The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-06-20
VERY LATEST.

The grain shipments by lake from
Chicago last week were ], 81 900 BUSH
els.
The failures for the week are reported
as 203 in the United States and rs in
Canada.
The republicans of the Eighth Iowa
district renOminated w. Z. Hepburn
for Congress.
Ben Butler has formally accepted the
nomination for President by the ma
tional greenback convention.
Captain Sam Langley, of st. Joseph,
Mich, well known in all lake ports, has
become violently insane.
DR.. Alexander Martin has resigned
the presidency of De PAW university,
at Greencastle, Ind.
One powder company in Pennsylva-
MIA accepted $4,000 from another for
suspending manufacture for year.
At Edwardsville, ILL.,, Herman Rit-
ter, lawyer, accidentally shot and
killed his wife while cleaning gun.
George Z. Purinton, Postmaster at
Polletts, near Clinton, Iowa, shot and
killed himself for some unknown
reason.
A lad at Bridgeport, Conn.,, was par
alyzed by hooking wire to the electric
light conductor, and in twenty minutes
expired.
Major Breckenridge, a bank president
of Austin, Texas, is likely to succeed
John Hancock in the house of repre-
sentatives.
The grand jury at Omaha has indict-
ed Mayor Chase and City Marshal
Guthrie for Matchmaking gamblers and
lewd women.
G. G. Morris, of Greensburg, Ky. left
his home on horseback and was soon
found dead in the road with six bullets
in his body.
The democratic congressional con-
ventiOn in the Thirteenth Illinois dis
trict renominated William M. Springer
by reclamation.
So serious is the illness of Bishop
Simpson, Of Philadelphia, that a con-
sultation Of physicians was held at his
residence Thursday.
Cincinnati Is threatened with strike
by six thousand shOemakers, fifteen
hundred stave molders, and five thous-
and cigar makers.
Ex-Congressman Hester Clymer, of
Pennsylvania, at one time prominent
democratic leader in the Keystone
state, died Thursday.
Advices from Greenland state that
the brig Elesia was crushed in the ice
In the vicinity of that island recently,
and ten men persisted.
Calhoun Benham, the California law
yer who acted as Judge David Terry's
second in the celebrated Broderick-
ny duel, died Thursday.
The California delegation to the
democratic convention, on learning of
Tilden's declination, have declared
unanimously for Thurman.
AT Cambridge, Md, "Bull Cephas,"
colored, on trial for the murder of Mrs.
Celia Murphy, was found guilty of
murder in the first degree.
A dispatch from Fort Leavenworth
chronicles the death of Colonel Ed
ward X. Platt, adjutant general of the
department of the Missouri.
After suffering for many years from
q wound received in battle, General
William McCandless died Tuesday i'm
Philadelphia, in his 50th year.
The trotting horse Burns, valued at
$1,000, owned by $. A. Mclean, of
East Saginaw, dropped dead on the
race-track while being exercised.
Anton HALEY, who acted as treas
urer OF the trades-assembly picnic at
Milwaukee last Sunday has disappeared
with 81 800 received at the gate.
G. X. Messenger, an extensive tobac-
co manufacturer at Toledo, Ohio, has
made an assignment. His liabilities
are chiefly in the southern cities.
The emulovment of seven Hungarian