The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-25

favorable condition AT present than IT
has been at a corresponding date in a
number of years past. Dispatches from
along the line OF the Northern Pacific
Railroad in Dakota are also favorable
as regards spring wheat and other small
grains Corn is being planted quite
freely.
The libel suit of the ex-Rev. III. o.
Hoffman. of Bloomington, Illinois,
against Zetta Robinson resulted in a
disagreement of the jury. The suit was
the outgrowth of the ecclesiastical trial
and conviction of lIr. Hoffman on
charges OF immoral conduct, the Robin
son girl. a former domestic in the fam
lily OF Mr.. Hoffman, having been the
main witness for the defense.
The council Of seven, the executive
head of the Irish National League OF
America, met Monday in Detroit and
settled various matters relative to the
status of the league and the functions
of its oilic rs. In the first respect, it
was decided that the league of America
is auxiliary and subordinate to the
league of Ireland, TO which all moneys
collected in the United States are to he
transmitted at stated intervals.
At Berne. Missouri, Saturday night,
a young man named Burchard and q
companion detected two men in the act
of rObbing Burchard'S fathers store.
The burglars fired upon the young men,
killing Burchard. His companion re-
turned the fire, killing one of the burg
lars, the other one escaping for a time,
! but was captured on Sunday by citi-
zens, who it. is supposed lynched him,
as he has not been delivered to the Off
GERS Of the law.
At the convention of the Ohio Brew
ers' and Maltsters' Association at
/ Cleveland, Tuesday. resolutions were
/ adopted recommending that brewers
and those whose interests are identified
with theirs oppose at the polls all per-
sons and parties who favor measures
inimical to the brewers, and favOring
an early test of the constitutionality of
the Scott law passed by the late Legis-
lature of Ohio.
The charge having been published in
New York that the American Baptist
Missionary Society's funds for the ex-
penditure in Burmah had been manipu-
lated in the interest of officers of the
society here, DR.. Murdoch, of Boston,
secretary of the board, explains that
whatever manipulation has been done
was for the benefit of the society and
with the consent Of the missionaries in
Burmah.
According to the May returns to the
department at Washington, the cOndi-
ton of wheat was poorer the list of this
month than on April in New York,
Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri.
With the exception of Indiana and New
Jersey, which are unchanged, all the
other Northern States show an i'm
provement. The statistical agent Of
the department in London reports an
improvement in European wheat pros
poets during the month.
A colored domestic in the employ Of
the Rev. DIR. Fletcher, of Franklin,
Massachusetts,, is accused of having
made several attempts to poison the
family, and when she took her de-
parture, last week, nearly every article
of food in the house was found to have
been poisoned. Besides this, the girl
had cut and mutilated many valuable
garments belonging to the ladies of the
household, while numbers of rare books
in the clergyman'S library were torn OF
otherwise irreparably damaged. There
is no known motive for the girls con-
duct.
Amasa Stone, the millionaire of Cleve-
land, Ohio, shot himself through the
heart in his bath room Friday after
noon. He had for some time been
troubled with insomnia, and became
Respondent, believing himself to be in
curably affected. Recently he has COM
planned OF pain in his head, and his
friends believe that at the moment of
his suicide he was out of his mind. He
leaves two daughters, one the wife of
| Colonel John Hay, who sailed for home
from Liverpool Thursday, having been
abroad for year past.
The Standard Oil-Works at Commu-
nipaw, New Jersey, were struck by
| lightning Thursday forenoon and set on
fire. The flames communicated with
| the oil tanks, one explosion followed
another. and at last the store-house
where the barreled oil was kept was at
tackled, which succumbed. Six firemen
were overtaken by flood of blazing
! oil and persisted. The loss is estimated
at 81 800. 900; the property destroyed in
Guided twelve large tanks, eighteen
cars, six barges. dredge, three docks,
and five brick buildings.
The supreme court Of Missouri has
! decided, IN a suit brought by u resident
Of st. Louis TO restrain the teaching of
! foreign languages and the arts and SCI
| enceS III the public schools, and to pre-
vent the expenditure of school funds
| for the instruction of children under
years Of age, that the board Of directors
of the public schools is the sole judge,
subject To legislative direction, of what
shall he taught in the public schools,
but that it is contrary to the State con-
stitution to pay out money for the edu-
cation Of children under years Of age.
Five murderers suffered the extreme
penalty OF the law Friday. Sylvester
X. Mackinson, who murdered Mrs.
Maggie "A. Copeland in August last,
was hanged at Cambridge. Illinois; An
| cello Cornetti, who killed fellow con-
vict in Sing Sing on December 81, 1881,
was executed in tho State prison-yard;
John w. Jackson, for the murder of
Samuel II. Hull. was hanged at jack
son, Ohio; Jerry Blalock, for the MUIR
der OF Thomas Brandenburg, died on
the gallows at Jacksonport, Arkansas;
and Henry Rivels, the murderer Of
Henry Hyams, was executed at East
| Providence, Louisiana.