The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-12-19


governor of Illinois for a pardon for
John +. BurTell, the embezzling Ma
sonic official, now undergoing five years
| imprisonment in the Chester peniten-
tiary.
The books of the postoflice department
| for the last fiscal year show that mail
service in Illinois paid profit OF S347, :
! 400, while the government contributed
SS45, 404 to maintain postal facilities in
Ohio.
Pierre Prefaux, q blind beggar, whose
face was familiar to nearly everybody
I in Pittsburg, and who recently died
while ON his way to the hospital, is
found to have over $4,000 in a savings
bank.
Mother" Mandelbaum, the famous
receiver of stolen goods in New York,
forfeited her bail Thursday. 1t was
subsequently learned that she is in To-
ronto, where she executed deeds to her
real estate.
Drilling in the natural gas-wells at
Findlay, Ohio, has stopped at depth
| Of 1850 feet, for fear of striking vein
of salt water. The supply of light and,
heat is ample for the fullest demands
of the city.
The senate of Alabama adopted u
Z resolution favoring large appropria-
tons for the schools of the state, and
solemly expressing the purpose OF the
white people to aid in the education OF
| colored children.
j. b. Johnson, now in the peniten-
tiary at Jefferson City, who cost the
state of Missouri 100000 by firing the
prison shops last year, has been SEN
fenced to ten additional years confine-
ment for arson.
President Arthur finds himself I'M
able to be present at the opening of the
New Orleans exposition. Secretary
Teller and Postmaster-G General Hatton
have gone forward III a special car,
with their families.
AT conference of republican poll
ticians in New York, it was decided to
send James ID. Warren to Washington
to learn whether President Arthur de-
sires to make the race for senator
openly or by proxy.
Twenty citizens of Daggett, Califor-
mia, surrounded the officers i'll charge
Of William Pitts, suspected of murder.
and hanged him on n telegraph-pOle.
He was a deserter from the I'd cavalry,
|. stationed at Fort Ellis.
II. w. Sanford, one of the earliest
settlers of Dubuque, who accumulated
fortune of $25O,0O0, died at Sher-
burne, New York, in his 73d year. He
made the circuit of the globe, crossing
the Atlantic seven times.
1t is stated that a representative of
the Canadian Pacific syndicate has
gone to Manitoba to purchase wheat
with "a ,OCO,O 900 advanced by the Bank
of Montreal. The grain will be stored
at Port Arthur until spring.
There are twelve hundred men at
work in the Eau Claire and Chippewa
pineries, in Wisconsin, and three hun
dred in the woods on Black river. The
heavier lumber corporations propose
to largely curtail their product.
Miss linn, of Cincinnati, caused the
arrest of a distateful beau, named Leo
Heller, for making threats. When ar
reigned for trial he attempted to shoot
her, and when others interfered lie
killed himself in the courtroom.
A coach on the Grand Trunk road
was set on fire near Kingston by the ex-
plOsion Of mysterious box carried by
Professor Dawson, of Belleville. Some
of the passengers were nearly suffocat-
ed before the train could be stopped.
The clearinghouse of Raymer, Sea-
grave 81 Co., Of Toledo, Ohio, has been
compelled to suspend business, with
liabilities of $500, COO. Its assets include
the Erie street railway. c0ttOn-mill,
and large number of new buildings.
The iron firm of Tug q Co., of Pitts
burg, has thrown twelve hundred men
out of employment. The Keystone
Bridge company will next month re-
duce wages Is per cent, and a planning
mill is about to cut its employees 10
per cent.
1t is rumored that The London Iele-
| graph has purchased large tract of
| land in the MOjave desert, OH the Pa
cific coast, to use the yucca plant in
the manufacture of paper, the pulp to
be shipped to New Orleans for Liver
pool.
The banking house of Opdyke &
Co., of New York, which was founded
by former mayor of that city, sus-
ended payment Monday, with liabili-
ties of. 100000. A speculative GUS
TONER is charged with wrecking the
house.
Judge Baxter, of Cincinnati, has Or
Valley road to show cause why he
should not be punished for contempt
in discriminating against w. p. Rend
u Co., as to facilities and charges for
carrying coal.
The cap-stOne of the Washington
monument was on Saturday noon low
cred into place, 555 feet from the
ground. The cornerstone was laid
in 1913 by Roberto. Winthrop, who has
been selected to deliver the Grafton
next February.
George Snyder, of Darrtown, Ohio,
killed his aged mother with a shovel
and buried her in ravine, to obtain
| 500 which he had paid her as interest
on mortgage. The deed was perpe-
trated last month, but was only discOv-
cred on Friday.
The manufacturers Of Youngstown,
Ohio, are considering the practicable
| ity of pipe line to force natural gas
| from Butler county, Pennsylvania, for
light and fuel. The distance is twenty
six miles, and the estimated cost of tile
| scheme is $4,000.
Lucy Maclem, the daughter of g
hero of the Revolution, once well
known to the literary world and said
to have been engaged 10 Salmon p.
Chase, was sent to Blackwell's island
by New York police judge, for beg
| cling OH the streets.