The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-06

10 restrain Jay Gould from voting at
the Iron Mountain election stock to the
amount of 1000, 900 which he holds
as trustee.
The lieutenant governor of Kentucky
granted a thirty day respite to William
Neal, the last Of the Ashland murder
ers, and he was transferred under
guard from Grayson to the jail at
Mount Sterling.
KEGS park, has been sent to the work
house at Pittsburg. He once owned
eleven hundred acres of timber land in
Jefferson county, which he lost through
legal complications.
In removing some bodies buried
thirty-seyen years ago in Sussex cOun-
ty, New Jersey, that of child named
ElmendOrf was found to be perfectly
petrified, but has changed greatly since
its exposure to the air.
Governor Sherman, of Iowa, has is
sued an order removing Auditor Brown
from office, because of the non-approv-
al of his bonds, and appointing j. w.
Caltell to the position. Brown refuses
to surrender his books.
Nearly one thousand men employed
in the railway shops at MOberly, Mis-
souri,. marched out Friday and held a
meeting to discuss their grievances, re-
fusing to obey an order from the mas
ter mechanic to return to duty.
S. d. Street, for two terms clerk of
the courts at Council Bluffs, is found
to be defaulter for $4,000, and has
school funds. Rumors of his deficit
served to defeat him last November.
A firm in New York has already
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contract with the British government
to run pipe line 260 miles across the
desert from Suakim to Berber, to fur
nish water for locomotives and troops.
Thomas j. Navin, the absconding
mayor of Adrian, Michigan, was ar
rested at New Orleans, under rewards
of $4,000 offered in 1882. He offered to
return without requisition, saying
that he was on the way home to sur
render.
George l.. Davenport, who was born
at Rock Island in 1917, grew up among
the Indian children, and made the first
claim to land under the treaty of 1882,
closed his days at st. Augustine, Flor
ida. His father founded the city which
bears his name.
Currency to the amount of $4,000
was nearly destroyed in the recent
railway accident in the District of
Columbia, but experts in the treasury
department have identified the charred
remains, and the express company will
suffer only trifling loss.
Milton Weston, who is said to be
Chicago capitalist, has been convicted
of voluntary manslaughter in connec-
ton with the gas-well riots at Murrays-
vile, Pennsylvania, and is liable to
twelve years imprisonment in the pen
itentiary and fine of 81 900.
Thomas i. Harrison, of Baltimore,
who was one of the most daring cotton
spectators in the United States, killed
himself Wednesday rather than be ex-
amined as to his sanity. He made
$500,000 last year, and just before
Christmas lost every cent of it.
Six convicts escaped from the Michi-
gan penitentiary through a tunnel forty
feet in length, on which they had prob
ably worked year. They cut through
twelve feet of solid masonry, forming
the base of the prison wall. One was
captured while boarding train.
f. Hemple, savings banker of
Beaver Dam, Wis, who lies in Jail on
charge of ENLIGHTENMENT, owes nearly
1000 to German depositors, and has
surrendered to his assignee property
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ing on the Chicago board of trade.
Two democratic members of the
Illinois house are sick at their homes,
and MclIale has gone to Washington
to witness the Inauguration ceremonies.
AS neither side can trust itself to vote
for senator, Colonel Morrison left for
the national capital on private bus
mess.
Parson Newman's party in the Mad
ison Avenue Congregational church of
New York made a complete surrender
to the Ranney trustees. A check for
81 400 back salary was at once handed
the preacher. Rev. George f. Pente-
cost will probably be called to the pas
torate.
1t is said that agents of American
and foreign dynamite societies have
been experimenting in secluded val
ley near Huntingdon, Pa, the results
OF their Investigations being the per-
fecting of q destructive machine of
great power which can be timed with
the utmost nicely.
The legislature of New Jersey eel
ebrated the SD birthday of Isaac Wild
rick, a member of the house, by plac-
ing him in the speakers chair and
presenting him with handsome
French clock. He once served a term
in congress, and was personal friend
OF Stephen A. Douglas.
The bank examiner at New York
pronounces the recent rumors about
the United States National bank the
work of defamers, and expresses the
hope that they will be made to suffer
for their crime. President Murray in
tends to bring libel suit against the
Wall Street Daily Ne,cs.
At the court of general sessions in
New York City, Richard Short, who
stabbed Captain Phelan in O,Donovan
Rossa's office, pleaded not guilty. His
bail was increased from $4,000 to S.
600. Mrs. Dudley, the woman who
shot Rosa, was held in $500. A plea Of
not guilty was also entered in her be-
half.
In the United States district court at
Chicago, arguments on the motion for
a new trial for Joseph G. Mackin and
William j. Gallagher were postponed
until March II. The criminal court of
Cook county will take no action on the
indictments against the parties named
until the cases in the federal court are
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