The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-02
CONDENSED NEWS.

Cabot Is appointed literary executor.
The shops and shed of the Pullman
Palace-Car Company, at New Orleans,
were burned, causing a loss of $75, 900.
Frank Miller, while robbing the resi-
dence of III. p. Moore at Erie, wasnear-
ly beheaded with a scythe.
The trustee of the Sprague estate adj
yertises to sell the property in parcels
in June.
The war between the railroads at
Pueblo, COL, caused a cut in the rates
to Denver from 81 to 81.
Jacob Testament, an inebriate of
Asheville, N. c., deliberately beat his
young daughter to death for becoming
intoxicated from his bottle in the field.
Major George N. Bliss of Providence,
X. l., who was last week elected a state
senator, has become insane from the ex-
element of the contest.
Guiteau's left eye is very much in
famed, the result of intense excite
ment, and he spends most of his time
in his cot.
The Homestake Mining company, in
the Black Hills, on Monday commenced
a survey for the extension of its rail-
road ~forty-five miles to Deadwo0d.
j. v. Clark, manager of the Interna-
tional hotel, at st. Paul, has disappear
ed with all the loose cash, in the absence
OF the proprietor.
Six Antwerp pigeons liberated at
Bordentown, N. j., reached Northamp-
ton, Mass, in seven hours, averaging
thirty-seven miles an hour.
Charles Bailey, a gardener living
a Montreal, was deliberately muir
dered by ~strychnine placed in his sup
per by his wife.
Father Sorin, founder of NOtre Dame
university at South Bend, Ind, has re-
turned from his fortieth trip across the
Atlantic.
The New York senate passed the bill
for a railroad commission. with an
amendment that the next governor
makes the appointments.
An 0culist Of New York informed
Lieutenant DanenhOwer that his right
eye would o recover, while the sight
Of the left could never be restored.
Joshua f. Speed, who died Monday
evening at Louisville, was one of Abra-
ham LincOn's earnest friends, and a
brother of his attorney general.
The Ohio supreme court has decided
that the Pond liquor law is in the ma
ture OF a license, and is therefore in
conflict with the state constitution.
Mrs. La Bau-B Berger, a sister of Cor
nelius j. Vanderbilt, has brought suit
to set aside his will, which left $780,
600 to George N. Terry, on the ground
that the bequest was procured by fraud.
Adyices from forty leading points in
the northwestern grain region represent
the acreage of wheat as 80 per cent. less
than last year. The plant is healthy,
and promises a good yield.
1t is reported in New York that the
Barring Brothers, of London, have TAX
en- a second batch of S. ,000, 900 in bonds
of the AtchisOn, Topeka and Santa Fe
road.
The supreme court of Rhode Island
has decreed the divorce of the Spragues,
giving the wife the custody of three
daughters and permitting her to resume
the name OF Kate Chase.
Large numbers of Russian Jews, for
warded by the lord mayors committee
of London. are arriving in Montreal.
Each one brings funds enough to start
in life.
The immigration at Castle Garden for
May reached the unprecedented total of
9O,Ol9, a larger number than came to
our shores either in the years of 1875 or
1878.
Advices from the wheat region Of
Michigan are to the effect that the pros
pect was never more promising, Nut the
acreage has only" increased in the newer
counties.
The sheriff at New Haven states that
a Boston lady of wealth has offered
Blanche Douglass q home, should she
the charge of numbering Jennie
Cramer.
Mrs. r. c. Knapp, of Warren, ILL.,, has
obtained a divorce from J. j. Knapp, of
Chicago, on the ground of extreme
cruelty. She receives money and lands
valued at $4,000.
Bernhardt appeared in a Paris thea
ter with her handsome husband in
Camille, and both evoked rapturOus APP
Damala being recalled four
times.
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, is
said to be negotiating for the surren-
der of Frank James, who is now in
Jackson county, and who desires to
make the best terms possible.
In the British house of commons, Mr..
Governs amendment to the repression
bill, that the house disapproves of re-
upon the free expression of
public opinion in Ireland, was defeated
by 344 to AZ. Hvs
OndIleS IL. Ietu WeuU W DOStOl anu
to Judge Gray, of the supreme
court, for a writ of habeas corpus for
Iuiteau. The judge answered that he
must wait to present the cas- to his as
The long strike of the boom men at
Mich, has ended, and fifty
If them have applied for work at SO for
eleven hours. The contest is believed
have cost the business of the town
s500, 900.
The chief of the Coyaters Apaches
allied upon Colonel Bracket at Fort
Thomas and asked that his people be
permitted to return to their home in
he White mountains of Arizona, where
hey can support themselves.
/. F. A. Stoddart, an insurance agent
It st. Paul, is being subjected to a thor
ugh investigation of his accounts. He
vas an officer in the British army dur
ng the Crimean war, and has been q
figure in Minnesota.
Eight prisoners, two of whom are
nurderers and one a highway robber,