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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13
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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-13

The Republican Convention of
West Virginia declared in favor of
submitting prohibitory amendment
to the Constitution Of the State.
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
Supposed Suicide.

TRENTON, January 6.-John G. Stevens
died this evening from the effects of a
pistol wound in the head. 1t is generally
believed that he committed suicide, as he
had been in depressed spirits for some
time, owing to financial difficulties. His
relatives version of the tragedy of the
deceased is that he was arranging trip to
Western Virginian to inspect the coal and
iron lands, and that he had bought the re-
volver for self-protection, and was examin-
the weapon when it was accidentally dis
charged. The shooting occurred in the
Pennsylvania railroad building in this
city. Mr.. Stevens was president Of the
United New Jersey Railway and Canal
Co., and had been attending to official
business all day. This afternoon he was
talking to Treasurer Leroy H. Anderson, to
whom he showed the pistol, requesting
Anderson to procure some oil with which
to clean it. Anderson stepped out of the
Office to procure the oil, when the report
of a pistol was heard. Anderson rushed
back and found Stevens lying on the floor
with wound on the right temple from
which blood oozed. Stevens never spoke
after the shooting. Mr.. Stevens was sixty
years of age. He leaves widow and five
childen. He was a SON of James A.
Stevens, OF Hoboken, and nephew of En-
gineer Stevens. inventor Of the Stevens
Battery. He was president of the Penn
sylvania railroad system in New jersey,
and had been connected with the Erie
road. He was one of the few experts in
canal engineering in the country. 1t is
said he had attempted suicide several
times before.
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
Spanish Affairs.

MADRID, January 1O.-Gen. Dominguez
who was recently rendered the Spanish
EmbassadOrship at Paris, has accepted the
Office under these conditions: First, that
he shall remain Chief of the Dynastic Left.
Second, that the cabinet will engage to
support thirty-two candidates named by
the Dynastic Left.
The Carlists have decided to abandon
their preparations for rising and to take
part in the elections.
MADRID, January 11.-Premier Sagasta
has withdrawn his assent to the terms on
which Gen. Dominquez offered to accept
the ambassadorship at Paris Two leaders
had an interview to-day which ended in a
violent rupture. The Dynastic Left will
now open hostilities against the Cabinet.
Senor Martinez, who was secretary to
Marshal Prim, has written letter in reply
to the pamphlet of the Spanish exile, An
gulo, in which the latter accuses Due De
Montepensier with having instigated the
of Prim. Martinez suggests
that perhaps Angulo received money from
Due De Montepensier and hired the assas-
sins himself and then fed in disguise to
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
Confirm atiOns.

WASHINGTON, January 12.-The Senate
in executive session to-day confirmed a
large number of appointments, including
George A. jerks, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior; Henry T. Muldrow, First As
sistant Secretary of the Interior; VIM. E.
Mclean, First Deputy Commissioner of
Pensions; Jos. j. Bartlett, Second Deputy
Commissioner of Pensions; Robert B.
Vance, Assistant Commissioner of Patents /;
James w. Whelpley, of New York, As
sistant Treasurer of the United States !;
VIM. E. Smith, Of New York, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury; Leonard N.
Jordan, of New Jersey, Treasurer of the
United States; c. A. Dougherty, of Penn
sylvania, Secretary of the Legation at
Rome; Albert Sidney, Postmaster at
Cheyenne.
Col. Jno. Gibbon, to be Brigadier Cen
eral; Col. Absalom Bayard, to be Inspector
General with the rank of Brigadier Gen.
eral; Capt. Henry j. Farnsworth, to be
Inspector General with the rank of Major;
First Lieut.. Francis B. Jones, to be AS
sistant Quartermaster with the rank of
Captain; Second Lieut.. Sidney E. Stuart,
to be First Lieutenant in the Ordnance
Department.
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS.
The Montana Bar Association ask the
Appointment of two Additional
Justices,

