The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-26

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across the Atlantic to Paris to qualify
them as attractions for q show.
Mrs. BOhrman, residing in suburb
Of Cincinnati, became deranged from
fin ncial losses, killed one son with a
razor, fatally injured another with q
hammer, and then cut her own throat.
Inspector Byrnes, of the New York
police force, states that OF the men,
bers OF the council only Aldermen
| Grant and O'COnnor are free from
completely in the Broadway railroad
steal.
| The distress prevailing among the
unemployed of Great Britain is not
| deemed by Mr.. Gladstone sufficient
reason for asking the queen TO appoint
a day for national humiliation and
| prayer.
A special agent of the treasury de-
| partment reports that extensive frauds
are perpetrated upon the customs
revenues by sending Texas calves into
Mexico to fatten and be returned free
of duty.
A dispatch from Scituate, Massa-
| chusetts, reports the death of Miss
| Abigail Bates, one of the two heroines
who in the war of 1872 drove away The
| British by playing fife and drum in
Aaron Palmer. who last fall nearly
murdered the brothers Anderson ut
| Tecumseh, Michigan, persisted soon
afterward in an adjacent swamp,
where his frozen corpse was found a
| few days ago.
George w. Boggs, postmaster at st.
Thomas, Ontario, has been sentenced
| 10 twenty years; Imprisonment for rob-
bling her majesty's mails and forging
mOney-Orders. His operations dale
back for several years.
John w. Lauer, of Omaha, who one
night last October shot his wife dead,
claiming that he mist0ok her for bur-
glar, has been convicted Of manslaugh-
ter, and will be sentenced to imprison-
ment for several years.
Governor Oglesby has approved the
report of the commission locating on a
quarter section near the Lincoln monu-
ment, at Springfield, the permanent
camp of the Illinois National guard.
The tract will cost $4,000.
Robert f.. Rivers, once a bank
cashierin Buffalo, now private SOL
der ut Detroit, has been sentenced to
five years imprisonment at Leaven-
worth for deserlion and seven years for
forging paymaster's checks.
Judge r. N. Baskin, who is bearing
TO Washington the resignation of Gov
interview at Chicago that Colonel
Samuel Merritt, of Salt Lake, is an
applicant for the vacant post.
John +. Duggan, treasurer of the
local Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers at Milwaukee, who mysterious
ly disappeared some weeks ago, is said
to be defaulter for 81 500. His father
has paid about half that amount.
In the probate court at New Orleans
the fact developed that the late
Thomas S. Surrell left $S,000,000, in
Guiding valuable real estate in Chica-
go. His only heirs are two daughters
one of them Mrs. Richard d. Kerby.
A controlling interest in the Illinois
State Journal has been purchased by
Charles II. Stratton. who has been
elected president of the company. j.
G. Buchanan retires from the establish
nent, and j. r.. Stuart will be man
aging editor.
The burning gas-well at Murrys-
vile, Pennsylvania, was smOthered on
Monday by the use of Il high stack,
which was raised from The ground by
a huge derrick. The terrific heat gen
Grated on Sunday caused a cyclone
about the well.
Should the citizens of st. Joseph.
Missouri. subscribe 5000, 900 toward the
stock of the Chicago, Kansas and
Nebraska road, the Rock Island COM
pany will at once commence the build
ing of four hundred miles of track on
its Kansas extension.
In consequence of the warfare in
Illinois against conN let labor the peni-
ioy ynic ci
the department of justice at Washing
.On that no more federal prisoners will
,e received at Joliet unless the cost of
heir keeping is guaranteed.
The party of white men who last fall
left New Orleans TO work on the Pana-
ma canal have returned, and complain
that Consul General Adamson gave
them no assistance. Within two weeks
nearly twenty-five hundred negroes
will be shipped to the isthmus.
S. III. Davis, a leading lumberman of
Wisconsin, was on Saturday walking
along the track of his railway, near
Cady Mills, Wisconsin, when the wind
blew his coat into the wheels of loco
motive, and his right arm was instant
ly ground off near the shoulder.
The house of representatives passed
bill directing the secretary of war to
grant an honorable discharge to Fran
els Ii. Shaw, who was a captain in the
55th Illinois infantry and was sum-
marily dismissed by General Howard
for misbehavior before the enemy.
The attention of railway men has
been attracted to the remarkable in
crease in the dressed-beef traffic over
the Pennsylvania road, as we'll as the
enlarged grain tonnage of the Grand
Trunk, and war among the trunk
lines is predicted for the near future.
Phil Kumler, district attorney at
Cincinnati, acting under orders of
Solicitor General Goode, Tuesday
evening filed in the federal court at
Columbus suit to test the validity of
the Bell telephone patents, citing the
defendants TO enter appearance by
May /.
The Indiana congressman who called
at the executive mansion to present
the claims of John Il. Stoll on the pub
lie printing Office were informed by the
president that he had no mention 10
make q change in the Office during the
session of congress, as public bust
sN-A l.