The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-17

j. F. Sweeter. a shoe manufacturer
family insanity is hereditary, hanged
himself. Monday.
A rumor is current at Atlanta, Geor-
gia, that III. l.. Kimball, backed by
George M. Pullman, may arrange to
rebuild the burned hotel.
And aged rag-picker in Cincinnati,
named M. l.. Bloom, had 81 300 taken
from his clothing by man to whom he
gave lodging.
The S39th ballot in the republican
senatorial convention at Mason City,
Iowa, resulted in the nomination Of
John d. Glass, dark horse.
Miss Z. d. Phillips, of Milwaukee,
has brought suit for So, 900 for breach
of promise against Ernst Meinech, son
of wealthy cigar manufacturer.
The propeller Potomac, carrying 49,
600 bushels Of rye, was beached near
Ahnapee, Wisconsin, and will doubtless
prove total loss.
There are 14S ministers at the Ohio
conference camp-meeting at Lancas-
ter. Harrison, the boy preacher,
brought 125 penitents to the altar,
Tuesday.
At Trenton, New Jersey, Mrs. C. A.
Knoblack threw her husband into the
canal and then leaped in. She made
an end of it, but the man reached the
shore safely.
The camp-meeting at the battle
ground near Lafayette, Indiana, sus-
tanned financial loss by the refusal of
the New Albany road to run Sunday
trains.
The Francklyn cottage at Long
Branch, in which President Garfield
ended his sufferings, was set on fire by
defective flue, hut the flames were
speedily extinguished.
A melon-grower at Barnwell, South
Carolina, finding that the business had
been so overdone that his crop was sur
perhuous, staked off a place for his
grave and poisoned himself.
Hon. E. r. Hawn, late secretary of
state of Indiana, q veteran of the Mex
lean war, died suddenly Tuesday night,
at Indianapolis, of fatty degeneration
of the heart.
The stage for the Yosemite valley
was stopped by three highwaymen near
MERGED, California, and the passengers
were robbed of 5000 and their watches
and jewelry.
Arthur w. Blaney Late cashier of the
American Loan and Trust company,
of Boston, has been sent to the peniten-
tiary for seven years for embezzling
$4,000.
a. NJ. Mooney, marshal of Helena,
Arkansas, was assassinated at the door
Of his office early on Tuesday morning,
after having spent the night shadow
ing thieves.
The death-roll of the day contains
the names of Hon. James Cockburn,
ex-speaker of the Canadian house of
commons, and Hon. George Marston,
late attorney general of Massachusetts.
A company of Mexican infantry, en-
camped near Hermosillo, mutinied,
killing the captain and first lieutenant
and fleeing to the mountains with the
arms and ammunition.
The battle-flag of the Sd Iowa volun-
teers, which was captured before At
lanta, by General Pat Cleburne, has
been sent by Georgia lady to Adju-
tant General Alexander at Des Moines.
Near Lincoln, Nebraska, three boys
engaged in herding cattle took refuge
from a storm beneath tree, when a
stroke Of lightning killed them instant
ly.
The museum managers of the United
States held a convention in Pittsburg
to arrange plans for controlling the
salaries and movements of all the hui
man curiosities now in the country.
Many farmers in Champaign county,
Illinois, planted corn obtained from
southern Kansas, and now report that
the stalks are fifteen feet high, but there
is no prospect of ears.
The sheriff of Hutchinson, Kansas,
rescued murderer, named Texas Bill,
from the hands of mob of sixty men,
who had battered down the Jail doors
and were about to have lynching.
Captain Selfridge, commanding the
Torpedo stationed at New York, is to
establish the first gun-cotton factory
in the United States and supply the de-
mand of the navy.
Fred Tate, of Galveston, was decoyed
into the street at midnight by John
Arto, a merchant of Houston, who
married Tate's daughter, and shot dead
on the sidewalk.
Miss Fannie Dougal. a favorite in
social circles at Windsor, Ontario, fell
dead of heart disease at Hickory Island,
where she had been camping out with
party of friends.
A. M. Harrington, who was district
attorney at Chicago under President
Buchanan. and of late years has been a
solicitor for the Northwestern road,
died Tuesday afternoon, at Geneva, LII.
The Central Trust company of New
York has brought suit at Cincinnati
against the Toledo, Cincinnati and st.
Louis Railroad company, asking the
appointment of receiver and the sale
of the property.
A stage was stopped near Riverside,
Arizona, by robbers, who killed the ex-
coin. Another stage was plundered
near Prescott, but the amount taken is
not known.
In saloon at st. Louis, Sunday eve
ming, in q quarrel over a game of cards.