The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-07-11

morrison Aunford, ID. IL. Francis, and
Charles III. Mansur. Governor Critten-
den heads the list of alternates.
A train on the Virginia Midland road
became disabled by some accident to
the air-brakes, and ran at high speed
sleeping-cars went down into the
James river. but the passengers were
rescued through the ventilatOrs.
Allan Pinkerton, the famous detect
i've, who died Tuesday in Chicago, was
born in Glasgow in 1919. He never
fully recovered from a stroke of
paralysis received in 1869. He leaves
widow, two sons, and a daughter, and
was possessed of large fortune.
Horatio Seymour pronounces Gov
ernor Cleveland the wise choice of the
New York democratic delegation for
the presidential nomination, and ex-
presses the opinion that the elements
of the opposition will not fail to sup
port him when placed in the field.
The federal grand jury at Madison.
Wisconsin, has indicted Col. George A.
Henry, a timber agent, for receiving
trespassers. He is prominent citi-
zen of Eau Claire. The money is said
to have been lost at the poker table.
Reports of the clearings from twenty
six leading cities of the United States
during the last week show a decrease
in the aggregate, as compared with the
clearings of the corresponding week
last year, of per cent. There was an
increase Of 81 per cent. in New York.
The sheriff of the Cherokee nation is
engaged in taking down fences ON all
tracts larger than fifty acres, and con-
| iiScating the wire. He began work
south of Coffeyville and has removed
thousands of miles from Enclosures
which exceeded the limit fixed by the
council.
In the trial of the Mount Pulaski
murderers at Lincoln, Ills, the jury
found j. III. Hall guilty, and fixed his
punishment at life imprisonment
William Ferris and Mrs. Hall were ac-
quilted, but will be tried under indict-
ments for the killing of Carter and
Mattheny.
The common pleas court at Column
bus, Ohio, has decided that the arrest
of base ball player on Sunday is legal
and the offender was refused writ of
habeas corpus. The manager of the
club states that base ball cannot be
supported in that city without Sunday
games.
The citizens of eastern Montana are
urging Secretary Teller to remove nine
hundred renegade Cheyenne Indians
from the lands along the Tongue and
Rosebud rivers. The savages are kill
ing cattle, having nothing else on which
to subsist, and the stockmen threaten
to appeal to arms.
The Central Pacific road has asked
its employees to give thirty days. credit
for the amount of their wages, in order
to accumulate funds to meet more
pressing demands. Charles Croker
admits that only % cents can be OBJ
tanned on Southern Pacific bonds, and
that he is trying hard to borrow some
money.
The late Samuel Shoemaker, of Bal
timore, directed that $25, 900 be given
his sons when they each arrive at the
ages of 81, %, and 35 years. The re-
mainder of $l,0C0,000 is left to a trust
company to divide the income among
his children and grandchildren during
their lives.
The residence of Mrs. Patrick Muir
ply at Brier Hill, near Youngstown,
Ohio, was destroyed by fire at an early
hour Monday morning. Three of her
children, aged 5, Z and years, persisted
in the flames. Mrs. Murphy herself es-
capped, and she succeeded in rescuing
her fourth child.
Thomas j. Watson, the heaviest OPP
orator OH the petroleum exchange at
Pittsburg, defaulted Wednesday on
contract for 1900 barrels, causing the
market to break to Gil cents. 1t will
be remembered that he is now under
bail on a charge of conspiracy to de-
fraud the Penn bank, where his ac-
count was overdrawn $97, 900.
The trotting challenge issued by the
If Vuu Exyn ic t,.ao tod
Vanderbilt as an impertinence. The
latter says Maud S. is kept for his own
amusement, being the fastest and the
handsomest piece of horse flesh in the
world, and there are horses that he
would not accept as gift if they
could trot mile in q minute.
The litigation at Vincennes, Ind.
between Spear s. Hollingsworth county
treasurer, and William Sachs, formerly
city marshal, was on Friday night fol-
lowed by an ARRAY in which several
shots were fired. Mrs. Sachs has left
the city with her daughter. The COM
batants have preferred against each
other charges OF assault with intent to
kill.
BY order of the United States court
at Cincinnati, the divisions of the
Cincinnati, Toledo and st. Louis road
were sold at auction to committees rep
resenting the bondholders. The iron
road and branches of eighteen miles
brought $500, 900; the Dayton division,
95 miles, sold for $125,000; the South
eastern division, $50 miles, realized
900, and the Cincinnati division, 10
miles, brought $4,000.
Wrecked corporations are just now
attracting attention. The president of
the Oregon and Transcontinental COM
pany complains that banking house
in New FORK sold out its collaterals on
loan Of e50,000. The receivers of the
Reading road have not yet arranged to
pay the July interest. Denver and Rio
Grande officials refuse to give any in
formation as to the coupons maturing
next month. w. +. Whitehouse, rep
resehting the English stockholders of
the Louisville and Nashville road, says
the company can raise in an hour all
the money it wants when the stock
market becomes steady. Robert Harris
states that the Northern Pacific would
like to lease the Oregon Navigation on
profitable terms. Gould, having bled
the Wabash road to death. will discOn-
meet the cOrDSe from hie Missouri Da-