The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-04-25

persuaded ny MS PHYSICIANS ID prepare iof
q sojourn of three weeks ut Wesbalen, and
will leave Berlin next Monday.
The wife OF German nobleman has
been playing for high stakes a. the Monaco
gamblng-tables. Meeting with losses, she
strangled her child, ami killed herself with
razor.
The house committee on coinage has
voted to report favorably the Lacey bill 10
prohibit the issue of treasury notes for less
than IS, and to provide for the issue of silver
certificates in denominations of 81, 81,
and s..
Friday. April as.
Gen. Gordon has received from the
English government message urging him
to withdraw from Khartoum, but ignores the
advice.
The last gold bank in existence on
the Pacific coast has removed from San
Francisco to Petaluma and ieorganizei on a
currency basis.
Patrick Joyce, secretary of the Fenian
brotherhood. has issued circular addressed
to all Irishmen, calling upon them to con-
tinue the dynamite policy.
Mrs. Ole Bull, will leave Boston in
the summer for Norway. She thinks that
her daughter Oea. now l.. years old, may
become as great vioinist as the father.
The Mexican government is nego-
tiating for loan of $2O,OOO,00J from the
Franco Egyptian bank one.half the amount
to be advanced to the present administra-
ton.
The secretary of the California Agri.
cultural society estimates tine growing crop
Of wheat at % per cent more than last year,
The only thing to he feared being the north
winds in the valleys.
Saturday. April ~.
The New York Maritime exchange
petitions congress to suspend the coinage of
silver for two years
There are said to have been 257 deaths
from cholera at Calcutta, last week, and the
disease is spreading.
Over $500 licenses have thus far
been issued 10 Chicago saloon keepers for tue
new municipal year, insuring an annual in
ccme of more than si,OO0,0Oo
An artesian we'll bored for the city of
Lincoln, Neb., has a flow of 10000 gallons
per hour. and a complete system of water
works will be commenced this summer.
An event Of interest to show people
generally and Chicago IN particular, is tie
reopening Of Col Woods museum, at the
same place from which it was driven by the
great fire Of 1871.
Mrs. Catherine Baker, of Taylors-
vile, Va, who has just entered her Tooth
year, attributes her longevity to her life
long persistence to the use of strong coffee,
of which she drank dozen cups daily, and
she publishes the statement as an encourage
ment to timid coffee-drinkers.
Capt. Wynhsm, OF the Jamaica,
which has arrived at New Orleans, denies
that yellow fever prevails at Vera Cruz,
Mexico, and states that on the 9th of April
he smoked cigar with the American consul
reported q victim Of the diseased who was
then in excellent health and spirits
Winter wheat in Illinois, Ohio, Iowa.
and Indiana is In excellent condition, injury
by frost having been confined exclusively to
scattered points In the two former states
The plant in Missouri has evidently been
badly damaged by cold weather. Wisconsin
reports falling off in the acreage of spring
wheat, as the farmers are giving greater at
tention TO the dairy. Dakota and Mime
sofa have larger acreage than last year,
and there is prospect of the largest yield
for years, no damage from insects being re-
ported at any point.
Monday, April FL.
Work has begun on the national
convention hall ut Chicago.
1t is feared in Berlin the return of
the emperor's illness may prove fatal. owing
to his great aga
The peach and ounce trees in North
western Pennsylvania have been estroyed
by the severe weather.
Gen. w. T. Sherman has been APP
pointed TO command the 81. Louis militia,
Gen. Lawrence having resigned.
The cotton mill owners of Canada
held a conference ut Montreal and agreed to
curtail production 90 per cent. for the next
six months
DR.. Law, of Cornell university, who
has been investigating the cattle disease at
Neosho Falls, Kan, says 1t is positiv ely, not
contagious.
Tammany hall has secured 222 rooms
in the Palmer house and 1888 rooms in the
Matteson house, Chicago for the Democratic
convention
The federal grand jury at Yankton
has returned two indictments against Gov
ernor Ordway for corrupt acts in the organi-
cation Of counties.
The boot and shoemakers of London
have commenced a demonstration against
piece work which Is likely to involve the
entire trade in England.
Queen Victoria gave the lie to the
sensational cablegrans in regard to her con-
dition by attending church at Darmstadt,
and taking drive afterward.
All cases in the federal docket at
Charleston, s. c., for violation Of the ma.
tionsl election laws have been discontinued