The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-01-12

Commissioner Waldron was engaged
In beating his wife, when miner
named Plummer demonstrated, for
which he was shot dead.
/ Jay Gould has been chosen director
in the Des Moines and Northwestern
road, and Is expected to make it broad
gauge and connect 1t with the North
ern Pacific.
About month hence, Simon Cam
eron and Charles A. Dana will leave
New York in palace-car for San
Francisco, to spend two months in
search Of something new.
The leading rubber factories of the
country are earnestly considering the
propriety of making q $25, 00O, 600 con-
solidation, to handle the entire crop OF
Brazil.
A lazy letter-carrier left in the back
room Of saloon in New York, Satur-
day night, six hundred letters and pos
tai cards. which he intended to distri-
butte Monday.
The National TobaccO association
has passed resolutions favOring tax OF
8 cents per pound on tobacco and So per
thousand on cigars, with q rebate equal
to the reduction to take effect May !.
The bonanza mine-owners in Nevada
are securing abstracts of title OF all
mines on the lode from POtosi to Bel
cher, evidently with view to working
them under one management.
A petition with six thousand sigma
lures has been presented in the German
parliament, asking the passage of a law
to close all commercial and industrial
establishments on Sunday.
Thatcher Perkins, one of the most
prominent machinists and inventors in
the United States, died Tuesday at
Baltimore. His greatest work was
ten wheeled locomotive.
! George Seymour, negro thief Of
Philadelphia, in attempting to pawn a
: valuable breastpin for SIS. was found
to be the person who robbed Mrs. Carr,
ut Long. Branch, OF $4,000 werth of
diamonds.
NJ. r. Polk, the defaulting treasurer
of Tennessee, commenced his specula-
tions five years ago, and drew one check
! for SIS, 900 to buy an interest in sill
yer mine in Mexico. Nashville banks
hold S125, 900 in public funds deposited
by Polk.
II. +. Gye claims to have been
robbed, on train between New York
and Philadelphia, of $4,000 worth of
diamonds belonging to Madame Alba
nj, besides large amount of his own
personal property and checks.
The connection of the Southern Pa
! cific and Sunset roads will be made at
San Antonio about the end of this
week. The schedule time between
New Orleans and San Francisco is to
be five days.
The principal naval powers will have
war ships at Honolulu at the time Of
King Kalakaua's coronation, rumors
having got atloat OF the danger of an
uprising of the people against the ex-
travagance of the government.
A dividend of rs per cent. has been
made by the Tribune association of New
York. 1t appears that Whitelaw Reid
and his relatives own l43 shares of 200.
The incumbrance on the new building
is only 100000.
Kitty Marsh, the Vermont girl who
ran away with a mulattO, was found
with him in small village in New
York state, and reluctantly consented
to return home. The colored man will
be prosecuted for steal ng the team
with which they drove off.
In the anarchist trials at Lyons.
Prince Krapotkine stated that when
he had to choose between extinction
and dynamite he would employ the lat
ter. He was reproached by the presl-
dent of the court for having violated
French hospitality.
Henry Bergh, Jr.. with view of ter
rifying the New York police board,
writes that there exists down town
band of ruffians known as the border
gang, who tear down and gut buildings,
assault persons, and remove goods from
warehouses.
The canal within the limits of Cincin-
natl has been declared nuisance, and a
bill will be reported in the legislature to
valued at 100000 and reserve the
proceeds as fund to keep the canal
system in repair.
Mortgages for $4,000, 900 are being
recorded in South Carolina by the Car
DINA, Cumberland Gap and Chicago
road, formed by the consolidation OF
six roads, which intends to complete
track from Aiken nOrthward into Ken
lucky.
Rupert Spencer, a young politician OF
Baltimore, who killed Robert Bronson
last September. for which he was SEN
fenced to thirteen years in the peniten-
tiary, flung himself from the fifth tier
to the basement of that institution, and
received fatal injuries.
The stockholders of the Philadelphia
Centennial exposition are behind to the
amount of 81, 100000. On the ground
of general benefit to the country, New
York bankers and merchants have for
warded to congress a memorial for an
appropriation to cover the deficit.
Alfred Vandecar. of Oconomowoc, is
the man arrested on charge of connec-
ton with the murder of III. G. Mead,
the Waupaca banker. Sheriff Briggs
Is on his way from the lumber camps
with another accomplish, and third
remains to be captured.
The cashier of q national bank at
Muncie, Indiana, received a package
from an Indianapolis bank by express.
supposed to be 5000 in currency. 1t
was found to contain slips of muslin and
five 81 bills, the seals being in good
order.
The Nickle!flate road elected a full
board of Vanderbilt directors, who
chose j. II. Devereux president. 1t Is
again rllm0red in New York that flfa