The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-02
GENERAL NEWS.

| Inc democrats OF Cne NlneUeenUn
Illinois district have renOminated Con-
gresham Townshend.
Samuel j. Randall is charged with an
intention to introduce bill for i'm
| portant reductions in tariff duties.
w. p. Hepburn, representing the
Eighth district of Iowa in congress,
was renominated by the republicans.
The winter wheat now being har-
vested in the vicinity of Jerseyville,
| ILL.,, bids fair to be two-thirds crop of
No. 2.
At Greenfield, Indiana, Samuel Hol-
| lingswOrth made 28lt miles on bicycle
in twenty-four hours, breaking all the
| records.
The managers of five large rolling
mills in Philadelphia are considering
demands made by fifteen hundred en-
ployes.
Two thousand persons residing in
the vicinity of Waldron, Michigan,
| aided John Brooks to celebrate his
one hundredtn birthday.
The governor of Louisiana has APP
proved of bill for the better obser-
vance of Sunday. 1t will take effect at
the commencement of 1887.
The Irish parliamentary fund COM
mitteel of New York has raised $685.
663 to send abroad. One gentleman
who withheld his name gave $4,000.
DR.. Richmond, who killed Colonel
Strong at st. Joseph, Mo-, is still at
his home, under guard of three police
men, and knows nothing of his terrible
deed.
Moses A. Dow, the founder of the
Wdrerly Magazine, died i'll Boston,
Wednesday, leaving S2,O0O,OO0, which
he had accumulated i'll thirty-iive years
as publisher.
1t is said that the Doodle aldermen
of New York have offered large sum
of money to eX-Alderman Waite, with
which to kill time in Europe until the
storm blows over.
A bronze monument, representing a
soldier at parade rest, was unveiled at
Defiance, Ohio. Tuesday. General
Rosecrans and Ex-Governor Foster de-
liyered addresses.
s. Z. Spier, q young bicyclist, has
journeyed from Albany to Chicago
since the month opened, and expects
to make San Francisco in sixty days
from the time Of starting.
While drilling for gas at Akron,
Ohio, Thursday, at depth of 2 400 feet
workmen touched vast lake of very
strong salt water, into which an iron
sounder was lowered 1000 feet.
On telegram from the navy depart
ment, the revenue cutter Forward has
left Mobile for Mississippi sound, to
intercept schooner loaded with men
and arms for tilibustering in Cuba.
The democrats of the Seventeenth
Illinois district, now represented in
congress by John r. Eden, have nomi-
mated Judge Edward Lane, of Hills
boro. Fifty-one ballots were taken.
Mrs. Reed, of Jackson, Michigan,
has for ninety-one days taken no nour-
ishment except two spoonfuls of port
wine daily. She suffers from internal
cancer, and there is no chance for her
recovery.
The conference committee of iron
manufacturers gathered at Pittsburg
signed the scale of the Amalgamated
convention, thus fOrestalling wage
troubles for year among the mills of
the country.
A freight train on the Fort Wayne
road was wrecked Wednesday near
Canton. Ohio. A lad from Alliance,
named Harley Harrington, was killed.
Ten loaded refrigeratOr-cars were de-
molished.
w. j. Sanderson, a justice of the
peace at Cincinnati, pleaded guilty to
a charge of assault and battery pre-
ferred by woman, and was fined 800
and sentenced to two months in the
workhouse.
President Mackey, who has system
of $40 miles of rail in southern Indiana,
proposes to lay track from some point
on the Evansville road. through the
Bedford quarries, to Columbus, Indi-
ana, seventy miles.
William s. Holman has been renom-
mated for congress by the democrats
of the Fourth Indiana district. The
supporters of John r.. Cravens threat
ened to secede from the convention,
but were Modified.
The circuit court at Springfield, Mo-,
quashed both the indictments against
Mrs. Emma Molloy in the Graham
case, but held her in LOO to answer
any new presentments. Cora +. Lee
is still in Jail at Bolivar.
A. w. Mcclellan, minister of fisheries