The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-01
VERY LATEST.


about eight hours.
Manitoba, with vastly increased
acreage of wheat, estimates the yield
at $500, 600 bushels.
May White and Mamie Thorp. two
Baltimore disreputables, were fatally
shot in bagnio Saturday.
A hail-stOrm three miles in width
caused damage of $4,000 to crops in
the vicinity of Huron, Dakota.
The Boston nine leads the Providence
club in the contest for the National
league championship, Chicago ranking
fifth.
General Rosecrans has accepted an
invitation to be the guest of the city of
Dayton at the soldiers reunion next
week.
The completion of the Livingston
extension of the Kentucky Central
road gives direct line from Cincinnati
to Knoxville.
The report that cholera-infected rags
are being sent from Europe to this
country is denied by the Dominion
authorities.
A fire originating in the block factory
of Harvey & Farr, at Gloucester, Mass,
spread until property valued at $500, 600
was destroyed.
Britain Budd, 1O-year old Chicago
an sOjourning at OconOmowOc, caught
with a rod and reel pickerel weighing
nineteen pounds.
BY the explosion of steam thrash
ing-machine near Litchfield, Ills, two
men were killed and six others were
seriously scalded.
Helen Owens, handsome and edu-
Gated young lady of Anne Arundel Co.,
Nd, has eloped to Washington with a
mulatto cOachman.
John G. Emo, the wrecked New York
banker, has rented furnished house4n
Quebec, and has BEEN joined by his wife
and three daughters.
The Garfield monument committee
has accepted Keller's design for a
monument to be erected at Cleveland,
which will cost $15O,0O0.
A railway wreck near Canton, Ohio,
Saturday evening, caused serious in
juries to fourteen persons, but none of
the passengers were killed.
Ex-Minister Sargent, now in Massa-
chusetts, has received q dispatch re-
questing him to run for Congress in one
of the California districts.
A camp-meeting in progress on the
summit of Lookout mountain, where
the Southern association of Spiritual
lists has secured ample grounds.
James Wier, of Muscatine, Iowa,
was fined 5000 for selling liquor. He
took an appeal to the district court and
reopened his saloon for business.
Some boys playing in undergrad
at Davenport unearthed box contain
ing several pounds of counterfeit 10
cent pieces, bearing the date of 1874.
After damage of $4,000 had been
done by fire at the mission of San Jose,
in California, the old church was saved
by the use OF claret wine as an extin-
guisher.
The cholera scare is materially
affecting European travel. A boat
which took 202 cabin passengers from
New York a year ago only took forty
Saturday.
The directors of the Cincinnati
Southern road have voted to change
the gauge of their tracks, which has be-
come necessary in the interest of COM
petition.
Morris Oliver, at Warrenton, Va,
stole box containing Sill 900 from the
residence Of DR.. G. p. Cooper and hid it
in hay-stack, where it was found the
next day.
Two noted pugilists of the anthracite
coal region, named Conoghan and Ker-
rigan, fought seventeen rounds on the
mountain side near Wilkesbarre, the
former winning.
| Frank Calvert, the divorced husband
Of Ex-Governor Sprague's second wife,
died in Cincinnati hotel under Cir
cumstances which indicated that he
took his own life.
The people of Des Moines have at
last made up the purse Of $500 re-
quired to secure the permanent loca-
ton of the state fair, and the state will
furnish an equal amount.
The court of errors of New Jersey
has released two printers of Decker
town who were sentenced to long terms
In state prison for criminal libel perpe-
trated by their employer.
A railway superintendent in the
south has aroused a feeling of indigna-
ton by prohibiting the distribution
along his line of advertising matter be-
longing to foreign roads.
During the absence of her husband
Mrs. Herne fled from a stock farm in
Dickinson county, Kansas, with gam
bier Of Abilene, taking $4,000 in cash
given her for safe keeping.
Mrs. j. G.. Swisshelm, whose name
has for forty years been familiar one
to the American public, died Tuesday
evening at her home in Sewickley, Pa.
She was born in Pittsburg in 1918.
The owners of fifty thousand head of
cattle at Oklahoma have formed pool
to reduce the expense of taking care Of
herds. and will employ one man and
eight horses to every thousand head.
w. T. Kailey, postmaster of Camden,
N. j., has been arrested for the en-
beZzlement of $4,000. A warrant has
been issued for the apprehension of.his
assistant, Jesse X. Mines, on the same
charge.
Thomas j. Navin, the Ascending
mayor of Adrian, Mich, has mailed
from q Cuban town letter opening
negotiations for a compromise with the
estate of +. s. Clark, which he robbed
Of 100000.
George b. McCord, the sheriff at
Marshalltown, Iowa, was nearly killed
by two burglars whom he followed into
the country. One Of the criminals was