The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-12-10

discontinue the death-watch on the
convicted Anarchists, a supersedeas
having been granted.
The directors of the Union Pacific
road report q surplus of S., 429, 900 on
the operations Of the first nine months
of this year. At the close of'December
the debt Of the company will be $1l5,-
,265, OF $25, 1910 per mile.
To govern the shipment of live stock
and perishable goods, the Union Paci-
fic company has decided to establish a
weather bureau similar to the signal
service with thirty-two stations, head
quarters being at Omaha.
Work is about to commence on O
railway from New York 10 Boston,
contracts having been awarded for the
track from the former city to Danbury.
| A syndicate has subscribed for 81 ,000,-
600 in first mortgage bonds.
The Mexican government has pro-
claimed the abolition of interstate
duties on national and foreign mer-
chandise in transit, in accordance with
a constitutional amendment adopted
by a majority of the states.
Orrin Skinner, formerly a reputable
lawyer In Chicago, has been sentenced
by London judge to Eve years. penal
servitude for defrauding a banking
firm by means of a forged letter OF
credit from a Chicago bank.
The Supreme court of Georgia is en-
| gagged in reviewing the contest over
the will of David Dickson, of Hancock
county, who left $400, 900 to the daugh-
ter of his colored mistress and cut off
nearly all his white relations.
While Senator Wade Hampton vas
hunting on his Mississippi plantation,
the accidental discharge of his gun
| killed his horse, which fell upon him.
Having but one leg, the senator labor
ed i've hours to reach his house.
Two Cinnamon secured wives by
clipping with white girls from Augusta,
Georgia. Out Of these events grew a
| feeling of hostility which led to at
houses occupied by the Chinese colony.
Henry NJ. Stanley, who has arrived
in New York, says the upper Congo
can be placed in direct communica-
ton with all countries by the construc-
tiUn of the railway alongside the cata-
racts as proposed by the Belgian syndi-
cate.
Buck Mckinney an Indiana MUIR
derer, who was pardoned by Governor
Hendricks after serving twenty years
in prison, found himself so beset with
trouble that he lately requested per-
mission to serve out his life sentence,
which was refused.
The total loss by the fire in Duluth
Saturday evening will exceed 5000, 900.
OF the two elevators burned, one had
q capacity of 500, 600 bushels and the
other of 400, 600 bushels. There will be
a small salvage on the grain. The
insurance is 100000.
Mrs. w. ii. Ferry. of Chicago,
daughter of John V. Farwell, has
statements which show astonishing
penuriOusness on the part Of her hus-
band. 1t is alleged that he has trans
ferred all his real estate.
The approaching senatorial election
in Nebraska bids fair to be one of
great interest. Charles IL. Van Wyck
has friends and opponents in both
parties. 1t is possible that the Demo-
Gratis will present candidate and at
tempt to secure his election.
Mr.. MCGEE, who was elected to the
Georgia legislature by the farmers of
Murray county, has introduced bill
limiting mercantile profits on the
necessities of life to 10 per cent, under
severe penalties. The measure has
some chance of passing the house.
The Baltimore and Ohio road holds
that it has binding contract for the
use of the Reading and Jersey Central
tracks between Philadelphia and New
York, and offers the public the benefit
of competition by an independent line
between Baltimore and New York.
Ghe knights of Labor and the
Miners Amalgamated Association of
the Pittsburg coke region have settled
1itfQranRnC have n
delegate meeting for the purpose Of
forming joint board to hold another
conference with the operators on the
demands already made.
Religious excitement made q maniac
of Rhode Clemens, at Havensville,
Kansas. While going home from
prayer-meeting he murdered neigh
Dor, and was eating his heart when
found on the roadway. 1t is said that
two others in that vicinity have lost
their reason.
The commissioner of a minor rail-
way pool at Chicago, after sending out
men to purchase cut-rate tickets of all
descriptions, summoned the general
passenger agents and let them wrangle
for six hours over the evidence OF bad
faith. Then they voted to cling to the
tariff and let the commissioner inflict
penalties for past misdeeds.
Suit has been brought at Milwaukee
by the heirs of James p. Groves for
possession of 100 acres of land in the
heart of Superior City. Wisconsin. In
cluded in tile syndicate which held the
counter-tite were Stephen A. Douglas,
John G. Breckenridge, Jesse ID. Bright,
w. w. Corcoran, and other lights of
the democratic party in the days be-
fore the war.
AT Corydon, Indiana, Saturday
morning, John M. Bealy, recorder
elect, took possession OF the Office.
having received his commission and
taken the oath. Henry Wright, the
retiring recorder. and u party of
friends entered the Office, knocked
Bealy down and took away the books.
Two hundred citizens iilterfered, plac-
ing the rioters in the courthouse for
safe keeping.
The Hendricks Monument Commit
tee has spoken after long silence, and
say that they have Sl0,5JO on deposit
and enough pledged to swell the sum
to $4,000. It will require some time
to collect this, but the committee hope
to begin active operations In the
spring. 1t has not yet been decided