The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-05-05

citizens took hand. Guards of twen-
4 ty-five men are on duty, and an alarm
will be given IL an effort is made by the
In the house Of lords, Tuesday even
ing, Earl Granville announced the res
| ignatiOn of w. X. Forster, chief secre-
tary for Ireland, and stated that the
three imprisoned members of parlia-
ment would be released. Parne1l, Dill
Ion, and O'Kelly, when set free ut Kill
mainham Jail. drove quietly to the
depot. and proceeded to PaTnell' home.
While dissipating ut Erie, Pa. John
l.. Morgan, Of Newburg. o.. ca sat a
letter to be sent tohis nr,'ni 49,
ms death, and asking for money to ship
the corpse. The mourning mother ar
rived on the scene Friday evening with
an undertaken and casket She was
rendered nearly insane by the shock,
while the scapegrace fed to Pittsburgh.
In one of the Western Indiana rail-
road cases pending in the circuit court
at Chicago Summons was served on
Jay Gould at the Grand Pacific hotel.
He made his appearance at noon unrec-
| ogniZed, and was compelled to intro
duce himself. Although president of
the Wabash road, he testified that he
did not know where State or Twelfth
street was. He was speedily dismissed
from the stand.
Polk Wells and his fellow-convicts
who escaped from the Iowa penitentiary
were found in hay-mow five miles dis
tant. They INDUCED in a fight with the
farmer, and two of them rode off on his
horse. Fitzgerald soon after surrender
| a N az fIIr icf hn rrnf
$50 for driving him over to Fort Madi
son. Bodies of armed men are in pur-
suit of Wells and Cook, kwho may be
lynched if caught.
| Secretary Teller has forwarded to the
senate letter from the Indian bureau,
COMPLAINING of the consumption of wood
and hay by the troops at Standing Rock
agency, all of which is taken from the
reservation, causing great complaint
by the red men. Contractors for sup
plies are absolutely lawless in their OPP
erations, and despoil lands on which In
dams have located for farming. Com
missioner Price protests against the
maintenance of three military posts on
the reservation.
A package of watch-iewels, valued at
$4,000, was recently sent from London
to the agent of the Elgin Watch COM
the factory. Between the customs Off
GERS and the express messengers is di-
vided the responsibility for the mysteri-
Gus disappearance of abundle represent
ing one-third the consignment. The
matter has for several days been in the
hands of government detectives in Chi
cago.
Charles Dowell, purchasing agent of
the Chester Illinois penitentiary, while
taking nap in the warden's house, was
assaulted by negro convict named
George Thompson, who made two terri
BILE cuts in his neck with a razor. In
the struggle which ensued the assassin
severed Dowells right thumb, slashed
his neck across the back, and cut his
right ear. Dowell is said to have caught
the razor in his teeth and bit a piece
from it. The convict served as waiter,
and had been reported by the agent for
not cleaning up his room. He was sent
from Quincy for fourteen years for high
way robbery.
The tramp, Frank McNIanus, who
mutilated a 4-year-old child at Mime.
apolis, was lynched at midnight, Friday,
by party of seventy leading citizens.
They proceeded in small squads to the
Jail, where Sheriff Eustis was promptly
made prisoner. All the cells up the
third tier were examined, and the door
of the fiend's cell was smashed in with
hammers. He was handcutfed and ia
ken to the scene of his crime, where
three women positively identified him.
After he had made full confession he
was hanged to a large tree on the cor
ner Of Fourth avenue and Grant street.
Two pasteboard boxes, each inclosing
"a tin canister containing about half
nd a frIo 10 h1r1 yulaia Il
would be broken by the opening of the
boxes, precipitating INTO the powder
some explosive compound at present
unknown, were mailed in New York
Saturday, one addressed to William II.
Vanderbilt and the other to Cyrus w.
Field. In their transportation in a
mailbag over the elevated railway one
of the internal contrivances exploded,
scOrching some of the other contents of
the bag, but injuring no one. Investi-
cation disclosed the other box, which,
having been soaked in water six hours,
was opened by Postmaster Pearson.
There is no clew to the perpetrators of
the outrage. A machine similar to those
sent to Field and Vanderbilt was taken
to police headquarters in New York,
Sunday, by Mr.. j. A. Davenport, resid-
ing in, East Nineteenth street. Super
intendent Walling lives but few doors
distant, and as the box was marked
"W." and left on a doOr-mat, it is
thought that the attempt was direct
ed against the police chieftain. Profess
sor Doremus made thorough exaff1in-
alton of the boxes mailed to Vanderbilt
and Field, and found that each canister
contained one pound of gun cotton. and
that the liquid in the bulb was sulphur
ic acid.