The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-05-28

| tney recently captured.
The nine deputy sheriffs who fired on
the mob at East st. Louis were set at
liberty at Belleville, the grand jury ig-
noring the charges of murder.
The fugitive New York aldermen
fear of being kidnapped that they hardly
dare TO go on the streets at night.
Three children of Michael Feehan,
of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. lost
their lives by pouring oil into crate
during the absence OF their parents.
Gov. Larrabee of Iowa appointed as
state mine inspectors Joshua A. Smith
of Keokuk county, Thomas Binks of
Wapello county, and James Z. Stout of
Green county.
I0wa's Railway Commissioners will
| investigate the complaint that the
Union Pacific is discriminating against
Council Bluffs, its legal terminus, in
favor of Omaha.
John Y. Macomb, a Chicago manu-
facturer, was pronounced insane by a
| jury, and has been sent to q private
asylum at Geneva, Illinois. He Is
rated at 100000.
The chief of police of st. Louis has
been instructed by the commissioners
to arrest any person uttering incendi-
airy speeches and dispense any assem-
blage of anarchists.
AT Des Moines, early Tuesday morn
ing, the office of the Leader was de-
stroyed by flames originating from a
lamp in the press-roOm. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
A dispatch from Bloomington, Hi
nois, represents that David Davis still
suffers greatly from a carbuncle, and
that not even his most intimate friends
are admitted to his room.
The deputy collector at Portland,
Maine, has seized the Canadian
schooner Sisters, which made that port
without manifest. The penalty for
the Offense is a fine of $500.
The sheriff at Chicago has seized the
John b. Jeffrey printing-house, in
Dearborn street, on judgments aggre-
eating SlO7 1928. Emma j. Jeffrey APP
pears as creditor for $54, 434.
| r. S, Parker, one of the leading mer-
chants of Saltwater, MIMI, was held
| for indictment on charge of outrag-
| ing his domestic, Louise Largie, a
handsome German girl, aged 16.
The supreme court of Indiana, in
deciding the Beaver lake case, has
placed the state in undisputed posses
sion Of seventy thousand acres of land
from which the water has receded.
The second largest steel-works in the
United States are to be erected on
| fifty-acre tract on the Monongahela
river nearly opposite Port Perry by the
Duquesne company, with a capital of
| $1,000,000.
There are over one hundred thousand
head OF cattle on the trail from Texas
to Colorado. So severe has been the
drought that vast herds can be heard
tramping the dry ground at night and
lowing for water.
Two carloads of powder were explod-
ed at Chattanooga, Tenn, by spark
from an engine. The cars were de-
molished, the engine badly damaged,
and two men were killed. A third man
was seriously hurt.
A jury at New Orleans convicted
General III. L. Frisbie and Baron Her.
mann Won Werthem of conspiracy to
defraud the government Of $40 pen
sion money, but recommended them to
the mercy of the court.
An offer is made by the New York
Herald to prove the accuracy of a re-
cent interview on the fishery question
with James G. Blaine, who is under
stood to have denied that he expressed
the opinions credited to him.
The governor of Indiana has pardon
ed from the penitentiary life convict
named Abner Horton, who has served
twenty-nine years for killing his father
in Clay county. Attorneys claim that
the case was one of self-defense.
A Detroit correspondent alleges that
he has discovered that the Irish in that
city have formed company known as
the III. w. E." which is interpreted to
mean "Hell with England" and that
they are nightly engaged in drilling.
The Grand Army posts of Oakland,
California, have shipped q carload of
floral contributions for New York, to
be placed on the grave of General
Grant on Decoration day. The list in.
cludes q life-size equestrian statue OF
the general.
The funeral of Mrs. George II. Pen
dleton was held Tuesday at Zion
church, New York, DIR. Tiffany Off
ciating. Secretary Bayard, Erastus
Corning, and Stanley Matthews were
present. The final interment of the re-
mains will be in Cincinnati.
A Zuni Indian was placed on trial in
the district court at Albuquerque, New
Mexico, for the murder of woman
for witchcraft. Judge Brinker decided
that the offense was not against the
United States, but he held the accused
for action by the territorial grand jury.
Thomas j. Potter, vice president of
the Burlington road, who once refused
offers of $4,000 per annum from both
the Union and Northern Pacific COM
panies, has been rendered by the Van
derbilts the presidency of the Bee line
road, at salary of $4,000 for five
years.
The railway war which broke out on
Sunday at Erie was stopped by an in
junction against the Lake Shore Off
Gals to prevent the tearing up Of the
tracks OF the Pennsylvania company.
The Lake Shore road has ordered en-
gines and cars on the territory in dis
pute.
A special dispatch to the St. Paul
Pioneer Press from Miles City, M. T.,
says that many of the most extensive
stock growers of the territory have
leased ranges of the Canadian govern
ment for terms of twenty-one years
and are driving the cattle to the new
pasture, much to the disgust of Cana