The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-06-11
GENERAL NEWS.


N. w. Aldrich was on Tuesday re.
elected senator from Rhode Island.
In the Joliet penitentiary, John
O'Brien killed Asa r.. Parks with q
spade.
The democratic state central com.
mittee of Illinois has chosen Arthur
Orendorff chairman.
Ore taken from a farm near Louisi-
ana, Missouri, yielded 81 in gold and
81 in silver to the ton.
The business portion of Salem, Iowa
was burned on Wednesday evening, the
loss aggregating 100000.
Oscar Neebe, q Chicago anarchist,
was admitted to bail in ST. 900, five
men appearing as bondsmen.
James Dacey, the Chicago murderer,
having been pronounced sane by jury
at Woodstock, will mount the gallows
July 19.
Colonel r. M. Hoe, of New York,
famous as manufacturer of printing
presses, died at Florence, Italy, Of
heart disease.
Water is being sold on the streets of
Galveston at 30 cents per barrel. There
has been but one fall of rain since the
winter closed.
The Cincinnati saloon-keepers have
decided to not pay their tax under the
Dow law until the matter has been
tested in the courts.
A party of leading Democrats of In
diana is negotiating for the purchase
of the Indianapolis Sentinel, on which
it has secured an option.
All the anarchists now in jail at Mil
waukee expect to take q change of
venue to Judge Hamilton and carry
their cases forward to October.
Col. E. Spencer Pratt, prominent
citizen of Alabama, is mentioned as
the probable successor of Fred IL.
Winston as minister to Persia.
Reports of the condition of the grow
ing wheat, corn, and oats are only fair
ly favorable. on account of dry weather
in the northwest during May.
1t is said that President Cleveland
and his bride will spend the month of
August in the White mountains, MAX
ing tour of the chief resorts.
During political quarrel at Boon
DIR. Agee, whose brother was recently
lieutenant governor of Nebraska.
Major +. G. Boynton, of Newburgh,
New York, has discovered in Yer
mont homestead all the original orders
issued to the Revolutionary army at
West Point.
John Reeder, a farmer in township
adjoining Kenosha, Wisconsin, is un-
able to find $1,000 in currency and
securities which he had concealed in
his granary.
The grand jury at Springfield, Mo-,
returned an indictment against Mrs.
Molloy, charging her with being an
accessory after the fact, in the murder
of Sarah Graham.
A special from Fort Davis, Tex, says
that the ten months drought in Presi-
die county, the sheep-growing section
of that state, was broken Tuesday
night by heavy rains.
Additional crop reports from st. Paul
says that the yield of wheat in that dis
trict promises to be one-haf more than
last year. But little wheat was injured
by the frost and drought.
The cities Of Raleigh and Beaufort,
North Carolina, voted on Monday to
prohibit the sale of liquors. Other
leading towns were about equally
divided on the question.
William Barr, prominent capitalist
of Lincoln, Neb.. on trial for perjury,
was acquitted. He was charged with
answering falsely questions as to his
eligibility to serve on jury.
At summer resort near Akron.
Ohio, where nine hundred knights of
Labor went on an excursion, the son Of
a leading merchant named Rice was
shot dead by Perry Saunders.
Jim Dacey, the murderer of Alder
man Gaynor, under sentence of death
at Woodstock, ILL.,, having failed to
prove his insanity, set fire to his couch
Saturday and feigned uncomfortable
mania.
The anarchists of Milwaukee are
charged with an attempt to burn the
residence of Major Traeumer, of the
Fourth battalion, in revenge for his
work in suppressing the riot at Bay
View.
The Rock Island road has let con-
tracts for the construction of the first
forty miles of extension west of st.
Joseph, Missouri. The rails for four
hundred miles of track have been con-
tracted for.
The Peoria Merchants National
Bank is found to have surplus of
10000, IIoke having stolen S17S,C0,,
of which $68,7O0 was from the old
bank. The stockholders have voted to
resume business.
b. +. Bigelow, the defaulting teller
of national bank i'm Washington, was
on Wednesday pardoned bv President