The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-03
WASHINGTON.

The Treasury reserve Friday amounted to
Sl42, 00l, 796.
The Treasury reserve which Is steadily
PCS.
The treasury department states that the
reduction of the public debt for July Will
| be unusually small.
The War Department is informed that
the body of the late General Ord has been
embalned and will remain in Cuba until
autumn, when it will be brought here.
Colonel D. NJ. Poe, of the Corps of En-
| gineers, at present on duty at the war DE
partment as aidc-de-camp TO General Sher-
man was ordered to succeed the late Major
Francis NJ. Farquhar in charge OF the mar
Dor improvements at Detroit.
In the Hill investigation in Washington
| Tuesday, John WOodman and n. B. King,
Of Chicago, testified that the heating appa-
| ratuS in the cuStOm-houSe in that city Is
| inadequate to keep the building at seventy
degrees Fahrenheit with the air entrances
| open,
A committee OF the Brotherhood Of Teleg-
! raphers called at the white house Sunday
| and left memorial for President Arthur,
! asking that the attorney general be INSTRUCT
| ed to investigate the charge that govern
ment messages are delayed or garDled by
the Western Union company.
In the investigation into the acts of Sn-
pervising Architect Hill, ut Washington, Il.
| 4. Crane, of Chicago, testified that his com
| pany was given no opportunity TO bid on
| hydTaulic elevators tor the Chicago custom
house, and that Mr., Hill paid for those fur
nished twice what those used ia the court
house cost.
The collector of customs at Baltimore te
legraphed Secretary FQlger that the steam
ship California, from Vera Cruz, had ar
arrived with four cases of yellow fever OF
board, and that four deaths occurred on TIN
voyage. He was ordered to quarantine the
vessel and subject all on board to strict iso
lation.
According 20 statement prepared by tin
United States Geological Survey, the Yalu
of metallic products of the United State
for 1881, was S2l9, 756, 004; non-metallic pre-
ducts, sees, 1856 4O5; miscellaneous compris
, 'ihgfire clay, kaolin, potter,s clay, ana sim
lar products, s., 900. The total value o
all the products was S453, ,9l9, sO6.
, The Treasury Department has received
remonstrance from the British authoritle
against the return to England OF three q
legged pauper emigrants who were going I
friends in this country, who had promises
I to take care of them, and which emigrant
had shown letters to that effect upon tnel
arrival in the United States. The matte
> will be inquired into.
The Kansas Live Stock Company has
the Indian Territory beginning October
: which is now occupied by number
| herders WHO have leased for this summe
a The company is trying to take immedlal
q possession, and is ordering the herders
move off from parts of the tract, The her
e ers have appealed to the Interior Depar
ment to protect them in their rights. nj
: Joslyn doubts his legal authority to inte
fere, but is looking into the subject.
Another man who says he has recent
: seen Howgate has turned up, but he locat.
the abscondng embezZler at q safe dl
o tance. His story, however, Is plausible.
>. Edward Stackpole, recently. clerk OF q
Cosmopolitan hotel, at Los Angeles, Ca
e says Howgate stopped at that hotel n
: long ago. 'Stackpo!e says he could not
= mistaken because he used to work WI
Howgate in this city. He says the capita
looked perfectly natural, and made no
Il tempt to disguise himself.
: Secretary Raynor on Tuesday received
Ia telegram from Mr.. Jewett, at Chicago.
EXPLANATION of the latter's delay In makii
q his report Ia the Hesing case. He saws TN