The following memorial was adopted a
the last meeting of the Bar Association
and has been transmitted to our Delegat
in Congress:
To the Honorable, the Senate and House o
Representatives. of the United States O.
America, in Congress assembled:
Your memorialists, the Bar Association
of the Territory of Montana, assembled Al
the Capital Of the Territory, do most re
spectfully represent to your honorable
bodies:
That by the act passed by your honorable
bodies in the year A. D. 1864, organizing
the Territory of Montana, provision was
made for the appointment of a Chief JUS
tice and two Associate Justices of the Su-
preme Court of this Territory, by whom all
business arising in the District and Su-
preme Courts of the Territory is to be heard
and determined. What was then an ade-
quate judicial force to pass upon the con-
trOversies arising in few isolated mining
camps, has now become wholly inadequate
to transact the judicial business arising in
an area of country larger than all of New
England with the Empire State of New
York and the great State of Pennsylvania
added. Every part of this vast Territory
open to settlement is attracting immigra-
ton, and multiplied industries are spring.
ing into existence in many of which large
sums of money find profitable investment.
There are now settlements in which almost
every industry known to the people of the
West is conducted. The population has in
creased tenfold, created wealth has increas-
ed at least fiftyfold, and business enterprise
and litigation prOpOrtionately.
The result is that litigation in our higher
courts is of such volume that the judiciary
originally provided has become wholly in
adequate, however industrious they may
be, to discharge the duties which now de-
vOlve upon them. As further result bust
ness is done in a hurried manner, and not
withstanding every effort on the part of the
Judges, there is at the close of each term of
court number of cases, the trial of which
is deferred because of the pressing duties
of the judges elsewhere.
One of our judicial districts is more than
500 miles in length, and it is not infre-
quently the case that a litigant is compelled
to travel from 200 to 500 miles to obtain a
judicial order.
The organization of every new county
ciaTy and the many growing widely separ-
ate centers of population in the Territory
require that new counties should be formed
in order to lessen the expense and loss of
time incident to transacting county busi-
ness at remote county seats. Objections
are also made to the present Supreme Court
because the Justice whose decision is in
review in that court is himself compo-
nent part of the reviewing tribunal, a con-
dition of affairs which your memorialists
believe should speedily be removed by
wherefore your memorialists
pray your honorable bodies to enact law
there shall be five Justices of the
Supreme Court of this Territory appointed,
and as in duty bound your memOrialsts
will ever pray.
w. F. SANDERS, President.
AsHBURN K. BARBOUR, Secretary.
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
MYSTERIOUS Death.

CLEVELAND, o., January 10.-About 3
o'clock last Friday morning Mrs. Emily
Frayne, of Hamilton, Ont, who had come
to Cleveland to visit her sister, who resided
in block on Prospect street, died very
suddenly. Frank Lamb, fresco painter,
aged 33, who occupies apartments adjoin-
ing those in which Mrs. Frayne died, re-
lates remarkable story. He SAYS that
between and o'clock on the morning in
question he was awakened by something,
and looking across the room he saw lady
sitting on lounge about four feet from
his bed. What do you want?" he asked
Raising her right hand the lady said,
"Hush. hushw and disappeared Lamb
is disbeliever in ghosts, and he at once
searched the room and examined the lock
Of the door. He found that the door was
securely fastened, and getting into bed he
lay awake for ten minutes thinking about
the strange occurrence. Suddenly the
clothing on his bed and tick were tumbled
off on the floor by some unseen power,
and he found himself on the floor. Being
angry by this time, Lamb made another
search of the room without finding any
body. He then opened the door, and as he
did so Mrs. Hadden, sister Of Mrs. Frayne.
came from her room into the hall, saying,
My sister is dead" Lamb declares that
he was not excited and that he was per-
fectly sober. He cannot account for the
strange occurrence. Other people in the
block who heard Lamb fall also left their
rooms, and they corroborate his story as to
the coincidence with Mrs Fraynes
death. The coroner has decided that the
woman's death was caused by heart dis
ease
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
Northern Pacific Land Grant.

