The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-08-25
CONDENSED NEWS.


President Garfield have gone to James,
town, Mich, to visit relatives.
Charles w. Ward, negro, was exc
cuted at San Antonio for an outrage on
white girl.
BY the completion of the new chan
mel, Mobile has seventeen feet of wa
ter from the wharves to the sea.
Eastern manufacturing centers are
the only points making good exhibit
in the clearinghouse statistics.
The question of keeping open on Sun
day Is being discussed by the directors
of the Milwaukee exposition.
Denver reports eighteen recent at
tempts at suicide, the last victim being
Charles Hutchins, prominent jeweler.
A committee is being organized in
London to place in Westminster abbey
bust of L0ngfellow.
General Sherman is in st. Louis,
where he attended the funeral of two
children of Lieutenant Fitch, his SON
in-law.
j. j. Mcbride. a prominent criminal
lawyer of st. Louis, gave John Sharkey,
q compositor, a terrible stab in the
breast.
Mr.. Joslyn, the acting secretary of
the interior, is using a stamp to sigh
unimportant papers, after having given
the law in the case careful study.
A number of white horses being
trained at Copenhagen for use at the
coronation of the car were killed by
supposed nihilists.
Philip Etting, rich and eccentric
farmer living near Port Jervis, N. Y,
killed Jesse Manderville with rifle for
taking an apple from his orchard.
Powerful magnetic properties have
been developed in the water of an ar
tesian well recently bored at Yankton
Dakota.
Red Cloud was arrested at Pine
Ridge agency and put on parole, the
chiefs and police holding themselves
responsible for his good behavior.
Spain has determined to join will
Russia and Germany in protesting
against the protection of the Suez canal
being confded to the British.
Professor Forbes, state entomOlogist
OF Illinois, announces the presence OF
the corn-root worm in nearly every
field in Mclean county.
Oklahoma Payne writes to friends in
Kansas that he is encamped ON Dry
creek, in Indian Territory, and that his
men are erecting buildings.
Eric Bayley,a London actor, crossed
the Atlantic in search Of his wife, who
had eloped with his private secretary,
and found the runaways in New York.
Some Washington ladies have form
ed a secret society with a view to ex.
posing politicians who place abandoned
women in the department.
George A. Preston, of Charlotte,
Mich, has brought suit against that
city for $50, 900 damages, sustained by
reason of defective sidewalk.
The arrivals of Russian Jews in New
York have almost ceased, but the re-
lief committee is still caring for a con-
siderable number who have not found
employment.
The Indian agent at Pine Ridge has
assembled his police to arrest Red Cloud
and Woman's Dress, and renews his re-
quest that they be sent to the military
prison;at sLeavenworth.
Twoyoung men and two young ladies
in a carriage were run down by train
at Anoka, Mimi, together with their
horse, and all were killed. The party
was returning from a dance.
The Utah commission was formally
received at Salt Lake Saturday night.
The Mormon church has employed four
leading law firms of Salt Lake, and
raised $40 900 to fight the law.
The st. Louis and San Francisco
road has sold all its lands in Jasper,
Newton, and Mcdonald counties, Mis-
souri,, to a company formed in Scotland,
to establish a cattle and sheep ranch.
Rymer, who stabbed McGarvey, near
Fort Lyon, was taken from Jail at West
Las Animas and lynched by mob sup
posed to be composed OF soldiers from
the fort.
Six lodges of the Amalgamated iron
association have resolved to parade the
streets of Pittsburg on Saturday. to
convince the public that they are de-
void of neither. clothing nor food.
At Rock Creek, Wyoming, hunter
named Gibbon shot dead a clerk of the
name of Robert Aiken. Within five
hours the oarpse of the murderer orna-
mented box-car. a.
Two steamers stirred the waters of
Lake Minnetonka Wednesday until
they gave up the body Of Miss Ella
Walker, Of st. Louis and there is no
longer any doubt that she took her own
life. " t+e
Forty Iowa brewers held secret
meeting at Davenport Wednesday,
probably to concert measures in OPP
position to the enforcement of the pro-
hibitQTy amendment.
Hon. A. w. Sawyer, formerly Justice
of the supreme count of New Hamp-
shire, died in the hands of physician, |
who was giving him ether in order to |
amputate his foot.
The democratic state convention of |
Michigan, after debate, voted to .di- |
vide the state ticket with the green |
hackers. The proposition was accept |
ed, and Hon. j. w. Begole was nomi- |
mated for governor.
The three men who robbed a stage |
near GlOiSe, Arizona, and killed the ex- |
press messenger have been captured, |
and one of the number has made de- |
tailed confession. The $4,000 stolen |
has not yet been recovered.
The butchers of Baltimore met to
voice their indignation at the large
sales By axefT( ncrator company of frozen
beef ire 20. They assert that
the nyb ade of Maryland is