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

ured cOrpSeS imprisoned In the wreck.
A resolution instructing the governor
to open correspondence with Robert L.
Lincoln relative to the purchase of the
Lincoln homestead by the state was
adopted by the Illinois house of repre-
sentatives.
There seems to be a strong probabili-
ty that General Hazen, chief signal Of
ficer, will be investigated by court
martial. Secretary Lincoln is said to
have designated the officers who will
compose the court.
The newly-wedded wife of ex-Gov-
ernor Sprague, of Rhode Island, is the
daughter of poor shoemaker, and,
like her husband, has been separated
from her first conjugal partner by the
divorce court.
The warrant for the arrest of Louise
Michel, the French communist agita-
tor, alleges offenses which, if proven
] against her, will entail upon her from
five to twenty years imprisonment at
/ hard labor.
The captain of the steamer YazoO,
recently sunk in the Mississippi river
near Bonnet Carrie, involving the loss
of number of lives, was acting under
an expired license, and will be prose-
cuted.
A former coiner of the New Orleans
!. mint Is working on contract with the
Mexican government for the coinage
of 100, 900 pieces of nickel money.
The French government Is about to be-
gin the issue Of nickel coin.
Judge Blodgett, in the federal court
in Chicago has sustained the board Of
trades claim that 1t may furnish its
market reports to or withhold them
from whatsoever it chooses. This is a
defeat for the bucket-shOps.
1t is stated in Denver telegram that
the check for $1,000 given by s. w.
Dorsey for losses at poker on railroad
train 1879 was to Judge j. b. Bissell, Of
Leadville, and not to Representative
j. B. Bedford, as alleged by Rerdell in
the star-rOute trial.
BY the caving in of old breasts in the
Reliance colliery, near Mount Carmel,
Pennsylvania, considerable number
of buildings have been jeopardiZed, and
some of them are being pulled down.
The largest part of the loss will fall
upon the Reading Railroad company.
Among the notable people whose
deaths are recorded Thursday are Rich
ard Henry Green, the historian, best
known on this side Of the Atlantic for
his History of the English People,"
and Mr. Nathaniel Thayer, a capitalist
of Boston.
Much damage has been done by back
water In the OldtOwn lake country,
near Helena, Arkansas. In one in
stance a settlers house was carried
away by the flood, and his four child
rem were drowned. The rivers are
slowly falling.
John s. Cox, one Of those charged
with the theft of $l0O, 0OO of bonds in
the city of st. Joseph, Missouri, from
the vaults of the city register, has
turned states evidence, and on the
witness-stand gave a circumstantial
account of the theft Of the bonds.
The Rev. Alex. Keyser, of Pottsville,
Pennsylvania, is on trial before the
Chassis of the Dutch Reformed church
for having trifled with the affections of
Miss Elizabeth Miller. Miss Miller has
also procured his arrest on a civil suit
for breach Of promise of marriage.
Professor Virgins, so far from being
cast down, claims that his predictions
relative to the weather from the 9Th to
the 18th of March have been literally
fulfilled, and alleges that the sO-called
tidal wave at Halifax, Saturday, was
the highest ever known.
AT Carson, Nevada, it is understood
that Mr.. Fair will resign the United
Adams, resigning the executive Office,
will be appointed by his successor, the
present lieutenant governor, to succeed
Mr.. Fair.
A continuance has been granted In
the case Of Vermillion, accused of COM
plicity in the outrage upon Miss Emma
Bond, in Christian county, Illinois, and
his bail has been reduced from 50 800 to
1000. Miss Bond Is steadily imprOv-
ing, and will be able to appear in court
when the case comes up for trial.
Spanish citizens residing at Havana
have been awarded by the supreme
court Of the United States verdict of
S65,OOO and per cent. interest from
June, 1868, for the seizure and detention
as q prize, ut Port Royal, by Gen. Sher-
man, of the steamer Nuestra Sonora de
Regla.
BY an explosion Of dynamite in
dead Mans Hollow" near McKees-
port, PENNSYLVANIA, one man was killed
outright and three others received in
jurie5 that may prove fatal. The acct
dent was caused by III attempt to thaw
out some frozen dynamite 10y the heat
of stove.
Ex-Secretary Blaine expresses iDdig-
nation that Washington paper should
have published an unfolnded state
ment that an attempt was recently
made to assassinate him while riding i'm
a carriage at the capital. Mr.. Blaine
appears TO believe tue storywas in some
way intended to injure him personally.
Rare persistency in suicidal intent
was exhibited by George Cookson. "a
coachman, ut Evanston, illinois, who
shot himself five times with small re-
volver, and, finding that means Of self
destruction tedious, completed the job
by hanging himself in his employers
barn.
Governor Butler, of Massachusetts,,
appeared in court at Boston, Saturday
as counsel i'm n criminal case,-the
Westiield distillery suit,-and made an
argument for the defense. The occur
renee creates the greatest sorrow in
Beacon hill that the gubernatorial Of
flee should be 80 disgraced.
Mrs. Lucinda Forman, aged 90, and
her:maiden daughter, aged 81, who lived |
together near ROyaltOO Indiana were |