The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-06-19
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
Short Paragraphs Stating the Events of the
Past Few days.

Short Paragraphs Stating the Events of the
Past Few days.
A radish eighteen inches in length has
been grown near Weidan, Germany,
which Is siGia TO be in the exact form of a
baby, even 10 the fingers and toes
OF the $500 bills offered during the first
session OF the flfty-fourth congress, $500
were fayorably reported and placed on the
calendar
Lawson TAFT, well-known Birming-
ham doctor, has designed an instrument
whereby the electrical current is applied
for the surgical arrest of bleeding.
The State Horticultural society of Mich
igan is holding a three days session at st
Joseph
The Czarina of Russia has recently or.
dered a typewriter, with gold type bars
and the frame inlaid with pearls.
Counting in clerk hire, mileage and in.
cidentals, member of congress now re-
ceiyes u total of about So, $50 for his two
years service. Daniel Webster used to
get for the same period S3,32S.
Boston has just made appropriations
for six new Fairgrounds in different parts
of the city and for burying the wires of
the police department.
William Lacey was sentenced to four
years at Waupun wis prison by Judge
. Seaman of the United States court at Osh-
kosh, Wis, for robbing the postoffice at
Kingston, Fond du Lac county. He
pleaded guilty.
A speed of "A mile in fifty-eight seconds
is claimed for motorcycle exhibited at the
Imperial institute, London.
Mohannad II Mirza aIdact cor, NJ tho
Shah of Persia, has been proclaimed heir
apparent.
BY the payment of 81 the saloon keepers
of Two Rivers, Wis, will be allowed to
keep their establishments open from II p.
m. to a. m.
Major Burn Murdoch has occupied a
large village just opposite Suarda, upper
Egypt, a2d has captured large quantities
of grain supplies.
Jack Webb of British Hollow, Wis, has
been held to answer to the charge of muir
dering Lily Blindert, an S-year-old child
In an accident near Brest Litewski,
town in Russian Poland on the Bug river,
a railway passenger train was wrecked
and many persons were killed.
So
The general store of j. w. Cookson at
Kansas, o.. and the store of James Cullen
and the Baltimore and Ohio ticket office
at Bascom, o.. We're ransacked by burg
lars
Professor Falb of Vienna announces
that the earth will collide with comet on
Nov. 10, 1899. The earth itself will sur
vive the shock, but every living thing will
be choked with poisonous gases and be
finally cremated.
K. A. Conway, coal dealer Sioux City,
Ia, has failed Liabilities, $4,000.
1t is rumored that the young Queen of
Holland has decided herself to settle the
question of her marriage by falling in love
with Prince Bernard Henry of Saxe-Mein-
ingen, who is about her own age.
Edward Dickerson, q prominent horse
man of Greensburg Ind, ended pro-
tracted debauch in Shelbyville, Ind, by
forging and cashing a check for $75. He
Is now in Jail.
Grasshoppers are destroying wheat
stalks near Peru, Ind. Farmers have thus
far been unable to check the progress of
the pest.
j. w. Fuller, bank swindler, who has
just served three years in the southern In
delphia to be tried for passing forged
check.
A portion of Wordsworth library, 5000
volumes of which were sold in 1852 will
be put up at auction soon in London 1t
contains many presentation copies, one of
them Matthew Arnold's "Strayed Revel-
Ter, 1949, q very scarce work.
While trying to rob the store of Joseph
Il,x-I NfA IwxI
was shot and instantly killed. His body
was taken to LaGrange, Ind, for the in
quest.
Gray of Delaware and Walcott of Colo
RADIO are said to be the finest whist players
in the senate. They are frequently on OPP
posing sides in the same game
Rev. Julius Becks, pastor of st. Jo-
seph's Catholic church, Laporte Ind, is |
to be an inmate of Chicago hos |
pital. His friends fear that i'll health will |
compel his permanent retirement from
work
e. b. Parsons, q brakeman on the Wa
bash railway, was knocked from his train |
at Mexico Mo-, by low bridge and |
killed
During q labor dispute at Anderson, |
Ind, Charles Cody killed William Stricken |
with an iron bar and escaped
The withdrawal of H. j. Booth from the |
race for congress on the Democratic ticket |
Mt Columbus o, makes it certain that the |
district will send two free silver delegates !
to the Chicago convention.
John A. Kasson, formerly of Iowa, but |
now resident of Washington, is the only
surviving member Of the committee that |
drew up the platform upon which Lincoln
ran for president in 1860
There are over 500 horseless carriages
now In use in Paris.
Russian railways not only have the
usual smoking cars attached to all trains,
but there is another smoker for ladies
only which no man can enter to remain.
For the ten months ended April 30 last
the total production of cigarettes for home
was 1888, 147 300, or an in.
crease of 6l7,S0i,4S over the fiscal year
lS94-'95
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The Springfield Grocers' association
held its annual picnic at Havana, Ills.
About !, 500 people attended.
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