The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-09

ments have been made to light the fires
Sunday night.
The legislature Of Missouri has re-
ceived 1921 petitions and AZ ,5S1 remon-
Strances on the question of submitting
prohibitory amendment TO the people
and will take no action in the matter.
The backbone of the Creek Indian re-
bellion is believed to have been broken
by the capture of Sleeping Rabbit,
SPEECHES. first lieutenant, and num-
Der Of subordinate chiefs.
An assignment has been made by
Humphrey a. Co., hide and leather mer-
chants Of New York, through OVERHEAD
ing. Their liabilities are 5000, 900, but
their assets are so large that creditors
expect to lose very little.
I'D. Watson, who was tried at Column
bus for an attempt to bride Represen-
tative Block, of Cleveland, was con-
victed, the jury fixing the penalty at
from three to ten years In the peniten-
tiary.
Parnell will probably be accompanied
to the United States by Brennan and
Egan. The Irish people on this side of
the Atlantic are to be shown how the
funds of the Land league have been
used.
On the eighty-irst ballot in the Mich
igan legislature Thomas w. Palmer,
Of Detroit, was elected United States
senator, receiving IS votes to AZ for
| Stuart. The break was made by the
friends Of Stockbridge.
The editor, the proprietor, and the
printer of the Free Thinker, of London,
have been convicted of blasphemous
| libel, and were sentenced to twelve, nine
and three months imprisonment, re-
spectively.
James Carey, the informer upon the
alleged assassins of Lord Frederick Ca
vendish and Under Secretary Burke,
has been expelled from the Dublin
town council, and his seat declared va
cant.
After serving twenty-eight years
under life sentence for murder, Sam
uel Ulman has been pardoned out of
the Michigan penitentiary, his inno-
cence of the charge against him having
been fully established.
The champion stallion stake organ
lied by Pierre Lorillard for the pro-
posed worlds fair has been awarded
to the Louisville Jockey club for $10,-
SIS, and will be run at the September
meeting.
The Tennessee house of representa-
tives has passed the democratic caucus
state debt bill, and its passage by the
senate is deemed certain. 1t provides
for the payment of the state debt ON the
basis of fifty cents on the dollar.
The charge in the message of Cover
nor PattisOn to the legislature of Penn
sylvania, that the Standard Oil Com
pany has been guilty of bribery, will be
investigated by joint legislative COM
mittee.
The papers leasing the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad to the
New York, Lake Erie and Western
railroad company for the period of nine
ty-nine years were signed in New York
Monday.
The library of the late DR.. Robert w.
Lands. the bibliophile of Louisville,
Kentucky, has been sent, according to
his request, to the Central university at
Richmond, Kentucky. 1t embraces
many old and rare editions.
Thomas A. Craig. private secretary
to high official of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company, has been sentenced
to the penitentiary for thirty months
Cor the betrayal Of Philadelphia girl
under promise OF marriage.
Daniel Boyle, a veteran of the Next
can war, was frozen to death near
Jackson, Michigan, having gotten
drunk upon the receipt of news that he
had been awarded $4,000 arrearages of
| pension.
Evidence of the connection of p. J.
Sheridan, of New York, and Byrne, ar
rested in Paris the other day. with the
Phoenix park assassinations is said to
be in the possession of the British
police.
The Dunlap elevator and mill, at AL
bany, took fire Sunday morning from
friction of the shafting, and was wholly
consumed. The falling walls killed
four men and seriously injured three
others. The total loss is 100000.
The floods in the lower Mississippi
valley, while not so high as year ago,
have done great damage. The 'sunk
lands" on the st. Francis river are sub
merged, and several lives are reported
to have been lost.
Two amateur bruisers met at Fenni
more, Grant county. Wisconsin, Tues
day, and fought for S25 side. At the
conclusion of the affair, in which one
of them was badly punished, officers OF
the law appeared and took them and
few of the spectators into custody.
The Bedford, Springfield, Greensboro,
and Bloomfield railroad is about to pass
into the hands of the Indianapolis Roll
ing-Mill company. The first reform of
the new management will be the chang
ing of the name of the road to the Bed
ford and Bloomfield.
Frank Hunter, of Paul's Station,
near Massillion, Ohio, was murdered,
probably Saturday night, and his body
flung into railroad water-tank. His
wife her father and other of her rela-
tives are held on suspicion of having
been concerned in the deed.
Rain commenced to fall Sunday even
ing all over western and southwestern
Texas, where cattle and sheep were
said to be dying by thousands for lack
of water and grass. Buffalo reports a
heavy snow-storm in western New
York.
a dispatch from st. Louis alleges that
ex-senator Tabor, of Colorado, and
Miss McCOurt. of Oshkosh. who were