WASHINGTON, January 12.-Land Com
missioner Sparks to-day made an important
decision affecting the claims of the North
ern Pacific Railway to grant of land be-
tween point on the Columbia river near
Portland, Oregon, and Tacoma, on Puget
Sound, Washington Territory.
The Commissioners says: The road be-
tween these points was authorized to be
constructed in 1869 without land grants.
The original act of 1864 provided for the
main line of the road across the Cascade
mountains to Puget Sound and branch
from a point not more than 300 miles east
of the western terminus, passing down the
Columbia river to point at or near Port
land, Oregon, but made no provision for
the road or grant between Portland and
Puget Sound. The railroad company lay
claim to the grant for this portion of the
road under joint resolution of Congress in
1870, which provided that the company
might conduct the main line between the
Columbia river and branch across the
Cascades with the same grant as provided
for by the original act of incorporation.
Commissioner Sparks holds that as no
SAouo "oS AhduO Wy tuC OIl Sludl dCt lOT luc
construction of a road from Portland to
Tacoma, and none by the act of 1869, no
such grant can be presumptively drawn
from the joint resolution of 1870 He holds
that no such grant was made by any of
the acts of Congress, and says that he does
not find any formal decision has even been
made by the Interior Department holding
that the joint resolution of 1870 embraces
a grant of lands between said points AL
though withdrawal appears to have been
ordered upon the filing by the company of
its maps, the Commissioner says no reasons
for such Withdrawals have ever been as
signed so far as the records of the Land
Office discloses.
This decision affects the odd numbered
sections of land eighty miles in width for
a distance of 106 miles, aggregating some
2, 800, 900 acres, estimated to be worth $25,-
100000. The claim of the railroad COM
pany to these lands has long been disputed
by settlers, large numbers of whom are in
claiming the right to enter
under the public land laws. The case of
Donald McCres and J. o. Book vs. the N,
p. r. r. Co. brought out the decision
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
Greek Alliance.

LONDON, January 1O.-The Greek coy
ernment has made overtures to the govern
ment Of Montenegro looking to the forma-
tion OF an alliance, both offensive and de-
fensive, against the Porte. The King of
Greece will leave his capital shortly for
the Thessalian frontier to inspect the
army. 1t is supposed that this will be the
prelude to beginning hostllities. The
Greek government has received from
Prince Bismarck reply to the circular
note sent recently to the great powers con-
cerning the Balkan question and the atti-
tude OF Greece in connection Herewith
The German Chancellor warns Greece that
If she engages in war with Turkey she
will do SO at her own risk that she may
expect no assistance from any of the great
powers, all of whom will hold themselves
al0Of from the controversy.
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
atal Accident.

LOUISVILLE, KY, January s.-This af.
ternoon, during heavy snow storm, the
front and middle part of large four story
warehouse, occupied by Forwood & Co.,
Trabue & Co. and Balmforth & Co..-all
cotton and commission merchants, fell
suddenly, and overturning stove, started
a destructive fire. The building was filed
with cotton, tobacco, molasses and dry
goods storage, and the flames spread ali
over the place instantly. There were II
persons in the building when it fell. Peter
Perkins, porter, heard the crash and gave
the alarm to seven men on the second floor
who escaped by jumping from back win
dow onto shed. Charles Stamforth a
colored porter, gave TIE alarm on the first
floor and started for the door, and. it is
thought, was killed by the falling walls.
NJ. d. Wright, manager Of the place, and
J. p. Balmforth. one of the proprietors.
who were in their Offices on the first floor.
started for the door, but, it is believed.
were caught in the wreck.
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
New French Cabinet.

PARIS, January THE new cabinet
was announced in the Official Gazette this
afternoon as follows
President of the Council and Minister of
Foreign AffaiIs-DeFreycin
Minister of the Interior-Sarrien.
Minister of Finance-Sadi Carnot.
Minister of Public InstructiOn-GOblet.
Minister of Justice-DemOle.
Minister of Agriculture-Develle.
Minister of War-Gen. BOulanger.
Minister of Marine and COlOnies-Aubra.
Minister of Public Works-Brabant
Minister of Posts and legraph-Granet.
Minister of COmmerce-LockrOy.
The composition of the new cabinet
creates no enthusiasm, notably the ap-
pointment of Sarrien, a third rate poll
tician, to the important Office of Minister
of the Interior. 1t is said his appointment
will prove source of weakness. The
cabinet, it is believed, will be short lived.
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
Panama Canal.

