The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-05-21

States, whose ill-gotten gains are esti-
mated at 81 900, 900, died on Sunday at
Reading, Vermont.
The failure of q firm of operators
and the opening Of well flowing 2O0
barrels an hour caused q panic on the
Pittsburg Oil Exchange Tuesday.
Prices dropped several cents.
The rigid enforcement of the temper
ance law at Orangeville, Ontario, by
Police Magistrate Monroe was doubt
less the cause Of the wrecking of both
his house and office by dynamite.
Jonas Drury, of Springfield, Ohio,
who predicted most accurately the re-
cent storms in that state, based upon
records for twenty years, has issued
similar warning for June 13 and IA.
The mayor of Attica, Indiana, re-
ports that the storm deprived fifty
families of their homes. The Indiana
polls board Of trade has decided to send
at once carload of provisions and
bedding.
A contractor in Pittsburg used an
immense charge of dynamite in break
ing up an anvil weighing ten tons. The
explosion wrecked three houses and
seriously injured spectator on the
sidewalk.
While endeavoring to stretch cable
across the river at Tuscumbia, Mis-
sour chard Higgins and Thomas
Bar. tt we're drowned in presence of
theil Lilies before aid could be rem
dered.
John Deere, the famous plow manu-
facturer of Moline, Illinois. so years of
age, died Monday evening. Edward j.
Meagher, secretary of plow company
at South Bend, Indiana, expired from
consumption.
Hugh M. Brooks, who is being tried
at st. Louis for the murder of G. A.
Preller, has confessed that the victim
died from chloroform at the Southern
hotel, while undergoing asurglcal Oper-
alton by Brooks.
AT Shannon, Illinois. Marshal Red
dington was killed with a razor by a
barber named Charles l. shelle, whom
he attempted to arrest for drunken
ness. The murderer was captured IL
grove near Lanark.
Senator COlquitt. OF Georgia, is can
vassing the cities Of North Carolina in
favor of prohibition, appealing especi-
ally 10 the colored people. The cleo
tion will be held early III June, and the
campaign grows in warmth daily.
AT st. Louis, Michigan. an intoxi-
Gated man named Adel Vliet broke in
to the house of a crippled soldier named
Fetters. Seeing that her father Was
likely 10 be injured, Nora Fetters shot
the intruder, who soon thereafter died.
A farmer near Inka. Illinois, has u
healthy girl babe, about three weeks
old which he found in q flour-sack be-
side the track of the Ohio and Missis-
slppi road. 1t had evidently been gently
dropped from the steps of ilnight train.
Two physicians in New York gave
certificates 10 the supreme court that
BARLEY Campbell is suffering from
general paralysis. The famous play
wright will probably be taken from
Bellevue hospital TO The Bloomingdale
asylum.
The supreme court of Wisconsin has
sustained the conviction of James s.
White for embezzlng SS 900 in bonds
while comptroller OF Milwaukee. The
accused has for some time lain in iail
to await this decision and lie will sOon
be sentenced.
The Republicans have nominated
John Dalzel for Congress from the
Twenty-second district of Pennsyl-
vania. and Thomas NJ. Bayne from the
Twenty-third district. The Demo
Gratis of the Thirteen Ii Illinois district
renominated William NJ. Springer.
Late on Friday night a cyclone swept
over the region OF Dunkirk. Ohio,
leveling nearly everything in its path,
killing two persons, and seriously in
juring fifteen others. a tornado which
visited Wabash City caused the death
of three persons and destroyed property
valued at SO 900.
Two lads from Lowell. Massachu-
sets, named Nutthall and Stacey. who
stole $4,000 from bank where the
former was employed, have been ar
rested in Montreal where they had pur-
About one-fourth Of the stolen money
was recovered
A car of the United States fish COM
mission has arrived at Portland Ore
gon, with one million shad, to be placed
in the Columbia and Willamette rivers.
About half the number were Matched
on the road from Havre de Grace,
Maryland, the experiment being sue
cessful to an astonishing degree.
The people of Royal, Wisconsin,
threaten to lynch Mrs. Wright and
Daniel Allen, now confined in the Clark
county Jail. The woman has confessed
every detail of the recent poisoning of
her husband, and states that Allen
promised to dispatch his wife with
arsenic, so that the murderers could be
married.
a farmer Of Inkster, Dakota. named
Cowdright, recently went to Pennsyl~
vania and married into good family
by means Of an introduction from
citizen. At q hotel in Fargo, on Fri
day night, the fellow fled with $4,000
and all their baggage, leaving his vic
tim destitute. Most OF the money be-
longed to her.
Captain Hatfield, with a troop of
United States cavalry. surprised and
stampeded the camp of Geronimo, near
Santa Cruz, on Saturday morning. but
in passing through canyon soon after.
ward he suffered the loss of two men
killed and three wounded. Major RIM.
with large Mexican force, has since
joined in the pursuit.
The Senate Pensions Committee has
decided to report unfavorably the
Mexican Pensions bill as passed by the
House, and to substitute the Senate
bill Of the last Congress. This bill
only pensions those who actually
served fourteen days or more, or their