The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-08-25

TONED Tor the vacant seat, although
there is strong feeling in favor of
Alexander ii. Stephens.
Two sections of circus train crash
ed together near New Burnside, ILL.,,
Sunday. -Four men were killed in car
containing eighty sleeping showmen,
and at least twelve others were serious
ly injured.
Jack Wright, the electrician of the
Mutual Union company in New York,
has been discharged for connection
with conspiracy to furnish sporting
men with information in regard to the
Saratoga races.
The funeral of the late Senator Hill
took place atAtlanta Saturday and was
the largest ever known in Georgia.
Many of his friends in the Senate and
prominent politicians from other States
were present.
Hon. G.. A. Tucker, from New South
Wales. who is inspecting jails and in
sane asylums, paid visit to the mad
house at Salt Lake, and expresses him.
self as deeply shocked by the sights he
two sane persons, bound hand and foot,
The Joint executive committee of the
trunk lines has agreed ION passenger
l0OCo w bliC NCotClA SioiCNes ihO PiiSN
of tickets from New York to Chicago
is fixed at $3.50 by all but the Penn.
sylvania and New York Central routes,
which are allowed $50. The Pennsyl
vania road entered a protest against
the decision.
The country along the Texas and Pa
cific road, from Abilene west for nearly
three hundred miles, was for three days
and night drenched 10y rain, the fall be-
ing estimated at six feet. Thousands
of prairie dogs were drowned in sight
of the railway track.
Yellow fever is increasing in violence
along the Rio Grande. At the request
of the governor of Texas Surgeon Muir.
ray has been ordered from Memphis to
take charge of the hospital at Browns.
vile, in which city there are $50 cases
Of fever and 1000 destitute persons.
The Omaha pool of the Chicago roads
is threatened with disruption on &C.
count of large livestock shipments by
the Union Pacific over the new st. Pau
route. The latter company has as yet
made no application for admission to
the pool, which is another source OF
uneasiness.
President Arthur on Tuesday receiv.
ed at his residence Senator Miller and
Thurlow Weed, and soon after left by
train for Newport, accompanied By
Secretary Frelinghuysen, Attorney
General Brewster, and General Han.
cock. Five thousand persons crowded
the wharf at Newport and voiced their
enthusiasm by cheers.
Two Paris journals denounce the seiZ.
ure of the Suez canal as the act of 8
thief Another urges the company tC
bring an action against England fol-
damages, while fourth contends that
as France was not permitted to cooper
ate in Egypt no reproach should be
cast upon the British for exclusiveness.
An attack upon the Gould system of
railways of the southwest has been
opened by the attorney general of Tex.
as, who has served notice that proceed
ings will be commenced for the forfeit
ure of the charter of the Red River
road for failure to maintain general
Office n:the state.
The Mississippi river committee in
tend to charter vessel and proceed
down the river from Cairo to New Or
leans, thence to the jetties at the South
pass, stopping at such places as will
aid the members in prosecuting the
work to which they are specially as
signed.
1t is said to be probable that the Chi
cago and Northwestern will soon pur-
chase the Chicago and Omaha line.
Officers of the two companies are now
meeting at Saratoga. The addition of
the Omaha line would give the North
western the longest system in the
world.
Sixty striking coal-miners at Pitts
burg left the ranks of the strikers in a
body and resumed work at the old rate
Friday: AT Cumberland, Md, seventy
five miners applied for work on the
operators terms. This action is re-
garded as the first of general break in
the lines of the strikers.
The citizens of Butler, Ala, recently
made the discovery that four hundred
negroes had organized q conspiracy,
under the lead of Jack Turner, to
all the whites in that region
between Oct. Is and IL. Seven leaders
of the plot were speedily placed in Jail, |
whence Turner was taken and hanged |
to tree on the chief business street of |
the town.
Miss Alice G. Fletcher, a cOnscien-
tious laborer in behalf of the Indians,
has reached Carlisle, Pa, with thirty.
six children of the Omaha tribe, thir-
teen of whom are girls. During her
tour she visited the camp of Sitting |
Bull and selected ten pupils for the |
Carlisle school, and sixty more will be
taken from the Rosebud and Pine Ridge |
agencies next month.
A train which left Boston for the
White mountains was wrecked near
North Haven hill, at a curve on an en-
by distractions purposely
placed on the rail Part of the train
plunged down, but the parlor-car was
eft standing on the embankment at an
angle of forty-five degrees. The en-
CINE now lies nearly fifty feet from the
rack. No one was seriously injured.
It is probable that Parnell, Sexton,
Ind John Redmond, NJ. P.'s, will visit
America to work up public opinion in
,avor of Ireland. Its probable Davitt,
instead Of going 70 Australia, will re-
main in America for the same purpose.
Dayitt regards the Irish situation as