The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-04-13

tria, Baron Wertheim, Is dead.
The Hon. Erastus Brooks, of New
York, Is seriously i'll.
Senator Cameron, Of Pennsylvania,
viii spend the summer abroad.
The report of the discovery of Nihi-
listic mines beneath the Kremlin, at
Moscow, is semi-officially denied.
Jay Gould's $4,000 yacht was
launched Saturday at Crump's ship
yard, Philadelphia.
President Arthur has gone to Gard
ner's Island, Florida, for a weeks
fishing and camping.
The Mormons in convention at Kirt-
land, Ohio, excluded reporters from
their sessions.
The trial of the prisoners charged
with the Phoenix park assassinatiOns
has been postponed because of the lack
Of funds to pay counsel for the defense.
Ex-Head Center Stephens processes
to believe that Parnell is the only OBJ
stacle to the redress of Ireland's wrongs
by an armed revolution.
d. N. Cargill, town treasurer of
Sparta, Wisconsin, Is defaulter in the
sum of $4,000, lost In grain specula.
tons.
The Bank of Ell Paso. Illinois, has
closed its doors. The liabilities are
placed at $4,000 and the assets at
100000.
Peter Carey, brother of James Ca
rey, has followed the example of the
latter and turned queens evidence in
the Phoenix Park conspiracy case.
r. w. Shape, a commercial traveller
recently of Chicago, was burned to
sv,k hA sv,nn n MnrnhUC-
boro. Illinois, Sunday night.
The Dominion authorities have de-
cided to grant the extradition of Major
of the Philadelphia almsh0use.
Four slaves were sold at public auc-
ton in the streets of Tangiers, recently.
eign residents.
A Boston paper makes the statement
that the Chicago, Burlington and Quin-
for the purchase of the Hannibal and
st. Joseph Railroad.
The Secretary of the Interior has de-
cided to offer the Otoe Indian lands in
Kansas and Nebraska for sale May I.
The appraisers have valued the land at
from 81 to SO an acre.
against the action of the Dominion
government looking to an increase in
the duty on agricultural implements
from the United States.
Benjamin +. Cocker, ID. d.. LII. d.,
professor of moral and mental philOs-
ophy in the University of Michigan,
and man of high standing as q preach
er and author, died Monday.
The Governor General of Canada is
alleged to have received threatening
letters, and Ottawa dispatches hint
darkly at recent mysterious occur
rences at Rdeau Hall.
A prize-fght of twenty-five rounds
was fought near Nanticoke, Pennsylva
MIA, Saturday, in which one of the COM
batants was knocked down twenty-One
times.
William Rood, aged fourteen, son of q
former resident of Minneapolis, expert
mented with the hangman's moose at
Saratoga, New York, with fatal results
to himself.
The threats of nihilists will probably
result in postponement of the cars
coronation, the police believing that
Alexander III. will never be crowned
unless he comedies constitution.
The Rev. Isaac l.. Nichols n, ID. D.,
of Philadelphia. who was elected to the
bishopric of Indiana by the Protestant
Episcopal diocesan convention early
last month, has declined the Office.
The master masons of Chicago are
making arrangements for the impOrta-
ton of bricklayers from other cities to
fill the places of those who have struck
for higher wages.
A war of races is in progress along
che line of the Panama Canal, the hos
Elities involving Jamaican and Cartha-
genian laborers. About twenty of the
former have been killed.
1t is expected that the distillers Of
the United States will soon export large
quantities of whisky upon which taxes
are due to Bermuda, from which it
can be returned as the demand re-
quires.
Mack Marsden, leader of Il gang of
hog and cattle stealers who have in
tested the vicinity of IIillsboro, Mis-
souri,, and who was suspected of the
murder of two men, was lynched Sat-
urday night.
The central labor union OF New York
has taken the initiative in the forma-
ton of what is to be called the Ameri-
can Land and Rent League, the object
of which is to prevent the imposition of
exorbitant rents upon tenants.
Samuel and Mary Young are under
arrest at Erie, Pennsylvania. OH suspi-
cion of having murdered their brother
Ralph. the supposed motive being to
secure $500 the victim is alleged to have
possessed.
A jury was impaneled Tuesday, at
Milwaukee, for the trial of George
Scheller, accused of having set fire to
the Newhall House. the burning of
which caused the death of more than
eighty people.
The upsetting of lamp by party of
four negro tramps who were playing
cards in livery-stable at Westminster,
Nd, Monday night, caused the destruc-
ton Of $150,000 worth of property, and
the loss of two lives.
The Fermenich grape-sugar works, of
Buffalo, employing three hundred and
fifty persons, have closed, owing to
difference with the city as to the rates
charged for water. The works will
probably be removed to the west.
There seems a probability that the
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