The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-20

! Bridgewatsr was destroyed by fire
Saturday. IL covered an acre or ground,
and was valued at $50, 900. Nearly two
hundred inmates were taken out in
safety. AMI tents have been pitched for
their accommodation.
This Governor OF Arkansas urges the
sher;ffs OF Garland. Yell. and Mont
gomery counties to summon aid ind
hunt down the outlaws in that noun
famous Ar.-:ion. Here is. a grand OPP
portmity for any Chicagoan who has
grown weary OF troul-fshing.
George Barnhari. wild young man
OF Erie Pennsylvania, relative OF the
| Partisan actress got INTO broI III the
suburbs AMI deliberately ripped open
the stomach OF John Strucker. Barn.
hart Aas not been captured and his vic
tim Is dying.
A hail-storm destroyed 5000 acres.of
crops in Bon Homme and Hutchinson
counties, Minnesota. The country
northeast of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin,
was similarly afflicted, Tuesday. A
farmer in Oconto county reports that
the horns were knocked from yearling
steer by hail-stones, last Friday.
A young woman employed in dry
goods house at Syracuse, New York,
living with her grandmother, was fore
IDLY abducted on Monday evening by
her mother and stranger, who claimed
to have warrant for her. The mother
is Mrs. Parroy, OF Minneapolis, where
the girl is probably being taken.
/ G. l.. Colby and other lead M citizens
of Milwaukee have taken steps TO es-
tablish in that city university which
shall do credit to theWest. 1t is stated
| that endowment funds to the amount
of S600.00 have already been subscrlb-
| ed, and contributions are being made in
the surrounding cities.
A nine-story office building has re-
/ Gently been erected on La Sale street.
near Monroe, Chicago. at an outlay OF
| $4,000. 1t was leased Tuesday for ten
| years at an annual rental of $50 900 and
ali taxes and assessments, having the
| owners 100000 and the structure free of
| cost at the end of the lease.
On leaving Dodge City, Kansas, Mon
| day evening, five cowboys rode up to
dance house, and one OF the number
| forced his pony on the porch and fired
| his six-shoOter for salute. When the
city marshal was through with the
| gang. one lay dead and. the others had
disappeared.
Sam Cook. the negro who shot Emma
Shores at PoJosi. Mo-, last Thursday,
put two bullets into his own head with
suicidal intent, and roamed all day
| Thursday with his leaden burden and
ate heartily, Notwithstanding that the
brains oozed from his skull. He will
not live long in this condition, how
ever.
Mr.. Johnson. foreman of the Boston
| Herald stereotypng room was murder
ously assaulted in u stairway OF that
establishment Tuesday night. and beat
EN- nearly to death. Dave Flannery,
night engineer OF the press-room, IS
charged with the crime, and has been
recognized by his victim and three
newsboys as the assailant.
A party OF five hundred poor children
| of New York, who were selected by
missionaries and school teachers, went
up the Hudson river Monday night, and
will be placed for time among the
towns on the shores of Lake Cham
plain. The expense is borne by a fresh
air fund organized bya New York jour-
nalist.
The clearinghouse exchanges for
five business days last week-SS72, 315,-
334-exceed the totals Of the previous
week by 1879, i'll. showing large in
crease of business throughout the cOun
try. When compared with the same
|
crease is also indicated, speaking well
for trade prosperity.
Two men made a desperate raid up
on a savings bank at Belleville, ILL.,, at
noon Saturday. One of them kept the
cashier engaged while the other sneak
ed behind the counter and grabbed a
package containing $1,454. When de-
tected in their scheme the thieves ran
| at lively gait, one escaping in a buggy
and the other on foot.
Forty American bicyclers, command
ed by Captain G. +. Brown, of Chicago,
are making a trip through the province
of Ontario. At Goderich. Friday even
ing, they attracted an audience of three
thousand persons by some fancy evolu-
tions. in the streets, and banquet was
given them in the council chamber.
They went to Brantford to spend the
Sabbath.
George Scoville, in reply to his former
wife's petition for alimony, pleads ina
bility to make the agreed payments be-
cause of her success in running his
business. He asks the custody Of the
child Bertha, whom he feels able to sup
port and educate if not prosecuted to
destruction. Except for her mental
condition, he declares, he would feel
absolved from any obligation to Cult
eau's sister.
A man carrying the mails between
the postofiice and depot at Oshkosh,
! Wisconsin,. was seized at ten O'Clock
Monday night by two men, who threw
bag over his head and gave him chloro-
form. About daylight he found him
SELF in his wagon seven miles away.
Jack Connors, the Neenah diamond
! rObber. who recently escaped from
Waupun, is held responsible for the
outrage, and Is being pursued.
The heat in New York Saturday was
most intense. There were l76 deaths,
| with IL fatal cases OF Sunstroxe. The
strect-car companies erected tenn
porary sheds for their horses. Each
street was patrolled by carts loaded
with blocks of ice and covered by tar
| paulins. The greatest suffering was
among the immigrants at Castle Garden.
| No less than 672 children under 5 years
OF age died in New York during the
| week.
A negro named Dick Biggers, who on
Tuesday last attempted to outrage q
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