The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-09-03

like periods in former years.
M. Champallion, of Paris, the son-in-
law of Austin Corbin, killed himself
with revolver on the Corbin farm,
near Newport, New Hampshire.
The surrogate at New York has sus-
tanned the will of Jesse Hoyt, which
leaves to his widow and daughter only
q small portion of his vast estate.
The republicans of California have
nominated John +. Swift for governor.
He was ore of the three ENJOYS sent to
China to negotiate the amended treaty.
Thomas L. Evans. of Nanticoke,
Pennsylvania, has been arrested for de-
handing from candidate 500 for
seventy votes in county convention.
Prohibition campaign meetings all
over the country are clamoring for the
presence of Ex-Governor st. John, who
is said to have more dates than he can
fill.
Henry George offers to accept a
nomination for mayor of New York
on condition that thirty thousand la
boring men sign an agreement to vote
for him.
Nelson Potter, one of the best-known
cOlored citizens of Jackson, Mississippi,
was killed with a knife by one of his
race at the railway station, on Friday
evening.
An English company has got posses
sion of an old concession for railroad
from Tuxpan to the City of Mexico,
and proposes to expend thereon at least
$25 ,000,0
The Excelsior geyser, in Yellowstone
park, which for four years has been in
state of quiescence, broke loose on
E,.iI nj
four hours.
Four Italians engaged in desperate
fight on the railway track near Elmira.
New York. An express train killed
one and fatally injured another, and
third was captured.
DR.. O. w. Holmes and his daughter
has arrived at New York from Europe.
The poet kept his stare-room nearly all
the way, ON account of asthma, and is
still feeble and emaciated.
Pittsburg reports more pudding
furnaces lighted and less idle men to
be seen than ever before. One firm
has orders from the south for two
thousand tons of agriculture steel.
The Clothing Manufacturers Asso-
citation of New York has resolved to
employ no member of the Clothing
Cutters union after August 30 until
the strike in two shops is declared off.
Judge Veale, Of Breckenridge, Texas,
has arrived in Chicago and appealed to
the board of trade for relief OF the citi-
zens of Stephens county, whose crops
have failed and whose cattle are dying.
Lieutenant Shepard, of the Chicago
police, who arrested the anarchists
Juhl, BatZel, and Kloth on West Sew
enteenth street, claims to have suffi-
cient evidence to convict them of con-
spiracy.
Stanley Woodward has declined o
nomination for congress by the demo-
Gratis of the Twelfth district of Penn
sylvania, and the opportunity will be
offered to Master Workman 4. V.
Powderly.
A second mysterious attempt has
been made upon the life of A. Il. Lar
there, of Coldwater, Michigan. Two
bullets lodged in an accountbook in
his breast pocket and O third in q
matchbox.
The Sugar Refining company of Hall
fax, whose works are the largest in the
world, is reported in an embarrassed
condition. The capital is Sl,0O0,O00.
Business has for the past two months
been suspended.
Being unable to pay fine of So and
costs for assault, Robert Quinn will be
compelled to spend six months in the
jail at Milwaukee, when he can escape
under the poor mans oath. He is 83
years OF age.
Joseph Lehner, CT Des Moines, who
has on hand q large stock of wine and
liquor, is about to apply to the federal
court Of Keoliuk for protection against
raid by state constableS until he can
dispose of his goods.
The completion Of the Kansas City
and Memphis road has made the latter
place the distributing point for the
south in the line of coarse grain and
provisions, and given the trade of Chi
cagO a serious blow.
The mysterious murder of Chris Ber-
man at Rochester, New York, i'll 1880
was solved by the confession Of his
mother-in-law, on whose statements
Mrs. Berman and Jacob Steinmiller,
were placed in Jail.
The breweries of Milwaukee are
soon to receive fifty cars Of barley from
The Southern Pacific is to
carry the grain to New Orleans,
whence it goes by water to New York,
Buffalo, and westward.
The Dwyer brothers admit that the
racers, Miss Woodford and Tom Mar
tin have broken down, and that In
spector b. has gone amiss. Miss Wood
ford's total earnings on the turf are
$l09, 4SO, which excels all records.
Edward Robert. now serving a life
sentence in Sing Sing prison for arson,
is about to be set free. Inspector
Burns, Of the New York police force,
believing him innocent, traced out the
true criminal and made him confess.
Edwin III. Stowe, an eminent jurist
of Pittsburg, visited Cutting in the jail
at Paso del Norte last Sunday. He
pronounces the international celebrity
a grand humbug. who states that he
expects to clear 100000 by his advent
ure.
President Cable, of the Rock Island,
says: Every car we have is in active
demand. Business is better than for
several years at this season." Officials
Of the Northwestern, st Paul, and
other western roads make the same
statement.
The announcement of business hand
led by the roads centering in Chatta-
nooga during the past five months is
parallel. ALI the lines, with
out single exception, have had all the