The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-20

slppl, spoKe III the nan OIL representa-
tives at Jackson last Saturday night,
when some unknown person in the
| gallery hurled at his head package Of
cayenne pepper. 1t missed its mark,
and the cOlOred orator went calmly on
with his argument.
The grand jury of Monmouth county,
New Jersey, indicted the editor and
two reporters Of the Red Bank paper
for conspiracy in giving accounts of a
| typhoid fever epidemic. An editor at
| Shelbyville, Indiana, was sent to Jail
| for thirty days for contempt of court
for refusing to divulge his authority for
certain statements.
General Wolseley has been ordered
home, and will next Saturday embark
on the Iris for Trieste. The indict-
ment Of Arab Pasha and his associates
has not been completed, and the court
martial will probably not meet for an
other week. The Egyption ministry
has decided not to permit Arab Pasha
to employ foreign counsel.
Tammany hall has ratified the ticket
for city and county officers in New
York agreed upon by the joint confer
ence. 1t includes Franklin Edison for
mayor, Alexander v. Davidson for
| sheriff, and Patrick III. keenan, for
county clerk. The Tammany conven-
| ton passed a resolution asking the
democratic state committee to eXpel
Mayor Grace as traitor and spy.
The latest ballot in the Oregon sena-
torial contest gave Mitchell thirty
| aiuhf and Shaftuoly thirty with faw
scattering votes. The struggle has
been in progress for a month, and the
Associated Press agent has refused to
send out any information, from per-
sonal enmity to Mitchell. AS the pay
of members of the legislature soon
ceases, decisive action may be expected
at an early date.
Colonel Bowen, special agent of the
department of justice, who was accused
by Foreman Dickson Of attempting to
bride the star-route jurors, was arrest
ed in Philadelphia, at the instance of
hotel proprietor, for leaving the house
without paying board and wine bill of
$54. He was held in 5000 bail by the
magistrate. The constable who made
the arrest found Bowen in conference
with Attorney General Brewster.
The strikers on the Northern Pacific
road in Montana, after being given
their own terms as to board, demanded
an advance of fifty cents per day in
wages. The superintendent of con
graphed to MissOula for troops. The
strikers then drove all Cinnamon from
the works. The paymaster has gone to
the front with an escort of twenty-five
soldiers.
The Washington papers of Monday
contain an interview with Colonel In
gersoll, in which he shows what the
Star-route people have learned in re-
gard to the department of justice. 1t
is fact that the department employed
detectives to shadow the jurors con-
stantly, and affidavits and letters from
two of these spies are given, which it
will require some labor by the attorney
general to explain away.
The Irish national conference opened
Tuesday at Dublin, with nearly eight
hundred delegates in attendance. Par
nell and Daviet were greeted by wild
cheers. Almost all the extreme Irish
members of parliament were present.
Parnell was called to the chair and
Brennan and Sexton chosen secretaries.
A letter from Treasurer Egan, at
Paris, conveying his resignation, stated
ing to G244, 800 had passed through his
hands, the sum remaining being G32,-
600. A vote of confidence was passed.
Numerous letters and kilograms from
the United States were read. The
scheme for the establishment of an
Irish national league was adopted.
Davitt declared that until the land
stolen from the people was restored to
the people there could be no final set
Element of the land question.
Colonel A. J. Slayback, lawyer of
st. Louis, went Friday to the editorial
rooms Of the Post Dispatch, and in
dulged in severe denunciations of John
A. Cockerill, at the same time draw
ing revolver. No sooner had he dis
played his weapon than Cockerill pro-
duced another and fired, the bullet
causing Slayback's death in a few min
utes. The corps remained for hours in
the editorial-rooms, in charge Of
friends. Cockerill drove quietly away
with one of his associates, and surren-
dered himself to policeman found on
the street. Instead of being fined at
the Four Courts, Cockerill was allowed
to hold himself in readiness at place
selected by the chief of police. Ex-
Governor Johnson and two other GRIM
inal lawyers have been secured as coun-
sci. OF the four witnesses to the ARRAY
three testified before the coroner that
the deceased Colonel Slayback was an
armed aggressor. The jury was out
for forty-five minutes, and returned a
verdict that Slayback came to his death
from a wound produced by a bullet
fired from revolver in the hands of
John A. Cockerill. The funeral took
place at his residence Sunday. Gov
ernor Crittenden went from Jefferson
City to the sad ceremonies. Nearly
two hundred carriages escorted the re-
mains to Bellefontaine cemetery. Cock
Grill is still in Jail. Hon. Frank Hurd,
of Toledo, has thoroughly investigated
the details of the tragedy, and approves
of Cockerill's action. He will be one
of the counsel in the case.
WASHINGTON NOTES.