The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-02-02

special agent of the pension department.
has pleaded guilty to four charges OF
forgery. and his friends will make Wig
orous efforts to secure light sentence.
Congress is asked to vote 500, 900 for
l52 letters from Washington 10 ROch-
ambeau, and $4,000 for Matt Carpen-
ter's collection of supreme court decis-
ions and briefs.
Ashley w. Wright, who is said to
have been a colonel Of an Illinois caval-
ry regiment during the war, killed him
self with revolver at MERGED, Califor-
mia.
Thirty men gathered Monday on the
public square at Kansas City and ar
ranged to ship their wagons and sup
plies to C0ffeyyille, Kansas, to join the
Oklahoma raiders.
Marshal Costing, of western Texas,
went to Tennessee with Defaulter Polk,
and the federal court was compelled to
adjourn for lack of attention. He has
been reported to Attorney General
Brewster.
BY vote of % to %, the senate of In
diana has decided that the prohibition
and woman-suffrage amendments to the
constitution are not legally pending,
and can only be considered as new
matter.
The bill to authorize the Southern
Pacific, Chesapeake and Ohio, and six
connecting roads to consolidate into a
transcontinental line has been favOra-
bly, reported by the senate committee
on railroads.
Walker g. Co., whisky merchants. of
Louisville, have succumbed to the agi-
tatiOn in congress over the bonded peri
cd, and placed their stock in the hands
of an assignee to meet liabilities Of
nearly $4,000.
w. II. Vanderbilt states that he Is
not ready to start for San Francisco
next Wednesday. He claims that he
can traverse the country in any direc-
ton without kidnapers learning Of his
movements five minutes in advance.
The resignation of the French minis
ter of marine appears to have been
followed by that of all the other men,
bers OF the cabinet, and FOllieres and
Jules Ferry are in conference with
President Grevy.
On plantation in Laurens county,
South Carolina, some negroes killed and
ate goose which had been bitten by a
mad dog. Five of the family have died,
and four others were In commissions at
the time of the last report.
The execution of George w. Traugh-
Der at Taylorville, Illinois, is claimed
to have been one of the quickest on
record. the murderer being dead in nine
minutes from the time he climbed the
scaffOld stairs in his velvet slippers.
Reports from the Oklahoma colonists
are to the effect that six hundred are
concentrated near Arkansas City; that
fifty left Kansas City for Coffeyville,
and that one thousand will within three
days cross the boundary line.
There is good reason to believe that
Jay Gould induced Thomas G. Platt to
order Harvey d. COlvin, of Chicago, to
drop the. Western Union telegraph
scheme in which he has achieved such
notOriety of late.
The steam-pipes laid in the streets
of New York exploded last week at two
points. At the corner of Broadway
and Maiden lane, Sunday noon, two
men were seriously injured, and pieces
of iron were blown into third-floOr win
dOws.
A committee of the grangers of Penn
sylvania, assisted by Judge J. 8. Black.
have prepared an act which proposes to
abolish all taxation except on $4,000
000, 600 of property in that state, and the
imposition of a tax of five mills on each
dollar, producing $50, 0OO, 900 per annum.
A citizen of Des Moines, Iowa, has
secured an injunction against NUM-
cipal loan of $4,000 with which to pay
for the new city buildings, on the ground
that the city debt of $4,000 already
exceeds the constitutional limit of
per cent. on the taxable property.
There is now before the Nebraska
house resolution which has already
passed the legislatures OF Kansas, Iowa,
Colorado, and Wyoming, asking con-
gress to provide means of protection
against the introduction of contagious
diseases among the herds.
A bill has been introduced in the SEN
ate Of Minnesota to force the submits
sion to the railroad commissioner Of all
for pooling or dividing
traffic. and giving him power to pass
upon new roads before they are thrown
open to the public.
A space of nearly forty acres above
the Delaware and Hudson mine at
Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, caved in
Wednesday morning, the dwellings
The cause Is believed to be the decay
OF the props.
The postmaster general has forbidden
the delivery of money-orders to five
pretended grain-brokerage firms of
Chicago, operating under the titles of
Il Merriam, r.. +. Kendall Il
Co., Charles j. Henri & Co., Bennett,
HOFFMAN & Co., and Cudworth & Co.
After prospecting for eighteen
in the state Of Durango, Next
co, Captain Freeman has returned to
st. Louis with a ton of smelted tin and
rich ores, and claims to have obtained
from the government valuable grants
for working the mines.
A snow-slide near Irwin, Colorado,
early Tuesday morning, travelled mile
to the bottom of the gulch, sweeping
away eight men and the shaft-houses
Of six mines. j. w. Goodspeed, BROTH
er of the Baptist clergyman of Chicago,
was recently buried a. hundred feet by
a slide near Gothic.
In the Ohio house, Tuesday, Miller,
of Mercer county, who was on the verge
of delirium tremens, created deep
sensation nv threatening Sneaker Hodoe