The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-21
CONDENSED NEWS.

by July /.
The New York assembly adopted the
resolutions for free canals as amended
by the senate.
Jewels valued at e2O,OOO have been
stolen from the ladies of the imperial
family of Brazil.
The April report of the department of
agriculture shows an increase of 2 per
cent. in the area of winter wheat.
William Frazier. of Boston, who has
been identified with several great rail-
way enterprises, is dead.
Revivalists named Bently and Jones
visited the Washington Jail and prayed
beside Guiteau.
In the twenty-four hours ending at
noon Wednesday, eleven Steamship
landed at New York 8,737 immigrants.
Business troubles caused Hermann
Monk, a leading German citizen OF Lou
isville, to kill himself with laudanum.
General d. III. Hill, a noted confed-
crate leader, has resigned the presidency
OF the Arkansas Industrial university.
Two spans Of the new Broadway
bridge at Winnipeg were swept away
by ice.
The heaviest snow-storm of the season
prevailed Wednesday in the peninsula
of Michigan.
The immigrants arriving at Castle
Garden Tuesday numbered $3.50, and
the estimate for May is 100000.
Charles f. Wilstach, ex-mayor of Gin
cinnati, prominently identified with the
industrial exposition, died Monday.
The mayor of New York has contract
ed for electric lights in the Battery, City
Hall park, and Washington square.
An immigrant woman gave birth to
two girls and boy while OH board
train on the st. Paul and Omaha road.
The affairs of A. r.. Wininger, who
recently failed at st. Paul, Mimi, for
$3.50, 900, have been settled.
George Cox, of Mercer county, Ohio,
has sued two residents of Decatur, Ind,
for $50, 900 for the seduction Of his wife.
O'Brien, editor of United Irealnd, has
been Internationally released from pris-
on.
The cyclone which swept across Iowa
and Missouri ruined twenty-five houses
at Carrollton, a suburb of New Orleans,
and injured fifteen persons.
Rev. j. s. Fisher, of Leesport, Pa,
was taken to the insane asylum in man.
acles, four men being required to hold
him.
and NOrwegianS, converts to Mormon
ism, have arrived at San Francisco from
Australia.
Twenty-one counties in Kansas report
crop prospects unsurpassed. Grass was
never 80 promising, and cattle and sheep
passed through the winter well.
BY the explosion of the boiler in q
feed-mill on Pratt street, Baltimore,
seven persons were killed and eight
severely injured.
The free zone of Mexico, in which no
customs duties are collected, is to be ex-
tended up the western boundary Of Goa
hula.
The widow of Jesse James went to
st. Joseph, Monday, and secured from
Marshal Craig revolvers and guns valued
at $500 or more.
A storm of unparalleled severity
ragged in the region of DeadwoOd for a
week, almost destroying the telegraph
line.
Parks, a postal clerk on the Missouri
Pacific road, was caught in the act Of
robbing the mails and confessed his
guilt.
Five thousand iron workmen in Paris
struck against proposition to tax their
wages for the payment of insurance
against accidents.
Oscar Wilde expects to spend a Dor
ton OF the summer with Henry Ward
Beecher on the Hudson, and the re-
mainder with Julian Hawthorn.
A drought in Wyoming which threat
ened to destroy the cattle ranges ended
by heavy snOw-stOrm, which insures
good grass. The value of the visitor is
placed at $4,000.
Commissioner Fink issued a circular
fixing the rates from Chicago to New
York on live stock at so cents on cattle,
30 cents net on hogs, and 80 cents gross
on sheep.
"a. Sweet & Co., bankers, of Boston,
who suspended payment several months
ago, have cleared away half their liabili-
ties of 50, $50, 600, and expect soon to
take their business into their own hands.
The sheriff and other prominent citi-
zens of Durango, Col, are said to have
been in the party which lynched Three
Fingered Jack and Grizzly Dan in the
woods four miles from town.
While temporarily insane, merchant
of Louisville, o.. named G. b. Oblinger,
leaped from a night train at Newport,
Del, and wandered into a residence,
where he was shot as burglar.
Ocean freights on wheat have fallen
to a quarter cent per bushel, against %
cents in 1878. Some vessels are putting
in stone ballast, and others take
double supply of coal.
A party of $50 first-class bricklayers
have left Montreal by special train for
Pullman, ILL.,, under an engagement for
six months, at wages ranging from Sos
to $50 per month.
The California delegation in congress
seems to feel confident that President
Arthur will sign the anti-Chinese bill
passed by the house, suspending immi-
grafton to ten years.
All the Colorado criminals convicted
between March 81 and June 80, 1881, are
applying for and receiving their free
dom. They were tried under defect
i've law.
The senate committee on railroads
has agreed to recommend the passage
of a bill incorporating the Cherokee
Central road, with right of way through
Indian Territory.
Tho Nau Orlaana cottOn exchange has