The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-09-21

Incendiaries at Corsicana, Texas,
fired thirteen thousand cedar rails in
closing the pasture Of A. b. Love, and
wire fences have been cut at several
points in the vicinity of the town.
Melinda Pope, who last week married
William Conlin in Milwaukee, has
petitioned for divorce, on the ground
that she thought she was wedding his
brother, who looks exactly like him.
The Apaches are trading large guam
titles of goods in the town of Casas
Grandes, principally jewelry. Eight
hundred men have left Chihuahua to
participate in the raid upon the savages.
Lewis Brown, of Carroll county, Indi-
ana, felt so disgraced over charge of
stealing horses that he killed himself
by climbing forty feet into q tree and
leapipg to the ground.
In collision Monday near Ashland,
Ohio, between two freight trains, a
way from Scotland to Kansas were kill
ed.
The Ford boys, who slew Jesse
James, were Missed and hooted in a
variety theatre at Louisville, and they
declare they will never again so to Ken
lucky.
BY the fall OF a scaffold at barn on
the farm of August Belmont, at Baby
lon, Long Island, one workman was
killed, one fatally injured, and three
seriously hurt.
Christopher Mann, Of Independence,
Missouri, had the aid of eighty-five de-
scendants in celebrating his 109th BIRTH
day. OF seventeen living children, one
is ~ and another IL.
James McDermott, of Brooklyn, who
was arrested in England on charge Of
conspiracy to murder public officials,
has been released, the evidence being
insufficient to hold him.
A bicycle race of ten miles for the
championship of the United States
took place Tuesday at Springfield,
Massachusetts,. Hendee, of that city,
won, in 33:43.
Henry Willard has informed the peo-
pie OF Astoria that the cost of rail-
road track from that city to Portland Is
too great to be undertaken by the Ore
gon Transcontinental company.
After the suspension of the Exchange
bank of Montreal, Monday, brokers
paid from so to 80 per cent. for its bills.
Two small French Canadian banks are
believed to be in deep water. as their
stock has lately dropped % to 80 points.
The white farmers in the vicinity OF
Longview. Texas, are terribly excited
over a raid believed to be contemplated
by the negroes. Planters are guarding
their families in gin-houses, and arms
are being secured for every white man.
The New York Tribune, following the
lead of the New York Times (which re-
duced its price Tuesday to two cents
from four cents), announces a cut of
one cent, and will sell hereafter for
three cents.
The agricultural department Of Illi'
nois reports the wheat crop the small
est recorded for the past twenty-five
seasons, while the price at harvest time
has only been higher twice in ten years
The assessors report 1904 ,596 acres
planted to corn, and the crop is from
ten to twenty days late in maturing.
The capitol commission Of Dakota
; has been declared an illegal body BY
Judge Edgarton, and ordered to pay
the costs Of the case. Notwithstand
ing the decision the people Of Bismarck
keep one hundred men at work on thu
state-house, using electric lights a
night.
The people of Cheyenne ornamentet
a telegraph pole with the body of Henri.
! Mosher. who had killed his companion
. with an AK as he lay asleep. The may
or and the territorial secretary made
, vain appeal to the vigilantes, only thir
!, ty Of whom out Of six hundred wer
masked.
f Albert Fink, commissioner of tn
trunk railway lines, appeared befor'
the senate committee on labor and edu
} cation and gave the history of the poo
Such associations, he thought, merel
prevented ruinous competition. IN
public would never be satisfied wit
rates of freight, however low.
II The republican state convention o
New Jersey adopted resolutions indors
II ing the administration of Presiden
4 Arthur, favoring civil-service reform
and demanding q system Of taxatio
+, that shall reach all corporations. yudg
n Jonathan Dixon was nominated &c