The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10

will prove a total wreck.
A famine is said to be impending in
the counties of Donegal, Clare, and
Roscommon, in Ireland. Potatoes have
proven a failure and storms devastated
the fields and cabins of the poor.
A collision of mail and passenger
trains on the road between Paris and
Boulogne resulted in injury to many
passengers, including the countess of
Somers, but no 0ne was killed.
Mrs. Langtry's debut in New York,
was a pronounced success. She Is said
to have displayed no remarkable dra-
matte talent, but to have captivated her
audience by her refinement and grace.
AS a result of Investigations by At
tOrney General Brewster into the Leak
age in the department of justice, Chief
Clerk Mullikin and Pardon Clerk Gray
h9ye rendered their RESERVATIONS.
The American consul at Dunkirk,
France, writes that the imports of corn
have decreased because of heated, car
goes sent down the Mississippi in
barges to New Orleans.
The authorities of Adrian, Michigan,
have been notified by the chief of police
of Ell Paso, Texas, that he holds
Thomas j. Navin, the bond forger, to
await a requisition.
A grand jury at Danville, Virginia,
mayor of that city, for the murder of
John E. Hatcher, formerly chief of
police.
James E. Anderson, who has recently
been conducting a newspaper at Eure-
ka, Nevada, died Monday from the eff
fects of a shot fired by a republican can
didate for Office.
An earthquake shook up the region
between Laramie and Evanston, on
the Union Pacific railway Tuesday
evening, with such vigor as to release
plastering.
A party of citizens of Jackson parish,
Louisiana, took from the Jail at Wen
ma two negroes, charged with rObbing
an aged white planter, and riddled
them with bullets.
Mrs. McLachman, wife of a wealthy
farmer residing near Ottawa, Ontario,
killed herself with paris green because
a neighbOr refused her offers to pur-
chase his lands and sold them to an
other.
The petroleum market is excited but
lower, closing at Bradford Wednesday,
at 81 144. A Cleveland oil-brOker
charges that the Standard monopoly is
at the bottom of the disturbance in
values.
Bob Ingersoll thinks the political cy-
clone was caused by extravaganza ap-
preparations and a refusal to reduce
taxation, especially on tobacco. He
predicts that General Sherman will be
the next president.
At the Pittsburgh oil exchange, Mon
day, police were called into requisition
to keep the passage-ways clear. The
highest figure reached was ST 35; the
closing rate was ST. "a bid. and the
sales aggregated II 1915, 900 barrels.
James Bean. a desperate from Texas,
who lay in Jail at Wellington, Kansas,
with twelve shot and two Winchester
rifle balls in his body, died Monday of
his wounds. He killed City Marshal
Brown at Caldwell last summer.
In bingham, Mass, a girl of Is was
taken from her escort by three armed
men, who dragged her into the bushes
and violated her person. George Smith
and Frank Murray have been arrested
on suspicion.
1t is understood at Washington that
the United States government will be
invited to select the president of the
international commission organized to
the value of property de-
at Alexandria.
Washington butchers ,,dismayed at the
success Of the competition of Chicago
dealers, have instituted legal measures
to test the right of the latter to sell
meat in the markets of the national
Two heavy failures are reported from
New York: Henry Graft, boot and shoe
manufacturer, with liabilities of ST.
900 1000, and Richardson, Boynton &
Co., stove manufactures, whose pref
erences amount to $634,000.
William G.. Russell, paying teller of
Philadelphia life insurance and an
nuity company, has decamped, his ac-
counts showing a deficit of $4,000. He
had been for thirteen years connected
the institution.
Jack Radford, a hard character Of
Bellevue, Ohio, was served with papers
in a divorce suit and enjoined from
his property. Herevenged
himself upon his wife by killing her
with a revolver, and the citizens
to lynch him.
The women's Fighters of Staten
are after. the political scalp of
Erastus Brooks, who is a candidate for
otdUO lcSloldIuIc, DcCduSc aU JWO
successive sessions of the legislature
defeated a bill comforting the fran
,hise upon women.
Henry Clay, a grandson of the great
Kentucky statesman, who was a men,
Der of the Howgate expedition to the
north pole, gave an illustrated lecture
before the Polytechnic society of
Monday evening, the house
being crowded to its utmost capacity.
Lewis Coleman, a Boston millionaire,
las lost his fortune in railway specula-
ions and by indorsing notes for his
George +. Hall, and has
from the firm which so long
bore his name. Hall has asked an X
ension OH $3.50, 900 of obligations.
General Sherman's annual report rec
'mmends that the limit of the army be
increased to 10000 men, and that the
of soldiers be made SIG per month.
The assertions during the year num-
'ered 3,721, many of which are due to
nlistments at the east in order to Sc
'ure free transportation to the west.
Arab Pasha sets up the claim that
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