The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-03
evansville ana ST. LOUIS

road.
Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, takes
five columns of Springfield paper to
deny the charge made against himself
and the adjutant general of conspiring
to secure the militia fund.
The republican state committee of
Massachusetts has called the conven-
ton at Boston for September 10. Tai
bot and Robinson seem to be the lead
ing candidates for governor.
The saloon-keepers Of st. Louis on
Sunday paid no attention to the Sunday
law. They have made up purse Of
$10,500 to employ counsel. The police
went the rounds and made note of all
violations OF the law.
Six operators employed by the Chica-
go and Alton road at Bloomington, Hi
nois, were on Tuesday discharged for
refusing to handle commercial bust
ness and their places were filled by men
not belonging to the Brotherhood.
Charles Burke of Cleveland, recently
drove away stepson IS years of age.
The boys mother was rendered nearly
insane, and on Monday night she went
down to the lake in her sleeping gar
ment and drowned herself.
The funeral of Hon. Thomas Hoyne
was attended by scores of the repre-
sentative men of Chicago, and the
floral tributes were in the highest taste.
Father Lonergan celebrated requiem
high mass.
At the Pennsylvania steel-works in
Harrisburg, as a red-hot rail was being
pushed toward the saw, w. H. Muench
undertook to cross its path, and his
stomach was pierced in such manner
that he survived only an hour.
Advices from the wheat-felds of
Minnesota and northern Dakota report
the crop safe from drought. The harv-
est will commence next week, and the
yield is expected to average better than
last year.
William Mosley, undergoing a SEN
tence OF twelve years imprisonment In
the county jail at Sunbury, Pennsylva-
mia, for murder, hanged himself in his
cell Sunday night, making a rope out of
the sheeting.
A syndicate with unlimited capital
has been formed at Pittsburg to secure
control of the coke-ovenS in the Con-
nellsville region. w. X. Vanderbilt is
interested because of the freight traffic
of his new road.
Over one thousand Catholic pilgrims,
dCCOLl ptlllcu NY ~ Diouop dll lull ICCLi
priests, have left Ottawa by rail for St.
the waters are said to possess marvel
Gus curative powers,
Two of the thieves who last Saturday
attempted to take $4,000 from bank
cashier at Jersey City have already
been sentenced to ten years each in
state prison. One of them was former
lya policeman.
1t is alleged that the adjutant general
of Illinois, by the connivance of officers
of the National Guard, attempted to
secure 100000 from the militia fund by
means of bogus vouchers. Governor
Hamilton refused to approve the ficti-
tious paper.
Reports from the managers of twen-
ty-eight leading clearing houses of the
United States, giving the cearances for
the week ending July rs, show very
unfavorable state OF affairs, not only as
compared with last week, but with the
corresponding week last year.
In the Central police district Of st.
Louis the officers Monday swore out
warrants against 236 violators of the
Sunday law. The prosecuting attorney
will not push the charges against livery
men, but will make test case against
Sunday newspapers.
A posse in Arkansas pursuing the
outlaws from Montgomery, Yell and
Garland counties came up with the
Daniel brothers in the mountains of
Berry county. In the fight which en-
sued, two OF the pursuers were Killed
and the desperadoes escaped.
At the meeting of the South Carolina
grange, Senator Butler argued that
negro labor grows more worthless each
year; that 1000 black hands could be
safely spared, and that Chinese ought
to be imported to cultivate the cotton
fields.
Edward Swartz, residing near Read
ing, Pennsylvania, recently suffered a
dislocation of the neck by the falling
limb of a tree. Eight doctors found
the fourth joint fractured, and four of
them are said to have reduced the frac-
ture and saved the patients life.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany reports that its wires were cut
Tuesday at various points in the vicin-
ity of New York. The strikers offer to
pay as large sum as the company for
the detection of any one engaged in any
such work.
Louisville is described as mass of
Haunting flags, interspersed with por-
traits of Lincoln, Grant and Garfield.
President Arthur and party and Gen.
eral Sheridan and staff arrived Tuesday
evening, the former receiving an artil-
lery salute.
At Newark, New Jersey, Tuesday
evening, John Brixius was shot in the
head by scapegrace nephew of the
same name. The latter fled to the salt
meadows, put two bullets into his
head, and leaped into the water, where
he soon expired.
A mob at Dublin seized bedding and
furniture in Abbey street with which
to make bonfires in celebration of the
assassination of James Carey. Mock
funerals were held in various Irish
towns. News of the shooting was Of
fered London journal Saturday even
ing.
An excursion train on the home,
Watertown and Ogdensburgh road,
running at high rate of speed, struck
freight-car which had blown partly
oxar in, n uaIo Of Carlton Citation Tha