The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-03-14

telegraph bill. A Des MONIES news
paper announced the fact that he had
been presented with Western Union
telegraph frank, and he was compelled
to explain why he accepted gratuity
worth $500.
Samples of gold from new mine at
Mount Unianke. n. S., were shown at
Montreal, which Caribou Cameron, their
owner, says have been analysed at the
Institute of Technology. in Boston, and
found to yield from Sl65 to $l68 per
ton. The mine was accidentally found
by boy discovering lump OF quartz.
The stockmen of Texas are said to be
moving for division of the state OH
the Tooth meridian, as theirinterests are
totally different from those OF citizens
in the eastern portion. The adjutant
general is advised that fence-cutting
has nearly ceased, and that Enclosures
are being rebuilt.
The Union Pacific road reports gross
earnings of Sd 100000 for the year,
with an income of $1,000, 900 from 9TH
were $l0,640.000. Hugh Riddle and
James A. Rumill were elected direct
ors in the place Of Augustus Schell and
Scion Humphreys.
The republican state central COM
mittee of Wisconsin met in Milwau-
kee, Thursday, and called state con-
vention at Madison, April 30, to select
delegates to Chicago and nominate an
electoral ticket. The convention to
nominate state officers will be held in
September.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Hillsboro,
Ills, claim that winter wheat has been
greatly damaged by the recent changa-
BILE weather. the roots being generally
exposed. On the contrary a Milwau-
kee grain exporter has received adviceS
OF the excellent condition OF the grow
ing crop in half dozen states, with
some slight damage in Michigan.
Coroner Sheftall, of Savannah, Ca.
stopped negro funeral land, pulling off
the shroud, showed nine serious wounds
on the corpse. The doors of the house
were locked, jury and witnesses were
summoned, and a verdict of murder
was rendered against the colored man
in whose cabin the ObseQuies were being
held.
Oliver p. Baker. one of the wealth.
lest farmers in the region Of Dayton,
Ohio, with wife and ten children,
mysteriously disappeared in January.
1t has just been learned that he was
fascinated by a woman named Grace
Harper, with whom he spent the winter
in the south. Mrs. Baker has CON-
menced divorce proceedings.
The death list of the week includes
the names of Hon. Kenneth Rayner, So
licitOr of the treasury: Amos P.MOrrill,
Judge of the Eastern District of Texas;
Edward d. Payne. of Dayton, Ohio, a
brother of the senatOr-elect, and Cap
tain John Archer, a retired shipmaster
of Salem, Mass, who was prisoner at
DartmoOr.
A few days ago peddler was muir
dered in negro cabin near Cahokia,
Ill. The body was cut to pieces and
distributed in the fields. A negro
named William Brown was arrested
Saturday and made a confession to kill
ing the peddler and cutting the body to
pieces, burning portions and distribut-
ing the balance in the fields. Several
others are implicated.
The will of the late Hon. l.. j.
Knowles, of Worcester, Mass, in addi-
ton to large number OF requests to
public institutions in New England,
gives $4,000 to Carleton College, at
Mortified, Mimi; $1,000 to the Ameri-
can Board of Foreign missions. After
thesdeath of his widow 5000 goes to
Doane College, in Nebraska, and 5000
to Washburne College at Topeka, Kan.
A package containing S27, 900 in cur
rency was distracted from the vault
in the main Office Of the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy road, about noon
on Saturday last, under circumstances
which cause a suspicion that some en-
ploye was connected with the crime. &.
Rnr W nj fA.- OF
Of the road, was discharged for negli-
gence in leaving the safe unlocked.
w. b. Cash, who killed two unarmed
said to have fortified himself in barn
near his fathers mansion, and keeps a
party of negroes constantly on picket
duty. Colonel Cash is said to have
threatened to burn the town il his son
is shot. The governors indignation Is
is at white heat, and the military Of
Columbia have rendered their services.
There are ten thousand acres Of swamp
in the immediate vicinity of the Cash
homestead. Later reports say that
the chief constable and his armed force
captured Col. +. b. Cash by leveling
their rifles at him, but Began Cash es-
capped to the swamp. A strong guard
was placed around the mansion, and
the prisoner was sent to Chesterfield
Jail. A large force Of men familiar
with the swamp have been summoned
from Cheraw to run down the muir
derer.
Late reports confirm the reported
prevalence of a terrible scourge among
the cattle in Wo0dson county, Kansas.
Governor Click, William Sims, Secre-
tary of the State Board of Agriculture,
and DR.. Holbrook, United States Veter-
mary Surgeon, have visited the injected
herds and find the malady an aggra-
waited and extremely contagious form
of foot and mouth disease. The disease
attacks the bones of the hoof and
ankle which completely rot away, the
flesh suppurates, and the feet fall off
Every effort will be made to check the
advance Of the disease by rigid quaran-
tine. Of one herd of 100 head, 80 have
lost hoof or portion of leg. Gov
ernor Click has been urged to call a
special session of the legislature topass
laws to stamp out the plague. A quar-
antine has been established around the
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