The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-07-21

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BILE Monday, drew back the head of his
young brother, and nearly severed it
from the body with razor.
A locomotive on the Erie road was
run from Patterson to Jersey City by
hydrogen gas produced by the decom-
position of water under the action of
ignited naphtha. The trip was made
one minute ahead of time, the engine
having l40 pounds of steam on reaching
its destination.
The meetings at Chautauqua opened
Saturday with an attendance surpass-
ing all previous years. The Teachers
Retreat and School for Languages will
continue three weeks, the assembly
commencing August l. A large chorus
organ has been placed in the amphithe-
alter, and fine hotel is ready for guests.
In the British house of commons,
Harcourt stated that bloodhounds
would not be used in Ireland for track
ing murderers. The repression bill
went to third reading, but the govern
| lection of an amendment by Trevelyan
to limit the right of search to the day
time, except in case of secret societies.
William Sprague purchased case of
| rifles in Providence and had them de-
livered at the Office of the Aquidneck
| company, and sent out an employe to
buy two hundred pounds of amfhuni-
ton. 1t is only few weeks since q
receiver appointed by the court was
| fOrcibly elected from the mills, with
threats of shooting. no
| Forty Mexican soldiers, acting under
orders of the customs officers, attacked
camp of smugglers near Piedras Ne
gras. Half the troops were mounted,
the others firing from q ravine. Con
zelos, the customs officer, was killed,
and the smugglers lost two men. Nine
of the contrabadistos were captured, as
also forty bales of goods and forty
horses.
The people of Washington have new
dread of Imprisonment in the Jail, as a
story is in circulation that Guiteau's
| ghost walks the corridors after mid
night. On the roof of the medical mu-
scum, each day can be seen negro un-
A thirteen-months-o child of Will
lam Ashley, of Des Moines, Iowa, died
Thursday from the effects of swallow
ing pins, needles, etc., for which it had
| developed remarkable faculty. 1t be
! gan to fail last May, and to the hour OF
| three carpet tackS and four shoe but
tons are known to have passed from its
body. 1t had become reduced to askel-
eton. and suffered intensely.
The Illinois department of agricul-
ture reports the prospects for corn new
er more discouraging. Rains have
been excessive in the central portion of
the state, weeds have made rapid
growth, and much land reserved for
corn has not been planted. The yield
in the northern division promises to be
only GA per cent. Of an average, in the
central division 60 per cent. and in the
southern division 81 per cent.
Reports on the wheat crop from all
the counties in Illinois to July show
its condition to be per cent above the
average, and 81 per cent better than at
the same time last year. In the south
ern and most central counties the crop
has been harvested, and the quality is
excellent. Much of it is already being
prepared for the market. In the CEN
trail part of the state there is some
alarm on account of sprouting and soft
condition. The ground greatly delays
harvesting, it being impossible to use
reapers in many places.
Frank Newcomb, paying teller of the
National State bank of Elizabeth, N.
j., on Tuesday, discovered what had
become of S1,976 which recently van
iShed from his cash drawer. Attached
to slender cord he found flat piece
of lead covered with shoemaker's wax,
and a $40 note sticking to it. Counting
his cash, he learned that no less than
$500 had disappeared within half an
hour. The janitor sat in the cellar and
worked the apparatus through hole in
the floor and a series of screw rings.
Two paying tellers had resigned be-
counts balance.
Charles Stiles, a noted operator on
the Chicago board of trade, who receiv-
ed salary of So, 900 per annum as call
er of the call board, was shot dead at
the Palmer house, Monday morning, by
an Italian prostitute calling herself
Madeline Stiles, whom he brought hith-
er from Baltimore six years ago, and
whose earnings he had regularly vast
ed in speculation and sport. 1t appears
that they drove to Sunnyside on Sunday
evening, and that he left her to walk to
the street-carS, some miles distant, in
a pouring rain. She went to his room
at the hotel, as she claims, to effect
reconciliation, and when he struck her
she fired two shots into his left breast.
Deceased was 32 years of age, and son
of the late Hon. +. b. Stiles, of Dixon,
Ill. OILS Ia
A dispatch from Moscow announces
the sudden death of Gen. Skobeleff, the
famous Russian general. Though no
more than 80 years of age, was counted
one of the best generals in the Russian
army. Having graduated in the mill
tary academy at st. Petersburg, he en-
tered active service as an officer of. the
staff in 1868. His career, though short,
was brilliant one. His personal brav-
cry was not only Of the reckless char
acter, but at times it seemed to partake
of the merest bravado, in which only
extraordinary luck prevented him from
reaping in death the reward of his fool
ishness. He was elegant in manners,
entertaining in conversation, well-read |
in general literature, and amiable in
disposition as he was brave. Perhaps |
he had but one enemy in st. Peters
burg, the late emperor's brother, Grand
Duke Constantine.
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