The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-09-17


numbers all told twenty-five bucks,
fourteen squaws and three children.
One of the children is baby which
was born while the Indians have been
out on the war path. The Indians say
the child was born during the night,
and the mother was in the saddle next
day flying before the American troops.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Sept. SIT is under
stood that at the national convention
of the Knights of Labor at Richmond
next month changes in the present
laws will be made that will amount
practically to complete reorganiZa-
ton of the order. The district plan
has not proven as successful as was
expected, for the reason that in many
places districts have been formed
within districts, and in consequence
the local strength has been divided.
The great number of district assem-
blies also makes it impossible for the
general officers, even with the assist
Cleveland meeting, to keep up with
business. The result is that important
matters frequently cannot be investi-
gated promptly enough to prevent dis
satisfaction. To remedy this it Is
proposed TO take as model the gov
eminent of the United States-that is,
to have state organizations and a
supreme or national assembly.
The state assemblies under the new
plan will have control of the territory
under their jurisdiction, but the acts
of their officers will be subject to re-
yersal by the general master. work.
man. Thus Mr.. Powderly will retain
supreme control, while gaining relief
from the routine work that now falls
on his shoulders. The plan has been
thoroughly canvassed since the ad-
journment of the Cleveland convention
and there is little doubt but that it
will be adopted.
GENERAL NEWS.
The imports of general merchandise
at New York last week amounted to
1921, 1856.
The Chicago ball club still leads the
Detroit nine for the championship by
two games.
The New York banks have a surplus
reserve of 5000 425. The clearings of
the Chicago banks for the week were
$50 800, 624.
President Cleveland and party have
returned to the Prospect house, after
driving about one hundred miles in
the Adirondacks.
Prominent citizens of Nashville
unite in a request that the widow of
General Cheatham be given the Nash
vile postmaStership.
The democrats of the Fifth Missis-
sippi district, after balloting 119 times,
nominated G. l.. Anderson to succeed
o. II. Singleton in congress.
A contest has begun in st. Louis be-
tween brewerieS and the brewers
union, i'll regard to boycott. Six
hundred employees quit work Thurs
day.
A ranchman arriving Sunday at
Tombstone stated that Captain Law
ton captured and is taking Geronimo
to Fort Bowie with forty bucks,
squaws and papooses.
The republican state convention of
Missouri nominated J. G. Graves, OF
Kansas City, for supreme judge, and
Nj. +. Butler, of Mexico, for superin-
tendent of public instruction.
The decentralization prevailing in the
cattle market at Chicago has at last
become known to western shippers.
The receipts Saturday were only sixty
head, the smallest ever known.
by the action of the Louisiana board
of health, Biloxi has been closed to the
world. Trains will not even stop at
Beauvoir, the residence of Jefferson
Davis, from fear of yellow fever.
Reports come from China that the
imprudence Of English and American
missionaries led TO the destruction of
several villages occupied by Christians
and the murder of fifty persons.
1t is said that the runaway daughter
G.. p. Morosini, of New York, has eff
fected q reconciliation with her father
and abandoned her husband, Ernest
Schilling, formerly the family coach
man.
Ex-Presdent Arthur, who is still
sojourning at New London, is said to
be the mere shadow of himself in
weight and color. although manifest
ing the keenest interest in the events
of the day.
DR.. j. l.. Ingersoll, brother of Pope
Bob, has been nominated for congress
by the prohibitionists of the Waukesha
district of Wisconsin. The democrats
of the Eighth Missouri district renomi
mated John j. O'Neill.
Arkansas election returns are mea-
ger, but enough to show that the en-
tire Democratic state ticket has been
elected by large majority. A very
ouldll NOtC Wdo pOllCu NY uliO iupol
party. The Democrats will have about
their usual majority in the Legisla
ture.
Wild Neil, q famous hermit of
North Carolina, who owned consider
able property before the war, hanged
himself in his cabin near Fayetteville.
He lived about one hundred yards from
his sister, to whom he had not spoken
for twenty years until he babe her fare
well.
The Clothing Manufacturers asso-
citation of New York rejected propo-
sition by the Knights of Labor that
the lockout be declared at an end and
all strikers be taken back. Instead,
notice was given that the non-union
men at work would be retained at all
hazards.
G. M. Brace, prominent citizen of
Rockford, Illinois, died Monday, in his
54th year, from injuries received three
months ago by falling from his car
riage. He was q captain on the staff
of General Rosecrans, and of late years
commanded the Third Illinois militia
regiment