The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-01-26

extena us operations 10 wheat. Inc al
vance in these cereals Wednesday was
quite liberal.
Frank James was taken from indie
pendence Jail to Kansas City Tuesday.
Indictments for completely in the MUIR
der of Witcher and for the robbery of
the Independence bank were dismissed.
And indictment for connection with
the Blue Cut train-robbery found both
sides llnprepared, and continuance to
May was taken, James bail being fixed
at $500.
Vanderbilt and has family party of
twenty-five will leave New York next
Wednesday for San Francisco by
special train, comprising baggage-car,
two sleepers, and the private coach of
the magnate. Stops OF three days will
be made at Chicago and ST. Louis, and
the trip is expected to consume the
month of February.
The supreme court of Rhode Island
has ordered Trustee Chaffee to divide
among the holders Of trust notes of the
Sprague estate the funds now on hand.
The dividend will be about ~ per cent,
and is the first payment Tor eight years.
We De Il dItloWOllu Dccu dppOluItu
receiver Of the Quidneck company.
The old officers of the Tidewater
pipeline ut Titusvile. Pennsylvania,
backed by James Keene, hold the fort
by barricading the doors. Judge
Church. at Meadville. temporarily en-
Joined the new board from assuming
control. The fight involves about $780,
600.
Frank Rose, q river pilot of Louis
vile, died at Mobile, where his remains
were placed in costly casket and
shipped home by express, with G. o.
d. bill of Sl34. A relative sued out
writ of delivery, armed with which
constable took the corpse from its
elaborate receptacle and gave it to
friends for burial, leaving the express
company to return the casket.
The New York and Boston Inland
railway, which has obtained charter
in Massachusetts,, intends to build o
double track of steel in an airline,
thirty-five miles shorter than by any
other route, at cost of $25, 000, 600, and
run trains in four hours. 1t Is posi-
lively stated that S18,OUU, on % in English
capital is behind the scheme, and that
work will be speedily commenced.
A. B. Cunningham. st. Louis jour
nalist, having been called liar by
Freddie Gerhard, sent challenge to
the latter to light him in Indian Terri
tory. Gerhard had written an accept
ance when Mrs. Langtry came upon the
scene and induced her friend to halt.
Cunningham was cavalryman in the
confederate service, and is dead-shot
with the pistol.
On the Georges Creek railroad in
West Virginia. three long coal trains
were linked at Cumberland to descend
steep grade, but they left the rails on
trestle-work, and three engines and
sixty-nine cars fell eighty feet to the
track of the Cumberland and Pennsyl-
vania road. Seven bodies have already
been taken from the wreck, and none
of the eight other trainmen have been
found.
France is threatened with O ministe-
rial crisis. The fear of revolutionary
measures caused large amounts of secu-
rites to be thrown upon the market on
the bourse. 1t is said that President
Grevy has stationed guard at the
garden entrance of the Elysees. Eu-
genie is staying at the Hotel du Rhin,
and states that she went to Paris to
show her sympathy for Prince Jerome
and extend consolation to Princess
Mathide.
Early Monday morning a party of
masked robbers rode up to Montello
Station, on the Central Pacific road,
seized the section hands, and locked
them up in the tank-house. When the
east-bOund express came in. two high
waymen sprang upon the engine and
ran it upon side-track. The train
men were robbed and locked up. When
the express-car was reached, the mes
senger kept up such lively firing that
the thieves left without injuring any
one or securing any more plumber.
In the police court at Dublin, twenty
one persons were arraigned on charge
of conspiracy to murder officials. One
man swore that Carey. member of the
was present at a Fenian
held to arrange for assasslna-
tons. A man named Farrell testified
that he was given q revolver to stop
Secretary Forster's carriage. others be-
ing assigned to do the remainder of the
work. The court held all the prisoners
for week.
Nobody will be surprised to learn
that railway blockade exists over a
large portion of the northwest, but the
statement that all trains entering
Texas, ar covered with snow
gives some idea of the magnitude of the
storm. An tia ian was frozen to death
in attempting TO walk few miles to y
stat on near V Gloria, and it is feared
that large numbers of Texas cattle will
perish for lack OF food. The ponds in
Nevada are frozen solid, and live stock
have no place to quench their thirst.
The steamship Cimbria, which was
run down by the Sultan off the island Of
Borkum, had % cabin passengers, 362
steerage passengers, and a crew of 90.
One small boat landed at Cuxhaven
with 50 persons and II others reached
Weser lighthouse. Six steamers are
ont in search of the missing boats
One of those lost WAS Paul Wiegert,
who left Saginaw City last fall to &C.
cure an Inheritance in Germany. The
steamer Diamant has landed sixteen
passengers and the fireman Of the
wrecked vessel. The authorities at
Hamburg seized the steamship Sultan
and placed her officers in Jail.
WAoUTMnTnN NOTrc