The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-06

the pope a petlrion unaJ no vIucr Ine
sale Of the property to pay the debts,
or inaugurate a subscription for that
purpose. They represent that no cred
| itor has received a cent from the col
lection taken up throughout the United
States three years ago to relieve suffer
ing claimants.
Among the effects belonging to Louis
d'Agrencour, a New York engraver
charged with counterfeiting Cuban
postage-stamps was glass vessel con-
tanning four ounces of nitro-glycerine.
1t was thrown out Of carpet-bag and
handed about the courtroom as care
lessly as if it were cheese. The authori-
ties were startled to discover that the
explosive had power to destroy the fed
eral building.
The new commissioners of Alabama
claims held their first session in Wash
ington Wednesday, Judge III. G. Wells
presiding. There still remains in the
treasury $9,553,S00 of the Geneva,
award. The claims filed number 140,
mostly from New Orleans and San
Francisco, for clothes and wages lost
by seamen, though fifty-two are for the
payment OF war premiums. 1t is deemed
probable that over four thousand claims
will be presented before the commits
sion.
Four dissecting-knives, nine inches
long, discolored by human blood, were
found in a stable in Dublin used by a
man named Kenny, who was recently
deported for intimidation. 1t is believ-
ed that the weapons were those used in
the murder of Cavendish and Burke,
and that Kenny was the driver OF the
| no. on a
Westgate, who made confession of his
participation in the tragedy, is at
Kingston Jamaica, and will not be
sent to England for lack of evidence
against him.
Collector Beers, of New Haven,
claims to have detected frauds of $780,
600 or more by the sugar-importing
house of L. w. & p. Armstrong,
through the allowance by the weighers
of eight pounds shrinkage on each
hogshead, and papers have been filed
with District Attorney Chadwick. The
collector also imposed a penalty Of
100000 on steamship line for failure
to return hospital dues and pay alien
tonnage dues.
George Ames, grandson of the late
bishop and nephew of Senator Booth,
became insane on his way from Wash
ington to Indianapolis. Having locked
himself in his room for two days with
out food, it was deemed time to send
him to a private asylum. He sprang
past the landlord Of hotel at Rich
mond, Indiana, and threw himself from
third story window, alighting head
first on the stone pavement, and there
| is little hope Of his recovery.
The latest diplomatic row at Con-
stantinople arose over the refusal of
the Turks to permit the landing of la
borers who had been engaged with the
British expedition to Egypt. They
were allowed to pass the Dardanelles
on the demand of Lord Dufferin, but
armed police forced them to remain on
| the Russian steamer which brought
them from Port Said. A second effort
by the British minister was rewarded
by the release of the laborers.
The Japanese envoy to Corea, after
labOring for twenty days, secured a
pledge that the insurgents should be
punished, their victims properly buried,
that half million yen should be paid
as indemnity, and that the japanese
legation should have the protection OF
a body of its own troops. The Chinese
ambassador then took four thousand
of his soldiers and carried off the chief
| COrean assassin. The American min
lister to China dispatched the Monoca-
cy to Corea to watch events.
Secretary Folger has accepted the re-
publican nomination for governor Of
New York. After stating that the del
egates to the convention fairly repre-
sented the views of their constituent
cies, and that the convention itself act
ed with due elaboration, he admits
that individual acts Of wrong doing oc-
Cured which honest men can not tame
ly tolerate, and that he scorns an cleo
! ton by such means. Influential re-
publicans have asked him to decline
the nomination, but such an act, in his
opinion, would produce an utter col
lapse Of the republican party.
In the United States circuit court at
Utica. Genersl Bigelow made his argu
ment for a writ of habeas corpus in the
case of Sergeant Mason. The govern
ment was represented by Martin /.
Townsend and Judge Advocate Asa
| Bird Gardner. The latter submitted
decision by Chief Justice Waite that
the supreme court had no jurisdiction
over the proceedings of acourt-martial.
| Judges Wallace and Coke denied the
| application for q writ, and General
Bigelow announces that he will carry
the case to the supreme court.
T. j. Dunkle, one of the party who
robbed the First National bank at
Kewanee, Illinois, was followed by a
detective through three states and two
territories, being captured at Butte,
Montana, where he had just finished a
pony ride of week alone. On his per-
son was found 81, $50. He states that
Welsh and himself walked away from
the bank with $500 in currency and
500 in gold. In regard to the assault
on the lady clerk, he shows wounded
finger where she bit him, and states
that while he was dragging her to the
vault she yelled three times, and.in the
struggle he fell upon her on the floor.
Dunkle is prepossessing and intelli-
gent young fellow, who was q travelling