The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-04-27

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\ vim pirty OF five young people
" WI in Meadow pond, near
RI, +. NJ ssachusetts, Saturday.
Mrs. Ada Il sell, General IIancOck's
moi her-in-law, died Tuesday, Oh Gov
ernOr'S l-lan . oi pneumonia.
The Iowa ID mocratic State Conven-
ton is called 10 net ut Des Moines on
June o.
The American public has paid $229,-
C63.5S TO see Mrs. Langtry the past
twenly-four weeks.
John y. Mccall, the insurance expert,
has cen nom mated Superintendent of
Insurance Tor the State OF New York.
Nathan Blood, aged 10. residing near
Walker. Iowa. went to his wife's grave
and shot himself dead
The shOemakers OF New York are ag-
itating. for eight hours day, and half
holiday Saturday.
An overflow of the Manistique river,
Oh the MICHIGAN peninsula, has occa-
stoned considerable damage to mill
property at Manistique and jamestown.
The stockholders of theWesternUnion
Telegraph Company voted to ratify the
lease of the Mutual Union and other
telegraph companies lines.
| SldIltS Il Z. AcllOsS. WHO DttI
engaged in the wholesale cOthing trade
In Chicago since 1866, died Friday, in the
forty sixth year OF his age.
A heavy frost occurred Monday night
In the Illinois fruit belt, but hOrticul-
turists believe 10 serious damage was
done.
The title of the new corporation that
is to operate the Vermont Central and
Canada Railroads will be the CONSOLE
dated Ri lroad Company OF Vermont.
Henry ID. Mcdaniel has been elected
Governor OF Georgia for the uneXpired
term OF the late Alexander III. Stephens.
There was no opposition.
The Mayor of indianapolis has vetoed
an ordinance adopted 10y the City Coun-
Gil increasing the saloon license To
81 800.
The erection of u statue to the late
Peter Cooper, in front OF the Cooper
union, is being discussed by the New
York board of aldermen.
"A Richmond dispatch chronicles the
death of Col. Andrew Taylor, the senior
graduate of West Point, at the age Of
81 years.
A site for the Garfield memorial hos
pital has been purchased in the suburbs
OF Washington, the price paid being
S87 900.
Mrs. Slower, the sister of President
Johnson. and who was frequently at the
white house during Mr.. JOhnSon's in
cumbency, is dead.
At Sacramento, California. Friday,
the wall of a building telupon a saloon,
killing six men and possibly more. and
wOunding twelve men.
The prohibition bill received crush
ing deleat in the Pennsylvania House
Of Representatives Friday. the vote up
on its passage being 2S to Isl.
General Crook has enlisted two hum
dred Apache scouts, who will at once
take the field against the hostiles, CO.
operating with the Mexican forces.
In order to test the constitutionality
of the Scott liquor law, a case will be
Immediately made up for trial before
the Supreme Court of Ohio.
The stamp account of the Lafayette.
Ind. POstoflice is $1,000 short, alleged
to arise from the loaning of stamps to
neighboring offices.
Jonathan Whitney. aged so, of Mont
vile, Ohio, attempted to kill his second
wife because she was too attentive to
his SOn-in-law.
The mill owners ut MuskegOn, Mich
igan, have agreed TO restrict the manu-
facture of lumber, in view of the fact
that there is danger of breaking down
the prices by oyerproduction.
The railroad coal operators met at
Pttsburg, Thursday, and decided to
reduce the price of mining from y to 8
cents per bushel. II is believed n strike
. will result.
About three thousand emigrants sail
ed from Liverpool Friday. most of them
intending to settle i'll Manitoba. They
nnnranotn sanitn ne CD
500. 900.
Two women, each claiming to be the
widow of the same man, have gone to
law ut Omaha to determine which is
the mother of two girls aged 10 and II
years.
, James Park, proprietor of the Black
Diamond steel-works at PittSbllrg, Pa,
and the largest manufacturer of mer-
chant steel i'll the world, died Saturday,
aged 63 years.
In consequence OF expenditures in inn
proving the roadbed OF the New York
and New England Railway. the COM
pany has become crippled financially,
. and its stock sold down to 3Gl Tuesday.
The Connecticut legislature has pass
ed a bill creating q board of pardons,
| consisting of the governor, one judge
Of the supreme court, and four members
of the legislature.
! Litchell, the English pugiist, and
Slade, the New Zeaander, have made
an agreement to fight on September ii,
within two hundred miles of Kansas
City, the stakes being $500 Il side.
James G.. Anderson, grain dealer Of
st. Jacob. Madison county, Illinois, is
alleged to have forged Endorsements to
notes to the amount of $4,000. His
present whereabouts are unknown.
A. pile-driver car went through a
bridge on the Iron Mountain railroad
near Helena, Arkansas, Sunday, carry
. ing down with it fourteen men, four Of
whom were badly injured.
A cyclone struck the town of Danbu-
ry, Woodbury. county, Iowa, Sunday
evening. The Catholic church, which
cost 81 400, was destroyed. and a num-
Der Of other buildings were more or less
damaged. No lives were lost.