The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-23
LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NEWS.

tons the Government secured large
majority.
p. w. Chase, sheriff of Concordia
parish, Louisiana, is defaulter for
$27, 900.
The democrats of the Fifth Iowa dis
trict have renominated Ben II. Fred
erick for congress.
1t is proposed to use the American
gold dollar as the basis of monetary
transactions in Peru.
The Baltimore 81 Ohio Railroad Com
pany has finally obtained an entrance
into New York City.
The republicans of the Second Dis
trict of Indiana have nominated Rev.
M. S. Ragdale for congress.
The secretary of the treasury has
called $4,000,OO0 of 3 per cent bonds, on
which interest will cease September /.
The report of the Illinois Board of
Agriculture shows the corn crop to be
nearly an average in area and condi-
ton.
A farmer near Grafton, Wisconsin,
is eXcavating for a meteor which re-
Gently buried itself deeply in his barley
field.
The senate passed the oleomargarine
bill by vote of 81 to "a, after reduc-
ing the rate of taxation to cents per
pound.
1t is probable that the chief political
parties in Tennessee will pit the Tay-
lor brothers against each other for the
governorship.
Forest fires in Wisconsin ruined two
hundred acres of Cranberries near
Tomah, owned by j. l. Case and others,
valued at $4,000
The citizens of London, Ontario,
have arranged with the directors of
the Canadian Pacific road for an extern
sion to that city.
The convicted anarchists of Milwau-
kee-Hirth, Simon, and Palm--were
sentenced to nine months each in the
house of correction.
An emphatic protest against the
closing of the port of Batoum has been
forwarded to st. Petersburg by the
British foreign minister.
The commissioners of Joliet Oily
prison have decided to let to the high
est bidder, on August q, the labor of
$50 able convicts.
Anton thinner, blind musician of
Pittsburg, said to have possessed phe.
nomenal ability in his calling, was kill
ed by train Friday morning.
Charles Mitchell, the pugilist, left
New York for England with $23, 500.
Three years ago he landed on this side
of the Atlantic without dollar.
In the anarchist trial at Chicago the
superintendent of the Arbeiter Zeitung
identified the Revenge" circular as
the production of August Spies.
T. V. Powderly addressed the eastern
association of green bottle-glass blow
ers at Atlantic City. and they voted by
AZ to 26 to join the Knights of Labor.
A circus train on the Maine Central
road was derailed by the breaking of
an axle near Riverside, killing twenty
seven horses and badly injuring a pole
man.
M. o. Van Fleet, the defaulting
county treasurer at NOrwalk, Ohio,
was sentenced to six years in the peni-
tertiary on his pleading guilty to for
gerry.
General Master Workman Powderly
emphatically denies the report that he
is candidate for the governOrship of
Pennsylvania or for any other political
Office.
The Travis Shoe Factory at WEIGH
vile, Mass, has been closed by strike
of the knights because Travis refused
to stop using boycotted brand Of
leather.
The draft of an extradition treaty
sent from London to Washington in
cludes dynamiters, defaulters. and en-
bezzlers among offenders subject to
surrender.
The grand jury at st. Louis indicted
six members of the house of delegates
for drunkenness and bribery. Two of
the number were arrested and held in
81 500 each.
The governor of Georgia has pardon
ed George Brown, q murderer serving
life sentence, for steadily refusing to
take part in the revolt in the Dade
county coal mines.
The Warsaw police surprised body
of Nihilists holding meeting Sunday
night, and terrific fight ensued in
which two police officers were killed
and several wounded.
In the anarchist trial at Chicago,
Officers Kruger and Wessler identi-
fed Fielden as man at whom they
both shot after seeing him fire on the
police with a revolver.
DIR. Peters, the African explorer, pro-
poses, after first comforting with Henry
M. Stanley, to urge the construction Of
line of railway from Daressalaam to