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

running new rc,lrs wesL dr caDssA~.
Iowa, which will require tunnel
through bluff, but will shorten the
line seven miles in twenty.
Alexander Mitchell urges the re-elec-
ton of Governor Rusk, of Wisconsin,
for his action in suppressing anarchy,
and advises the democracy to nominate
no candidate in opposition.
DR.. Ames, of Minneapolis, has been
nominated by the democrats for gov
ernor of Minnesota The platform
pledges the party to the establishment
OF home for veteran soldiers.
A fire at Elgin, illinois, early Tues
day morning. destroyed Dubois opera
house. valued at 100000. A merchant
named Theodore +. Swan received ia
tai injuries from falling window-cap.
The strike of four thousand cotton
operatives at Atlanta so touched the
sympathies of the people that an APP
the needy was made by the city coun-
Gil.
Professor Virgins, of Ottawa, On
tario, claims that he last March pre-
dicted the earthquakes now prevailing
in the southern states, and he holds
that the greatest strain will be expert
enced before October Is.
The relief committee at Charleston
has already received 100000 in con-
tributions. Mayor Courtenay, in q
proclamation, alludes with deep feel
ing 10 the practical sympathy shown
throughout the union.
G. Y. Holtzschuerr, a druggist of
Creston, Iowa, was found guilty in the
Superior court on thirty separate
counts of selling intoxicating liquors
in violation of the pharmacy law, and
fined 81. 500 and costs.
The Taylor brothers, rival candidates
for governor of Tennessee. occupied
the same room in hotel at Chattanoo-
ga, where they entertained their
friends, on Sunday evening, with
familiar melodies on violins.
Hon. Joseph L. Mcdonald was inter
viewed in New York, and predicted
that Mr.. Cleveland would be the demo-
cratic nominee in 1888, and that the.
republicans would nominate either
John Sherman or Senator Allison.
Seventy Bostonians attended a BAN
quet given to Frederick Douglass, on
Phillips club. The colOred orator
sketched the progress of his race since
the days of the abolition excitement.
The sheriff at Covington, Tennessee,
has in custody man who cOnfesses
having murdered eX-Mayor Bowman,
of East st. Louis. The prisoner states
that he was paid 81 900 for the work
10y the vice president of railway CON-
pany.
Miss Martus, of Savannah, the
daughter of q retired officer of the
army, lost her power of speech from
an attack of meningitis, soon after the
war closed. Her fright during the re-
cent earthquake served to. fully restore
her voice.
The Apache captives are on the way
Ito Florida i'll charge of General Miles.
The acting secretary of war has order
ed that Geronimo, Natchez, and other
leaders be imprisoned at San Antonio
until decision can be reached as to
their mode Of trial.
The concession granted to Gen.
Grants Southern Mexican Railway
for waste lands in the States OF Vera
Cruz, Pueblo, OaXaca, and Chipas has
been officially declared forfeited. The
railway concession had long time
since been forfeited.
Miss Lulu Bates, Of Cincinnati,
made balloon ascension at Crawfords-
vile, Indiana, Friday. When three
hundred feet from the earth the air.
ship burst open, and she braced her.
self in the basket and reached the
ground with bad jar.
Cyrus w. Field, who has reached
Chicago from trip over the Canadian
Pacific road, pronounces the route
more pleasant than the Northern Pa
cilic, and declares the valley of the Red
River of the North the finest agricult-
ural country in the world.
Z. Wilson, q school-teacher at Itha-
ca, Ohio, was arrested at Toledo,
charged with grave-robbery. He called
at the express office with check for d
trunk containing the dead body of
woman which few hours before had
been received from Bellevue.
Cardinal Gibbons Sunday dedicated
the new st. Joseph Passionist monas-
terry, the second largest in the United
States, located two miles west of Bal
timore. Its cost was 100000. The
headquarters of the order will be re-
moved thither from West Hoboken.
Mayhower defeated Galatea Satur-
day, and saved the trophy. She fairly
outsailed her rival, and was received
with the most rapturous demonstra-
tons of rejoicing. The time taken by
Mayflower was 6 hours, 40 minutes,
while that of her opponent was 7
hours, Is minutes.
The general managers Of the western
railroads, in their attempts to reor-
ganize the freight pool were met by
the demand of the Missouri Pacific for
recognition as a competitor in every
direction, and it is understood that the
Northwestern positively refuses to
pool the receipts on range cattle.
A democratic congressional conven-
ton nominated William III. Niece in
the Eleventh district Of Illinois. The
republicans placed in the field Joseph
b. Cheadle in the Ninth district Of In
diana, j. III. Gallinger in the Second
district of New Hampshire, and Ralph
Plumb in the Eighth district of Hi
nois.
Miss Nevins, the bride of James c..
Blaine, Jr., is grandchild Of Samuel
Medary, who was territorial governor
of Minnesota and Of Kansas. She was
educated at q convent in Cincinnati,
has rare musical and dramatic talent,
and is represented as exceptionally
beautiful. Young Blaine is about 20
wears of app