The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-08-11
ed and the track torn up Tor long aus


resulted generally in favor of the dem
ocrats. An overwhelming vote was
cast against calling constitutional
convention.
Two young men of Ironton, o., got
on a spree and lay down on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio track, at Ashland,
where they were killed by a passing
train.
Mexican section hands on the South
ern Pacific road attacked Chinese labor
ers at Yesta and drove them to Ell Pa
so, inhicting serious wounds upon some
of them.
The strike of telegraphers at Denver
has been endorsed by the consolidated
Protective association, and all operators
warned to keep away from the place
till the trouble is settled.
The election in Utah went over be-
cause of the non-arrival of the COM
missioners, and Governor Murray is
given power to fill all important offices
by appointment.
John A. Gardner, a wealthy realizes
tate dealer of Cleveland, has been ar
rested by officers of the secret service
for forging deeds to lands in the south
west.
The hackers of Sullivan and Tug
Wilson have notified them to cease
training, as the New York courts re-
fused to enjoin the police from inter-
fering with the glove-fght.
Great alarm is felt in Texas over the
spread of yellow fever, and strict quar-
antine is kept up along the Rio Grande.
1t is also proposed to suspend commun-
ication with New Orleans.
The Hillsdale, Mich, crew has sent
challenge to the English Amateur
Rowing association for race to take
place within two weeks. If the pro-
posal is not accepted the Hillsdales will
claim the championship OF England.
Arguments were made before the tar
if commission in favor of placing an
tiquities and plaster casts thereof on
the free list; also statuary, hatter's
plush, and sulphur ore.
Money is being raised in Milwaukee
for the relief of the suffering natives of
lie isle are said to be dying of starva-
tion and disease.
The assessed valuation of real estate
in New York is ST ,O35 ,203, $40, and of
personal property S198, 272, 582. The
amount to be raised by taxation, this
year, is $50, 412.831.
Admiral Seymour's report of the bat
tie at Mahalla Junction, Saturday,
shows the loss of four men and the
wounding of twenty-five. Lieutenant
WISE, of the Goth regiment, was killed
at the commencement of the fight.
The steamer City OF Sydney arrived
at San Francisco Tuesday with Chi
nese crew, and was not at first allowed
to dock. The Pacific Mail company
will apply for writs Of habeas corpus,
as its sailors were sent to the hulk.
The music-teacher. Pepperkorn, who
eloped from Omaha with girl Is years
of age. has been captured at Mound
City, Kan, in company with the maid
en-. A reward of $500 will be paid for
their apprehension.
A party of one hundred citizens of
Pomeroy, o., surrounded the jail to
capture and lynch negro charged with
an attempt to outrage white girl, but
the offender had been removed for safe
keeping.
Harry V. s. Seymour, the venerable
artist Of Buffalo, has discovered and
restored portrait of Peter Stuyves-
SAINT, painted in Holland on block of
wood in 1913, and colored over to avoid
the English import tax of $50 per cent.
President Arthur and Postmaster
General Howe will visit Wisconsin,
Minnesota, and Iowa about the middle
of September. During his stay in Mil
waukee the chief magistrate will be
the guest of Alexander Mitchell.
Contracts have been let at Buffalo for
the construction of a portion of the
postal telegraph line between that city
and Chicago, and work on the Indian
apolis branch will commence August
2ist.
Denver dispatches announce good
attendance of western visitors at the
national mining exposition. Leading
business men are arranging for mon
ster barbecue on August "a, to be open
to all corners.
Mrs. Harry Hammond, whose parents
live in an interior Indiana town, and
who has been married only four months,
was deserted at a Chicago hotel by her
husband, who carried away her cloth
ing and jewelry.
The failure of Hilgert, a sugar-dealer
of Philadelphia, for $500, 900, has addi-
tional interest lent it by the discovery
OF the fact that the bankrupt has
forged acceptances on customers
throughout the country to the extent OF
$500, 1000.
"A party OF young ladies' from Vlr-
ginia and Maryland have arrived at
Mount Airy, N. c., fully equipped for
q pedestrian tour of the mountains.
Their trip will extend over seven hun
dred miles Of rich scenery, and consume
two months.
John 1. Blair, the railway king, states
that company has been organized,
with a capital of $1,000,000, to bridge
the Missouri river at Blair, Neb., CIV
ing connection affording the Chicago
and Northwestern road access to its
allies west Of the Missouri.
The refusal of the manager of the
Western Union telegraph office at Day.
ton, to receive messages turned over to
him by the Mutual Union people has
led to a temporary injunction against
such determinations, which are in vio-
lation of state law.
During the burning of the carriage
factory of McKelvy Brothers, at Pitts
burg, twenty-five firemen entered the
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