The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-13

b. st. Aubin, translator for the Cam
adam house Of Commons, dropped dead
in the street at Ottawa.
The hquor-dealers of Cleveland have
paid $2l4,008 taxes under the Scott
law. t1.r.l. = 81
F. Mason. of Grand Rapids, Michigan,
sold four thousand acres Of pine land
in Newaygo county for S2S0,000.
Anticosti island, in the Gulf of st.
Lawrence, has been ordered sold in Sep
TENDER, under mortgage.
Four apartment buildings, eleven
stories high, are to be erected at Sixth
avenue and FOrty-ninth street, New
York. at q cost of So. 400 900.
Robert P0tee, we'll known gambler
of Kansas City, having recently lost
$4,000 and being driven out of BUSH
ness, drowned himself in the Missouri
With the exception Of one mine, the
troubles at Springfield, Illinois, have
been adjusted upon the basis of three
cents per bushel and check weighmen.
Governor Hamilton refuses to pardon
Lesser Friedberg, the Chicago pawn
broker who was sent to Joliet for par
ticipation in the Jaffray burglary.
A storm in Lancaster County, Penn,
Sunday beat grown corn and oats to the
ground and washed out tobacco fields,
necessitating replanting.
E. P.Weber. formerly of Chicago, on.
of the commissioners of Grand county.
Colorado, died from wounds received at
the hands of assassins.
j. d. Baldwin, proprietor of The Spy,
at Worcester, Massachusetts, died sud-
denly Sunday. He served three terms
in congress.
On farm adjoining LIE Mars, Iowa,
at depth of 37S feet, was found a vein
Of coal five feet in thickness, of superior
quality. tEEE5
The department of agriculture, in its
July report, places the condition OF
winter wheat at 10 per cent. Of spring
wheat at 50 to 100, and OF corn at So.
In the New Hamphire senatorial con-
test, with 159 VOTES necessary to a
porters and Harry Bingham liz.
California, author of work on the land
laws of the United States, closed his
earthly career Tuesday.
Colonel Moore has arrived at Cheyenne
with $50 pack-mules. for the trip of
President Arthur to the National park,
which is to commence August 2.
A clerk in the pension bsreau at
Washington and pension agent of
that city have been arrested for con-
spring to defraud pensioners.
Early Tuesday morning, at Milwau-
kee, the frame residence of David
Selig caught fire, cremating three chill
dren.
John w. Woodruff, defaulting secre-
tary of the Masonic Grand Lodge of
Wisconsin, was taken to Berlin and CIV
en- in charge of two physicians, his rea-
son having been somewhat impaired.
Boxes have been placed in the hotels
and police stations of New York, to re-
ceive contributions toward monument
for Peter Cooper. Mayor Edison will
act as treasurer of the fund.
1t is reported that the yacht Atalanta
mas been put in order for trip across
the ocean, and that Jay Gould will in a
few days leave quietly for Liverpool,
for brief rest.
Terrible forest fires are raging in the
vicinity of Kalama, Washington Terri
tory. Six miles of the Northern Pacific
road has been destroyed, and the losses
aggregate 100000.
John S. Prince, the American cham
pion wheelman, was defeated in a
twenty-mile race at Rochester, N. j.,
bicyclist.
The new capitol of Iowa has again
been stained with the blood of work
man. Frank COnboy. fell forty feet
down the hOt-air shaft and fractured
his spinal column.
The grand jury at Pittsburg has in
dicted County Clerk Rowand for mis-.
demeanor, he having collected fines
when none were imposed, and retained
the money.
In the recent litigation between Ia
Dor and Bush. at Denver, Willard Tel
Ter filed a scandalOus document, for
which Judge Dawson imposed fine of
$500 for contempt.
A double lynching will soon be re-
ported from Sunbright, Tennessee,
where two men have confessed criminal
assault on young daughters of wealthy
farmer.
At Mount Pleasant, Iowa, a lad of 5
years climbed on bed and obtained
revolver hanging in a pouch, with which
he shot his infant sister in the mouth,
inflicting fatal wounds.
Recent rains in Mexico damaged the
Central railroad to the amount of $780,
600. and delayed for six weeks the
completion OF the track to Aqua Cal
ientes.
On a farm near New Philadelphia,
Ohio, young man was nearly stung to
death by swarm Of bees. His life was
saved only by his employer rolling him
in the dirt of the cornfeld
While bathing in the Schuylkill river,
two prominent physicians of Reading,
Pennsylvania. Aaron G. and Washing
ton G. Detweiler, were seized with
cramps and lost their lives.
The cashier of lions Savings bank,
Mt Salt Lake, was knocked senseless by
thief, when the latter and his confed-
crate walked off with considerable gold,
and have not been arrested.
The London papers state that the
scores made by the American riflemen
beat their work at Creedmoor, and
that the coaching of Colonel Howard II
perfect.
Anderson Bros. druggists at Mid
land City, Mich, say: Crowns
Iron Bitters give entire satisfaction to
our customers"