The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-18

Inc amendments TO the penal code OF
New York adopted by the Legislature
have received the signature of Governor
Cleveland. This repeats the Sunday
laws, the enforcement of which In New
York and Brooklyn IN July last created
so much trouble.
In q communication to the Massachu-
sets State Board of Health, Governor
Butler requests that body to exert it's
authority to restrain its secretary, Mr..
Sanborn, from annoying the executive
with unnecessary and impertinent COM
munications.
Forty members of the PENNSYLVANIA
Legislature who served in the Union
army in the war OF the rebellion Friday
visited the scene Of the battles before
Petersburg, Virginia Friday. They
were welcomed TO the city of Petersburg
by Senator Malone.
An explosion Of gas in coal mine at
Wilkesbarre, PENNSYLVANIA. Friday,
killed two men. Many tOmbstones in
an adjacent C, metery were overturned
by the force OF the explosion, which
occurred six hundred feet below the
surface.
Jere Dunn, who killed the New York
prZe-fighter Elliottin q saloon on Dear
born street on March |. WAS arraigned
in the criminal court, ut Chicago. Mon
day and pleaded not guilty. a special
venire was ordered for the trial of the
| case.
Twenty-Five small stores anil dwell
| ings in East st. Louis were burned
| Monday, the loss amounting to $50, 600.
The police station WAS among the build
ings destroyed, and four prisoners in it
were rescued with considerable diff
Guilty.
The trustees OF Columbia College,
! New York, have prepared q plan to re-
ceive young women for Il four-years
course outside OF Int under the super
vision OF the college, graduates to be
entitled to the same EonorS as young
men who have taken the regular course.
Congressman HaZelton, OF the third
Wisconsin district, who was accident
ally injured shortly before the adjourn
ment of Congress, must undergo the
amputation OF leg. in consequence.
and Il S physicians doubt even that
will save lis lie.
The Baltimore 81 OHIO Railroad Com
panv send out a contrad ction to the
Statements of the Rev. MIR. Riddick,
who claims TO have been lll-treated at
their Baltimore hotel. President Gar
rett has issued absolute orders that his
employees treat ali patrons, irrespective
of color, with courtesy.
The Piegan Indians have left their
reservation or the upper Missouri fol-
the Sweet Grass valley. with the inten-
tion of killing what cattle they can find.
rs they are starving.' The agent of the
PieE.,is /, blamed for not furnishing
ti.e Indians the rations to which they
are entitled.
The Western Cooperative mine as
West Beleville. Illinois, the largest coal
mine i'll the district, WAS set on fire
Monday night by strikers, and efforts
| to eXtinguiSil the conila gration have
| TINS far proved futile. The loss, 1t is
estimated, will not fail far short Of
100000.
The st. Louis Lodges of the Anal
| gamated Association Of Iron and Steel
| Workers have disbanded. OF the thou
sand wor6men in the Vulcan mill who
struck month ago, but two hundred
remain in The city, the others having
either sought work elsewhere or adopted
| other avocatiOns.
a convict in the Sing Sing peniten-
tiary secreted himself in the pattern
shop of the prison stove foundry until
the establishment was closed for the
night, and then with an AK broke up
$1,000 worth of patterns, the loss of
which will cause n suspension Of work
in the foundry for several days.
The steamer Grappler, plying between
Puget Sound and Alaska, and carrying
over one hundred passengers, mostly
Cinnamon, too fire four miles Off Sey-
mour Narrow. a panic ensued, and a
majority of those on board jumped into
the sea. 1t is supposed that fully sixty
Cinnamon were drowned.
Ex-State Treasurer Polk, of Ten
nessee, was arrested Thursday at Nash
vile, upon an order of the court based
upon suspicion that he was about to
leave the city, and because his sureties
were of doubtful worth. Mr.. Polk was
most Hospitality entertained by the
sheriff.
William Tilden, of New York, rela-
tive Of Ex-Governor Tilden, died in 1869,
leaving 2,500, 900 to be divided between
four sons, the eldest 20 and the young
est years of age. The estate has been
badly managed, andSome of the heirs
have dissipated away their share and a
portion Of the others. An accounting
is now being sought.
In the county court of Madison coun-
ty, Illinois, about year ago, decision
was Tenu6reu duV6rSo 10 Uno Chilli VI
Monticello Seminary that its property,
being devoted to educational purposes,
should be exempt from taxation. The
. case was CARR, d to the supreme court,
which has reversed the decree of the
lower court and ordered new trial.
Ninety Cree Indians have been cap
tured by United States troops in the
Bears Paw mountains, in Montana,
, near the Canadian border. The Indi-
ans, who claim to have crossed the
frontier to work for contractors at
wood chopping, will be disarmed and
returned to the country whence they
came.
A wind-storm of great violence Wis.
tied New York City, Patterson and
Trenton, New Jersey, and Williams.
port, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, damaging
buildings and interrupting telegraphiC
and telephone COMMUNICATION. Al
Denver, Colorado, there was remark
able hail-storm, the stones being very
large.
Senator Van Wick. of Nebraska