The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-11-26

al league and American association
met in Chicago Monday, and decided
upon various Important changes in the
baseball playing rules.
DIR. Emanuel Dreifus, convicted at
| New Orleans of subOrning q witness
in the celebrated Ford murder case,
was sentenced 10 seven and a half
years in the penitentiary.
In announcing the close of her con-
nection with q Chicago magazine,
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland complains of
falsehoods put afloat in the way of in
terviews with its publisher.
The prison-reform congress ut At
lanta visited the camp of brick COM
pany, seven miles from the city, work
ed by four hundred convicts leased
from the Georgia penitentiary.
| The Mississippi penitentiary and one
thousand convicts are about to be
transferred for six years to the Gulf
and Ship Island Rail Dad company, for
| $40, 900 per annum and expenses.
A consolidation has been effected of
the associations Of cattle-growers
heretofore holding their meetings in
| Chicago and st. Louis. d. w. Smith,
OF Illinois, wss chosen president.
Professor Foster predicts that a
storm OF considerable force will pre-
vail in the central portion of the
United States this week. crossing the
Mississippi river about Thursday.
The newest of Chicago's railways, the
Minnesota and Northwestern, will
| opeE its line next week with q limited
tram from Chicago to st. Paul, max
ing the distance in thirteen hours.
Near Rockaway Beach. New York.
Friday morning. thirty-tWO rounds
were fought by Bill Davis and Jack
kenney. The total exhaustion of both
caused the referee to declare draw.
Charles Diliwiddie, a negro charged
with robbing white man named Jen-
nings, was riddled with bullets by a
mob of masked men in the calaboOse
at Mckenzie, Tenn. Monday night.
Mormon missionaries have lately
made twenty converts in the village of
New England, Pennsylvania. Seven
teen OF. the number, mostly English
c0al-miners, are about to leave for
Utah.
On the finding of a coroner's jury at
Rio. Wis, u brakeman named Charles
III. Wells has been held 10 answer for
criminal negligence which caused the
disaster on the s. Paul road last
month.
Burglars who pllaged fifteen rooms
in the hotel at Burnley, Wisconsin. and
were subsequently caught with their
tools and plumber, overlooked guest
who had $4,000 in currency under his
pillow.
In the circuit court at Cincinnati the
suit brought by the government
against the Bell Telephone company
was decided in favor of the latter, the
bill being dismissed for want Of juris-
diction.
The Pennsylvania Supreme court
has decided that the 3-mill tax cannot
be levied on mortgages held by COR
porationS. This will result in a loss
to the state of vast amount of
revenue.
In a loft at Kingston. New York,
there was found Saturday the original
letter written by Benedict Arnold to
the American people to vindicate him.
self for his attempted betrayal of the
country.
Julien Il. Davies, of New Y DIRK, re-
ceiver of the firm of Grant & Ward,
has brought suit against Mayor Will
lam IL. Grace to recover $l5O.000 OBJ
tanned from the firm through fictitious
contracts.
Nearly every citizen of Perry county
kentucky, has armed himself for q
share in the vendetta between French
and Eversol, rivals in business. who
control the trade Of several mountain
counties.
w. r.. Stewart, late manager of the
Western Union telegraph Office at
Wichita, Kansas, who was tried at
Winnipeg on the charge of bringing
stolen moneys into Canada. secured
an acquittal.
A resident of Kingston, Ontario,
went to New York and purchased ST.
600 in counterfeit bills for $50. A
customs officer at Cape Vincent found
the package to be only roll of saw
dust and scraps.
Professor Wiley, chemist of the ag-
ricultural department, telegraphs from
Fort Scott that he obtained by the
diffusion process 12i pounds of sugar
of fine quality from each ton Of Louis
lana cane treated.
The Baltimore and Ohio road reports
for its main system during the past
year earnings of So. SAG, 6l3 and expenses
of 4,026, 1865. The earnings OF the
branches were S1S.4 22 437 and the ex-
censes $40 O35 40.
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