The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-09

VINO was captured IN san francisco,
was held to bail at Boston in $50, 900.
William Swinburne, the pioneer To-
comotiv,- builder, died at Patterson,
New Jersey, Monday.
A tract OF 1910 acres of pine land in
Clark county, Wisconsin, was sold to
a lumber company in La Crosse for
$6S,000.
The disappearance of III. l.. Eisen,
the Milwaukee clothier, has been fol-
lowed by the failure of his firm, whose
liabilities are $4,000.
Judge Finn, of San Francisco, has
ordered Aggie Hill to furnish photo
graphic copies of her alleged marriage
contract with ex-senator Sharon.
The questionable statement is sent
out from Indianapolis that four armed
men robbed the passengers on Wa,
bash train at Danville junction of
$500, on Saturday morning.
A farmer at West Mill Creek, Penn
sylvania, took ST., 900 in currency from
his safe and concealed it in the parlOr
stove, where it was destroyed when
his wife lighted fire.
Benjamin Craig, lieutenant in the
United States army, a son of General
Craig, OF st. Joseph, Missouri, died in
southern France, Friday night, attend
ed by his mother and sister.
Henry Schaliar, a baker in Peoria,
ILL.,, who left a wife behind him in Ger
many twenty years ago, has just dis
covered that she is married to Samuel
Pfarrer, of Springfield.
President Sargent, of the Fargo South
ern, says his road will Oe extended
southwark to Yankton and northward
into the territory of the Manitoba line
and will remain a montpelier.
DR.. Richmond, of Plattsmouth, Ne
braska, has been held to answer the
charge of assaulting girl of thirteen
years who went to his office for treat
ment.
A policeman in New York, named
| William Conroy, is charged with hay
ing attacked in saloon an inoffensive
citizen, whom he shot in the abdo-
men and dubbed in the head, death
soon relieving the sufferer.
| w. III. Parker, a wealthy farmer,
who twas serving on jury at Decatur,
| Illinois, was so much affected by learn
ing of the elopement and marriage Of
| his daughter that the court was COM
PEELED to adjourn for week.
In the criminal court at Gallatin,
James for the murder of Conductor
| Westfall was dismissed and he was
| sent back to Jackson county, to be
| tried for the Blue-cut train-robbery.
James COLES, who died Monday at
Morristown, New Jersey, helped to
| throw up breastworks on the battery
in New Y ork in 1872; became q leading
merchant in New Orleans, and was q
personal friend of General Jackson.
John Bernard, well known in north
| ern Louisiana as an assassin, who had
been attempting to murder Sh eriff
| Jones, Of Lincoln parish, was met on
the road by the latter, Sunday, and
shot dead.
The Rothschilds have advised the
| British government that no Egyptian
loan could be placed if the troops were
| entirely withdrawn. 1t has therefore
been decided TO maintain in Egypt an
army of occupation of four thousand
| men.
A dispatch from Chihuahua, Mexico,
says the Apache chief Ju, pursued by
Mexican cavalry, endeavored to jump
| a gulch, missed, and killed himself,
and that Charley McComas is in the
hands OF three frontier Americans,
who are holding him for large ran
| som.
John Zimmerman, of Chicago, was
sent to the county Jail for six months
for attempting to bride a juryman in a
| railway damage case. Judge Halves
| encouraged the prisoner to shorten his
term of punishment by furnishing in
formation which would convict the I'M
known go-between.
Postmasters in twenty of the largest
cities report an average increase Of
over per cent. in the amount received
for stamps, Detroit alone showing q
decrease. The postmaster general has
ordered that special agents shall here
after be paid for their expenses only
the sum actually disbursed.
An express agent at Portage, Wis
consin, carried some money packages
to midnight train in an old sack,
which caught in the door fastenings
in the depot and ripped open, spilling
its contents on the platform. He soon
discovered his loss, but was unable TO
recover an envelope containing $4,000.
Mr.. Evans, commissioner of inter-
nal revenue, says he has been strongly
to unlicensed retailers of liquors and
to Southern moonshiners, it being ar
gued that many violators of the law
are DESTROYS or rehabilitating them
selves.
Faulkner, the leading counterfeiter
of southern Indiana, who lived in what
might be termed log fort at French
town, was deceived into entertaining
and instructing a detective, who cap
tured both him and his wife by ruse.
Faulkner made dimes and double eagles
which would deceive the most expert
cashiers.
Arthur B. Johnson, a lawyer and
politician of Utica, New York, killed
himself in his Office with a revolver,
his body being discovered by notori-
Gus woman with whom he lived. He
leaves wife and four children. He
was an uncle Of Johnson l.. Lynch, who
was shot dead last Tuesday in Batavia
by an Infatuated husband. President
Arthur appointed Johnson a commits
siOner to examine a section of the
Northern Pacific railway.
The preliminary examina; ioI ~
A. Carpenter, for the murder ol Il e..
Burns was commenced Monday aJ
Lincoln, Illinois, by Judge Lacey. in
presence of five hundred citizens