The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1882-03-17


Is raging a. Morgan Center, o. There are 40 |
or more cases reported, and four deaths have
occurred In the last three days. rhe disease
was mistaken for chicken. pox aud other cut
aneOus sffectionP, and has been treated with
the simplest remedies, the conta gous character
being unsuspected.
The Secretary OF War Is informed that 49,
600 persons In Mississippi, 1000 In Arkansas
and 5000 In Tennessee are without supplies or
means for securing them. The rations Issued
by the war department at these points will
probably last until next week. Twenty thous-
and rat'ons were ordered to be sent 10 Tennes
see.
Arnold Howard and Francis Young, were
lodged 10 Jail at Del Norte, Col, for cattle
stealing. On Saturday night, 100 mounted
men, said TO be stockmen from Rio Graz de
and San Luis valleys, rode down the prison
guards, ard began firing In all dire ctions. As
the Jail was h'oken open, the prisoners at
tempted to escape, but roth were killed.
"Jumbo" Is the largest elephant In the world.
London desires TO keep him; Barnum desires
10 get him, despite the Injunction Of Justice
entity to prevent his removal, ard telegraphs
his agent In Lordon Employ best counsel
In Tor don. Spare no expense. We must have
Jumbo. Have expended $4,000 for engrav-
ing, Autographs and colorsd rosters represent
ing the largest elephant In the world standing
beside little Bridgeport, the smallest elephant
In the world"
| While the house Of Joseph Melton Of Nor
walk O., was on fire, and passage by the halls
was prevented by the flames, two young men
jumped from the second story and Mary Maggie
a young lady Is years old, persisted in the
flames.
The Star-routers are held TO bail as follows
Geo. Brady $4,000; 8. G. aobel', $4,000; j, r
Minor, $4,000; W. H. Turner, $2,5OO; Kate M
Armstrong, H. y. Vail, ]. p. Sweet, !. W
Donehue, W. B. Barenger, W. w. Jackson, q
N. Dickerman $1,000 each, a. d j. A. Minixr
$780,
Joseph Il. Smith, of Lockland, o., pointed q
revolver at boys head and snapped II In fun
but the pistol went OFF, and killed the boy
Smith knew the revolver had charge In II
but thought the hammer would fall In ar
empty chamber.
New Orleans is in trepidatlon lest she also b.
inundated, and 1000 men are vigorously a
work on the levees.
The steamer Sidney, en- route from Cincin
natl to Wheeling, when near Ripley Landing
w. Va, twenty miles above PomerOy, at
O'clock Friday morning, burst The main steam
pipe and instantly killed Mrs. Little and 9
grandson, Of Maysville, Ky, and fatally scalded
Mrs. Stephenson OF Portsmouth, O, wife o.
the pilot of the boat.
In the Christisncy divorce suit Friday a re-
porter testified that he visited Mrs. Christiancy
on the morning Of January 4, 1881, after thu
etters put in evidence by Edil Giro were pub
lished. She said she had An object In writing
In the style she did, and she was giving hin
| (Giro) "tsffy."
The overflow of waters in all the southwest
is disastrous and alarming. On the Red river
hundreds Of families are living on RATS. The
Bayou Sara levee Is crumblipg away like dust
and the water is spreading far and wide Oyel
districts of Louisiana.
Intelligence comes of the death OF Rev
Henry Highland Garnet of New York, anC
consul to Liberia.
The report was false that the James gang of
robbers had been captured.
The steamship Germanic, from New York
has just taken out $4,000 In gold and $l42,
600 In silver bars. The motive for the ship
ment is not understood, as the rate of exchange
Is below the shipping point.
| Director COnjict OF the Mechanics National
Bank Of Newark, N. J., under arrest at the
ir stance Of FrelinGhuysen, has been released
on $250,OOO bail.
| The track of the main line of the Gulf, Col.
orado Il Santa Fe railroad is now completed
twenty miles northwest from below Calves.
| ton.
| The New York hotel keepers association ia
vor legislation which will furnish the city with
drawn" and properly prepared poultry.
To be dshOnorably discharged and eight
years imprisonment, is the penalty attached
| TO Sergeant Mason for shooting at Guiteau.
The western glass association at pittsburg
have agreed to advance the price of glass from
8 to per cent.
The Union Pacific railroad reports for the
year total earnings 1924, s5S,8l7, an Increase OF
&2000,OO0 over the previous year. with net
Lrofit of over eleven and half million dollars.