The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-16


arrangement made. They seem to feel
that they are doing the reliefcommittee
a great favor by coming to the United
States.
The quickest time on record i'm n di-
vorce suit was made Friday at Fort
Wayne, Ind. A wealthy farmer, named
j. V. Gilbert, drove to town with his
wife, and she handed in al application
for freedom on the ground of cruelty.
The couple then agreed that the wife
should have 1000 in cash, new false
teeth every three years, half the furni-
ture. fruit, and milk, and two-thirds OF
the children. Both appeared in court,
and the divorce was at once granted.
Over a thousand men were at work
Monday in the Cleveland rolling-mill,
and suffered no m~Olestation. Five
weavers commenced duty in the Har-
mony mills at Cohoes, n. Y, and were
threatened with death by three thous-
and strikers. President Jarrett, of the
Amalgamated association, has decided
to apply to all western points the prin-
ciple upon which work was resumed at
Cincinnati. Vice President Bullock
has authority to arrange matters be-
tween the strikers and the Bay View
works, nea Milwaukee.
Domestic difficulties in a poor German
family of Chicago eliminated Saturday
in a horrible tragedy. Caspar SeybOlt,
residing at No. 81 Finnell street, worked
nights in a bakery, and on going home
found that his wife had administered
s%trychnine to four children and herself.
Three of them she had laid out on a ta-
BILE, placing punches of flowers in their
crossed hands. The eldest daughter
expired as the father entered the room,
and the mother Don sank in convul-
siOns and breathed her last. Several
letters written by the eldest child to her
friends show that she coolly joined with
her mother in carrying out the horrible
deed.
Over twelve hundred men were at
work Tuesday in the Cleveland rolling
mill. AT night they were escorted by
was lined on both sides with strikers
and their wives and children. At the
elevators there commenced a shower of
stones and cinders, which was kept up
for three blocks, Police Captain Hocher
being seriously hurt. When the work.
ers had been placed in the street-cars,
the police arrested several ringleaders
in the assault. Business has been re-
sumed in the Wabash rOlling-mill at
Terre Haute, Ind, prices to be govern
ed by the Pittsburgh scale. The Har-
mony cotton-mills at Cohoes, n. Y,
have secured five more workmen, while
twenty-five weavers left the town for
situations in Connecticut. 1t is esti-
mated that 600 Of the Harmony en-
ployes have removed since the lockout.
Five thousand persons in Patrick
county, Virginia, are said to be almost
on the verge of starvation, OF account
of the drouth of last summer. A load
of corn was recently received at the
courthouse, and hundreds of hungry
women and children crowded around it
and begged for a peck or a quart. The
surprising statement is made that three
hundred people at the courthouse have
had no food for two days. The region
is almost inaccessible, the nearest rail
road station being forty-five~ miles.
People OF means have contributed lib
orally to the. sufferers, but supplies are
exhausted, flour not being Obtainable
at 300 per barrel. Several wagon-loads
of food have gone out from Danville,
and will travel constantly until the
starving people are met.
For five hours on Sunday there were
bloody conflicts in the streets of Alex
andria between Egyptians and Euro
peans. Twenty persons were killed
and a number of houses DESTROYED. The
police were slow to interfere. Some of
the wounded foreigners were taken to
the French consulate, where riotous
demonstrations SOC took place. The
English consul received a gunshot
wound, and the engineer of the British
man-of-war Superb was killed. The
military at last dispersed the rioters.
The Greek consul and Italian vice con-
sui received serious injuries. A British
vessel landed two hundred men to pro-
tect the consulate. The mob sacked
the shops Of Europeans. Later advices
report that no less than siXty-seven Eu-
ropeans are reported to have been killed.
Pillage appears to have been the main
object with the Levantines and Arabs.
The European colonies have appealed
to their respective governments for
squadrOns for protection. AT q confer
ence at Cairo between the Turkish COM
missioner, the foreign consuls, the khe-
dive, and Arab Pasha, it was sOlemnly
urged that the khedive should under
take to maintain order, and that Arabs
should obey his commands. Ameeting
of military leaders decided to petition
the khedive to abdicate, warning him
that should he refuse he would be muir
dered. Cookson, the English consul at
Alexandria, saw the Greek consul
dragged from his carriage and beaten
by soldiers, the Italian consul wounded
by a stone, and the wife of the Austrian
consul general attacked. Admiral Sey-
mour has been empowered to land Brit
ish sailors at Alexandria, necessary.