The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-23
MINOR NEWS ITEMS,
For the Week Ending Aug. 2a.


The forest fires in Montana were checked
on Monday by heavy rains.
Thirteen patients were poisoned on Sat-
urday at Atchison, Kan, by the life
elixir"
A cyclone swept over the vicinity of Win
throp, Me-, Tuesday doing great damage
to crops.
Steps were taken In New York on Tues
day to raise sl5,OOopoo to secure the
Worlds Fair.
water-spout on Tuesday ut Grantsburg,
Wis, and vicinity swept away many bridges,
culverts and dams.
Anson Penrod, IA years old, was fined
5000 Tuesday at Eureka Springs, Ark, for
numbering his uncle.
The New York Democratic State Commit
tee has called State convention to be held
at Syracuse October l.
Walter Asburg (coloredj was lynched at
Pooler, Ga, on Sunday for assauiting Lulu
Kissman, aged II years.
William Walter Phelps, United States
Minister to Germany, is at Bar Harbor, Me-,
the guest of Secretary Blaine
The Postmaster General has directed that
a pneumatic system OF letter collecting be
tested in the city of New York.
William T. Higgins Republican poll
tician widely known on the Pacific Coast,
died in San Francisco Wednesday.
Severe storms prevailed Wednesday
throughout France. Telegraphfc COM
munication is greatly interrupted.
Rev. William E. Johnson, for fifty years
Methodist preacher in various towns in Illi-
nois, died Sunday at Bloomington.
The Illinois Association OF Ex-prisoners
of War will hold their next reunion at
orRa ali
Axtell, the famous 3year-old, attempted
| in Chicago on Wednesday to beat his rec
ord of 2:14ss4, trotting mile in 2:15M
Samuel Ayers, an Adventist living in
| Worcester, Mass. predicts the end OF the
| world on the night of October Z, 1850.
A fire on Tuesday in the lumber-yard of
| b. & j. Godkip, near Tonawanda N. Y, de-
stroyed about 2, 250, 700 feet of lumber.
''Parson" Davies and Peter Jackson, the
colored Australian pugilist sailed for Eu-
| rope Wednesday on the City Of Rome.
Parker Paris (colored) cut his wife's
throat in fit of jealousy at Memphis, Tenn,
on Sunday and then cut his own throat
| Horace Seaver, editor of the Boston In
vestigator for the past fifty one years. died
in that city on Wednesday, aged 70 years.
An attempt was made near Rome City,
| Ind, on Tuesday to wreck a passenger
train on the Grand Rapids & Indiana road.
There were 1Sl business failures in the
United States during the seven days eLded
on Friday, against l73 the previous seven
days.
James s. Gordon, well-known newspa-
per man Of Ohio, died on Monday at the
Ford Hospital in New York from consump-
tion.
| About 100 persons were poisoned by eat
4 Ia ~ ~. D...I
Mimi, on Monday and many were serious
| ly i'll
| Mr.. Parnell has written letter to Justice
Walsh, of Brooklyn, thanking him and 9TH
er sympathizers in Brooklyn for remit
tance of GAGS
| Judge Henry c. Whitman, distinguished
for his legal attainments and well known
throughout Ohio and the East, died ut Gin
cinnati Tuesday.
The remains Of Mrs. Ranney, wife of Rev.
DIR. Ranney, of Kalamazoo, Mich, have
been identified among the victims of the
Johnstown disaster.
Hon. Timothy Healy NJ p, charges Mr..
Balfour with giving the Irish people strong
drink and deprivfng them of food in order
| to make them savage.
| The fourth annual exposition at Minne-
apolfs was opened on Wednesday with an
imposing street parade and formal cere-
monies at the Exposition building.
Early Tuesday morning dam at the top
of the hill above Duluth. Mimi, burst in
consequence of heavy rain, and the bust
ness portion of the town was flooded.
H. W. Carter, of Bradford, Pa, has been
awarded the contract for drilling q gas
well at Mattoon, ILL., He is to receive
| $1,000 for going to depth of 1000 feet
A gang of counterfeiters is thought to
be working through North Dakota, as a
large quantity of bogus silver dollars have
been put in circulation at Grand Forks
The British bark Onaway, which sailed
| from Philadelphia June 5 for Bilboa with a
| crew of fifteen men and 124, 234 gallons of
crude petroleum, has been given up as lost
At Jacksonville, ILL.,, Tuesday, Alexander
| Cunningham. who claimed he was coach
| man for Sir Walter Scott, and well remem-
bered the great poet, died at tn o age of 30
| years.
| DIR. E. Parsons, said to be the Oldest prac-
| ticing dentist in the United States, died at
| his home in Savannah, Ga, on Wednesday
| DIR. Parsons was born in Northampton,
Mass, in 1856
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
| railway has begun work on new depot build
ings in Waterloo, Ia They will cost $25,-
| 600 and will be the best depot buildings on
| that line of road.
Mrs. Turgoose is in jail at st. Louis
| charged with crooked transactions in Silver
Point mining stock by which 1t is alleged
she swindled poor people in St Louis and
Chicago out of $4,000.
Fire at Sonoma, CAL, Tuesday night de-
stroyed large portion of the business
section Of the town During the fire F.
Duhring, prominent merchant, dropped
dead from excitement
The fourth annual encampment of the
Union Veterans Union, an organization
composed exclusively of men who were en-
gagged in active service in the late war, met
at Detroit, Mich, on Wednesday.
The venerable General Francis T.. Spin
ner, ex-Treasurer of the United States, is
said to be hopelessly i'll at his home in Pab.
10 Beach, Fla The trouble is q cancer on
his face, caused by wearing an ill-fitting
pair of eyeglasses
Joseph Brooker, his wife and two chill
dren arrived In Titusville, Pa, recently,
having walked al& the way from Kansas.
They had been unfortunate there, and were
on their way back to Elmira, N Y, where