LONDON, January IA Paris cores.
pondent of the Times says The French
government will, at the request of the
Panama Canal Co., send Rousseau, to in
spect and report on the condition and pros.
poets of the Panama canal. If the report
is favorable a loan will be granted the
company to push the work to completion.
If it is adverse the enterprise will be al
lowed to collapse and the government will
assume the responsibility.
PARIS, January 12.-De Lessepes has
written to the principal chambers of COM
merce asking them to appoint delegates to
accompany him to Panama, for which
place he will start on the 2Sth inst. The
Panama Canal Co. will invite delegates
from England, Germany and America to
visit the isthmus and inquire into the
feasibility of completing the canal. The
expenses of the delegates will be borne by
the company. De Lessepes is sanguine
that the wClk will be successful.
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
Live Stock.

CHICAGO, January 6-Cattle-Receipts
$500; slow and heavy, closing at 1Oc lowe,
Shipping steers, 36O@5.4O; stockers ant
feeder, 2.75@425.
Sheep-Receipts, 1900; stronger; ma
tives. 2@375; western, 2.5O@3.5O; Texans
a93.25; lambs, 3.75@5.5O.
CHICAGO, January 8.-Cattle-Receipts
$500; and 10 to 15c higher; shippins
steers, 375@5.75; stockers and feeders
27O@42O.
Sheep-Receipts. 5000; slow and easier
Natives, 2.2O@475; western, 25O@4
/ Texans, 2@3.5O; lambs, 4@5.45.
CHICAGO, January 11.-Receipts 4.2O(
head steady, 10 to 15c higher; shipping
steers 3.75@595; stOckers and feeders
2.5O@4.25.
Sheep-Receipts 1000 head; natives
2.2O@5; western 2.5O@4; Texans 2@35O
lambs 4@525.
The Drorers Journal reports the Liver
pool cattle market half cent higher than
last week. Best American steers are sell
ing at 13c per pound dressed.
CHICAGO, January 2-Cattle-Receipts,
15,4OO (highest ever known 30 to go
cents lower; shipping steers, $50 to 1900
pounds, 3.5O@5.40; stockers and feeders,
25O@425.
Sheep-Receipts, 5000; slow; natives,
2.25@475; western, 2.5OC9425;. Texans,
203.75, lambs, 4(G5.5O.
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
Unseated.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, January 12.-The
committee on privileges and elections of
the House of Representatives this morning
reported resolution to unseat the Demo-
cratic members from Hamilton county. The
resolution amended provided for hearing
to be accorded the unseated members. The
resolution wos adopted under the previous
question. The seats were then declared
vacant amid the greatest confusiop and in
the midst of bowling mob. Nine Repub-
lican members came forward and were
sworn in by the Speaker and cheered by
the Republicans and jeered by the Demo-
Gratis. The Speaker ordered the Democrat
ic members to turn over the keys to the
desks. The action of to-day is ample as.
suIance for the election of Sherman, and
will give 81 majority on joint ballot in the
convention of the two branches tomorrow.
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
The Silver Question.

WASHINGTON, January 12.-In the Sen
ate, Vance said he had heard many cases
argued in school boy clubs and in cross
roads debating societies; he had heard
pleas made from the tail end of ginger
bread carts. and had read endless plati-
tudes in the Congressional Record, but he
had never met or seen a worse abuse of
logic or feeble attempts to outrage common
sense than the arguments used by our
bankers, bOndhOlders ard gold men gen.
erallv in the discussion of this silver ques-
ton. The rapacity Of avarice, he said, was
so repugnant to the moral sense of man.
kind that it always sought to disguise its
ugliness by assuming the garb OF virtue.
SO the bOndholders and bankers told us
they wanted silver coinage stopped, not for
their own advantage; oh, no! but for the
sake of the poor working men, whom they
preferred to their own chiefest joy. Vance
ridiculed IL IS pretensiOn, and said the war
on silver was in the interest, not of those
who labor, but of those who speculate in
money. In reply to the statement that
the people would not take the silver dollar
and that when issued it had always come
back to the treasury, Vance contended
that the law required our officers to pay it
ont. and if it came back to pay it out
again. Ii the officers of the government
had done their duty and complied with
the law there would have been no diff
Guilty with the silver dollars. They had
refused to pay it out. There never had
heen another instance in our history in
which our officers had SO boldly taken on
themselves the absolute discretion as to
whether they would execute or would not
execute the law. The money lords OF the
time were controllers Of our monetary
affairs. These were the successors OF the
fndal lords of the middle ages, but they
did not have the same class OF persons 10
deal with. Zone thing can assure tnem,
Vance said in conclusion, land tnat is'
that in this country, where the people ruie'
silver is not going to be demoetized. !
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
FORTY.NINTH CONGRESS.
Senate.

