The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-01-05
CONDENSED NEWS.

puiio iiiVi diu ClSuty GUNS.
Mayor Colley, of Salem. Massachu-
sets, went out OF Office Monday-and
then hanged himself.
Red Cloud is spending the holidays
with his grandchildren in the Indian
schools at Hampton, Virginia.
b. =. Shillaber, better known as Mrs.
Darlington, lies i'll of pneumonia at
Chelsea, Massachusetts,.
The prevalence of street robberies in
Cleveland caused the police to be order
cd out in citizens dress.
Seven stores and dwelling at Man
istee, Michigan, valued at $50, 600, were
swept away by fire Monday night.
Jane White, a Boston negress. has
sued ID. M. Stafford, plain citizen, for
$500 for breach of promise of marriage.
w. II. Hooper, for many years dele
gate in congress from Utah, died last
Saturday.
Biggar, of the British parliament, has
been held to bail in Ireland for trea-
sonable sentiments in recent speech.
A resident of Salt Lake. named Sulli-
van, carried broken neck for week,
but grew weary and died.
Avast concourse witnessed the inaug-
uration Of Grover Cleveland as COVER
nor Of New York, after which public
reception was held ut the capitol.
Vignaux, the French billiard champ
ion, has been offered $1,000 and his
travelling expenses to come to New
York for six months.
A. w. Oppmann, leading brewer Of
Cleveland, was convicted of resisting q
police officer, and was fined 500 and
sentenced to ten days in the workhouse.
The central tower of the ancient
cathedral at Peterborough, England, is
to be demolished because OF gaps in
the walls.
Rev. Titus Coan, who has done mis-
sionary work in the Sandwich islands
for over half century, died last month
at Hilo.
The widow of ID. A. Goddard, of the
Boston advertiser, declined purse of
$4,000 contributed by friends of her
husband.
While cutting through high land to
open street at Auburn, New York,
three labOrers were killed by the caving
in Of earth.
The public debt decreased SIG, ,223
during the month Of December. De-
Quoting cash in the treasury, the total
debt is 81, 6O7 ,543,676.
The special election for senator in
the Sandusky district of Ohio resulted
in the triumph of Godfrey Jaeger,
democrat, of Ottawa county.
General Joseph Wheeler has been
elected to congress from the Eighth
Alabama district, over Mcclellan, by
1890 majority.
DR.. 3. s. Thompson, of Salisbury
Connecticut, took his life with NOR
phine in hotel at Cincinnati, leaving
. gold watch and $3.50 in money.
Red Cloud visited Secretary Teller
Tuesday and demanded $4,000 for
horses taken from him six years ago by
Governor Cook.
Loren Fletcher has been elected
speaker of the Minnesota assembly. 1t
is positively stated that William Win
dom will be reelected senator.
Senator Lapham has received from
New York memorial from $50 firms
and individuals, protesting against the
passage of bankrupt laws.
Mayor Grace, of New York, was Sc
Ii0usly injured by his horses taking
fright and throwing the carriage
against a pillar OF the elevated railroad.
The widow Of Colonel Slayback, of
st. Louis, after an expenditure of ST.
ages againt John A. COckerill.
The Indian agent at Fort Peck, Mon
tana, reports that white hunters are
in the Milk river country.
A band Of Indians recently surprised
q surveying camp on the Eureka and
Colorado River railroad and carried off
$500 in currency.
t., Tho TIpsfol Q{otao nn,xvk Nd nv,caho
II. e. Clary, formerly postmaster at
Sidney, was convicted of making false
returns as to the arrival of mails, and
fined $500.
Twenty colored convicts of North
Carolina, who were engaged in excavat-
ing a railway tunnel in Jackson county,
were drowned while attempting to cross
river in aleaky fiat.
At Coolidge, New Mexico, s. M. Phil
lips, justice of the peace, whose life
had been threatened by desperate
named Hase Brown, got the drop on
his adversary and ended his career.
Well-known capitalists have subscrib-
ed $5.000.000 to build railway from
New York to Hartford, to afford the
New England road connection with the
metropolis.
Mann, who butchered the Cooke fam
lily at Little Rideau, Ontario, was cap
tured thirty miles from Montreal. He
is Of English birth, and not yet 20 years
of age.
In cave two miles from Lancaster,
Ohio, was found notorious sneak
thief, with u wagon-load of plumber,
an armory of weapons. and compile
ment Of burglars tools.
Mr.. SENEGAL, Montreal financier, re-
ports having formed syndicate in Eu-
rope, with capital of $1,000, 600, and
made contract for cable from
Queenstown to Halifax.
George II. McConkey, county treas
urer at Hamilton, Nevada, was found
dead on the floor of his Office, a pistol
lying beside him and the safe door
open.
At Grand Lake, Colorado, County
Commissioner Waldron was engaged
in beating his wife, when a miner
named Plummer demonstrated, for
which he was shot dead.
Three veterinary surgeons, after a