The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-09
GENERAL NEWS.

The decrease in the public debt for
June was $9,061 1927.
The republicans of the Sixth Illinois
District have renOminated X. X. Hill
for Congress.
From various towns in Dakota come
reports OF a temperature OF from 100
to 115 degrees.
The Ropes gold mine, located near
Ishpeming, Mich, cleared $4,000 in
May and So, 500 in June.
John G. Shields, of Michigan, has
been nominated chief justice of the
supreme court of Arizona.
Professor Timothy Dwight was in
augurated as president of the Yale col
lege, to succeed DR.. Porter.
1t is probable that the citizens of
Tuscola, Illinois, will lynch Henry
Wildman for the murder of his wife.
Seventy citizens, of Coultersville,
Illinois, were poisoned at a picnic by
eating ice-cream. Several persons have
already died.
John E. Leon, a tight-rope walker,
fell forty feet at Springfield, Ohio,
striking on his head. His injuries are
not deemed fatal.
NJ. De Lesseps states that it is posi-
BILE to complete q level canal at Pana-
ma within three years, at a cost of
800, DOC, 600 francs.
DR.. Valentine Mott, of New York,
has performed upon the son of a Jersey
City physician the first incubation for
the prevention of rabies.
Judge G.. G. Lanphere, one of the
pioneers of Illinois, residing at Gales
burg, died Tuesday from a stroke Of
paralysis received on Sunday.
Fire destroyed the Academy of Mu-
sic, the Office of the Rocky Mountain
Ne,Cs, and other buildings in Denver,
the losses being over $2OO,OOO.
Mrs. Arnold, residing near New Hol-
land. Ohio, has celebrated the 109th
anniversary of her birth. She has one
sister aged 100 and another who is 112.
The bill authorizing the restoration
of Fitz John Porter to the army-rolls
with the rank of colonel was signed by
President Cleveland Thursday.
The So. 1000. 900 estate of the late
Thomas III. Blythe, of San Francisco,
is claimed by Mrs. l.. G. Hitchcock, of
Waco, Texas, a daughter of the first
wife.
On q forty-acre tract at Sharon,
Pennsylvania, some Detroit capitalists
have arranged TO place a Bessemer
ooOOi Pioho Wioh u udiiy OdpdOlCy VI lOO
tons.
Newell Gleason, who was colonel of
the S7th Indiana volunteers, was killed
at La Porte, by falling down a cellar
stairway, receiving q fracture of the
skull.
The criminal court at Chicago ignor-
ed the Fourth, and examined sixty-fOur
men summoned for jury service in the
anarchist trial without accepting one
of them.
In accordance with q recent act of
congress, the president has nominated
FitZ John Porter to be colonel in the
army Of the United States from May
IA, 1851.
Poundmaker, chief of the Blackfeet
Indians, who was confined in the Mani
toba penitentiary for nearly q year,
died suddenly from the bursting of a
blood-vessel.
Cattlemen from Kansas and Texas
are negotiating with the Usage, POnca,
Pawnee, and Otoe Indians for a lease
of all their available grazing lands at a
few cents per acre.
An application for membership in
the Railway Mail Service Mutual Aid
association has been made by Postmas-
ter General Villas, to show his ap-
probation of its objects.
George b. Corkhill, an attorney who
won national recognition by his prose-
cution of Guiteau, died at Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, Tuesday evening, of
hemOrrhage Of the stomach.
A story is sent out from st. Louis
that seventeen thousand men through
out the country have joined a league
in support of law and order and in OPP
position to strikes and b%oycotts.
Jack Burke was arrested in Cincin-
natl for engaging i'm a prize-fght with
Pete Nolan on the 4th. The Mayor