The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1882-03-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Petitions are circulating and nHmerOusly
signed, in Detroit and Toledo for the pardon of
Sergeant Mason. A fund for MasOn's family
Is also started at Toledo.
A 'strike" Of the lsbsrers engaged in grad
ing the grounds OF the Burlington and Mis-
souri, railroad at Omaha has assumed alarming
proportions. The attempt OF the company to
replace the strikers with other men Is resisted
by the labor organizations, numbering thou
sands Of men, and the military has been called
on to assist the city government In preserving
order Several arrests have been made, but the
agtators are unyielding and bloody collision
Is feared.
The Highlands House and the Sea View
House at Biddeford, Me-, were destroyed by
fire Monday. Loss on the former $4,000 on
the latter $4,000.
The government steamers are distributing
supplies along the Mississippi. Fifty thousand
rations have been requested from New Orleans,
26,00O sent to Mound City, ILL.,, and 10000 to
Kentucky where 500 people are suffering.
Mrs. Mary K. Howe, president and manager
of the defunct woman's bank of Boston, has
been sentenced to three years hard labor in the
House Of Correction.
Having obtained new suit Of clothes, Gui-
teau has been offered 800 for his old suit by
curiosity buyers, but he asks $3.50.
Senator Hill has undergone four operations.
The first was the removal of email, wart-lke
excresence on the side of his tongue. The
second was the removal of about one fourth OF
the tongue and the entire floor of the mouth
A hard and painful kernel then developed in
the posterior part of the mouth, which was
also removed. Afterwards 1t was discovered
that the paratid gland was affected. 1t swell
cd and became violently infiamed. The symp-
toms were 80 violOnt that the gland was re-
moved From this time the patient has steadily
failed.
Dallas. Texas, on Wednesday, Ex-MayorJ. M:
ThurmOnd was shot dead by another lawyer
named COwart.
The trouble with the Homestead iron strik-
ers In Pittsburg breaks out afrtsh. The com.
pany insisted on retaining several non-uplon
men, and when they started to work Tuesday
they were met by body Of the strikers, and
two OF the workers were struck down and bad
ly beaten. Two police officers named Thomas
Patch and William Netcalf, who started to
duell the disturbance, were fired upon by per-
sons concealed behind freight Car and were
wounded. Patch received eight bucksbot in
his head and was removed to his home.
A Vicksburg dispatch says: Four Of the most
substantial levees In Texas parish, La, have
broken. They prOtecteda number OF the most
valuable plantations In the state. The levee
at Newton, also at Milkand and Bond BY have
broken. There is great fear of a run of
through Grants canal, which might sweep the
Delta away and cause vicksburg to be aban-
dOned as river town. Sunfiower county Is
overhowed completely; also Lake, Washing
ton, Deer Greek and Yazoo.
On invitation of the United Labor League of
the United States, all the Trades Unions Of
chicago have been consolidated with 1t, and
with the approval of leading employers, which
composes the trouble growing out of the
strikes.
Prof. j. f. Hawker has obtained verdict of
$4,50O against Morris Goldsmith, prominent
merchant OF Scranton, Pa, for signing an alleg.
cd libeOus petition to the state superintendent
Of schools demonstrating against the appoint
ment Of the professor to a school superiuten
dency.
A boiler exploded In Goodwin's shoe factory
In Lynn, Mass, on Wednesday, killing the en-
gineer. j. B. Moore, and fatally in1urmg Ste
phen Hansen and ID. s. Thrasher. Moore had
several times notified his employer that th,
boi'er was unsafe. HIS body was thrown so
feet over an adjoining house.
A writ Of habeas corpus has been applied
for In behalf of Sergeant Mason.on the ground
that the cOurt-martial had no Jurisdiction in
case Of assault with intent to kill; that article
OF war SO confers on court. martial powers TO
try such cases In time Of war, instruction or
rebellion only; and that the sentence was OK.
cessive and illegal.
DR.. Burton, OF Hartford, and DR.. Perrin, OF
Pennington, have been named TO oil the va
cancies In the Yale faculty caused by the death
OF Dr. Bacon and the resignation Of DIR. Arms
The wife of Lieut. Melville, of the Jeanette
oApoulbiOh, PuDhSuOo iottoib IIOul u6T nubDHn0
showing that he considered the Jeannette un.
1T for the expedition before 1t started.
Mary Herman OF Jacksonville, Ind, died Of
humps after fasting 6S days. The doctors
'hink she would have lived 70 days without
eating, II the mumps had not carried her or
The Big Hatchie river, Tenn, Is now higher
than In 1855. The bridges and tresses on the
Chicago, st. Louis and New Orleans railroad,
and all the Hardeman county bridges on the
upper and lower leyees an swept away.
The senate Thursday voted, 40 10 Is, to re-
store the frankIng privilege. The proposition
was inserted In the postoffice appropriation,
bill, but Is liable to be rejected by the house.
Both Michigan senators voted against II.
Henry Reushaw, Of the lunatls asylum in