The times., 1886-12-03

Illness Of James ID. warren. proprietor
OF the Buffalo Commercial; w .lliam u.
Price. IL representative in congress
from Wisconsin. and Thomas Wilson,
postmaster at Cairo.
Over So 900 900 worth Of land at Far
go, Dakota. is involved IN the decision
in the PerOnto case, made by the
United States Supreme court. The
Northern Pacific company received q
confirmation of its title.
George ID. Wise, member of con-
gresS from Virginia, was arrested in
Richmond and held i'm 1000 to keep
the peace toward Colonel William
Lamb, OF Norfolk. whom he bitterly
assailed in published card.
The internal revenue collector at
Davenport has seized eight hundred
pounds OF butterine and OleOmargarile
received at commjssiOn-hOuse from
Iowa farmers. and lacking the stamps
required by the national law.
The national butter, cheese, and egg
convention at Chicago, with seventeen
states and territories represented,
voted down q proposition to recon-
mend legislation making illegal the
adulteration of dairy products.
The Chicago 81 Northwestern road
proposes, if the city of Omaha will give
the right of way, to build link from
that place to point on the Sioux City
road between Blair and Fremont. The
plan would cost Omaha $65 900.
Faro having been suppressed in Gin
.innati, the patrol-wagons were kept
running on Saturday night to convey
pOker-players to the statiOn-hOuses.
Eight saloOn-keepers were also taken
in for selling liquor after midnight.
William II. Whitaker, whose death
in Wisconsin is reported, was collector
of customs at New Orleans during the
war, editor of the Republican, and
the judge of tine superior criminal
court. lie was native of Boston.
Jay Gould's recent purchase of depot
grounds ut Memphis, together with
the resolution to extend the Memphis
and Charleston road to Chattanooga.
points to an alliance between the
Gould and East Tennessee systems.
A boiler in the cigar-box factory of
Sheip 81 Co., on Randolph street, Phil
adelphia, exploded Thursday after
noon, blowing out the rear wall OF the
other persons were seriously injured.
Joseph Fishmer, of Cincinnati, who
was married two years ago, has made
the discovery that his wife has five liv-
ing and undivorced husbands, one of
whom has since taken her away with
all the household goods they could
carry. M
Thomas Collins, the striking Chica-
90 switchman, who was sent to Jail for
attempting to wreck Lake Shore pas
senger train, admitted to the court
that he had twice before been imprson-
ed-once at Chester penitentiary for
perjury.
On streetcorner in Milwaukee, Fri
day noon, Horace Rublee was struck
in the face by Colonel John II. Knight,
of Ashland, for the publication in the
Sentinel of what he pronounced forged
letter. The affair was cut short by a
| spectator.
George Coulter. u postal-clerk recent
| ly appointed to the run between Chica-
go and Minneapolis, has been arrested
for opening letters, and has made a
partial confession. lie was appointed
at st. Paul, on the recommendation OF
p. III. Kelly.
The vault in the court house at Lac
qui-parle, Minnesota. was during
Thursday night battered down, and the
| county records and treasurer's safe re-
| moved-presumably to Madison, which
at the recent election was voted the
| county seat.
Rev. q. w, Bovine, lately occupying
an Episcopal pulpit at Salisbury; Mary
land, has been baptized as a Roman
Catholic, and will enter seminary at
Baltimore and prepare for the priest
hood. He is 29years of age, and ma
tive of New York.
The pension bureau has allowed $12,- :
444 to John L. Moncrief, member of
the 18th Illinois volunteers, now in
sane, and $11 1,9l7 to Josiah Brinard,
formerly of the SSth Pennsylvania reg
| iment. These are the largest first pay
ments ever made.
In q boarding house at Newark, New
Jersey, on Sunday evening, the sight
| of a single roast chicken for seven
| hungry men caused fight with knives,
| in which two men were stabbed, the
| table was wrecked, and the supper
| Strewn over the floor.
Thomas Freeman, of Paris, Illinois,
whose age incapacitates MIN from
travelling alone, recently lost himself
| in Pittsburgh and was committed to
the county Jail. His identity having
been established, lie will be sent home
by the chief of police.
The residence Of Benjamin S. Whel-
lei, III Eagle SCTeeU, CleVeld1u, WAS ell
tered by robbers, who kicked the old
man into insensibility and choked his
aged wife to death. Patrick Graves
has been arrested for the crime, and
Mr.. WHEELER identifies him.
The police of Shelbyville, Indiana,
captured u burglar named Walk"
Hammond, who proved to be the last
member of the Reno gang of express
robbers. He was the leader In the
famous Ohio and Mississippi robbery
near Seymour, ten years ago.
The First National bank of Indianap-
oils, organized by William III. English
and others in 1863, has decided to 60
into voluntary liquidation. The gov
ernment deposits will be surrendered
on the order of Secretary Manning,
but the circulation is to be retained.
Judge Alfred Shaw of New Orleans
La, who was assaulted either by
burglars or personal enemies in his
office last July, died of his wounds
Monday. He was n prominent odd
fellow, freemason, Knight of Pythias,
and Red Man, and had held many civil
offices.
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