The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-06

pieGeu. TO the clJy, ana given MS cnecK
for 1855, 1888 for its support.
w. III. Vanderbilt has added 500, 900
to the endowment fund of the uniVer-
sity at Nashville. the income to be APP
piled to the support or the technical
school.
Governor Butler has vetoed an act of
the Massachusetts Legislature to levy a
State tax of $2,0O0.000, claiming that
half that sum is sufficient to carry on
the government.
John billiard, late president of a
wrecked bank at Jersey City, surren-
dered to the sheriff, Monday, and was
taken to the State Prison for period
of eighteen months.
The owner of the horse that was driv-
en- continuously from New York to
Stony Creek, ninety miles, in contest
with catamaran, has been arrested for
cruelty.
The Brooks acknowledgements al
Dunkirk, New York, which have been
kept running night and day for three
years, have discharged $50 workmen
because of decrease in orders.
Professor De Motto of Illinois Wes-
leyan University at Bloomington, sus-
tanned injuries Saturday that will prob
ably result fatally, having fallen from
the roof of his barn to the ground.
John w. Woodruff, defaulting secre-
tary of the Masonic Grand Lodge OF
Wisconsin, was taken to Berlin and CIV
en- in charge Of two physicians, his rea-
son having been somewhat impaired.
Vaccine virus has been sent to Arl-
IONA, to forestall an outbreak of small
poX among the Indians. -Four cases of
no Hicnnunrnd m
one house at Council Bluffs.
Eleven Indians of the Cree nation
who were convicted of DEMONSTRATING
at the end of the Canada Pacific track.
were brought to Winnipeg by mounted
police, to serve two years in the peni-
Tertiary of Manitoba.
In order to retain a dollar of his vast
fortune, Daniel Wells. Jr., of Milwau-
kee, will be compelled to demonstrate
in the courts that he was not a partner
of Peter McGeoch in the lard cOmbina-
ton.
At an auction sale of American
coins in New York, Washington cent
of 1892 brought $14.60. and another cent
of the same year was knocked down at
S55. A confederate cent, one of the
original specimens, went off ut SlO.25.
The incorporators of the colossal
narrow-gauge railroad scheme at Indi-
annapolis claim that when $10,O0O,OOO
shall have been subscribed by the peo-
pie, California capitalists stand ready
to take the remaining stock.
Nearly all the glassware factories in
the vicinity of Wheeling shut down at
noon Saturday. for six weeks. throwing
out ], 200 men, 800 girls, and 1000 boys,
cutting off the disbursement of $4,000
per week.
Major Phipps, formerly superinten-
dent of the Philadelphia almshouse, who
perpetrated heavy forgeries and fled to
Canada, from which country he was eX-
tradited, has been sentenced to five
years. solitary confinement in the coun-
ty prison at hard labor.
Sections of freight train on the Lou
isville, New Albany and Chicago road
collided near Bedford. Indiana, killing
Conductor Mccoy and seriously injur-
ing Fireman Searls. The engineer and
fireman OF one train saved their lives
by leaping out. Several loaded cars
were broken to pieces.
A farmers team in Milwaukee be-
came frightened by band of music
and dashed through a procession of
school children on Forest Home ave-
nue., trampling down the little ones.
The driver received fatal injuries, one
girl was killed, and ten others more or
less hurt.
The almshouse near Harrisburg, Pa,
valued at 100000, was destroyed by
fire, Monday. All the inmates were re-
moved in safety, but twelve lunatics
escaped. Tents have been pitched near
the ruins for the paupers, and the in
sane have been sent to the State aSy-
lum.
There is deep feeling among members
of the Masonic order in Canada on ac-
count of the decision that under the
laws the. acts of the Grand lodge of
Quebec are illegal and that all who have
united with it can be subjected to heavy
penalties. The question will pass into
the Dominion courts and thence be
appealed to the law lords of England.
The movement against the use of the
trade dollar is extending over the East
ern States. After several thousand had
been paid out at the mills at Harris
burg, Saturday, the stores declined to
receive them. Two railroads and all
the banks in Philadelphia have pro-
scribed the coin. The Cincinnati bank
ers have followed suit.
The wife of John j. Rust, of East
Saginaw, Michigan, has obtained a
divorce. with S3l 900 and the only child.
About five years ago Mr.. Rust received
100000 from the estate of his father,
much of which is said to have been
wasted. Mrs. Rust is daughter of
Revenue Collector Ripley, and was
leader in society.
At meeting of the creditors of Nc.
Geoch, Everingham & Co., of Chicago,
Receiver Bensley stated the unsecured
liabilities at $1.344,911, and reported
100000 cash on hand. Mr.. McGeoch
has offered to pay $3.50, 900 cash at once
for full discharge of claims, and the
receiver urged those present to take SO
per cent. in settlement. The PROPOSE.
tion was accepted with but one dissent
ing voice, Judson 5. Rumsey Directing