The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-20

wires. secretary whitney mas ordered
the Yantic to sail from New Orleans
for Guatemala and protect American
interests.
In the United States district court
at Chicago, after listening all day to
the arguments relative to new trial
for j. G. Mackin and j. w. Gallagher,
the election conspirators, Judge Blodg-
EFT formally sentenced them to two
years Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary at Joliet, and imposed upon them
fines of $50 0each. He ordered them
into the custody of the marshal, and
deferred their removal to prison for
ten days.
The Iowa Supreme Court has rem
dered decision affirming the constitu-
tionality of the new prOhibitory law
and providing for its speedy enforce
ment. The court virtually declared
that saloons may be enjoined as nui-
sances, and any citizen is practically
given the power to close Up a saloon
without trial by jury. If a saloon
keeper disobeys an injunction he can
be punished with fine of $1,000 and
six months imprisonment. Prohi-
bitiOnists claim that they can close
every saloon in the State.
A sensational scene occurred in the
Indiana House Tuesday. John M.
Goar, trustee of the Knightstown Sol
diers' Orphans Home, who was inves-
tigated by legislative committee for
having, as was alleged, seduced one of
the female wards of the institution,
and concerning whom report was
made confirming the truth of the
charges. visited the House. That body
unanimously passed resolution re-
citing his infamous conduct and re-
quesling him not to inflict his presence
ON the legislature. The obnoxious
trustee accordingly withdrew.
The strikers on the Gould railroads
in the southwest have been successful
and the railroads have been forced to
yield to their demands. AS q result
of the conference held Sunday at st.
Louis between the officials of Kansas
and Missouri and the managers of the
Gould system, the latter published an
official circular restoring wages to the
figures in force before Sept. /, 1884, the
date OF the first cut, and retaining all
the strikers in their positions. The
railroads promise to give thirty days.
wages is made, and guarantee one and
one-half the regular rates for extra
work.
A report on the condition of winter
wheat in Indiana and Illinois says: In
Southern Indiana the plants have suf-
fered severely from the alternating
thawing and freezing. In eleven
counties in Indiana and four counties
III Illinois not even fair crop is ex-
pected, but the reports from eight Illi-
nois and two Indiana counties indicate
that the crop is uninjured. Even the
most discouraging dispatches do not
indicate any great injury to the roots.
and the farmers hope that few weeks
Of good growing weather will repair
all damages. Peaches in all sections
are total failure. Apples and small
fruits escaped better and the indica-
lions point to a good average crop.
Active preparations are being made
by San Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa
Rica to resist the usurpatiOn of Gen.
Barrios, president of Guatemala, who
has declared his intention to form
union and assume supreme command
of all the Central American States.
Honduras accepted the declaration, but
the other states refused to acquiesce.
General Barrios has accordingly dis
patched an armed force against San
has been appealed to and has telegraph
ed TO General Barrios expressing the
determination OF the Mexican Govern
ment to resist any aggression. A res
olutlon was introduced i'll the United
States Senate, Thursday, calling upon
the Secretary Of State for information
the condition of affairs in
Central America.
An important civl-service regulation
provides that no person shall be per-
mitted to apply for a clerical position
in the post0fice department who is
over 35, and that no one will be allow
ed 10 make application for position in
the treasury department who is over
40, unless in either case the applicant
is an honorably-discharged Union sol
der or sailor. BY strict interpreta-
ton of this rule no eX-confederate could
hold clerical position in the postollice
if he WIS more than IL
years old in 1860, or in the treasury if
he was more than 20 years Of age when
the war broke out. This discovery has
created some excitement among the
Southern men, since the enforcement
of the regulation would unqueStionably
served in the war.
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the invasion of Oklahoma
was receiv, by the boomers at Arkan-
sas City, Kas., with great disappoint-
ment and indignation. The colonists
held meeting and passed resolution
against the proclamation
and condemnlng the &C ion of General
Hatch in representing that there were
no trespassers in Oklahoma, when to
his knowledge the cattlemen held pos
session of the lands. General Weaver
and eX-Congressman Clarke, represent
tatives of the Oklahoma settlers, sent
a telegram from Washington to the
colonists informing them that The pres
dents proclamation was merely in
tended to eject the cattle syndicates
and to suspend the settlement of the
country pending negotiations with the
Creeks and Seminoles looking to the
opening of the lands. The Oklahoma
have urged Secretary
Lamar to conclude the negotiations as