The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-20

shortly become Roman Catholic is
made by the Irish Times.
The fund for the widow of General
Hancock, with $2,22l received from
New Orleans, is now $40 1860.
The rice crop of Louisiana is the
best ever produced. The first sample
was received at New Orleans Thurs
day.
Robert l.. Taylor, nominated by the
democrats for governor of Tennessee,
is a brother of the republican candi-
date.
Two socialists of Brussels have been
sentenced to five years penal servitude
each for melting violence at Liege last
March.
A company has been formed in
BROOKLYN to construct huge recepta-
Gle for corpses and prevent premature
burials.
The democrats and greenbackers of
the Sixth Iowa district have renomi-
mated General James b. Weaver for
congress.
The first discovery of petroleum IN
France was recently made at Ferrand,
where spring sends forth fine quail
ty of oil.
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Miranda and Christine Nilsson took
place Friday in Paris, and the couple
departed for Spain.
Cholera is sweeping off hogs by the
hundred III the vicinity OF Shelbyville,
Illinois. "A farmer named ScoEce has
but two left out OF sixty.
A bill providing for local self-gov-
ernment throughout Great Britain and
Ireland is said to be in preparation by
Lord Randolph Churchill.
The fund comm ssiOners of Missouri
have sold 100000 Of tlve-twenty state
bonds ut premium which makes less
than per cent interest.
The Southern Pacific road is soon to
commence running sleeping-cars direct
from Atlanta to San Francisco, q dis
lance of three thousand miles.
In indianapolis John Wagner fatally
wounded his mistress, frankie Howe,
and made no attempt to escape. He
has wife and daughter in Columbus.
The contract for 900 years just con-
cluded between the Baltimore and
OHIO and the New Jersey Central rail
roads will cause them to be operated
as a single line.
The Augusta (Ga.) cotton manufac-
appoint committee to adjust wages
and the striking operatives will return
to work at once.
The Iowa board of pharmacy, in
view of enormous sales OF liquor by
drug firm at Cedar Rapids, brought
suit against it for selling to miners and
habitual drunkards.
Anton Kabok, prosperous baker on
Entf1Tp GhlnnOO
himself dead because of II boycott in
stituted by his employees. He left a
widow and three children.
Michael Gleason, superintendent of
the poor-farm and insane asylum of
Buchanan county, Missouri, has been
held to bail at st. Joseph on an indict-
ment for misdemeanor.
Bernard Martin, of Weaver. Arizona,
sold his ranch in July for $4,000 and
started eastward with his wife and two
children. The corpses of all four were
found Thursday near Phoenix.
Louise Michel. the Paris agitator,
has been fined 100 francs and sentenced
to four months imprisonment for in
citing to murder, at DecaZeville, dur
ing the miners riots last May.
Providence, r. l., reports boom in
the jewelry trade. The principal
manufacturers are working twelve
hours daily and are employing more
men than at any time since 1881.
Pleas of not guilty to the indictments
for misdemeanor were entered in a
New York court by Rollin M. Squire
and Maurice b. Flynn. They will be
arranged for trial on September 5.
The surplus reserve of the New Y ork
banks has dwindled to 81 ,2l2,000. The
clearings of the Chicago banks for last
week were $5l 100000, gain of S.
100000 over the same period last year.
Banks and trust companies in New
York report that 6 per cent is the basis
for all loans. Stock spectators lifted
the rates to 10 per cent, the result be-
ing fractional decline in leading
specialties.
1t is generally believed that Gabriel
Bouck will be the democratic nominee
for governor of Wisconsin. John E.
Eldred, of Milwaukee, is to fight for
the republican nomination for state
treasurer.
The laboring people of Canada are
highly indignant because the warden
of the penitentiary at Kingston set
thirty convicts to unloading vessels
during strike by free citizens for
higher wages.
The Peoria (Ill.) Brick-Layers' Union
has notified Peoria contractors that on
and after Sept. IL nine hours will con-
stitute days labor on Saturday. This
increases the cost of brick-laying 5
cents per 1000.
Rev. DR.. G.. G. Hollis, q Lutheran
known throughout the country, died
on Thursday afternoon at Mount Yer
non, New York. He was born at
Darmstadt in 1924. and came to the
United States in 1851.
Bands Of nationalists Monday pa
raded the Protestant quarter of Dun
cannon, Ireland. cursing the, queen
and demanding home rule. The police
prevented desperate fight by separat-
ing the combatants.
Ezra b. Taylor has been nominated
for congress from the Warren district
of Ohio, so long represented by Gen
eral Garfield. The democrats of the
Twelfth Ohio placed in the field Gen
eral James w. Denver.
Near Erie, Pennsylvania, Mrs. Kreid-
er and her daughters were drowned
while doing the family washing in
creek. The youngest fell into the
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