The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-16
VERY LATEST.

The Mississippi river Is clear Of ice
from Rock Island to its mouth.
Mr.. Coumoundouros, ex-premier of
Greece. is dead.
A successful test of an electric tram
ear was made in London Saturday.
Mrs. Berkemier, of Knox county, in
diana, died Friday at the age Of 100
years.
j. 7. Ryerson, for many years promi-
nent in Chicago mercantile affairs, is
dead, at the age of 10 years.
The emperor Of Germany sends 5000
marks to German sufferers by the floods
in the United States.
A million dollars in gold has been
shipped from England to the United
States the past two days.
Two hundred factory girls have start
ed from Limerick, Ireland to take stu
atoms in New Hampshire.
Four Montreal firms went to the wall
Thursday, their aggregate liabilities
being $l38.000.
A break in the French submarine
cable, two hundred miles from the
American end, Is reported.
The Nova Scotian assembly has pass
ed bill abolishing Imprisonment for
debt.
The New Jersey senate HIS passed a
bill iorbidding the sale Of cigarettes or
tobacco in any form to minors.
A High License act has been adopt
ed by both houses Of the Missouri legis-
lature.
Louise Michel has escaped TO Arden
mes, but promises to appear III court
when her trial occurs.
An autopsy will be held on the re-
mains of Prince GortschakOff, suspicion
hav ng arisen that his death was has
tened by poisoning.
The sOcialistic disturbances in Paris
are attributed to the fact that there are
sixty thousand wOrkmen in the city out
of employment.
Herbert +. Taylor, a prominent
founder and iron dealer Of Cleveland,
Ohio, died suddenly Tuesday evening,
aged 40 years.
Mrs. Mary Car, maternal grandmother
OF Mrs. Potter Palmer and Mrs. Fred
IL. Grant, died Tuesday at Louisville,
Kentucky, at the age Of 80 years.
A bill prescribing the whipping post
as the penalty for wife-beating has pass
ed the Illinois house Of representa-
tives.
Work has been resumed at the rolling
mills at Allentown, Pennsylvania, Civ
ing employment to four hundred per-
SOnB.
j. D. Watson, convicted of Offering
hribe to a member of the Ohio legisla-
ture. has been sentenced to one year In
the penitentiary at Columbus.
Secretary Lincoln has asked the
president to order a court-martial for
the trial Of General HAGEN, chief signal
officer of the United States army.
English holders of Virginia state
bonds have raised q fund Of Ell, 900 with
which to contend for their rights in
tribunals Of the United States.
Parnell, Eagan, and Davitt are ex-
pected to be present at the convention
Of the Irish Land league of America at
Philadelphia, April Is and %.
The st. Petersburg police are said to
have received information from Paris
of the existence of plot to murder the
czar.
An advance of so cents and 81 per
ton for pig-iron has been demanded by
the furnace-men Of Alabama and Tenn
eseee who supply the Cincinnati and
tributary markets.
The Springfield, ILL.,, Rolling Mill
company has decided to have nothing
more to do with those of their work
men who struck last week, and will ad-
vertise for men to take their places.
A number of serious breaks in the
Mississippi river levees near Vicksburg
are reported. At points higher up the
river the water has not risen for the
past two days.
The Mississippi Valley Lumber
Dealers association, In session at Quin-
cy, resolved in favor of the general
adoption of the Chicago standard of
grades Of lumber.
Lady Florence Dixie charges that
Parnell and Biggar, as trustees of the
Land-league fund, have failed to &C
count for E162,000 which of right be
longs to the starving peasantry.
Clarence Hite, one of the James gang
of outlaws, recently sentenced to
twenty-five years. imprisonment, has
been pardoned by Governor Crittenden,
of Missouri.
Daniel Woods, of Indianapolis, is
dead at the age Of LOG years. He served
in the English army under the Iron
Duke, was at Waterloo, and accom-
panied Napoleon to st. Helena.
The Russian police are showing in
creased vigilance as the time for the
coronation approaches, and many ar
rests are being made Of suspicious char
acters.
Loomis, the Agawam murderer, was
hanged at Springfield, Massachusetts,,
Thursday. fIe made full confession of
his crime, attributing it to rum, and
died with compOsure.
Ex-Governor William Sprague, Of
Rhode-Island, was married Thursday
night in Stanton, Va, to Mrs. Dora
Inez Calvert, of Greenbrier county,
West Virginia.
The law forbidding the importation
OF American pork into Germany has
not yet received the royal sanction, and
can not become operative until thirty
days after its publication.
Ira Steward, who achieved consider
able notoriety in the United States as
q champion Of the eight-hour labor
principle, died Tuesday at Plano,
Illinois.
The Reformed Church OF the United |
States has deposed the Rev. A. S.
Keyser, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania,