The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-03-31
CONDENSED NEWS.


Grow Dog, the slayer of Spotted Tail,
has been sentenced TO be hanged MAY IL.
In the Laurel Ram mines, near Will
kesbarre, Pa, an explosion OF gas killed
five men.
Alexander ii. Stephens states that on
the expiration of his term in congress
he will positively retire from public life.
Ex-Governor Moses, of South Caro-
lima, has again been arrested in New
York on charge of swindling.
Won Bunsen, of Berlin, has been ac-
quilted of the charge of slandering Bis
marck.
President Arthur nominated William
Williams, of Indiana, to be charge daft
fairs to Paraguay and Uruguay.
The penitentiary of Virginia opened
its maws Wednesday to forty-six oyster
pirates captured by Governor Cameron.
Edwin Booth has purchased seven
acres adjoining his present holding at
Newport. at a cost of 81 900 per acre.
The St. Louis directory for 1882 con-
tains nearly 10000 more names than its
predecessor.
The English daily at Constantinople,
The Lerdnt Herald, has once more been
Francis Ashton, ST., one of the pio-
neer residents Of Lima, o., died Sunday,
aged 81 years.
Commissioner Partman, of Michigan,
deposited 100000 whitetish fry in the
lake at st. Joseph.
Mr.: Peele, a mining engineer, at
Charleston, Arizona, was shot dead IN
his Office by two masked men.
Secretary Forster has gone to Ireland
to consult with the prison board about
larger liberty for the suspects.
The recent election for chief OF the
Osages resulted in the victory of Joseph
Pawnenopauche over Hard Rope.
Four of the prisoners who broke jail
at Detroit have been recaptured, two OF
them on the Canadian side of the river.
A federal detective captured at Mer-
rillon, Wis, two counterfeit bank-note
plates and considerable unfinished scrip.
The destruction of the RalstQn GIN
house, near Lake st. John, La, resulted
in the drowning of 120 refugee negroes.
In the MONDAY mines at Bodie, CAL,
vein of gold and silver sulphuretS has
been struck which averages 500 per
ton.
Esther Seymour, of Sterling, H., has
been sentenced to the penitentiary for
one year for brutally whipping small
child.
The steamship Great Eastern is still
tied up in English dock. An earnest ef-
fort to sell her at auction developed no
bidders.
A merchant of New York complains
that Chicago wholesalers are cutting on
cottOns to secure the southern and west
ern trade.
In gale off Havre, while life-boat
was attempting the rescue of ship
wrecked crew, nineteen persons were
drowned.
James III. SPOTS, rear admiral COM
handing the South Atlantic squadron,
I'll In, 1,n nll l. nd
islands, of apopleXy.
The residence of exc Governor Proctor,
of Vermont, at Sutherland Falls, with
its literary and art treasures, was swept
away by fire, Friday.
The purchase of a controlling interest
in The Advertiser, of Boston, by Oliver
Ames means that that journal is to be
even more than heretofore the exponent
of Harvard College.
The state of K eXaS recently bought In
$442, 900 of its per cent. bonds, due in
1904, at 40. 1t has within year re-
duced it's debts 81 100000.
Dennis Kearney, the sand-lot agita-
tor, is in st. Paul, and suspected of plot
ting mischief there. 1t is he who in
stigatcd the Omaha troubles.
Citizens of st. Louis have contributed
$4,000 in money and large amounts OF
provisions and clothing for the sufferers
by'6yerflow in the southwest.
Charles Z. Gordon, senior partner in
produce commission house at Indian
apolis, has disappeared with consider
able amount of the firms funds
The annual cost of the star-route ser
vice in the Pacific states and territories
under General Brady was S2,SH, 1876.
Contracts for the same service this year
have been executed for 81, lbs. 149.
Ito, one of the leading statesmen OF
Japan, is to visit America and Europe,
to recruit his health and study the work
ings Of parliamentary Institutions.
In the municipal councils in Utah
polygamists are resigning their seats,
and monogamists are being chosen to
succeed them.
The Pacific mill at Lawrence, Mass,
has given notice that needy operators
who did not engage in the strike may
apply at the Office for aid.
The line Of the st. Petersburg and
Moscow railway is being searched for
mine, of whose existence some captured
nihilists gave information.
Ida Smith, a young girl of Grand Rap
ids, killed herself with arsenic because
of a reproof from her mother.
Forty new cases of smallpox and five
deaths were reported in Cincinnati
Tuesday.
IreSluenJ Arthur mas nominated lSddc
d. McCutcheon, of Michigan, to be Sec
rotary of the territory of Montana.
Troops crossed the Yellowstone at
Miles City, Tuesday, in pursuit of the
Sioux who stole the Cheyenne ponies
from Fort Keogh.
From belief that the Fenians intend
to blow up the tunnel to North WOOL
wich, the London docks are guarded all
night by six hundred policemen.
At st. James, Missouri, j. X. BOW
man, late judge of Phelps county, fired
load of buckshot into the body Of AL
fred Hayes. !.
Gilley Bondick, noted desperate of
Virginia, was killed near Lemont by
Ben Young, his rival for the affections
of a woman.
In the Massachusetts, house, Wednes-
day, a prohibitory liquor bill was only
{. defeated by the refusal of Speaker Noyes
to vote for it.
Edward Peters. who tortured and