The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-23
the interior of East Africa.

road will have its own track in Milwau-
kee and q line along the PenOkee range
to the iron mines or Gogeblc.
The governor of Maine has requested
the postmaster general to so modify
the regulations for sending liquids by
mail as to prevent violation of the pro-
hibitory liquor laws of the states.
The net vote in Great Britain for
members of parliament is l, 296, 1853 for
the Gladstone candidates and 1856, 1856
for the unionists. The latter will have
a majority of about lis members in
| Cts.
In forest just outside of Paris, Gen
eral Boulanger and Baron Lareinty
fought duel with pistols. The baron
took deliberate aim, and the minister
of war fired into the air and left the
field.
of Detroit, charged with Offering COun-
Gilman RaynOr 81 900 for his vote in
favor of the Brush Electric Light COM
pany contract two years ago, was ac-
quilted.
BY the end of July the track of the
Burlington and Northern road will be
completed from st. Paul to Oregon,
Illinois, 1853 miles. The road will not
be opened for Chicago traffic until
September.
The drought in Kansas is the most
severe since 1873, the last general rain
having fallen in June. A dispatch from
Aberdeen, Dakota, states that the Jim
River valley was relieved by heavy
rain Sunday.
The strike of quarrymen at Lemont,
Illinois. is ended by compromise. The
married employees are to receive the
advanced wages agreed upon in May,
and the single men will accept 25 cents
per day less.
The business failures throughout the
country during the last seven days, as
reported by telegraph, number, for the
United States 1853, and for Canada 20, a
total of 1873, as compared with total
of 179 last week.
j. A. Oestreich. of OconomOwoc,
Wisconsin, killed himself with a re-
volver in a Chicago hotel about noon
Monday. A short time afterward his
wife and two children arrived in the
city to meet him.
Chicago detectives have captured five
men who have been committing numer-
Gus burglaries at Warsaw, Columbus,
and Plymouth, Indiana. One of the
gang IS lad who was put through
transoms to open doors.
The secret-service officers are con-
WINGED that the recent post-Oflice rob-
berry at Minneapolis was perpetrated
under the leadership of the Peoria
Kid" who planned the So, 600 orange
box robbery at Indianapolis.
Custodian Power of the national Lin
coin monument denies the story that
entrance fees are demanded there and
that he ever spoke of the crypt de-
signed for Robert Lincoln as the "hOle
in which his body would be put"
Fort Worth has been celebrating the
tenth anniversary of the advent of rail
roads, when the city had less than one
thousand population. There are now
eight roads, and it is claimed that the
citizens number thirty thousand.
Tie Union Pacific road, having fully
decided to decrease to sixty-fve hours
the time from the Missouri river to the
Pacific ocean. is endeavoring to induce
some of the Chicago roads to cut down
the Neutrality-suspicious. schedule to Coun-
Gil Bluffs.
In the lobby of the house of repre-
sentatives. Friday, Laird, of Nebraska,
struck Cobb, of Indiana, a blow in the
face which drew blood in streams. The
difficulty grew out of charges recently
cerned in land ring.
James Dacey. Chicago murderer,
was executed Friday at Woodstock,
illinois, in presence of about two hun,
dred persons. He was dead in twelve
minutes from the time the drop fell,
and his body was soon shipped to
Chicago medical college.
A dispatch has been sent from
Weatherford. Tex, to Congressman
Lanham at Washington asking him to
secure government aid for the people
of the drought-stricken regions of
Texas. Hundreds of families are with
out the necessities of life.
The Western and Northwestern rail-
way managers have patched up peace,
entering upon q temporary agreement
in regard to rates which is to extend
to Sept. Is. Meanwhile efforts will be
made to perfect q permanent plan for
the adjustment of all troubles.
a murderer named Beasley, who
escaped from jail at Charleston, West
Virginia, is still at large in that neigh
borhood, and recently lodged bullet
in the side of a farmer who had dis
covered his hiding-place. No citizen
of that region dares to go unarmed.
The undergrad of Knapp, Stout &
Co.. of st. Louis, covering forty acres
along the river front, lost $500,000
worth of stock by fire Sunday after
noon. Fifteen engines were called in
to use, and several firemen were over
come by heat. The insurance is about
100000.
Eighty-tive liquor dealers at Norris
sauna, N. Y, have agreed to close up
their saloons on Sunday. They have re-
solved to make an effort to stop milk
wagons, horse cars, and carriages from
travelling on that day and to close up
all places of business save the newspa-
per stands.
The resignation of q desk in the
treasury department by Assistant Sec
rotary Smith is said to have been
brought about by delegations of civil
service reformers from Boston and
New York, who made charges of illegal
action, and he gave up the place rather
than suffer rebuke.
The first money received by the
Cherokees from the cattle men for
grazing privileges is now being dis
tributed at Tahlequah. 1t amounts to
$500, 900, each full-blood receiving
$685.. A claim for a share is made
by colored residents and the Delaware
and Shawnee Indians.