The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-31

JrlcJ Attorney uuJnrldge, OF Iexas,
! from dissatisfaction. with his conduct
in regard to the murder of Judge
Haughn.
Within sixty days no less than twen-
ty-five artesian wells have been sunk
in Denver, each Of which is flowing
pure water. Their average depth is
1875 feet.
1t is said that General Hancock has
detailed an officer of the regular army
to visit Springfield during the brigade
encampment and report on the condi-
tion of the Illinois militia.
The glass manufacturers of the West
met in Chicago Wednesday, the
Goth inst, to take definite action in re-
gard to ordering general reduction in
the wages of employees.
The failure is announced of William
MOnteith, a grain commission merchant
of Toronto, with liabilities Of $4,000,
on which he will probably be able to
pay 35p per cent.
confederate and union armies gathered
Tuesday at jefferson City, Missouri.
Generals Marmaduke and Gordon de-
livered addresses.
A forest fire at Bar Harbor, Maine,
has burned over two thousand acres,
and two hundred men are engaged
in cutting ditch to surround the
flames.
Senator Logan was Tuesday evening
taken violently ill at Chamberlain,
Dakota, and will doubtless be unable to
resume his journey homeward for sew
eral days.
Mike Sheridan reports that on Sum
day the presidential party twice crossed
the continental divide in twenty miles,
finding a magnificent sheet of water
near the summit.
De Molay Commandery of Louisville
were awarded first prize in the knights
Templar drill at San Francisco Satur-
day. Raper, of Indianapolis, got Sec
ond position, and st. Bernard, of Chi
cago, third.
A bottle was picked up on Watch
Hill Beach, Rhode Island, Friday,
which contained the announcement
that the brig Indiana, with five passen-
gers, foundered at sea, July 25 last. No
mention is made of the crew.
Every poor-house, like every dog,
has its day. The people of Marshall
county, West Virginia, have just dis
covered that their infirmary is little
more than hovel, and that pestilence
| runs TlOU among tne inmates.
At meeting of the Glass-G atherers'
Assembly, No. 1859, at Pittsburg, Sum
day, they resolved to withdraw from
the Knights of Labor. Their reason
for leaving is that they are of no bene-
fit to them.
Miss Pebe Couzins, the st. Louis
young lady lawyer, having been report
ed missing, and for whose safety some
fears were entertained, has been heard
from at Mantonville, Mimi, enjoying
good health.
AT Savannah, Ca, Sunday, Henry
Hertel and wife, Germans, were found
horribly mutilated in their store. 1t
was supposed Hertel had large sum
of money in his possession. No clew to
the murderers.
A duel was fought Monday morning
near Vandalia, Illinois, by Louis Phil
lips and Jacob Rosenbrook. Each
fired but once. The latter was killed
instantly; the former lived only four
hours.
Cattle are being poisoned at the gov
eminent quarantine in Boston, their
drinking place being in what was for
merry potato field, and the water
is strongly impregnated with paris
green.
Colonel II. G. Hoffman, who poisoned
himself at Horsehead, New York, had
for thirty years been leader in the en-
terprises of that section. He told his
wife that he had carried strychnine
with suicidal intent for ten years.
In an ARRAY on the street in Indian
apolis, growing out of SANDER suit,
Samuel Aldenberg killed Jacob Bush,
fatally wounded Samuel Campbell by
an accidental shot, and then blew out
his own brains.
The dying request of pioneer near
Watseka, Illinois, named Henry Sher-
rill, was that his body be clothed in
light-colored wooden goods, and that
the coffin be so large that he would not
be cramped.
An order of arrest has been granted
in New York for Thomas Murphy, col
lector of customs under Grant, who is
charged by Hugh Hastings with hav-
ing fraudllently drawn upon him for
$500.
Ex-Governor Pease, of Texas, was
buried at Austin Tuesday. He emil
grated from Connecticut in 1885, served
two terms as governor before the war,
and was appointed provisional govern
or by General Sheridan. He was col
lectOr at Galveston two years ago.
A private soldier writes in explana-
ton of the large number of assertions,
that squad of infantrymen were or
dered out at Fort Mcintosh to pick up
mesquite beans to feed the hogs, and
were kept out until noon because they
had no success.
The report that Mary Churchill, the
missing st. Louis girl was on the way
home from Keokuk by train, caused
thousands of persons to assemble at the
depot in st. Louis. But the young lady
who stepped off showed very little re-
semblance to the one sought.
At Saratoga, Saturday, Mrs. Caroline
G. Davis, daughter Of the dead million
aire merchant Of Albany, Alexander
Greer, and whose relatives are all
wealthy people, was arrested for at
tempting to swindle McCreery & Co. by
forged order.
The Shapiro manuscripts, purporting
to be ancient copies. on sheep-skin, OF
the Ten Commandments, discovered
among nomads in the Arabian desert,
are said to be forgeries by eminent Eu-