The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-07-18

The schooner Westchester, which
reached Chicago Sunday, reports that
on Friday evening ballsof fire appeared
for two hours on the end of the jibboom
and on the topmasts, rapidly changing
position, and causing o kissing noise.
They were accompanied by several
hundred sea gull, which seemed dazed
by the phenomenon.
The assignee of Grant & Ward, New
York, has filed an inventory showing
of $67, TIA, and nominal assets of ST.
139,098. He reports that they kept no
journal or cash book, had no complete
list of assets, and rehypothecated large
amounts OF securities left with them
as securities for loans.
The late Allan Pinkerton, Of Chi
cago, left $125,000 in real estate and
So, 900 in securities. His will was adj
mitted to probate, the widow giving
bonds as executrix. Deceased direct
ed that the farm in Iroquois county
remain forever in the family, and that
the sons continue the detective agen-
cies and preventive watch.
w. r. McGill. president of the Gin
cinnati and Eastern. railroad, recently
lost his life by q fall from the door of
baggage-car on the trestle-work near
Winchester, Ohio. 1t is now learned
that he had been securing money on
forged notes, the amount involved
being about $50, 900, and the conviction
grows that he committed suicide.
A. X. Armsby & Co., canned-goods
dealers at Chicago, have transferred
their entire stock and assets to George
Il. Newell q Co., of Minneapolis, the
inventory being 100000. It is ad-
mitted that the retiring firm owes
$260, 600, mainly in Chicago and New
York. 1t has been doing q business of
from So, 900, 900 to SIS, 0OO, 900 per year.
The dry-goods firm Of Halstead,
Haines s. Co., of New York, made an
assignment Saturday, with preferences
of $417,OOO. The liabilities are esti-
mated at from 1000, 900 to 81, 0O0, 900.
The failures are also announced Of
John w. Mcfarland. an iron manu-
facturer of Alliance, Ohio, and j. M.
Hamburger, a picture-dealer Of New
York.
The pork-packers of Chicago held
meeting Thursday evening to consider
The controversy with the commission
merchants. Desiring to continue the
dockage system, In order to uphold the
VI tillo uloIhOb, Lu0 pdChOI0
resolved to buy no hogs except Of the
proper system of inspection is mutually
arranged.
Frank Crandall has lain in Jail in De-
trOit for nearly year on judgment
for accepting $4,000 on a genuine draft
flom Fort Worth, which should have
been filled out for $500. He was about
to be released under the old debtors
act when the bank which he victimized
applied for writ of error. 1t is pro-
posed to keep him in Jail several years
by paying his board.
Fifty men representing the Gates
faction in northern Louisiana took
fOrcible possession of the courthouse
at New Iberia while the Fontelieu
party were in an adjacent saloon. AS
reinfOrcements were summoned by
both sides, bloody encounter was
only averted by q compromise between
the leaders, who promise to let the
courts decide the issue.
w. j. Lucas, jailer at Owensboro,
Kentucky. was early Monday morning
riddled with bullets by mob to whom
he refused to surrender the keys. His
wife took his pistol and vainly endeav-
ored to drive back the bloodthirsty
crowd. They then took anegro named
Richard May, who had made criminal
assault on a white girl, and hanged
him to q tree in the courthouse yard.
Major Nj. H. Kidd has been nomi-
mated for congress by the democrats of
the Eleventh Indiana district. Jas. x.
Jones was renominated in the Third
Arkansas district, and will be opposed
by Judge G. e. Mitchell. The demo-
Gratis of the Seventeenth Illinois dis
Merriman will receive the democratic
nomination in the Fourth Minnesota
district.
The private banking house of Fletch-
er & Sharpe, at Indianapolis, suspended
ment to William Wallace, who gave
bond in $5OO,OOO. The failure caused
quite run on other banking houses.
The suspension is supposed to be due
to large advances on grain andpOrk pa
per, on which currency could not be
obtained. Assurance is given that the
assets are ample to meet all claims by
depositors.
The report that Jay Gould was be-
lieved to have retired from the Mercan-
tile Trust company was officially con-
firmed Tuesday. AT the office Of Mr..
Gould it was reported that both Jay
Gould and his son, Geo.J Gould had sold
all their stock in the Mercantile Trust
company and retired from the board Of
directors, of which both father and son
were members. The retirement Of the
Goulds was brought about by the di-
rectors of the Trust company, who, 1t
is said refused to renew Gould's loans.
This made Jay 'tired," as stock
broker put it, "and as he couldn't get
out of the trust company he
got out himself"