The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-14
CONDENSED NEWS.

plates and considerable unfinished scrip.
A tornado ut Fort Riley, Kan, un-
rooted nearly all the buildings, injured
two soldiers, and killed horse.
Seven inches of snow has blockaded
the Manitoba road from Breckenridge,
Mimi, northward.
w. B. Merchant, of New Orleans. is
an applicant for the marshalship of
Louisiana. aet
The new railway from Buffalo to Chi
cage will probably be open for business
by July 1. lobat I ~
Parnell has been released on parole
for week, to visit his sister in Paris,
whose child has just died.
The Mexican Cable company will make
Galveston the terminal point of five
thousand miles Of wire. t3&
A corporation has been formed at
Leavenworth to build a hotel costing
100000. ~. 81 $50
Rev. DIR. E. III. Pitcher, presiding eld-
er of the Hamilton district in Ontario,
has been stricken with paralysis.
English steamship companies are
obliged to put on extra boats for the
emigrant trade.
A Swedish paper says that Sweden in
tends to invade Finland in event of a
Russo German war.
Henry Schermerbeck, a German,
hanged himself in the cellar of his
house, at Cincinnati.
John M. Hubbard, of Chicago, has
been appointed special agent of the
treasury at Seal Island, Alaska.
The governing board of Harvard col
lege refuses to give any encouragement
to women to enter it's medical school.
Gortschakoff has been relieved of the
work of the ministry of foreign affairs,
at his own request, and De Giers is his
successor.
Cablegrams announce the decease Of
Dennis Florence Mccarthy, the poet, at
London, and of Charles Alfred Bertauld,
the French writer on legal subjects.
The coroner of Philadelphia reports
the death of three aged sisters, from
natural causes, within the same half
hour.
Commodore Luce is alarmed over the
non-arrival at Newport of the United
States training-ship Portsmouth, from
Hampton roads.
S. p. Colt, to whom Cornelius j. Van
derbilt bequeathed $4,000, has since
been elected encouragement of Rhode
Island.
Attacks upon the Jews in southern
Russia have recommended, their shops
in one city having been fired with pc
troleum.
There is some foundation for the ru-
NOR floating about Washington that
Judge Taft will be appointed minister
to England. and Lowell be recalled.
General Sherman telegraphs his APP
prevail of the clause for compulsory re-
tirement at the age of 81, and asks no
exception for himself.
The democratic state convention Of
Oregon nominated Joseph S. Smith for
governor, and William d. Fenton for
Congressman.
The Ford brothers, who killed Jesse
James, have been threatened with the
vendetta by the banditti of Missouri
and Tennessee.
The union carpenters Of New York
made general strike for So so per day,
and nearly all the employers conceded
the figures.
Mrs. McLin, who died at st. Joseph,
Mich, was the last daughter of Captain
Napier, who went down with the Al
pena,
Rev. George H. Austin, of Madison,
Ind, pleaded guilty to forging note
fenced to five years in the penitentiary.
The fund for the family of Sergeant
Mason has swollen to $1,000, and Betty
favOrs the purchase of a farm in Virgin
Ia on her husbands release.
About three thousand emigrants ar
rived at Castle Garden Wednesday. The
commissioners report an urgent demand
for labor
Mr.. Arthur, chief of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, has been sum.
moned to Winnipeg to adjust question
of wages. a as4.,t.l- .i a-,t..tr
"A jury at New Orleans awarded $20,-
600 damages to Mcneil and wife for the
death of their son on the Louisville and
Nashville road.
During the Easter holidays the streets
of Odessa were patrolled by troops. Five |
thousand Jews have recently been ex-
PEELED from Moscow.
j. b. Bum, government storekeeper
at Peoria, ILL.,, Is said to have obtained |
money from merchants on |
worthless checks, and disappeared.
In the star-route cases, at Washington,
Colonel Ingersoll has filed motion for |
a bill of particulars in regard to s. w. |
Dorsey.
In the oratorical contest at Minneap-
Oils the first honor was awarded to w. |
w. Clark, of the state university, the |
second being taken by grandson Of DR.. |
Leonard Bacon.
DR.. N III. Tulloss, well known through
out eastern Iowa as dentist, who has |
long suffered from nervous disease, |
drowned himself in a water-tank at |
Iowa City.
Mrs. Smith, the eldest daughter of |
Horace Greeley, died of diphtheria at |
N. Y, after an illness of |
one week. She leaves three children,
the youngest being but one month old. |
A plot for the assassination of the
Egyptian minister Of war has been dis
covered at Cairo, and many Circassian
officers have been arrested for compiled
ty.
Nathaniel Northrup, of Louisville, |
who died on Monday night, had for over
forty years served the Ohio stage line |
and railroads as passenger agent.
An auction sale of the famous Jumel
estate will be held in New York in
r. 4 IL. l..