The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-12-22
CONDENSED NEWS.

Inc '0pZ0Otlc mss broken out in
Philadelphia stables.
Colonel Robert Murray has been
nominated assistant surgeon general
of the army.
The Brooklyn alderman who were
imprisoned for contempt of court have
been set ut liberty.
j. M. saunders, who sent a letter ia
Gladstone, threatening his life, was &C
quittedsen the ground of insanity.
Leland stanford promptly denies the
600 palace in San Francisco.
J. III. Price, Judge Of the city court Of
Louisville for three terms, Is dying OF
heart disease.
Gambetta is cOIffned to his bed by
intestinal disorders, and physicians are
in consultation over him.
Dan OLeary failed to organize a pc
destrian contest in Earis and has sailed
for Australia.
A Montreal dispatch announces the
death of Mother Superior Alchner, of
the Seminary of the Sacred Heart.
Citizens of New York have contri-
buted So, 600 to erect pedestal for the
Bartholdi Statue,of Liberty.
Isaac Hedges, of st. Louis, who has
been One'ef the leaders of the sorghum
interest IN the west, is dead.
Gladstone has resigned the chancel-
lorship of the exche4uer, and Right
Honorable Hugh G. Childers has been
appointed his successor.
1T is believed that the cotton crop
will be fully seven million bales. and
labor is so scarce along the Mississippi
that much of the staple will be wasted.
An insurance company in New York
is to place on the site of the old postof-
dee building eleven stories high, to
cost 81, 100000.
George II. Sims, of Chicago, convict
ed of pension frauds, has been SEN
fenced by Judge Blodgett to five years
IN the Chester Penitentiary.
Noless than $500 persons in Carrick,
Ireland, are reported to be in danger of
starvation, Indian meal being the only
food. e.4-s
A rubber company at Trenton, New
Jersey, has made for western grain
elevator belt 692 feet long, yard
wide, and weighing three tons.
An earthquake shock so severe as to
extinguish gaslig,hts and send people
flying into the streets was felt Tuesday
evening at Concord, New Hampshire.
In the legislative bribery cases in
Ohio Representative Wright was az
quilted, and nOlle prosequi was enter
ed as to Representative Block.
The Denver and Rio Grande road has
pushed its Utah extension to the west
ern line of Colorado, and expects to
reach Salt Lake by February Is.
Imprisonment for six months is the
penalty prescribed at Richmond for
two medical students and their cOlored
assistants caught rObbing grave.
The soldiers throughout the country
are urging their Congressman to vote
against reduction of the tax on whisky
and tobacco.
James A. Wilson, treasurer of De
Wits county, Illinois, who was wealthy
and popular, committed suicide by
hanging.
General Curtis, of New York, paid
zine of 81 900 for collecting political as
eeSsmentS, and was discharged from
custody.
Mr.. Stewart, Secretary of the Brook
Ign Board of Education, is nowhere to
be found, and is defaulter to the
amount Of $250.O00.
A bin for So, 100 for the funeral ex-
penses of Ben Hill was presented to
the sergeant-at-arms of the senate, who
sent it back for fair pruning.
at a meeting of the French Geo
graphical society, Sunday, De Lesseps
promised to have the Panama canal
ready for use in 1888.
While walking home from prayer
meeting at Upton. Pennsylvania, two
men and two women were killed by o
locomotive.
John Rauch, cigar manufacturer
OF Indianapolis, suspended payment on
$25, 900 Of paper and made an assign
ment.
A jury has been obtained in the star
route trials at Washington, and George
Bliss opened the case on the part Of the
prosecution.
In the United States court at Omaha,
r. e. Clary, formerly postmaster at
Sidney, was convicted Of making false
returns as to the arrival of mails, and
fined $500.
On orders from London banking
house, Baltimore brokers are buying
confederate coupon bonds of the face
value of ST. 900, 600, for which they pay
$3.50 to $9.75 per $1,000.
Judge Clinton Briggs, of Omaha,
Neb., was killed Saturday evening by
falling, as is supposed, from the plat
form of an eastbound express train,
near Alton, Iowa.
Newport. Jackson County, Ark. was
visited Sunday morning by destruc-
tive confiagration. Sixty buildings
were destroyed, involving loss of
$50, 200. Insurance, $50, ZOO.
Charles Derby, recently arrived from
San Francisco, and who was formerly
chief botanist to Queen Emma at Homo
lulu, is in the Salem Mass alms-house,
afflicted, as is alleged, with leprosy.
The Sunday code was practically
dead letter In New York Sunday, the
usual avOcatiOns on the Sabbath being
piled with immunity, even alleged
sacred concerts.
Governor Porter, Of Indiana, has call
ed special election for January 8 in
the Ninth congressional district, to
choose successor to Hon. Godlove s.
Orth.
Hon. Godlove s. Orth, died Saturday
evening. at Lafayette, Indiana, of
blood-poisoning superinduced by can