The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-04

ing 10 the provinces.
One hundred liquor dealers were ar
rested IN New YORK Sunday for violat-
ing the excise law.
A dispatch from Cheboygan, Michi-
gan. announces that the Straits OF Mack
mac are ''wide open.'
The estate of the late Nathaniel
Thayer. OF Boston, is inventorled at
$4,000, 900.
Several fatal eases of yellow fever
have already occurred this season al
Vera Cruz.
Five hundred more pauper Irish emil
grants were landed at Boston. Sunday,
having been assisted thither by the
British government.
The Vieux Desert and Lake Superior
Railroad is to be consolidated with the
Milwaukee, Lake Shore and western
line.
The fremont House at Knoxville,
Iowa. burned to the ground Monday
moThing, involving loss OF $l2, 1000; III
surance. $4,000.
Rains in the vicinity of Wichita, KAN,
have benefited winter wheat, which IS
now five inches high and in excellent
condition. Fruit promises a good yield.
The supposed Indians who have been
stealing stock from the Crows near
Bozeman, Montana, have been proven
to be DeadwOod "ruStlerS."
The act of the New York legislature
making provision for the decent inter-
ment Of soldiers, sailors, and marines
was signed Tuesday by the Governor.
The low stage of water in the Black
river, Wisconsin, precludes the posi-
billty OF more than one-fourth OF the
winters cut Of logs reaching the mills.
The papers transferring the Hannibal
and st. Joseph railroad to the Chicago,
burlington and Quincy Railroad COM
pany were signed Friday in New York.
Thirteen arrests have been made at
LarimOre City, Dakota, for the murder
OF the Ward brothers, formerly OF Chi
cage.
The NewYOrk board of aldermen has
granted the Western Union Telegraph
Company permission to lay the wires
under the streets.
DR.. III. B. Wilbur, for q number Of
years superintendent of the State asy-
lum for idiots at Syracuse, New York,
is dead.
jefferson p. Kidder, ex-Delegate to
Congress from Dakota, has been APP
pointed associate justice of the supreme
court of that Territory.
Bliss, the absconding bankrupt of
Tonawanda. New York. left behind
him debts amounting to 100000. He
is now at st. GATHERINGS, Ontario.
A bill is pending before the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature, imposing tax of
one mill per gallon upon crude petrole-
um shipped out OF the State.
a construction train on the Texas
Pacific Railway was derailed Monday
between Canon Spur and Ranger Sta
ton, and three labOrerS were killed and
three seriously injured.
An explosion of sulphur gas in a coal
mine at Ashland, Pennsylvania, Mon
day, killed three miners outright, two
others being so badly burned that they
cannot recover.
The Ministers State Temperance
Convention of Kentucky has declared
in favor of the prohibition of the man
ufacture and sale of spurious liquors of
all kinds.
A national convention of colored men
is to be held in Washington, September
"a, to discuss the best method of secur-
ing to the race the full enjoyment of
their social and political rights.
A Grand Trunk freight train of TWEEN
ty cars ran into an open switch at Shell
burne, Sunday afternoon. The engine
and twelve cars were derailed and badly
wrecked.
L. NJ. Rockwell, manufacturer Of
WOODEN goods at Leominster. Massachu-
sets, has failed. His liabilities are es-
timated at $4,000, against SlS0,00O as
sets.
General Crook has been instructed
from Washington to refrain from vio-
latiDg the convention with Mexico by
crossing with his troops into that coun
try in pursuit of the -Apaches.
The donations for the relief of the
| families Of the miners lost in the Braid
wood disaster have reached the sum of
$40, OC0. including $4,000 appropriated
by the State legislature.
- judicial decision has been rendered
at Louisville, Kentucky, sustaining the
Western Union Telegraph Company
III refusing market reports to bucket
shops.
Vast quantities Of tobacco and cigars
were shipped by manufacturers, Tues
day. the filling of orders having been
postponed for some time past until the
deduction ut lie tax took effect.
The Y, ihsyivania Railroad Company
has declared semi-annual dividend oil
per cent. in cash. = per cent. i'll scrip
or cash at the stockholders option, and
per cent. in stock.
Thirteen incendiary fires within thir-
ty-six hours have excited the tenants of
the Hotel Glendon, a fashionable fam
lily hotel in Boston. Suspicion attaches
to lad of II years.
e. p. Allis & Co., of Milwaukee, have
secured an award of damages against
all the mill-owners Of Oshkosh, Wis.,,
for an infringement of their patent
''saw-mill dogs"
The rare occurrence is reported from
Salt Lake of q Mormon's wife entering
complaint of polygamy against him. In
this instance the woman had been beat
en- by her husband, and redress had
been denied her by Mormon justice.
Mrs. Mary E. Jones left Paw Paw,
Mich, Tuesday, on her walk to San
Francisco, where she expects to arrive
Sept. /. She will lecture on the way.
and undertakes the tramp to show what