The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-05

and son and daughter, has been ar
rested and held TO await requisition
from the governor OF New York for
completely in the extensive frauds on
the treasury OF that state in 1873, for
which Charles III. Phelps is serving a
long term in Imprisonment.
yay-Eye-See won the purse OF So, 1000
at Fleetwood park, New York. by de-
feating st. Julien in straight heats.
The line of spectators extended for
two miles, and the equipages numbered
five thousand. The betting was very
heavy, at 500 to $50 in favor of st. Jul
lien. The first heat was made in 2:2O4.
the second in 2:l8t, and the third in
2:19.
The Athletic baseball club, of Phila-
delphia, won the championship of the
American association, and on returning
home Monday evening, the members
found the city half draped and illumina
ted in their honor. Broad street was
so choked that the players could scarce
ly reach their carriages. The mayor
received the procession at Independ-
ence hall.
Statistics from the clearinghouse
indicate a decrease of over % per cent.
in the business of the country when
compared with last year. Chicago's
figures have been permanently reduced
by the establishment of a clearing sys-
tenn on the board Of trade. New Eng
land claims to have suffered greatly
from the idleness Of the mills through
drought.
Mrs. j. w. Bailey, of Monmouth, ILL
nois, took her young daughter to a
corn-feld on Monday night, tied and
blind-folded her, and then with razor
killed her child and herself. She left
note saying it was best that she should
sacrifice her life for her child. 1t ap-
pears that the daughter was an epilep-
tic, and the mother became mentally
disOrdered through anxiety and labor.
The corOner's inquest in the case of
Ada Atkinson, so mysteriously butch
cred near Oxford, Indiana, is conduct
ed with the utmost secrecy. The coro-
ner went to the scene of the tragedy
and interviewed Jacob Melting. who is
closely watched on account of the
bloody handkerchief found in his room.
been arrested at Lafayette on suspi-
ciOn.
The district court at Cincinnati de-
cided that the churches held by Arch
bishop Purcell could not be subjected to
the payment of his debts; likewise the
orphan asylum at Cumminsville and
st. Mary's cemetery. The cathedral
and its school, having been built by the
archbishop directly from funds placed
in his hands, the amount advanced
should be paid to Assignee Mannix for
the benefit of creditors.
A disreputable house kept by Kittie
Wells at Shelbyville, Indiana, was de-
stroyed by fire early Sunday morning,
and Maggie Wells and Flora Garrett
were cremated. A large dirk was found
in the ashes, which caused an investi-
CATION, revealing the fact that the
women had been murdered and the
building set on fire. The men who had
spent the night in the house, named
Herman Tormelia and Nelson Purd-
ham, have been jailed for the murder.
The court Of appeals of New York
Telegraph company in the suit brought
by Hatch and Williams. 1t is held that
the stockholders and directors of the
company ratified the proposition to in
crease the capital stock to S0,000, 900,
and that stock to the amount of $15,-
526,5 $50 which was distributed among
the owners of the property fairly rep
resented the surplus earnings since
1866.
a Washington correspondent OF the
Chicago Times has canvassed members
of congress-elect on leading questions.
Fifty-two democrats favor revision
of the tariff, and sixty-four oppose q
repeal OF the compulsory coinage of
silver dollars. Carlisle leads the list as
a candidate for speaker. All the re-
publicans who expressed themselves on
the tariff question are opposed to a
general reopening of it; twenty-six
favor stopping the coinage of silver dol
lars; eleven desire the total repeal of
the internal revenue laws, and the ma
jority are for Hiscock for speaker.
The New York anti-slavery society
celebrated Tuesday the 1iitieth ami
versary of the beginning Of the work for
the freeing of the negroes. Elizur
Wright, the Oldest Abolitionist living,
occupied the chair in the afternoon,
and George w. Clarke, who sung anti
slavery ballads thirty years ago, though
now over three-scOre years and ten,
again made his voice heard. There
were poems and brief addresses, Mr..
Clarence Winthrop Bowen relating the
stories of the lives of Arthur and Lewis
Tappan.
About O'Clock Wednesday morning
the Exposition building at Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, caught fire, and in
twenty minutes the entire building, to-
gether with the machinery and floral
hall was in ashes. The fire was first
discovered in the engine room in the
machinery department. In order not
to brighten the citizens n still alarm
was sent in, and in this way the flames
got beyond control, so that before the
fire department reached the grounds
the buildings were almost burned
down. When it became known that it
was the exposition, although it was so
early, immense crowds were soon on
their way to the scene of the great con-
flagration. The reflection from the
flames lit up the country for miles
around, and in the furthest end of the
city paper could be read as easily as
in daylight. At this hour it is impossi-
BILE to estimate the loss with any degree
of accuracy, but it is not believed it
will fall below $500, 900. The exhibits
consisted OF all varieties of our pro-
ducts and industries, including many
valuable relics, among which was the
Arabian" the old locomotive of the