The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-16

fusal to open negotiations for COM
promise Of the differences relative to
the arbitration of disputes between
shippers and carriers. The board Of
trade alleges bad faith on the part of
the railroads.
In defense Of Mr.. Parnell against the
charges of Mr.. Foster, it is stated that
Immediately after the Phoenix park as
sassinatiOns the former drew up an
address announcing his retirement
from public life, and was only prevailed
request of his party associates.
Mr.. Cook, of Iowa. who successfully
contested the seat of Mr.. Cults in the
forty-seventh congress, now finds he has
created doubt as to his right to the
pay as congressman by holding the Of
flee of judge during portion OF the
term for which he was elected to con-
gress.
The annual report of the secretary of
the Chicago board of trade shows that,
while the amount of grain and live
stock handled last year was somewhat
less than in 1881, the transactions rep
resented more money. The decrease in
quantity is shown to have been entirely
due to the shortage of last years crops.
Ten acres in the Yellowstone Nation
al park have been leased by the secre-
tary of::the interior, in seven tracts OF
from one to two acres each, so located
as to command the hotel and privileges
in the vicinity of all the most attractive
natural curiosities in the park. The
lease is looked upon as exceedingly
favorable to the lessees.
Meetings of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Iron and Steel Workers were
held Saturday at number of the lead
ing iron-manufacturing cities, to elect
delegates to the April convention that
will adopt scale OF wages for the year
beginning June /. The indications are
that no radical changes will be made
from the existing scale.
Judge Drummond refuses to grant an
injunction to the Mutual Union Tele-
graph company of Chicago to restrain
company should it attempt to restore
the wires cut by order of the mayor.
The judge, however, approved an order
enjOining the city authorities from in
terfering with the wires and poles Of
the company as they now are.
The result of the late election for
country officers in Falls county, Texas,
was decided by the votes Of seventeen
naturalized Cinnamon, and now the de-
feated candidates are cOntesting the.
election upon the ground that state
law passed in 1875 limited the issuance
OF naturalization papers to white for
eigners, and, it is claimed, disfran-
chised Cinnamon who had already taken
out naturalization papers.
The funeral of the late Alexander II.
Stephens was the occasion of most
impressive demonstration at Atlanta,
Georgia. Robert Toombs, an early
political rival of the dead statesman,
and Senator Joseph Z. Brown were
among the speakers. In all the cities of
Georgia and in many other places in the
south memorial services were held SIM
ultaneously with the burial at the state
capital.
Salmi Morse, who was arrested in
New York recently for presenting the
Passion play" in his temple without
license, has been discharged from GUS
tody, the court stating that, while there
was no doubt of the character of the
performance, it appeared to have been
private representation, admission be-
ing by invitation and not upon payment
of money. The decision has no influ-
ence upon the question of Mr.. Morse's
right to give public performances Of
the passion play"
John Jessrang, of st. Paul, Mimi
esota, was lynched at Glendale, Mon
tana, a week ago, for the murder of q
fellOw-traveler named Davidson. Jess
rang had attempted to burn the body
OF his victim, in order to conceal the
crime. The night previous to the
lynching Jessrang was taken from jail
by mob and drawn up by the neck six
times, in order to extract q confession
from him; but he would not admit any
knowledge of the crime.
The steamer Navarro, from Copen-
hagen for Leith, foundered during a
gale Thursday in the North sea, and of
the eighty-one persons on board sixty
five persisted. Most of the passengers
were emigrants. Several of the sur
vivOrs, including two who were on the
way to Minnesota, have arrived at Hull
England. 1t is charged that the Ma
yarre was inadequately provided with
vivOr3 allege that the captain of the
steamer was intoxicated from Tuesday
until the vessel went down.
Eleven men were burned to death
Saturday night in one-story-and-lOft
clearinghouse at Brownsville. near
DeadwoOd, Dakota. The loft, where
fifteen men were sleeping, was reached
by one ladder only, but there was one
window opening twelve feet from the
ground 10y which allmight have'escaped 4
had they retained their presence of
mind. OF the four who escaped from
the burning building. two were so bad
ly scorched that they will have to UNI
dergo amputation of legs.
Prince Gortschakoff, with whose
career the history of Russia the past
quarter OF century has been intimate
ly linked, died Sunday in the eighty
fifth year OF his age, after having been
for more than sixty years in Official |
employment, beginning as legation
attache and ending as chancellor of the
Russian empire. Virtually his last |
service to his sovereign was rendered |
in the congress of the powers in Berlin
in 1878 ut the close of the Turko-Rus- |
sian war; and the issue of that memoir
able congress is evidence that the in |
tellect of the octogenarian was then as
keen az that Of the great statesmen
with whom he was brought into con-
tact.