The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-06-15

Board or Trade telegram .:ie between
ST. Louis and Chicago, the Western
Union Telegraph Company posted at
st. Louis reduction to fifteen cents
for messages OF ten words from that
point to Peoria and Chicago.
The Republican and Irving Hall Dem.
ocratic members of the New York ex-
else commission have formed coalition
against the county Democratic mem.
Der, and the entire patronage Of the
board will be divided between Irving
Hall and the Republicans.
The telegraphers OF Newly ork threat.
en- strike unless certain grievances OF
which they complain are redressed by
the Western Union Telegraph Company.
There is a probability that, should o
fees throughout the country would be
involved.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has
passed q bill which deprives the Stand.
ard Oil Company OF the monopoly it has
virtuallyenjoysd in the pipe line. A bill
was ALSO passed prescribing penalties
| for discrTl nation in charges for the
transportation of freight by common
carrier.
Hostile Apaches have made their re.
| appearance In Arizona. going toward
San Carlos. $, me herders were fired
upon but were not injured. Statements
are made that the government OF Sono-
IA refuses to cooperate with General
| Crook in his campaign against the In
dams.
The will of the late Amasa Stone, OF
Cleveland. bequeathS to his wife the
homestead and the use of $500, 900 dur
ing her life. and to each of his daugh.
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Mather, $500, 900, the remainder OF his
estate being divided between other rel.
atives and various educational and
charitable institutions.
Colonel Buckner II. Payne, who ap.
pears to have combined in himself the
attributes of scholar, seer, and sophist,
has died in the Davidson county ITEM
nessee) asylum for the poor, at the age
of 81 years. He was once wealthy,
and won considerable notoriety by his
writings over the nom de plume of
"Ariel."
A CONSIGNMENT of petroleum jelly
| from the United States was seized by
the Brazilian customs authorities upon
| its arrival at Rio de JaneirO. on the
suppOstion that it was nitro-glycerine.
The explanation OF the consignor's
agents has thus far failed TO satisfy the
officers that the compound is not dam
gerous to human life and property.
The Indiana. Bloomington and West
ern and the Lackawanna Railroad Com
panies have concluded traffic agree.
ment, which makes the former company
independent of the trunk-line pool and
enables it to evade the purpose of
Commissioner Fink's circular forbid
ding railroad companies in the pool to
pro rate with the Indiana, Bloomington
| and Western. .e,,-.
John Hammer. who recently murdered
an old man named Newell under cir
cumstances of unusual atrOcity. was
taken from Jail at Winterset, Iowa, at
3 O'Clock Sunday mOrninr, by mob,
hanged to tree, and shot through the
body. The mob operated with remark
able speed, surprising the guard and
executing their errand before an alarm
could be given.
Benjamin +. Butler has the distinc-
ton or being the first Governor Of Mas
sachusetts upon whom Harvard Uni
versity has not conferred the honorary
degree OF doctor of laws. Upon a
motion to comply with the presidents
the trustees voted IL yeas to Is nays,
refusing to bestow the title upon the
Governor, who. it had been alleged, in
tended to refuse it had it been rendered
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Trial of the suit of the National bank
of Dexter, Maine. against the estate or
james M. Baron. the cashier of the
i. bank, who was found dying in the bank
vault one morning. few years ago, to
recover the amount OF an alleged detail
cation, seems likely to result in clear
ing the dead man of the stigma of hav-
ing committed suicide to escape an
exposure. and re-establishing the orig
inal theory that lie was murdered by
robbers.
Information received at limited States
military posts on the Mexican border
confirms the report recently telegraph
ed from Hermosillo that the hostile
Apaches in pursuit OF whom General
Crook entered the Sierra Madre mount
aims have broken up into small parties
and dispersed. AS TO the safety or Gen
eral Crooks command, the absence of
news is construed favorably, the theory
being that il disaster had overtaken the
expedition some of the scouts would
have found their way out of the noun
tains with the information.
Nathan's circus. with Dan Rice's at
tachment. showed at Suspension Bridge,
Niagara Falls, Tuesday night. and at
tracted a crowd of about 1000 people
from the adjoining region and Canada.
While the show was in full swing a
storm struck 1t, blowing out all the
lights and tearing the circus tent to tat
tiers. A panic ensued and seats were
thrown down in stampede, hurting
many to the ground. The scene OF con-
fusion in the pitch darkness was ter
rife, and large number Of spectators
were injured, but none fatally as far as
known.
An agreement has been reached be-
tween the iron manufacturers Of the
Pittsburg district and theAmalgamated
Association on the basis of last years
scale, and there will therefore be no
strike there. This action will probably
determine the Western manufacturers
to come TO settlement with their
workmen. In the Ohio district, where
an advance of fifty cents per ton for
pudding has been demanded, the en-
ployers are firm, and there is every
probability of strike. The Bay View
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