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

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Winnipeg.
Leading iron manufacturers in the
middle states expended 100000 OF
pool funds in experimenting with the
Henderson method Of making steel,
and reached the conclusion to abandon
the process.
Edmund Yard, formerly a million
aire lace merchant in New York. was
on Monday brought back to that city
from Europe, having embezzled $780,
600 from the estate of Charles G.. Shaw
last summer.
Someone who thinks he can beat q
Yankee has introduced in Boston. $50
gold pieces, weighing only 296 grains.
Their composition is similar to that of
bogus silver coins, and they are gilded
brightly by battery.
Ernest Boenish, an aged German,
who for thirteen years has lived in q
hut at West Bay City, Michigan, was
found frozen to death on the ground,
with his door-key in his hand. A dog
at his side permitted no one to touch
the corpse.
1t is estimated that the railroad lines
leading East from Chicago are behind
on their orders for freight-room to the
extent Of more than 10000 cars. Most
of these have been ordered to carry
flour, the greatest part of which has
been sold for export.
Frank Strong, who has for years been
in the habit of stealing entire herds OF
cattle in Indian Territory and driving
them into Texas, was tracked to his
cabin in the Chickasaw nation and fill
ed with lead. A reward of 81 500 had
been offered for his head.
Pope, Cole, g. Co., dealers in metals
at Baltimore, made an assignment
Friday to G.. Morton Stewart 81 Co.
Their liabilities are stated at 81 .000,-
COO, and their assets at 100000 They
are heavily interested in the Baltimore
copper works at Canton.
Collector Harvey has made q con-
structive seizure Of 800 barrels of whis-
ky at the warehouse of the Chicago
Distilling company, and the goods will
be subjected to chemical analysis. The
suspicious Of the gauger were aroused
by the rapidity of the coloring process.
The steamer Michigan was on We'd
nesday seen in the ice about eight
miles west of Saugatuck. An exami-
nation made at Oswego shows that
Lake Ontario is frozen to distance Of
seventeen miles from the harbor, the
cakes being eight to ten feet thick.
The republicans of Chicago have
nominated Sidney Smith for mayor,
John +. Finerty for treasurer, Hemp
stead Washburne for attorney, and
Herman G. Plautz for clerk. Judge
| Smith appeared in the convention and
accepted the unanimous call made up
on him.
Arizona citizens, without regard to
party, denounce the venality and ex-
travagance of their legislature, which
adjourned Saturday after having APP
propriated over 81 ,000, 900 for very ques-
tionable subsidies, and an effort is to
be made to stop the payment of the
corrupt bills.
Secretary Bayard, in resigning the
senatorship from Delaware, gave the
Legislature to understand that his sue
cessor should be Attorneys General
Gray. The Salisbury family, however,
are pushing Representative Lore for
the vacancy, and the struggle grows in
interest daily.
John w. Walters, of Detroit, reach
ed his l06th birthday Tuesday. He
has long been unable TO leave his bed,
and his death is liable to occur at any
time. About year ago his sight be-
| came renewed to the fullest degree.
He was an officer in the Irish insur-
rection of 1898.
Fifty citizens in the vicinity of Fair
| field, Nebraska, captured and hanged
! Mrs. Taylor and her brother to bridge