The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-09-29

The murderer was ordered down, when
he plunged large pocket-knife into
his breast and fell to the ground. 1t
appears that he only inflicted flesh
wound. He was placed in an express
wagon and sent to Jail.
The national convention of distillers
and liquor dealers, held at Cincinnati,
issued declaration that, while they
have obeyed the most oppressive laws,
they believe the sale of spirits should
be placed on the same footing as other
merchandise; that they favor a Judi
cious license system, aiding the govern
ment and protecting the dealers. Geo.
4. Stagg, of st. Louis, was chosen pres
ident.
The khedive of Egypt has decided to
grant amnesty to all officers from cap
tain downward, except those who par
ticipated in the riots or donned uni
forms since the campaign commenced.
The ministers have framed DEGREES for
special commission to prosecute all
acts of rebellion, court-martial at
Cairo to try cases for the commission,
and another at Alexandria to act upon
cases submitted by tribunals. The
powers expect to be solicited by Eng
land to express their views on the stu
alton in Egypt.
John G. Bigelow, of Washington. has
filed in the circuit court at Buffalo
petition for writ of habeas corpus in
the case of Sergeant Mason, on the
grounds that the court. martial lacked
jurisdictl on to try the accused and that
the detail of the battery as a guard at
the Jail was violation of an act of con-
gress. Judge Cox allowed the petition
to be filed, but made the papers return
able at Utica.
George Scoville has filed in the cir
cult court, at Chicago, an answer to the
bill of his wife for divorce. He states
that since the assassination she has
been much of the time unsOund in
mind; that she has held confidential in
terviews with George Z. Earle, with
whom she fell in love, in a locked room
in business block; and that she was
corresponding with George Francis
Train, DIR. Mary Walker, and Lewis
Hanchett, a lover of her early days, with
whom she intended to take trip to
California.
While clerk was cutting coupons
from large pile of railroad bonds at a
table in the Office of the National Bank
of Baltimore, a stranger entered and
asked the value of some government
securities. The clerk laid aside his
work to examine the bonds handed him,
when the stranger lifted from the table
$4,000 in railway bonds and coolly
walked out. An unsuccessful attempt
to rob bank messenger was made at
the same hour in the First National
bank Of Baltimore by three confeder-
ateS.
Money was forced up to 20 per cent.
in New York Tuesday morning, and
large blocks of per cent. consols were
offered below the quoted price. The
appeals of business men caused the
secretary of the treasury TO offer to re-
deem $5.000,000 per week in called
bonds without rebate of interest. The
wholesale dry goods house of Yelling
ton Brothers & Co., of Boston, which
has been rated at $500, 900, made an as
signment to three prominent merchants,
causing great surprise. The Western
Hardware company, of Atchison, Kan
sas, whose liabilities are $3.50, 900 has
closed its doors.
The absconding of Alonzo Follett, a
note-broker of New York, forced the
suspension of the Rubber Comb and
Jewelry company, which had $4,000
in the hands of the defaulter. The
company has been making 100000 per
annum over the interest on its capital.
The stove manufacturing house Of
Richardson, Boynton g. Co. is also
seriously embarrassed by Follett's dis
appearance, its note for $37, 500 having
speculatiOns by the senior partner
caused 100000 of paper to be put on
the market.
The recent storm in Virginia extend
ed fifty miles inward from the coast.
and washed away four miles on the
lower RappahannOck. The freshet at
computed at $500, 000 AT Plainfield in
the same state French's dam gave way,
and houses and nearly all the bridges
were swept off. There is a washout on
thePennsylvania road nearBordentOwn,
and Princeton and New Brunswick
were deluged. AT Waterbury, Connec-
ticut, a loss of $4,000 was incurred by
the washaway of the supports of the
iron bridge. There are two breaks in
the Troy road near North Adams, Mass
achusetts.
The khedive and his ministers, ac-
companied by Sir Edward Malet, were
on Monday morning escorted by the
Bengal lancers to the railway station at
Alexandria, to the music Of the Egyp-
tan national anthem. On arriving at
Cairo they were received by the duke
of COnnaught and General Wolseley,
and driven through crowded streets to
Ghegireh palace. Abdellal Pasha, Sui
eiman Bey, and others have been sent
to Cairo under military guard. 1t is
learned that Arab Pasha declined the
services OF French, German, and Rus
sian officers. English correspondents
credit him with the opinion that the
people will wreak vengeance on the
leaders of the rebellion unless they are
sent out of the country by the conquer
Ors. With the consent Of the British
commander, Tobaker Pasha has been
commissioned by the khedive to reor-
ganize the army of Egypt.
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