The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-04-13


been written by that lady which, ne al
legged, would affect her reputation.
The weavers in a number of cotton
and wooden mills at Philadelphia are
out on a strike for higher wages. They
claim that, whereas they were able to
earn $50 week few years ago, the
better quality of work required has re-
duced their earnings to IS or $l0aweek.
A Washington paper charges the
civil-service commission with practices
in direct opposition to the theories to
which 1t was appointed to give direc-
ton, competent stenographer having
been displaced to make room for pro-
tege of a New York politician.
Both houses of the Ohio legislature
have agreed to a resolution providing
for the submission of constitutional
amendment giving the state legislature
unrestricted control of the liquor traffic
by the imposition of taxes and penal
ties.
DIR. George II. Marshall, of Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, claims to be innocent or
any intention to bl ckmail Mary An
derson, the actress, having been in
weighed into the correspondence by some
wicked and designing person whose
identity he has not yet disclosed.
One of the mysterious disappearance
that caused so much wonder in Milwau-
kee the latter part of 1882 has been ex-
planned by the finding of the body of
Mrs. Mary A. Nelson in the river,
weighted down with a heavy piece Of
iron, giving evidence that she had COM
mitted suicide.
Twenty prisoners in the Tarrant
County Jail, in Texas, Overpowered the
guard, Monday night, and escaped.
When the alarm had been given, about
twenty-five citizens started in pursuit
with shotguns and bloodhounds, and
before evening seventeen or the fugl-
tives had been recaptured.
A bucket-shOp at Cleveland, Ohio,
known as the grain, provision, I'd
stock exchange, of which L. Griffin ..as
the manager, has failed with debts
amounting to $4,000. The immediate
cause of the collapse was the decline in
the wheat market last week, on which
Griffin is said to have lost $4,000.
Verona Baldwin, who attempted to
kill Lucky" Baldwin, the California
millionaire, few months, since, claim
ing that he had seduced her by force,
was acquitted of the charge Of assault
to kill by San Francisco jury. The
verdict was received by those in the
courtroom with applause.
A policeman in the eastern parlia-
mentary building at Ottawa kicked a
bottle lying on the staircase, and an ex-
plosion ensued that caused some dam
age to the woodwork, but made no inn
preston on the officers boot. The
explosion is attributed to Fenian con-
spiracy to blow up the building.
James S. Lyon, who was concerned
with City Treasurer Bork, of Buffalo,
in the speculations that cost the city
$500, 900, has been convicted of crimi-
nally using the city's money in his pri-
vate business. The penalty is impris-
Onment for from three to ten years and
fine not exceeding five times the amount
embezzled.
Dudley Porter, a son of Ex-Governor
Porter, of Tennessee, on Saturday even
ing fatally cut James Grundy, a COM
mercial traveller from Cincinnati, in a
restaurant at Nashville. Porter, who
had q bad reputation, fled, but was cap.
tured later in the evening and locked
up.
The rain fall at New Orleans on Sat
urday measured nine and a quarter inch
es, the heaviest ever recorded for any
one day. More than twenty bridges in
the city were carried away by the
flood that the rain produced. The
threatening crevasse at Goldsboro has
been closed.
The report of the pool commissioner
of the Southwestern Railroad Associa-
tiQn makes striking exhibit of the
growth of the carrying trade in the ter
ritory of the association. The first
year of the existence of the association,
1875, the business done aggregated S4,-
100000, while in 1882 the revenues
amounted to 100000
James b. Price, a Star-route mail con-
tractor, is alleged to have made an
affidavit stating that on one occasion he
bribed James L. Brady, then second
assistant Postmaster General, by the
payment to him of $4,000, and that he
also paid Senator Kellogg, of Louisiana,
$50, 900 for his influence.
Two dynamite depots have been dis
covered at st. Petersburg. The weeks
arrests there of supposed nihilists num-
Der two hundred. The governor of Mos
COW has received letter notifying him
that the Kremlin will be blown up dur
ing the approaching coronation cere-
monies unless the car grants consti-
tuition.
One of the actual murderers OF Lord
Frederick Cavendish and Under Secre-
tary Burke understood to be Patrick
Delaney will, it is said, make no de-
Tense, avowing his guilt and telling all
he knows about the conspiracy. ID. r.
Sullivan has been appointed by Judge
O'Brien TO conduct the defense of
Brady.
As reason for the haste with which
the explosive act was rushed through
Parliament andreceived the royal sane
ton, it is said that several emissaries
of the dynamiters are expected to reach
England within few days on steamers
sailing from American ports, and the
British police officials are anxious to
give them fitting entertainment.
A five-story brick building at the cor
nerof Church and State streets. Roches-
ter, New York, fell Tuesday morning,
in consequence of some alterations
which had been undertaken to admit of
the opening of a new street. One of the
workmen was killed outright and half
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