The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-05-02


under the authority of the Khedive but not
under General Gordon.
The republicans of Alabama have
elected twenty delegates to Chicago
who are for Arthur as first choice. and
Logan for second.
Chicago packers have slaughtered
$4,000 hogs since March 1. against
2l7,000 hogs during the corresponding
period of last year.
The last gold bank in existence on
the Pacific coast has removed from San
Francisco to Petaluma and reorganiZed
on a currency basis.
The republicans of Mississippi met
Tuesday at Jackson and selected four
teen delegates to Chicago, of whom
twelve are for Arthur.
Tammany Hall has secured ODD rooms
in the Palmer House and 1873 rooms in
the Matteson House, Chicago, for the
Democratic convention.
James Nicholson, n Boston coal
HEAVIER. of drunken habits, killed his
wife Tuesday, as she sat nursing her
child, and made his escape.
DIR. Law, Of Cornell university, who
has been investigating the cattle dis
ease at Neosho Falls, Kansas, says it is
positively not contagious.
The cotton-mill owners of Canada
held conference at Montreal and
agreed to curtail production 80 per
cent. for the next six months.
The federal grand jury at Yankton
has returned two indictments against
Governor Ordway for corrupt acts in
the organization of counties.
DrPhilip Schlischer, AN old physician
of Louisville, KY, was run over and
killed by switch engine at the Union
Depot in that city on Friday.
The Canadian Indians are gathering
ut Battleford to send delegates to OF
tawa and Regina with a demand for
the allowance Of larger rations.
DR.. Phillip Schlicher, an old physi-
clan of Louisville, KY, was run over
and killed by switch engine at the
Union Depot in thatcity Friday.
Immigrants to the number of 3, 400 ar
rived at Castle Garden on Sunday.
Among them were seventeen Mormon
missionaries and 3lS proselytes.
Mrs. Nader, of Harrisburg, Pa,
fatally shot her niece, Annie Wagner,
Friday, playfully swapping n revolver
which she thought was unloaded.
Boston dispatches chronicle the
death Of Dwight Foster. ex-justice Of
the supreme court. and of Samuel l..
Bush, treasurer of the Lyman mills.
The high water in Lake Champlair
caused the track of the Delaware and
Hudson road to be washed out for miles
+. r. Shankland, well known far
mer of Iowa, has taken for his fifth
wife a daughter of Ex-Governor Hemp
RI in
Dubuque.
Rev. Father Sanchez, the last of the
pioneer Franciscan missionaries. died
at Santa Barbara, California, Thurs
day, after residence of forty-three
years.
The Indiana Democratic association
of Washington has placed Joseph +.
Mcdonald in the field for theNpresi-
dency by the passage of laudatory reso-
lutiOns.
A. S. Stearns. a well known teacher
of GAINESVILLE, Wis. leaped from q
bridge into Rock river on Sunday eve
ming, and his body has not yet been re-
covered.
American residents of the Mexican
capital are reported to be indignant at
the failure of the United States to for
ward the mails over the Mexican Cen
trail route.
Daniel Holcomb, of Jackson, Michi-
gan, has been appointed administrator
of the estate Of the murdered Jacob ID.
Crouch. and filed bonds to the amount
of $4,000.
Charles A. Spaulding, arrested at
New Haven, Conn.,, Thursday night for
theft of jewelry, shot himself five
times, saying that he could not outlive
the disgrace.
At Galena, Ills, on Monday evening,
Richard Spensley and wife celebrated
| the Goth anniversary of their wedding,
surrounded by large number of their
| 113 descendants.
Special advices to Boston say recent
reports of disturbances in Northern
Mexico are wholly false, and were got
ten up for the purpose Of depressing
Mexican securities.
The natural heirs of Mrs. Valeria G..
Stone, of Boston, are to contest her
will, which left $4,000 to charitable
institutions. She gave away millions
| during her lifetime.