The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-04-18


The strike OF unpaid employees OF the
Toledo, Cincinnati and st. Louis road
extends from Dayton to Cincinnati,
and is daily gaining force. None but
mail trains are allowed to pass Dayton.
In the federal court at Indianapolis,
Matilda @. Wingate was awarded SIS, 0OO
damages against the Ohio and Missis-
sippi road for the killing of her hus-
band on train by drunken passen-
ger.
Victor w. Clough, of Geneseo, ILL.,
nois. made one hundred miles on roller
skates in five minutes less than ten
hours. When he left the track the
muscles OF his legs were swollen and
numb.
Henry's hank, at Mineral Point, Wis,
which held deposits of $4,000, closed
its doors Saturday. Mr.. Henry died
last year, and his widow became en-
barrassed by the locking up of assets in
the probate court.
The nineteenth anniversary Of the
death of Abraham Lincoln was COM
memOrated ut the tomb in Springfield
were addressed by General Palmer and
Colonel j. III. Matheny.
The steamship Reliance, plying be-
tween New York and Rio de Janeir0,
was lost off Bahia. with cargo OF
coffee. Her passengers and mails were
saved. Among the shipwrecked are
Minister Osborne, of Brazil.
Nearly all the stockholders of the
First National bank Of Monmouth,
Illinois. voted to levy any assessment
required to resume business, but Comp
trOller Knox subsequently telegraphed
that a receiver is necessary.
A delegation of congressman from
the Pacific coast has started for New
York, having arranged for an interview
with Mr.. Tilden to obtain positive
declaration whether he will accept
nomination for the presidency.
The recent arrest of Lorenzo Dimick
at Buffalo for defrauding marine in
surance companies. was followed by
the apprehension of his former part
cagO, on charges of completely.
An ignorant fellow named Guymann
Endorsed a stolen draft at Appleton,
Wisconsin, and was jailed. He then
confessed that himself and compan-
ion stole mailbag at Menasha, Sat
uqday evening, and rifled the letters.
j. r. B. DanfOrth, an entry clerk at
Macon. Georgia, having had dispute
with William Lansburg. his employer,
as to salary, went to the store in the
evening and fired five barrels of a re-
volver at him, killing him instantly.
The governor general of Cuba tele-
graphed to the Spanish consul at Key
West that Aurelio MayOll had sailed
with the avOwed purpose OF killing
him. When the would-be assassin
reached American soil, he was arrested.
John A.Logan secured the delegates
in the Fourth, Ninth, Fifteenth and
| Sixteenth Illinois congressional dis
tricts Friday. The Missouri delegation
is said to stand IL for Blaine, 8 for Ar
thur, for Logan and for Edmunds.
William ii. Vanderbilt, in card to
the stockholders OF the Rock Island
road, declares II. Fl. Porter unworthy
of dictatorship, and asks for proxies
to be used in the election Of John New
ell as his successor on the board.
! The train-lOad of corn donated by
the Butler county (Kansas) farmers for
the relief of the Ohio 1OOd-sufferers
reached Cincinnati Friday. The corn
will be sold and the price distributed in
accordance with the wishes of the dom
Ors.
Seven hundred and ninety-five re-
ports from $40 townships in Michigan
indicate that the winter wheat crop
and the clover crop will be about 95
per cent, apples about 80 per cent. and
peaches but so per cent. Of an average
crop.
John L. Cramer, clerk in the treas.
ury department; was called into the
badly pummeled, for writing insulting
letters to lady. Soon afterward Sec
re.ary Folger ordered Cramer's dis
missal.
The relief committee appointed last
February by the Cincinnati chamber Of
commerce reports the receipt OF $751;
900. Much of this amount was distri-
buted outside the city, and $1,000 on
hand will be used in aiding the poor to
restore their dwellings.
Ii. G. Atkinson, assistant superin-
tendent of the st. Paul road, who was
recently paralyzed at Lacrosse, has
since burst u blood-vessel in his brain.
He is said to have lately lost all his
property in wheat speculatiOns, and has
transferred his $40, 00Oresidence in Mil
| waukee.
The special grand jury at Cincinnati
was charged by Judge. Avery to in
quire into the riots, the burning Of the
courthouse, and the rumors that the
Berner jury was tempered with. Cor
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| the bodies of thirteen victims OF the
outbreak.
A coal operator well known through
out the United States, when interview
ed in Chicago, stated his belief that
anthracite will sell at from Is to SO
cents ton less this summer than last,
as the pool has but little strength. Soft
coal is lower, and the production is in
creasing.
A floating paragraph about the sale
of relics from the scaffold on which
| OsawatOmie Brown was hanged calls
out a statement that the original
structure was demolished and carried
off piece-meal by General Patterson's
command III the latter part Of July,
| 1861.
The youngest daughter of ex-GOv-
ernOr Foster. of Ohio, was last June
married to his private secretary, Fred
ID. Mussey. He was sixteen years
older than his bride. and their unhappy
relations have led to final separation,
the lady returning to her parents at
FOstOria.
DIR. s. w. Madden, of Scranton, Pa,
| was arrested on complaint of a Young