poets to take him from the steamer in
New York bay. Mrs. DE Long and her
daughter have left Burlington to meet
the remains of the commander.
Some joker climbed a pole of the Mu-
tual Union telegraph near Georgetown.
Conn.,. tied a fine wire around each of
the thirteen wires and run it to the
ground, breaking communication be-
tween Boston and New York for two
days.
Patrick Troy, a coal-dealer at Joliet,
when satisfied that his death was near
ut hand, caused a priest and two friends
to carry him out to a shed. There he
Embossed a screw from a board and So
500 In coin rolled forth. He willed ST.
600 and his house to his brother James,
who is in a lunatic asylum.
A party headed by Alexander Ram
say, of st. Paul, and Colonel Richard
Chute, of Minneapolis, has gone out
route through southeastern Minnesota
and northeastern Iowa and across the
Mississippi to the Illinois coal region.
Twenty-eight counties in the Golden
belt of Kansas report winter wheat in
excellent condition, and farmers are
confident of the greatest harvest for
years. The reapers will commence
work June l. Corn has been injured
somewhat by the cold weather.
An explosion in the Buck-Ridge col
liery, at ShamOkin, Northumberland
county, Pa, Saturday, caused the death
of three, and probably, more men. The
accident was due to a reckless disre-
gard of a warning given some Of the
fire inspectors.
The ship President has just brought
word of the loss, of Newfoundland, of
the ship Western Belle, with her cap
tain and fourteen of the crew. The un-
fortunate vessel crushed into an ice
burg, and Immediately sank. The mate
and six seamen got away in a boat.
John McNenOmon, a farmer near
Muscatine, Iowa, was shot dead by his
young daughter, who was handed a re-
volver by her brother. Both children
are in jail, it being alleged that the son
planned the crime, as he has endeavOr-
ed to secure deeds to the property.
The booming company at Muskegon,
Mich, has struggled three carloads of
new men into its bOarding-hOuses and
got them under the protection of the
PinkertOn police before the public was
aware of it. The strike has kept 1000
men idle for two months.
An investigating committee of the
Arkansas senate has reported that the
books of Governor Churchill as treasur-
er of the state fail to balance by $780,
400, from which he is entitled to credit
for $24,SO0 for scrip turned owe to his
Two men, giving the names of Lyon
and Tuthill, recently rented fine apart
ments in Park row, New York, and pro-
ceeded to secur credit for paper to
print "a scientific journal. They obtain
ed considerable amounts and shipped 1t
to Philadelphia, taking care to disap-
pear when their bills had matured.
A fight for 500 took place in Phila-
delphia, Sunday morning, between Den
mis- Murphy and Louis Rheal. the latter
winning in thirteen rounds, which oc-
twenty-siX minutes. The de-
feated man had his hose broken and his
face bruised into raw meat. and was Ia
ken home in a wagon.
Two men met in one of the most
crowded streets of OriZaba, Mexico,
and, drawing revOlvers, commenced
firing at each other rapidly. Neither Of
them were hurt, but two women who
were passing within a few yards of the
shooting were instantly killed. The
men fled.
The North American silk exchange,
recently incorporated in New York, is
negotiating for $50 acres OF Long island
for a nursery of mulberry trees, and
for 1000 acres in Kentucky on which to
silkworms. The principal supply
of eggs has been obtained at Corinth,
Miss.
In the Malley murder trial at New
Haven, the defense put on the stand an
Irish girl, named Maggie Kane, who
testified that 1t was she who rode the
mistaken for Jennie Cramer, and that
when she left the horse she cried out
that she was p%aralyZed.
George Knickerbocker, a furniture
dealer of Minneapolis, set a table in
front of his store, and attached a pla-
card stating it'll had been taken away
from DR.. M. f. WOodling, because he
would not pay for it. The doctor went
into the establishment with a huge knife
and slashed Mr.. Knickerbocker and a
clerk named Neil Berry in the arm, but
was seized and lodged in Jail.
A Polar wave swept over the country
to the northwest and west of st. Paul,
Mimi, Sunday night. There was snow
Fargo and on the Hastings and Da-
kota division of the Milwaukee road
heavy drifts are reported, some cuts
being filled. During Sunday the mer-
curry at st. Paul stood at 80 and 81 and
Sunday night it was below 80, the col
est day so late in the season known for
many years.
A bank messenger in New York was
recently robbed of over SOC, 600 worth of
papers by the co~nnivance of n woman
Two days afterward. in a N pre-
cisely similar, one of Lorillard's men
relieved of $4,000 in checks. The
thief was caught in the act, and on his
was found nearly all the drafts
stolen from the bank boy.
Judge Laughlin, of st. Louis, made
the discovery that ex-Judge Horatio NJ.
Jones wrote the offensive criticisms up
on his action which appeared i'm an
evening paper. From the bench Of the
criminal court, Tuesday, Judge Laugh