The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-01-05

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fired upon, the indignity being increas-
ed by an arrest and imprisonment. He
was. promptly released by the police
justice.
The Connecticut legislature organic
ed Wednesday by electing Robert Colt
as president pro tenn, OF the senate and
Charles III. Pine as speaker of the
house. The black ballots were declar-
ed valid votes, and Governor Waller
and the other democratic officers were
installed.
A railway postal clerk, named b.
FOlkenheimer, who had charge of the
transfer service at the Union depot in
st. Louis. has been arrested for with
holding decOy letters for Louisville,
which were found on the counter in his
office. He insists that the package
was overlooked.
The appellate court at Chicago af-
firmed the decision by Judge Gardner
that certificates of membership in the
board of trade are negotiable property
and subject to liens by general credi-
tors and also sustained the imposition
by Judge Gary of fines of 500 OH Chi
eago gamblers.
The railway track between Geneva
and Bellegrade has been washed away.
Five thousand persons have been rem
dered homeless by the floods near
Worms. Preparations have been made
at Vienna to ring the alarm-bells If
the dikes show signs of yielding. The
town of Robstadt is deeply submerged,
and the market square at Dusseldorf Is
flooded.
Johann Most, in a speech in Chicago
Thursday evening, before an immense
audience, urged the tearing down and
cutting of banks, the butchery Of
priests, the arming of socialists with
muskets and heavy ordnance, and the
removal of the president Of the United
States. These sentiments were greet
ed with wild applause.
While watch-night services were be-
ing held in a church at Reading, Penn
sylvania, twenty young men backed a
large cannon against the building and
fired it. The front wall was crushed
in and every pane of glass was shatter-
ed down upon the congregation. Sew
eral of the Observation-Disclosures are now in
Jail.
Mayor Edison, of New York, in his
inaugural message, states that the
wharves are inadequate to the accom-
mediation of commerce. the water sup
ply is insufficient, the facilities for ex-
tinguishing fires are too limited, police
and hospital accommodations are lack
ing. and the work of identifying the
city has been neglected. The net mu-
nicipal debt is 800, l4l ,94S.
At the request of Senator Vest, the
governor of Montana has given his
views on the protection of game in the
Yellowstone National park. He urges
the extension of the limits of the park
to the eastward, and that an engineer
officer of the army be detailed as gener-
al superintendent. with authority to
call on the military for troops required
to enforce the federal statutes and ter
r.torial laws.
David b. Hill, lieutenant governor
elect of New York, resigned the office
of mayor of Elmira, Thursday. The
council balloted twelve times for his
successor, with Alderman Stephen L.
ArnOt in the chair, the latter declaring
himself elected by s to 8. Alderman
Walker asked to examine the ballots,
but Arnot held to his decision.
The people of Cincinnati were great
ly surprised by the announcement that
the Gazette had been arranged by Murat
on the completion of the necessary me-
chanical preparations new paper will
be issued bearing the double name.
The scheme has been in contemplation
for nearly year.
A suit has been commenced at Bal
timore for receiver for the Peoples
a IL atl hn
ground that the stockholders are being
robbed by the president. ex-senator
Patterson. the South Carolina carpet
Dagger. Don Cameron holds a large
in the concern, and after a
long conference with Patterson he de-
cided to fight the application.
John McElvee, who deserted from
the 18th Illinois volunteers in 1863, and
attempted to secure pension,
wrote to the adjutant general at Wash
ingtOn, and was informed that he could
only receive discharge papers by sur
for trial. He therefore gave
himself up to the recruiting officer at
Chicago, and was forwarded to Column
bus for court-martial.
The New Year reception at the
white house, in which the president
was assisted by twenty-five ladies of
high social rank, and which was one of
the most brilliant in the history of the
national capital, was suddenly closed
by the death by heart disease of the
Hawaiian minister. Hon. Elisha Allen,
lean OF the diplomatic corps, who had
Just presented the members of the va
rious legations to the chief magistrate.
Gambetta. the day before he became
complained of torture like
! fire-ball IN his stomach. The doctors
discovered that the abscess had burst
internally early Sunday evening. Some
hours later he revived sufficiently to
hank his friends for their attention.
A stream of leading republicans flowed
through the death chamber all New
Years day. The family desires that
he funeral take place at Nice, but |
friends advise that it take place in
Paris. The German journals generally
lgree that the demise of Gambetta Is |
lie best assurance of peace,