The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-06-25
GENERAL NEWS.

DIR. A. l.. Chaplin, for forty years
president of Beloft college, is to resign
at the close of this term.
Charles Bauer, one of the rioters in
dicted at Milwaukee, entered plea OF
guilty and paid fine of 5000.
President Cleveland courteously de-
clined to accept wedding present for
his wife from the sultan of Turkey.
David Green, the Oldest pioneer in
Wisconsin, died on Monday evening in
the town of Shields, in his 109th year.
Fred Hermann has gone to the Ohio
penitentiary for twelve years for mis-
apprOpriating funds of the Cincinnati
lnfirmary.
One hundred natives and ten English
persons lost their lives through the
eruption Of the volcano of Tarawaera,
in New Zealand.
The Republicans of Iowa are likely
to nominate +. d. Jackson for secre-
tary of state. The Democrats will
support A. b. Keith.
A. j. Lockhart, a fancy bicyclist
from San Francisco, was arrested in
Chicago for stealing watch and chain,
and confessed his guilt.
Some unknown persons shooting at
target near the college at Adrian,
Michigan, killed q 6.year-old son of
Rev. j. w. III. Brown.
The Episcopal diocese of Wisconsin
has lately transferred Kemper Hall, at
KenOsha, to the Sisters of St. Mary,
with debt of $11 900.
Harvesting has commenced in the
wheat fields near Alton, Illinois, where
the yield is estimated at from thirty
five to forty bushels per acre.
The indicted anarchists of Chicago
took change of venue from Judge
Rogers to Judge Gary, who fixed June
q as the date for their trials.
j. j. Duncan. leading citizen of
Scott county, Tennessee, 20 years of
age, has eloped with Mrs. Foster, who
left husband and nine children.
AT a factory in Berlin daily trials of
electric street-cars are being made, and
it is expected that they will soon be
adopted by the Berlin companies.
The city of Vancouver, British Co.
lumbia, was nearly destroyed by fire
Monday. Aid is solicited, as nearly
three thousand persons are homeless.
The adjutant general of Illinois has
ordered the First brigade of the Ma
tional guard to go into camp at Spring
field for the week commencing July 81.
Mrs. Oscar Folsom, Mrs. Cleveland's
mother, confirms the report that the
president and his wife will make tour
of the great lakes during the summer.
The boxes scattered about New York
to receive contributions to the Grant
monument fund were gathered ana
opened, Friday, and found to contain
$40.
President Cleveland found in his re-
ception-room Monday an old man and
his wife, who stated that they had
walked from Missouri to shake hands
with him.
Mrs. Weber, a daughter of Adolphus
Busch, the millionaire brewer of st.
the grounds or drunkenness, neglect,
and abuse.
A fire at Muscatine, Iowa, originat-
ing in the lumber company's yards,
and spreading to bridges and resi-
dences, destroyed property valued at
$250,000.
On the Waller farm, near New
market, Virginia, two young colored
girls nearly beat to death an aged
white man and his sister, and fled with
$3.50 in money.
Geronimo, the Apache chieftain, told
the wife of one of his recent victims
that he would continue to kill white
people until they sent back to him his
wife and child.
George Woodward, of st. Louis, has
filed a third suit against Jay Gould for
$500, 900 for breach of contract in con-
nection with the building of the San
Francisco road.
A lumber firm of East Saginaw has
sold fifteen thousand acres of pine land
on the head waters of the Peshtigo
river for $712,00J. the purchaser being
S. J. Murphy, of Detroit.
The Germans of Chicago on Monday
formally opened their spacious home
for the aged, located just west of Har-
lem, where twenty women already en-
Joy the comforts of life.
The strikes in Chicago have caused a
startling increase in the number of
chattel mortgages placed on record.
The amount involved IN the business
of the past week is 100000.
Ben Butler, in recent interview in
Philadelphia, confessed his apprecia-
ton of the fact that the laboring element
of the country can not be cemented in
to successful party organization.
The governor of Illinois has appoint
ed to the state livestock commission
James g. Robinson, an attorney of
Springfield, who has breeding farm
of five hundred acres near Westfield.
The federal court at st. Louis has
confirmed the recent sale of the Wabash
road to committee of bondholders,
on condition that the remainder of the
purchase money shall be paid by Au-
gust l.
Possibly the first man ever arrested
in Kentucky for playing poker was
Elias Oppenheimer, of Louisville,
whose Indictment was recently secured
through the agency of the Law and
Order club.
Crop reports continue to be filled
with fears as to the effect of the
drought in the northwest. Liberal
rains are reported in Montana. South
ern Illinois is seriously threatened by
>hinch-bugs.
a In farm-housen near Columbus, Ohio,
two deputy marshals captured one of
the most expert counterfeiters in the
United States, named j. A. Brown, to-
gether with his accomplish, and their
tools and coin.
At Stanford, Vermont, the jealousy