The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-24
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pointed to investigate the needs of the
Mississippi river is at Memphis. and
Captain John CowdOn is following in
it's wake. 1t is understood that the
commissioners regard an attempt to
improve the channel as useless. EX-
aminations were made of the work of
the government force at Plum point.
The commissioners of election for
Tate county, Mississippi, have tele-
graphed to the secretary of state that
the name of j. II. Chalmers appearing
on the congressional tallysheet is u
clerical error, and they have forwarded
a corrected document. General Chal-
mers has applied for mandamus, al
leging fraud and cOncealment.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Baltimore and Ohio
road, President Garrett reported the
gross revenue of the year at $lS, $685.
S75, the net income showing gain of
1920, 900. Semi-annual dividends Of )
per cent. have been declared, and @
company has surplus fund of S43,-
9O7, 65S.
Captain Nathan Appleton, of Boston,
who has applied for a new charter for
Cape Cod canal company, states that
Count de Lesseps will be interested
with him, as also General Turr, the
Austrian engineer. The cut will re-
quire two years time and cost $3,OOO,-
900, and the estimated annual revenue
therefrom is $25O,OOO.
Mark Gray Lyon, who spent some
years in the Elgin, ILL.,, insane asylum
for firing at Edwin Booth in a Chicago
theater, is clerk in q dry-goods store
at Keokuk. He has recently written to
theatrical manager in st. Louis to
know which is the best acting edition
of Hamlet, and announcing that he in
tends to star in the small towns next
winter.
The warning railroads have not yet
taken off the half dollar required to
bring a citizen of st. Paul to Chicago,
but the Milwaukee line has cut freight
rates to 10 cents per hundred pounds
on all classes. Manager Merrill says
his road would like to close hostilities
at any time, and is only fighting to pro-
tect itself.
Early on Sunday evening a man and
a woman entered the yard of the deaf
and dumb institute near Austin, Tex,
and seized and gagged daughter of
the superintendent, Colonel John L.
Ford. She was hurried mile toward
the city, when her abductors were
frightened away by an approaching
buggy, and she was restored to her pa
rents.
During the recent iron strike the nail
manufacturers of Wheeling set on foot
a plan to dispense with the labor of
over five thousand puddlers. Frank j.
Herndon has now been sent to Pitts
burgh to secure equipments for BESSIE
mer works of the first-class, and in
time each nail-mill will daily receive its
allotment of steel plate, and puddled-
iron will be largely thing of the past.
If the scheme succeeds, it will revOlu-
tioniZe the iron manufacturing business
of the country.
Richard Hoffman, the Pennsylvania
who claims to have been restored by
prayer from hopelessly crippled con-
dition, related his experience to the
people of Bentleysville, Sunday filling
the Presbyterian church to its utmost
capacity. Standing in the pulpit he
thanked God for years of misery, be-
cause it now enabled him to show a
doubling world the power of tbs Lord.
Many women in the congregation re-
lieved their feelings by tears.
A jury at VincenneS, Indiana, con-
NlCtCu IlulltCl VI tIO Va
William LentZ, at picnic last sum-
mer. The doomed man remarked in
the courtroom that he had already kill
ed three men, and would die contented
if he could destroy three more. After
the murder he fled to Paris, Illinois,
and sent back his uncle to reconnoiter,
when the latter bargained with the
sheriff to surrender him for $50.
The Calendar building in Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, occupied by man
ufacturing jewelers., was filled with
flames so suddenly that escape by the
stairway was cut off. Twenty women
and twenty men at work on the upper
floor leaped from the windows. Emma
Gassett and Bessie Cobb died soon af-
ter striking the ground; six girls re-
ceived fatal injuries, and two men had
legs broken. A fireman rescued one
man who hung to a telephone wire.
The pecuniary loss is 900.
The managers of the Vulcan steel
works, of st. Louis, threaten to close
next month for year. Steel rails have
fallen from $50 to $45 per ton, while
pig-iron has decreased only from S26 to
$24. The works would be kept running
on pig-iron at $40; otherwise payroll
of $780, 900 per month will be stopped.
The Pittsburgh people seem to feel
that they can compete successfully with
any section. 1t is said that the profits
of the Edgar Thomson steel-works last
year were 81 10000 The Joliet Steel
company claims to have been misrepre-
sented in regard to closing its works in
December, and holds that ore and labor
must prepare themselves for a rate of
S45 per ton for rails.
Nearly a panic ragged in Wall street
Wednesday for two hours. Many who
had purchased stocks at the opening of
business flung them back upon the mar
ket, ard brokers were deluged with Or
ders to sell. Four hundred thousand
shares changed hands in two hours,
beating all previous records. Solid
properties shares in the Generalization
but st. Paul was the main object of at
tack, and was driven to 99s When the
excited gang learned that nothing had
occurred to warrant such a decline as
had been engineered prices scared up
ward and closed higher than on Tues
day. The transactions of the day COW
cred $40, 900 shares.