The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-25
Hannah Simpson Grant, the mother


of ex-President Grant. died Friday at
Jersey City. in the S5tll year of her age.
Her death was sudden, old age being
the cause. She WAS residing with her
daughter, Mrs. Corbin.
Edwin L. Hammond, OF Rensseler,
Indiana, was on Monday appointed
judge of the supreme court or that
State,vice Woods, appointed to succeed
Mr.. Gresham as judge of the United
States circuit court.
Governor Click, of Kansas, has noti-
fed the sheriff of Ford county that I'M
less he exerts his official power to pre-
serve order and protect the property OF
citizens of Dodge City he will be re-
moved.
g, There are indications of q stringency
in the money market of New York. oc-
casioned by the locking up of large
amounts by such men as Vanderbilt
and Gould, who are retiring from bus
mess" for a season.
Three brothers named Carson, who
had achieved reputation as despera-
does, were killed i'll fight with sher-
ifs posse near Delaware Bend, Indian
Territory, on Saturday. One OF the Of
ficers was slightly wounded.
Fire Monday night destroyed about
SO 1000 worth of property at Harrods-
burg. Kentucky. At Hamburg, Iowa,
$4,000 loss was inflicted. AT Silver
Lake, Iowa, thirteen houses were burn
ed, the loss aggregating $1,000.
The advocates of high license in the
Illinois House of Representative lost
ground Tuesday. The entire day was
its opponents succeeding in producing
a deadlock.
William B. Carroll, deceased, clerk
in the office of the comptroller of the
city of New York, is discovered to have
stolen $143,630 from the city. His
thefts began with small sums In 1879,
continuing until August, 1882.
Philadelphia's May musical festival,
which closed Saturday evening, was not
financial success, the receipts having
fallen about $4,000 below the expendi-
lures. The management has not even
the consolation of having made the af-
fair a success unsteady.
The New York, West Shore and Buf-
falo Railway Company has disposed of
the last of its mortgage bonds, amount
ing to S30,0OO,O00, of which 81, III, 900
was sold Thursday. The company has
averaged about 80 per cent. for its
bonds.
The Governor OF Kansas having Or
dered the sheriff of Ford county to
afford protection to Luke Short, whom
the mayors partisans had driven out of
Dodge City, a conflict between the two
factions is apprehended upon the arri-
val of Short.
A war of rates between the trunk
line railroads is among the probabilities
for the coming summer, the quarrel
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claims. The affairs of the Vanderbilt
and Pennsylvania lines are being put
| in shape for the anticipated COMPETE
ton.
The directors OF the defunct First
National Bank of Buffalo. New York,
| have been sued by the creditors of the
| institution for money lost through the
| mismanagemento of its affairs by Presi-
dent Lee, who Is now serving out a
term in the penitentiary for embeZzle-
ment.
Railway fares from Louisville to Chi
| cago have been cut TO 50, and from
Louisville to indianapolis 81. The war
grows out of the refusal of the Jeffer-
| Sonville.. Madison and indianapolis
company to continue the arrangement
| of last year for an excursion of So to
| Chicago and return.
The Ten Eyck mansion, on the White-
hail road, near Albany, New York,
which was built one hundred and sew
| .nty years ago, and which during the
war for independence was the head
quarters OF the tories Of that section.
was destroyed by fire Tuesday.
Captain w. w. Bush, OF Lockport,
New York. wlo was the first man to
enlist in response 20 President Lin
coins call Tor seyenty-iive thousand
men To serve ninety days, issued April
10, 1861. has been presented with gold
badge foot in length, in testimony of
the fact cited above.
A Yale student from Sioux City,
Iowa, named IL. III. Palmer, having an
ambition to rank as an author, has been
shamed into the resignation of the
edtorship of the Ydle Literary Magazine,
and retirement from the Bones soci-
ety." by detection in a series of fragrant
plagiarisms.
William Il. Sawyer. an electrical in
ventor of q universal reputation, died
Tuesday in New York. He was under
sentence of four years Imprisonment
for having shot Dr.. Theophilus Steele,
about three years ago. but had not been
TO the penitentiary pending an appeal
III hpOiI thO NdiiO w OAO
country of his inventive talents.
The Rev. G. III. w. Stocking, rector
Of Grace Episcopal church, Detroit,
and formerly of Chicago, has been re-
quested by his vestry to vacate the pull
pit of Grace church as the only possible
means of restoring harmony in the So
ciety. The rector has shown fight, and
thus far evinces no disposition to COM
ply with the demand of the vestry.
In consequence of what it claims has
been unjust treatment by the city gov
eminent of Elizabeth, New Jersey, the
Singer Sewing Machine Company will
remove its mandatory from that
place, where three thousand people
were given employment. a portion of
the company's works will be transferred
to Scotland.
Mr.. James Gilflllan. who resigned the
United States treasurership last month
to accept the presidency Of financial
institution in New York, has after
three weaks, service in the latter canac-