The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-18
VERY LATEST.

Inc w cudnu Sdllai was opened SAT
urday for thepassage of vessels.
The State auditor of Iowa has re-
voked the certificates of number of
mutual life insurance companies.
An earthquake shock was experienced
at Helena, Montana, shortly before
noon Friday.
The seventh annual bench show of
the New York Kennel club opened
Tuesday, with eleven hundred entries.
Work was begun Monday upon the
Tehuantepec ship railway projected by
Captain Eads. the father of the ietties.
Heavy rains .s,N li,-s 1 r. .t.ii ga .nc Car
ifornia cohs,. ( 3 li';Hlv az ~ the hay
crop will be damaged. but the wheat
crop will be benefited.
A convention of free-thinkers of the
United States and Canada is to be held
at Rochester, New York, beginning
August %. and continuing five days.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
Thursday to poison the Spence family,
of Delaware, Ohio. by putting strych-
nine ina cooking vessel.
Myra Clark Gaines has obtained
verdict of 81 ,925.GG7 against the city OF
New Orleans, the matter having been
iii litigation since 1887.
The grand jury Of New York recon-
mends the dismissal of two police cap
tainS for neglecting to enforce the gam
bling and excise laws,
A Mexican and Spanish-American
commercial exchange has been organ
lied at st. Louis, TO advance trade with
Mexico.
Moody and Sankey, the evangelists,
arrived at New York, Sunday, on board
the steamer Alaska, from England.
They return to that country in October.
Union City, Indiana, forty-seven
miles from Dayton, was visited by
great conflagration. Saturday morning,
destroying the principal portion OF the
town.
Congressman Phil b. Thompson's
trial for the murder OF Davis, the al
legged seducer OF his wife. began at Har-,
rodsburg, Kentucky, Wednesday. No
conviction is expected.
The owners of American vessels at
Ottawa refuse to load with lumber at
the current rates, which. it is claimed,
ar unremunerative. Canadian YES
sells /, ,"e loading without hesitation.
The nm ssachusetts Legislature has
re-passed the CHARITIES appropriation
bill vetoed by the Gvyearnor. 1t is ex'
pected Governor Butler will ere,r "."f9
the Dill.
Three children walking under an UNI
brella during slight thunderstorm at
Winona, Minnesota, sunday, were
struck by lightning, two OF them being
killed andthe thir" partially paralyzed.
A branch of O'Donavan Rossa's Irish
tRevoi"', ionary League was organized In
NV York Sunday. with a membership
of one hundred. Dynamite is the rock
upon which the society is built.
Joseph Bork, the defaulting city
treasurer of Buffalo, has been sentenced
to five years imprisonment in the Au-
burn penitentiary, The amount OF his
ENLIGHTENMENT was $47,CCO.
The breaking of rope caused the fall
of cage in which some men were be-
ing hoisted out OF q mine at New elias
cow, Nova Scotia, six OF the miners be-
ing killed and four mortally injured.
A contract for the improvement of
the harbor of Vera Cruz has been letby
the Mexican Government to French
company, the cost of the work being
estimated at S10047 1000.
1.-The poIiceman's lot is not happy
onen III Milwaukee. where the Mayor
has issued special order forbldding
members of the police force drinking
intoxicants while on duty.
The motion for new trial of the libel
suit of DR.. Mclean against the Detroit
evening NelDs, in which the plaintiff
was awarded $4,000 damages, has been
denied.
The Methodist ministers in joint con-
ventiOn at Cincinnati determined to
call State convention of ministers
and resolve upon rigorous temperance
action.
The floor of farmhouse near New
PHILADELPHIA. Ohio, in which q large
company was gathered, gave way on
Saturday, precipitating all into deep
cellar. Several persons were injured,
at least one of them fatally.
The Cougar Mandler libel suit, after
having been decided in favor of the
plaintiff, Mrs. Helen M. Cougar, in the
circuit court of Tippecanoe, has been
appealed to the supreme court OF In
diana.
An estimate of the wheat crop OF
Wisconsin. based upon reports from
forty-nine OF the siXty-four counties III
State, indicates an increase in the yield
this year of ,300,000 bushels as com
pared with last year.
An insane man named Richard Bren.
nan attempted to murder Rufus r.
police. at Boston, Monday. a bullet
from the lunatic's revolver entered the
muscles of Wade's arm.
Benjamin +. Boorman, miller Of
Waukesha and Pewaukee, Wisconsin
having become involved in wheat spec
uations, has been obliged to make an
assignment. His liabilities are $45, 900,
which the assets will, it is claimed, fully
offset if time is granted.
Two attempts were made during
Monday night to fire the tenement
house in New York in which Havier,
who was murdered by Pat McGoin, had
resided. The theory is that friends of
the murderer desire to avenge his exc
cution upon the friends of his victim.
The influence of Trinity parish, New
York, is said to have been actively en-
listed in favor of the arraignment of the
Rev. II. Heber Newton, of All. Souls,
on the charge of heresy as regards the
inspiration of the scriptures, and his
trial is now looked upon as inevitable.
0ropdeon of fho LATE NJ II CaeweIl