The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-09-29


The Ford brothers, who killed Jesse
at Brooklyn. where they claim to have
seen the wife of Frank James, heavily
yelled Wednesday afternoon, and grew
quite excited over it.
John Rapier, of Chicago, who was
brought back from Scotland for steal
ing $4,000 from the jewelry firm of
Benjamin Allen & Co., entered plea
of guilty, and was sentenced to seven
years in the penitentiary.
Mark s. Thompson, vice president of
the Washington Ice company, of Chi
cago, mysteriously disappeared ten
days ago, leaving an invalid wife. He
is believed to have sunk from $50, 900 to
$4,000 in grain speculations.
Peter Cooper, who was born in New
York when the city had population of
1000, has spent the last three months
in preparing his autobiography. His
health Is excellent and his mental ma
chinery unimpaired.
Engineer Melville has given Secre-
tary Chandler detailed account of the
finding of the bodies of belong and
party. Minister Hunt telegraphs that
Glider and Wilson, of the Jeanette,
have arrived at st. Petersburg.
General Rosser is at the head of a
project to build railway from Winni-
peg to Hudson bay, by which the grain
of the northwest will find its way to
Liverpool, and Hamilton Jukes will
soon take out party of surveyors.
A publishing-ho in Boston has
learned. that the stereotype plates of
nine volumes Of Dickens works have
been stolen in the most inexplicable
manner. Some junk-dealer probably
paid $40 for what was worth nearly
$1,000.
DR.. McGillicuddy, Indian agent at
Pine Ridge, telegraphs that two hun
dred Northern Cheyennes, under the
leadership of Black Wolf, have started
for Fort KeOgh, distance of 800 miles.
1t is not believed that they will commit
any depredations.
Bonds to the amount of 81 ,OOO, 900,
which were bequeathed by Mr.. Lewis,
of New Jersey, towards the extinguish-
ment Of the public debt, will this week
be sent to Washington for cancellation,
and will figure in the next debt state
ment.
French influence is being brought to
bear on the Mexican government to
prevent the negotiation of reciprocity
treaty with the United States. "A per-
manent exhibition of Mexican products
is to be established in New Y ork and in
several European cities.
Five desperate men who recently
robbed the express Office at Greenville,
Pennsylvania, were jailed at Mercer,
where they made their escape by gag
ging and binding everybody in authori-
ty, locking fifteen other prisoners in
their cells.
A cablegram from Trieste states that
Oyerdank and twenty deserters from
the Austrian army drew lots to deter
mine who would throw bombs the
emperor during the recent reception.
The explosives were made by a Russian
at Kieff.
Manager Merrill, of the st. Paul road,
made his appearance in Chicago Friday
and affixed his signature to the agree
ment to maintain passenger and freight
rates to northwestern points. The st.
Paul was admitted to the Iowa pool on
an equality with its four predecessors.
In the Baptist church at Hampton
Cross Roads, Virginia, during service,
Jerry Cox and Levi Bryson drew revolt
vers and fired wildly about for some
time, Bryson being killed. The preach
er went calmly on with his sermon,
while the audience shrieked with ter
rOr.
A colored miser of Philadelphia sport
ing the name of Rev. Joshua PrOvine
Bond Eddy, died in filthy hut, leaving
500, 900 to brother. He was born in
Virginia in the last century, Travelled
circuit in New Jersey married daugh
ter Of Bishop Allen, and became soured
nnaIncf humanity nr,l loo ~, r,rr of hQr in
fidelity.
The democrats of New York in their
at Syracuse admitted Tam
many Irving Hall and the county demo
cracy to fractional representation. Gro
yer Cleveland, of Buffalo, was nomi-
mated for governor, on the fourth bal
lot, the result of a change by the Tam
many delegates to Cleveland.
Thomas Dodd. of Covington, Ken
lucky, while standing in his doorway
beside his young bride, about midnight
was shot dead by Edward
Welsh, who stood on the sidewalk with
his wife only a few feet away. Dodd
had been intimate with a daughter Of
Welsh, and declined to marry her.
George s. Rousseau, formerly lieu
tenant in the United States army, shot
himself through the head at Laredo,
where he was employed as aquarantine
guard. He was q son of General Low
ell III. Rousseau, and was three years
ago dismissed from the service for kill
ing DIR. Rivers at Bracket, Texas.
The supply expedition which sailed
in the Neptune from st. Johns in July
found itself unable to reach Lieutenant
Greeley, there being solid ice field for
two degrees south of him, and it there
fore returned rather than spend the
winter in the Arctic seas. Greeley took
stores of all kinds to last two years.
A coal-slide in the Dodson mine at
Pennsylvania, caused an
explosion of fire-damp, killing one man
and seriously burning four others. The
track of the Lackawanna road settled
three feet for space of several hun
dred yards. A similar occurrence at
Maryland, buried four
men, who will probably recover.
An agent of a Chicago iron-mill pick
ed up one hundred workmen at Wheel
ing, West Virginia, and had them ready
for the train, when a request was made
by manufacturing firm that the men
wait day. The agent consented to the