The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-06-01

Church was celebrated in the Second
Church at Allegheny City, Pennsylva-
MIA. Saturday. About 1000 persons
were present.
Saturday was the birthday of Colonel
Washington A. Roehling, who COM
pletes his forty sixth year. 1t Is under
stood that had the trustees known this
fact the East River bridge opening
would have been delayed until that day.
A pitched battle took place Sunday
between Italians and Irish In Cherry
street. New York. Maria Moreno was
probably fatally injured and "Dooney"
Harris only slightly. Many of the COM
batants were injured. Sticks, stones,
stilletos and revolyers were freely used.
A drunken wi e-beater at Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, met with horrible fate
Sunday, the object of his cowardly
spite turning upon him and driving a
red-h0t bayonet through his breast, the
weapon having been used as stove
poker.
Thursday show decided falling off in
the strength of the readjuster or Ma
hone party, it's candidates having been
defeated in several counties where such
result was not even hoped for by the
Democrats.
A boiler explosion Friday wrecked
the steamer Pilot at Lakeville, Califor-
MIA, upon which were twenty-five per-
sons, OF whom eight were killed and
seven dangerously hurt, while ten are
missing and have undoubtedly per-
ished.
Detectives at Troy, New York, claim
to have discovered plot to blow up a
tenement-house inhabited by the fami-
lies of non-union men employed the
malleable iron-wOrks, to the number of
about sixty persons. Suspicion attach
es to the union men who recently quit
ted the works.
The fiftieth anniversary of the estab-
lishment of the first Catholic church in
Chicago was celebrated at St. Mary's
church, Sunday, all the other churches
of that faith in the city closing in or
der to give their priests and congrega-
tions an opportunity to participate in
or witness the celebration.
The question of instrumental music
in churches was the issue of the cleo
ton of moderator of the United Pres
byterian (Scotch) general assembly at
Pittsburg. The party favOring the
utilization of machinery in the services
of the church carried the day, electing
their candidate by vote of 139 to 20.
The Protective Association of Iron
Manufacturers was in session at Pitts
burg Tuesday, and reaffirmed the de-
mand for reduction of 10 per cent. in
the rate of wages paid the irOn-wOrkers.
cutting off all hope of settlement of
the differences between the employers
and workmen. Many OF the mills drew
their fires Tuesday night.
The Rev. G. w. Turrill, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Wyan-
dotte, Michigan, is undergoing investi-
cation upon informal charges of i'm
moral conduct, the woman in the case
being the organist of his church, who
has been for some years living apart
from her husband, but whose charac-
ter has not been hitherto impugned.
There was an animated dispute on
Saturday in the State convention OF the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
of Michigan, at Adrian, upon the ques-
ton of committing the association to
the doctrine of woman suffrage. Those
who hold that the suffrage question is
foreign to the mission of the union car
ried the day.
The superintendent of the Abbey
mines at Collinsville, Illinois, has sworn
out warrants for the arrest of twenty
eight striking miners who coaXed or in
Inundated the workmen in the mines to
quit last week. The statute provides
for the punishment of such offenses by
heavy fines and long terms of imprison-
ment.
John Zapf, aged sixty years, was ia
tally shot by Christian Mucho, aged
seveDty-two, ut Indianapolis, Sunday.
the murderer supplementing his act by
blowing out his own brains. The
double tragedy grew out of quarrel
about small sum of money Zapf had
borrowed from Mucho. Zapf's son is
the husband of Mucho's daughter.
A household of six persons of Patter-
son New Jersey, were taken i'll We'd
nesday with symptoms of poisoning,
and two of them have since died. The
theory advanced is that one of the
boarders, who had been respondent and
food, that he might have company on
his journey into the unknown.
The captain and first mate of the
ried force of Haytian revolutionists
from Inaqua to Miragoane in March.
have been convicted in the United
States court at Philadelphia of violating
the neutrality laws. Pending the mo-
ton for new trial the men have been
locked up.
Some weeks ago, while ut Cleveland
on railroad business, William X. Van
derbilt negotiated for a large tract Of
land, valued at $4,000, lying at Mentor,
near the Lake Shore. Tuesday the sale
was contaminated. 1t is said that Van
derbilt will build an elegant stone
structure on the newly acquired prop
erty, to be used as summer residence.
The affairs of firm representing at
Milwaukee eighteen or twenty Of the
leading fire insurance companies Of the
country are under investigation, the al
legation having been made that one of
the firm has been diverting receipts for
premiums into his own pocket, leaving
the persons by whom the money was
paid entirely without the insurance
contracted for.
Judge Cowan, of Vicksburg, Missis-
sippi, accuses Judge Campbell, Of the