The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-28
CONDENSED NEWS.

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les Francis Adams is regularly accom-
panied by private detective.
Brooklyn people seem to fear that the
Standard Oil company will soon obtain
control OF the gas business of that city.
The steamer COrwin has sailed for
the Arctic regions to relieve the crew
of the Rodgers.
James w. Borden. a prominent DEM
ocrat of Indiana, judge Of the criminal
court at Fort Wayne, died Tuesday.
Tabor and others have sold the Henri
cite mine at Leadville to party of
French and English capitalists for ST.
100000.
In the Dominion house of commons.
Mr.. Blake's resolution that Canada
should negotiate commercial treaties
was defeated by vote of 1O4 to SO.
The corporation of Marseilles has
brought suit against ex : Empress
Eugene to obtain title to the chateau
presented under the NapOleOnic regime.
Bradlaugh has brought suit against
the assistant sergeant-at-arms for eject
ing him from the lobby of the British
house of commons.
In the United States court at Grand
Rapids, Mich, Rev. Mr.. Koehler was
fined $500 for sending indecent letters
to his wife after they had separated.
The sixty-third anniversary of the in
StitutiOn of the order of Odd-FellOws
was very generally celebrated Wednes-
day throughout the United States.
Pinkeye has appeared among the
horses in New York, and one sales
stable reports the loss of two or three
head per day for the past fortnight.
A London journal predicts that before
the week closes all the American sus-
poets imprisoned in Ireland will have
left the country.
David Snodgrass. marshal of Crestline,
o., was shot dead by stranger, whom
he was endeavoring to arrest. The citi-
zens made two attempts to lynch the
murderer.
In the suit brought at Washington by
Hallett KilbOurne against Sergeant-at-
Arms Thompson, for damages for false
imprisonment, the jury rendered YER
dict for $1OO, 900. A motion for new
trial will be filed.
Henry s. Debevoise, mayor of Long
Island City, has been arrested to ans
wer for deficit of $112,936 in the bond
accounts. He refuses to make any state
ment.
Lemuel l.. Crocker, the largest live
stock dealer in Buffalo, made an assign
ment to cover liabilities of nearly 81
O00, 600, thereby causing the suspension
of Frank A. Sears, dealer in malt.
Several cigar-makers from Germany,
with their families, arrived at Milwau-
kee Saturday to take the place of strik-
ers, and were escorted to the factories
by the police.
The army of India will hereafter con-
sist of 81 regiments of cavalry and 113
Of infantry. -Four regiments of native
cavalry and 10 OF infantry are to be dis
banded.
Ex-Secretary KirkwOod will not con-
sent to become candidate for congress
in the Fifth district of Iowa. The con-
test lies between Judge Struble, Sena-
tor Arnold, and ex-senator Rumple.
The fastest regular train ever run be-
tween New York and Boston will be
placed on the Springfield route May 1.
The time will be six hours, and there
will be eight stops.
In the city of Kamenetz, Russia, hav-
ing population Of %, 900, the shops and
houses of all Jews were destroyed by in
cendiary fires, the loss being 500, 900
rubles. 1853
A London journal says that Mr.. and
Mrs. j. w. Mackey have been so poster
ed by suitors for the hand Of their
daughter that they have announced
that she will receive no marriage por-
ton.
Nearly six thousand persons are
thrown out of employment by the clos
ing Of the Harmony mills at COhoes, N.
Y. The spinners and weavers saw no
reason for reduction OF 10 per pent. in
their wages.
The governor Of Tennessee has re-
oaix,od "a v,ronocifion frnrn fha hnIJor,
of state bonds to compromise the debt
at 60 per cent, with graded interest of
4, s, and Q per cent.
Mrs. Saltzeman, of st. Joseph, Mo-, !
who owns the house in which Jesse
James was killed, has filed with Govern
or Crittenden claim for $1,000 dam
ages, caused by relic-hunters. She holds
the state responsible.
The immigration commissioners at
New York are at Albany, urging the
passage of the bill appropriating $780,
600 for necessary expenses at Castle
Garden, in default of which amount the
institution will be closed.
In the Guiteau case, the supreme
court of the District of Columbia gave
Charles Ii. Reed two weeks to prepare
his argument in the bill of exceptions,
which will come up May s. Only that
VI IDCONlllt . lttltG ANNOUNCING
his withdrawal from the case was read. |
Eight employees of the New York Cen
trail road, who have been robbing
freight-trains at East Buffalo, were fool |
ish enough to have similar suits made
from piece Of stolen cloth, and have
gone to Jail.
The German National bank of Den
yer has suffered to the extent of $1,000
through forgery by mail-robbers. A
treasury draft sent westward from
Washington was found to have been
cashed soon afterward on false sigma
lures.
Five convicts in the Quebec provin-
cial penitentiary, while working outside
the walls, tied the warden and started |
off. He released one hand and alarmed |
the guards with his revolver, but he |
s was fatally shot IN the struggle wnlch
At the st. Lawrence hotel, in Chi
cago, a drug clerk named Andrew Moi