The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-30

and fraud against the TailOrs' union of
that city, for having induced journey
men in the firms employ to quit work,
greatly to the injury of the business OF
the firm.
Observations through northern Ohio
southern Michigan. and portion of In
diana, excite anxiety for the winter
wheat crop, the winter and spring hav-
ing been unfavorable. The conditions
are propitious fora large yield Of cotton
the coming season.
The iron furnacemen of Tennessee,
Alabama and Georgia have formed a
combination to control the market for
pig-iron. 1t is alleged that all distinc-
tiOns as to price will be abolished, the
object being to compel all furnaces to
turn out iron of uniform quality.
One Of the jurors who tried Dukes at
UniOntOwn. Pennsylvania, for the MUIR
der of DIR. Mutt was assaulted in the
streets of Belle Vernon by persons who
regarded the verdict of acquittal as in
famous, and so severely beaten that his
life is despaired of.
New York merchants who are dis
satisfied with the new tariff are broach-
ing the theory that the senate trans
cended its functions in Originating"
tuO NulCu 10 UuClClOlO Iull anu
void. There is talk of testing the ques-
ton in court.
Manuel Pinheiro, one of the princi-
pal rubber-dealers of Para and prOmi-
nently identified with the recent corner
in the rubber margin, has committed
suicide in consequence OF the disrup-
ton of the corner, by which he lost
heavily.
Mr.. Parnell's bill amending the Irish
land act was rejected on second read
ing in the British house of commons,
$50 to 63. The Irish party predict that
the only effect will be to strengthen the
cause of Ireland at home and in Amer
lea.
The East Indian government, in Or
der to put the wheat-growers of that
country more nearly upon an equality
with the agrjculturists of the United
States in competing for the grain trade
of Great Britain, is taking measures to
secure a liberal reduction in the charges
for transportation by rail.
The settling of the first balcony in the
Cosmopolitan theater at New York,
during minstrel performance Friday
night, caused panic among the audi
ence, and in the rush for the exits many
women were badly crushed. Order
was restored, however, and the most Of
the people returned to their seats.
Mr.. Flower, who represented the
Eleventh district of New York in the
last congress, has covered into the
treasury of the United States $458.80,
being the proportion of his salary as
representative that he thinks he is not
entitled to by reason of absence from
his seat in the house.
Three of the Arkansas train-rObbers
are in hiding in a rugged, timbered sec
ton near the village of Goshen, and it
is feared that their capture will involve
more bloOdshed. Mcdonald, the mem
Der of the gang who was wounded and
captured, offers to become states evil
dence.
The socialists of New York held
meeting Monday night in honor of the
late Karl Marx. Cooper union was
crowded, and emblems of the commune
were cOnspicuOusly displayed. Speeches
were made by Victor Drury. John Swim
ton, Henry George, Johann Most, and
other apostles of ''l' InternatiOnale."
In New York, Monday evening,
George w. Conkling, member Of the
government survey corps operating in
Nevada, shot and killed his sisters al
legged seducer, William IL. HaverstlcK.
The woman in the case had been for
several years separated from her hus-
band.
The collector of customs at Philadel-
phia has been authorized to close the
custom house there on Good Friday if,
in his opinion, the public business will
not be in any way interfered with
thereby. The tendency is thought to be
to make both Good Friday and Ash
wednesday legal holidays.
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 a letter notifying him
that the Kremlin will be blown up dur
ing the approaching coronation cere-
monies unless the car grants a consti-
tuition.
DIR. Loring, commissioner of agricul-
lure has invited DR.. Solomon, a disciple
OF Pasteur, to conduct his experiments
as to the germ theory of disease under
the auspices of the bureau of agricult-
erS of the United States will find inocu-
lation potent in preserving their live
stock from disease.
= hO du1OullV VI IuOlIoy dI Vic ulopOSdl
of the chief signal officer not being suf-
ficient to warrant the distribution of
weather bulletins for the benefit of
mariners and farmers as generally as
heretofore, pOstmasters will be in
structed to conspicuously post the
bulletins sent to them. so that they may
be available to those for whose infor-
nation they were especially designed.
Sunday night, during a performance
in tent known as Faranta's Summer
Pavilion, at New Orleans, panic took
possession of the audience, consisting
of about five thousand people, in conse-
quence of the tent canvas taking fire
from q lamp, and in the crash that en-
sued five persons were seriously injur-
ed.
The Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany has purchased four hundred acres
Of land in two tracts, one in and the
other near st. Paul. Upon the tract in
the city there will be erected union
depot, and at the other stock-yards, and
and packing houses will
be established. Other improvements