The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-28

control on hill in Penn avenue, and
dashed down against the horses with
such serious effect that they were shot
to end their misery. Nearly every oc-
cupant of the car was bruised.
The wives of number of leading
citizens Of Montreal wrote to Lady
Lansdowne urging her to intercede
with the governor general for a COM
mutation of Mrs. Boutel's death-sen-
tence. The latest dispatches report
that she is to be imprisoned for life.
The only saloon in Bladensburg,
Ohio, was on Saturday night invaded
by party of citizens, one of whom
threw stone, which fractured the
skull of the proprietor and caused his
speedy death. All liquors to be found
were poured into the street and burned.
A few days ago near gainesville,
Tenn, while John Henry, splendid
young fellow, was watching neighbor
from the handle and struck young
Henry on the head, crushing the skull.
The young man is believed to be dying.
A refining firm at Cleveland has sued
the Lake Shore road for 100000 dam
ages, sustained through discrimination
in favor of the Standard Oil company.
The general freight agent admitted on
the witneSs-stand that the monopoly
was given lower rates because of larger
shipments.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed at Indianapolis, Ind, in behalf of
the Eastern 81 Western Airline Rail-
way, which is said to have q capital
stock of So, 900, 900 and which proposes
to construct continuous line through
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and
Pennsylvania.
Becky Jones, the New York house.
keeper who refused to testify in the
Hammersly will case, is not likely to
gain her freedom by a petition. 1t APP
| pears that the movement originated
with Ferdinand Ward, the banking
swindler, who employed counsel to Sc
cure Becky's release.
Another last spike" was driven
Tuesday afternoon, and the country
now has four transcontinental lines.
The latest addition was formed by the
connection at Huntington, Ore, of the
Oregon Railway. 81 Navigation Com
pany's system with the Oregon Short
Line of the Union Pacific.
A telegraph lineman at work in
Brooklyn saw that something had be-
fallen his fellow-workman eighty feet
above, and made the ascent in time to
lash him to the pole before he became
unconscious from a nervous fit. A
policeman then found fireman's sec
tiOnal ladder, and the sufferer was res
cued.
The clearinghouse returns for New
York last week were $555, I'll 400, de-
crease Of 1876 per cent as compared
with the returns for the corresponding
week in 1883. Chicago's returns ag-
gregated $43, 25S, 2l7, or decrease of
9.7 per cent. Outside of New York
the falling off as compared with the
corresponding period in 1888 was per
cent.
What constitutes the net earnings of
the Union Pacific'S main line under the
Thurman act, and what is fair COM
pensation for the Government to pay
the road for carrying the mails, are the
two questions to be argued before the
United States Court of Claims. The
lawyers began talking yesterday and
will keep it up for the nexttwo or three
weeks.
Jefferson Davis, in q card to u st.
Louis journal, denies u statement re-
Gently made by General Sherman that
the former said he would turn Lees
army against any state that might at
tempt to secede from the confederacy.
An interview drew from General Sher-
man the remark that in due time Mr..
Davis will get all he wants in the way
of proof.
One of the questions which is being
agitated before the Plenary Council at
Baltimore is that of mixed marriages.
1t is probable that the council will for
bid the solemnization of marriages be-
tween Catholics and Protestants in the
churches unless by special dispensation
from the Pope. and it may go even fur
ther and forbid them altogether on pain
OF communication.
The Lancaster Pa crematorium,
built by the Lancaster Cremation and
Gated Tuesday afternoon. The body
of Mrs. Frederick Beseler of Jersey
City, for some time dead, was then re-
duced to ashes in little over an hour.
A number of applications for crema-
ton have already been received from
different parts OF the country.
A customs inspector from Chicago,
aided by two special treasury agents,
seized at New York about $4,000
worth of jewelry in possession of Ed
ward Morris, of Vienna, who recently
swindled Chicago merchants out of
considerable sums. The goods were
forfeited to the Government as snug
gled. Morris proves to have been
burglar in Vienna, where his picture
adorns the rogues' gallery. He has
been discharged from arrest, as Gov
ernor Cleveland deemed the evidence
insufficient for extradition.
The official count for thirty-six cleo
tors in New York apparently shows a
variation Of only 1O6 votes as between
the names borne on the democratic
ticket, and of but "a votes as between
those on the republican ticket. This
is in total of 1 ,l25,000 votes for the
two tickets. The democratic plurality
as between the lowest on the Cleveland
ticket for electors and the highest ON
the Blaine ticket is 1,043. In the close
vote of California, four years ago, it
was found that one republican elect0r
had been chosen; and in New Jersey,
in 1850, Lincoln obtained a fractional
part Of the electoral vote. That upon
SO large a ticket as one containing thir-
ty-six names no serious break should
occur is somewhat remarkable.