The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-23
INDIAN COIN.

INDIAN CORN.
Bushels. Value.
December, 1854. 4,S14,Gi3 8 2,413,g
December, 1SS3.... 2,705,GO9 1,S21,443
Year 1884. ........ 81, h52 037 1888, 604
Year 1SS3......... &c, 539,e5i 3s,970, 500
December, 1854. S,261,15 G,G29, rs
December, 1SS3.... 1921, $50 b6,09S ASS
Year 1854. ........ 19,434, 1S2 13, 032, 125
Year lSe3......... G9,41G,1S6 77,4S2, 1G0
WHEAT FLOUR.
Dec. 1884 (bbls)... 1,021, 500 4,914, 500
Dec. 1888 (bbls)... S91,22j h,014,3i4
Year 1884 (bbls)... S,995,b36 46!G9, $50
Year 1855 (bbls)... S,097,194 5l,59l, 542
Total value Dec. 1884. 14,3S9,6S6
Total value Dec. 1SS}.......... t3,0SS,11S
Total value 6 mo. to Dee. 81, 'S4 7S,s56,414
Total value 6 mo. to Dec. 81, 'S3 6S,0l4, 626
Total value year 1884. ........... 156, 349 80
Total value year 1888. ..........: 112, 735, G94
THE LAND-GRABDERs.
Senator Van Wyck has submitted q re-
port from the Senate Committee on Public
Lands to accompany the bill also reported
by him relating to the fencing of public
lands. In the report the Committee say
that without the least authority and in OPP
en- and bold defiance of all rights. of the
Government large and oftentime5 foreign
corporations deliberately inclose hundreds
of thousands Of acres, closing the avenues
of travel and preventing the occupancy of
lands by those seeking homes. They al
legged that the lands within their Enclosures
still remained open to settlement, yet no
humble settlers with scant means for the
necessaries OF life would presume to enter
any such incloSure to seek u home. The
Government has sufficient authority to
drive those seeking homes from the Indian
Territory and to burn the ranches OF those
invading Yellowstone Park, while those
appropriating vast areas are hoping that
the only remedy to be used against them
will be the laws delay in the courts; there
fore the Committee has added new sec
ton to the House bill authorizing the Pres
ident summarily to remove all distractions,
and IL necessary 70 use the military power
Of the United States.
w. II. Vanderbilt, having yielded to
the request of General Grant, bought
in all the real estate, war relics, and
works OF art moItgaged to him by the
general, and presented the entire list
to Mrs. Grant, with the condition that
on the death of the general all articles
of historical value shall become the
property of the nation, to be preserved
at Washington.
In the district court at Chicago,
Thursday, Judge Blodgett overruled
the motion TO Quash the indictments
against Mackin, ,Biehl, and others for
the recent election fraud, and fixed
January % as the date tor trial. In
the circuit court of Cook county Judge
Rogers ordered special venire for q
grand jury to investigate the election
ly subpGnaed j. ii. McVicker, George
l.. Dunlap, Joseph Stockton, and 9th
ers.
The employees Of the Oliver chilled
pillow works, at South Bend, Indiana,
struck Oh Monday against a reduction
of wages. Two hundred Of them gath
cred at the gate, Tuesday morning, to
prevent anyone from entering. In the
riot which necessarily ensued, Police
man Kelly was shot in the scalp; Cap
tain Edward Vicar was pounded with
clubs; David Card, the gatekeeper, was
fatally injured, and several others re-
ceived bruises. Order was restored by
seventy veterans of the Grand Army
of the Republic. Nearly all of the en-
ployes were Poles. After the election
of Cleveland the works were shut down
for three weeks, resuming with reduced
force and wages.
Schuyler Colfax, on arriving yester-
day at Mankato, Minnesota, walked
three-fourths OF mile TO the Omaha
depot in an atmosphere 80 degrees be-
low zero, and within five minutes
thereafter expired from heart disease.
He was born In New York City in 1923.
He served seven terms in congress, was
three times elected speaker of the
house, and became vice president in
1869. Since retiring to private life he
has spent much time in the lecture
field. Mr.. Colfax was married in 1868
10 Miss Nellie Wade, niece of Senator
Ben Wade, who survives him, as well
as a bright, promising boy IA years of
age, Schuyler, III.
Myra Clark Gaines, the heroine of
the Gaines case, died Saturday at the
residence of her son-in-law, in New