WASHINGTON, January 11.-HarrisOn
reported favorably from the Committee on
Territories the original bill to admit
and to provide for the organization of the
Territory of Lincoln.
Butler reserved the right to submit a
minority report. if after perusal and con-
sideration Of the majority report he should
conclude to do so.
Senate.
WASHINGTON, January 12.- Logan, from
the Committee on Military Affairs, reported
favorably the bill providing for the pur-
chase of the old Produce Exchange and
site in New York city for army purposes.
The bill appropriates $3.50 900 or so much
as may be necessary for purchase of the
site and necessary alterations and remodel
ing of the building. The bill, on Logan's
motion, was read third time and passed.
House.
WASHINGTON, January 12.-Cardwell,
Tenn, from the committee on laws regu-
lating the election of President and Vice
President, reported back without amend
ment the Hoar presidential succession bill
and it was placed on the House calendar
Cooper, CO., gave notice that he would
file minority report.
Hill, Co., from the Committee on Terri
tories, reported the bill legalizing the Ter
ritOrial Assembly of Wyoming Placed on
the calendar.
Senate.
WASHINGTON, January 13.--Hawley
presided over the Senate to-day in the
absence of Sherman.
ingalls, offered the following, which, at
his request, was laid over for The present:
Resolred, That in the opinion of the
Senate the compulsory coinage of silver
dollars, directed by the law of February %,
1878, should not be suspended until the
aggregate reaches the sum of five hundred
million dollars.
Eustis gave notice that on Monday next,
at o'clock, he would call up Beck's silver
with view of making some re-
marks on it.
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
Committee Meeting.

WASHINGTON, January 12-The Appro
priations Committee was called together
by Randall and arranged to meet Wednes
days. The subcommittee were formed a
follows:
On the sundry civil appropriation bill
Randall, Forney, Burnes, Ryan and Long
Legislative Executive and Judicial bill
Holman, Townsend, Cabell, Cannon and
ButterwOrth.
Deficiency bill-Burnes, Adams, Lefev re-
McComas and Cannon.
Fertilization bill-Forney. Randall, Hol-
man, Butterworth and Ryan.
Pension bill-Townsend, Cabell, Wilson,
Long and Henderson.
The Committee on Military Affairs ap-
pointed the following subcommittee
On the general army appropriations bill,
the chairman, General Bragg, Veile and
Steele
On the Military Academy bill-Wheeler,
Ermentrout and Neplev.
The Committee on Rivers and Harbors
has extended cordial invitation to all
Senators and Representatives to appear
before the Committee when their States
are reached in consideration of the appro
priation bill, and set forth the needs of
their sections. The committee will meet
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
The committee has made some arrange
ments preparatory to the formal considera-
tion of the appropriation bill, and discuss
ed the practicability of disposing at one
time of the river and harbor bills in each
State instead Of separating the two SUBJ
jects. 1t was finally decided to follow that
course
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14
Abolition of the Free Zone.

SAN FRANCISCO, January 7.-An Ell PasO
Texas special says: The merchants of this
city and other American towns on the Rio
Grande river are circulating a petition
which will be sent to Washington, request
ing the United States government to abol-
ish the free zone between this country and
Mexico, owing to the facilities it offers for
smuggling on both sides. 1t is stated that
smuggling has grown to such vast proper
tions that it has seriously affected legiti-
mate trade.
Helena weekly herald., 1886-01-14

LONDON, January 1.-THE intelligence
has been received here that Germany
has seized the islands of Samoa, in the
Pacific ocean. The King and his chiefs
were insulted and finally fed. A force of
marines were landed from the German war
ship Albatross. The German Consul then
hauled down the Samoan flag and run up
the German c0lors in its stead. The
SamOans threaten to make war and the
German, American, and British Consuls
haye protested against the action of Ger
many.