The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-03
CONDENSED NEWS.

twenty-five years.
Walt Whitman, the poet, is so SER
iously Ill of Bright's disease that there
is little hope of his recovery.
In a suit brought in New York to
force the removal OF telegraph wires in
Twenty-first street, the jury disagreed.
There is as yet no confirmation of the
report of the murder Of Professor Pal
mer and his companions by Bedouins.
Snow was general along the line of
the Northern Pacific railroad in DakO-
ia and Montana. Monday.
Isham G. Harris, United States SEN
atOr from Tennessee. is dangerously
i'll.
Jay Gould had narrow escape from
being run over by train of cars at
Rochester, New York, Monday.
Auditor Gay, of the Little Rock and
Fort Smith Railway, died at Little
Rock Sunday morning.
The victorious duke of Connaught
has embarked at Alexandria for Eng
land.
Rumors are again current that mil
itary preparations in Russia are direct
ed against Germany and Austria.
Four of the victims of the Hoosac
tunnel disaster have died and two 9TH
ers can not long survive.
Bishop Talbot, of the Episcopal do
,ese of Indiana, has decided, in view OF
his poor health, to resign his Office.
The British government will not in
terfere with the details of the trial of
Arab Pasha.
An English officer will command the
expedition against the false prophet in
the SOudan.
England was on Wednesday, visited
by destructive floods, many houses and
bridges being carried away.
Henry George disclaims any inten-
ton of urging a claim for damages
against the government on accOuntiOf
his recent arrest in Ireland.
The governor of Texas has received
telegram from New York Offering sew
enty cents per acre for one million acres
of state lands.
Major A. G. Constable, formerly of
the British army, who organized many
Ohio regiments at the outbreak of the
war, died Thursday in Brooklyn.
Hiram Tucker, an inventor of some
note, residing in Boston, committed
suicide by inhaling gas through arubber
tube.
Judge Swing, of the United States
Court for the Southern District of
Ohio, died Monday.
Mrs. Weyman threw a burning lamp
at Mrs. GOogins, in Pittsburg, Satur-
day evening, burning the latter so
badly that she died Sunday night.
Frank Whitton, of Clyman, Wis,
while hunting, on which occasion he
had handled gun for the first time,
was killed by its accidental discharge.
The Mexican government is consid.
ering the ACCESSIBILITY of adopting lead
ing features of the United States postal
system.
The Russian police captured seven
ty-five revOlutiOnists at Odessa, among
them student who had press, and
many nihilist manifestOes.
Frank A. Croll, assistant postmaster
at Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, was caught
rifing registered letters and held in
$4,000 bail.
the Italian chamber of deputies, was
until recently circus-rider, and bears
a bad character.
j. Wallace Mix, rich corn-canner of
Conestoga, New York, has fled to
South America with one of his factory
girls, leaving liabilities to the amount
of $4,000.
A freight train on the Kentucky Cen
trail road was thrown from the track
by distractions placed for that pur-
pose, and the engine and three cars
were demolished.
Citizens of Texas, having walked in
to the nets set by swindling marriage
insurance associations, are holding in
dignatiOn meetings to denOunce those
who have profted by the frauds.
The Virginia state-debt case has
been advanced on the docket of the
United States supreme court, and will
be called for argument January 9,
1888.
While three brothers named Grizzle,
of Lamotte, Iowa, were repairing
gun, the weapon was discharged, kill
ing one of them outright and fatally
wounded another.
The neglect of the car of Russia to
officially congratulate the king of
Servia upon his recent escape from as
sassination indicates lack of cOrdiali-
ty between the two governments.
Thomas f. Talbot, one of the oldest
residents of Cheyenne, was MORALLY
wounded by his wife in self-defense, he
being intoxicated and ugly. They have
nine children.
Robert Law has resigned the super
intendency of the Union Pacific system
in the territories to accept the superin-
tendency of the Burlington system in
Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri.
Lewis Lyon, president of the Third
Avenue Railroad company, of New
York, was twice fired at Friday by his
nephew, who then blew out his own
brains.
On account of the failure of the city
of New Orleans to pay for gas con-
sumed, the gas company has given no
tice that it will cease lighting the city
November s.
Frank James does not bear up we'll
in confinement, and is looking pale
and ill. There are three indictments
standing against him, but it is uncer-
tain when he will be brought to trial.
Special measures are being adopted
by the German government to prevent
the socialists from organizing anarchy,
as was attempted by their ilk in France
last week.
A wine and shirt hoard of trade has