The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-30
GENERAL NEWS.

On the farm of Robert Bonner, along
the Hudson river, Maud s. trOtted q
quarter mile in 304 seconds.
The comptroller of Buffalo sold
5,l59 trade dollars to New York bank
er at 1904 cents each-the highest bid
received.
The bondsmen of Thomson, the alb
sconding bank cashier of st. Louis,
have made proposition to settle their
liability for $4,000.
In q London court, Cyrus w. Field,
was awarded damages of $25,000 and
all costs against James Gordon Ben
nett, for libel.
Chicago physicians have presented
bills amounting to $9,52S for attending
victims of the haymarket slaughter at
the county hospital.
There is said to be no founda ton for
the rumor that Judge s. III. Treat is
about to resign from the federal bench
at Springfield, Illinois.
Charles +. Conant, who was assistant
secretary of the treasury under Bris-
tow, died on Monday evening at Cam
bridge, Massachusetts.
Albert Hanson, of Milwaukee. is
said to have been arrested in Denmark
for writing newspaper letter reflect
lily upon luc SONcInIncuu.
w. Z. Pierson, cashier of the Ameri-
can Baptist Publication society at
Philadelphia, is about to be arrested
for the ENLIGHTENMENT of 100000.
II. G.. Plummer, a wealthy lumber
himself with shotgun because of
heavy losses by recent forest fires.
A dispatch from San Francisco an
nf ENrpdnrinly
Reutschler. vice president of the In
dianapolis Manufacturing company.
John M. Brunswick. the head of the
greatest billiard-table factory in the
world, expired, Sunday, at Cincinnati,
of heart disease, in his sixty-seventh
year.
A bootblack named Brodie leaped
from the center span of Brooklyn
bridge into the East river, and was
taken from the water almost unin-
jured.
The opposition of the Chicago roads
has forced the Union Pacific to post
pone all efforts toward q reduction of
time between the lakes and the Pacific
ocean.
President Cleveland has nominated
Ezra Baird to be marshal for Idaho,
and Charles M. Thomas, of Kentucky,
to be associate justice of the supreme
court of Dakota.
The delegates to the Arkansas re-
publican convention were found to be
fairly divided between Arthur, Blaine,
and Logan in their preference for
presidential nominee.
A dispatch from Little Rock an
nounces that a refreshing rain has
fallen in all sections Of Arkansas, after
drought of six weeks, insuring good
crops of corn and cotton.
Mrs. John Prill, of Pittsburg, be-
coming alarmed during storm, de-
stroyed her sight by sprinkling her
face with sulphuric acid instead OF the
holy water she sought.
A liquor-dealer in Boston undertook
to ship to Providence several cases of
porcelain eggs filled with whisky. The
scheme to the authorities.
At New Albany. Indiana, Professor
j. G.. Strunk killed Charles Hoover and
seriously wounded his father. The
tragedy arose from the dead mans in
timacy with Mrs. Strunk.
Clinton Rossette, of De Kalb, Hi
nois, nominated for postmaster at that
place, was rejected by the senate for
publishing an article upon General
Grant, branding him as tyrant.
The Illinois railway commissioners
have requested the attorney general to
bring suit against the Illinois, Indiana
and Iowa road for unjust discrimina-
ton in coal freights from Streator.
AT st. Louis, twice within week,
old brick buildings have toppled over
into the street. The latest incident of
the kind was at No. 400 Morgan street
"a structure long regarded as unsafe.
The steamer Waesland, when two
days out from Antwerp, struck sleep
ing whale eighty feet long, which it
cut nearly in two. The ship was
backed to free itself from the carcass.
Frank Hooks was arrested at Lam
caster, Wis, charged with criminally
assaulting Mrs. DOrcas Cushman, the
young wife of his neighbor, in Lima.
Hooks is married man, and has one
child.
In the celebrated Crawford-Dilke
case in London the jury found that
Mis-. Crawford had been guilty of i'm
proper conduct with Sir Charles and
that her husband is entitled to di-
vorce.
The Wisconsin Central road, in open
ing traffic Monday from Chicago to
HOltuW0oltlI pOlllo, Ids COISeIUtu W
maintain rates, and the st. Paul road
has agreed to pool business at common
points.
The business failures occurring for
the last seven days number, for the
United States, 100, and for Canada
twenty-four, total of 1874, as compar-
ed with 1873 last week and 179 the week
previous.
Hubert O. Thompson, the leader of
the county democracy of New York,
was found dead III bed at the Worth |
House Monday morning. He was a
native of Boston, and was nearly 3S
years of age.
The officers of the Wisconsin Gen.
trail road have about concluded to lay
twenty-five miles of track between
Schleisingerville and Milwaukee, to
make themselves independent Of the
st. Paul company.
Charles Engel. the most daring porch
climber in the United States, has been
arrested by Chicago detectives and for
warded to Newport, for twice robbing
the residence Of Admiral Baldwin of |
1000 worth of property.
Major Fleming, one Of the railroad
com ssiOnprS of Dakota aeSprtg that |