The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-30
VERY LATEST

There was no basis for the suspicion
that Prince G0rtschakoff's death was
the result of poisoning.
The legislature of Tennessee has
passed q law requiring that executions
be conducted hereafter "a private.
Railway travel in Canada and some of
the New England states was impeded,
Tuesday, by snow.
The Mexican Central railroad has
been completed to point two hundred
and eighty miles south of chihuahua.
Queen Victoria sustained Slight in
jury on Saturday by slipping on the
stairs of Windsor palace.
The Boston board of aldermen have
voted 5000 for the erection of a
statue to Paul Revere.
Count de Chambord, replying to an
address from the workingmen of Lyons,
declared that the republic is leading
France to ruin.
William Sprague has been nominated
for governor of Rhode Island by the
independent state convention that met
at Providence.
The attorneys for Marshall T.. Polk,
the defau,ting state treasurer of Tenn
essee. have made proposition for
full settlement of his deficit to the state.
Rowels, one of the alleged Phoenix
park cOnspirators, died in an epileptic
fit in Kilmainham Jail, Dublin, Sunday
night.
The Canadian government is negoti-
ating for an international pOstoffice
money-order arrangement with Ger
many and France.
Denial is made of the statement re-
Gently published that the Reading Rail-
road company was about to acquire the
New Jersey Central line by lease.
The Rhode Island democratic con-
vention has Endorsed the nomination of
William Sprague for governor of the
state.
1t is estimated that the Canadian gov
eminent has been defrauded out of
nearly $1,000, 600 by evasions OF customs
duties at Montreal.
Eighteen thousand people of Boston
attended a testimonial" to their dis
tinguished townsman, Mr.. John l..
Sullivan, the pugilist, Monday evening.
The capital punishment bill recently
passed by the Maine legislature failed
to specify a mode Of execution, and is
therefore imperative.
Concerted action against the anarch-
lists is said to be contemplated by the
a,
France, and Germany.
A lady of Hagerstown, Maryland.
who had had eleven teeth extracted,
caught cold in her laws. lockjaw set in,
and she died Wednesday.
Senator Fair denies that he is
party to an agreement whereby Cover
nor Adams, of Nevada, shall succeed
him in the United States senate.
It's given out that John w. Corning,
of Geneva, New York. will be appoint
ed chief of the bureau of engraving and
printing at Washington to succeed q.
II. Irish, deceased.
Two men named Coomes and Smith,
residing eleven miles northeast of
Helena, Montana, who were suspected
of arson, were hanged by mob Sunday
night.
Mr.. Frederick Billings, lately presi-
dent of the Northern Pacific Railroad
company, has given the University of
Vermont $4,000 for the erection of
library building.
Mr.. John Ferry, for four years super
intendent of the state experimental
farm near Madison. Wisconsin, has
died at Watertown, Wisconsin, aged SO
years.
DR.. D. o. Farrand, a leading medical
practitioner of Detroit, is dead at the
age of as years. His demise is attribut-
ed to oyerwork, producing an effusion
of blood to the brain.
Indian Agent Tufts, of the Muscogee
agency, reports that there is danger of
battle between the opposing factions
of the Creek Indians, and asks for
troops to maintain order.
A large employer at Birkenhead, Eng
l,n Il no oil o. h;,, II
who are IriShmen, saying he would be
disgracing himself by employing people
who foster assassins.
A law has been enacted by the New
York state legislature requiring that
all telegraph and telephone lines in the
cities of New York and Brooklyn be
laid under ground.
BY the sinking of an oyster boat near
Baltimore, five Of the seven men COM
posing her crew persisted, one Of them
being frozen to death while lashed in
the rigging.
The Tennessee legislature has passed
a bill granting q pension of SO per
month each to such citizens of the state
as, serving in the federal or confederate
armies in the civil war, lost one or both
eyes.
Montana stockmen report that their
herds have wintered unusually well,
the losses not exceeding per cent.
Grass is coming up finally, and there is
every reason to expect favorable sea-
son.
The Columbus. Chicago and Indiana
Central Railroad Company has ceased
to exist. being succeeded by the Chica-
go, st. Louis and Pittsburg Railroad
Company, whose organization was COM
pleted at indianapolis.
The evidence of James Mullett, the
Irish conspirator, is alleged to be of
such character as to warrant the ar
rest of Patrick Egan for completely in
the Phoenix park assassinations should
ne return to British soil.
The cut of logs in northern and CEN
trail Wisconsin for the season just clos
ed will, according to careful estimates,
be about IS per cent. below the average,
amounting in the aggregate to some
thing like 1,500, 000, 900 feet.
William Kavs n farmer Of Craapffald