The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-16


sula for Alaska, on account of repre-
sensations made by Governor Swine
| ford.
The late Ann j. Morcer, of Philadel-
| phia. bequeathed an estate in Mont
| gOmery county. and 500, 900 in cash, to
| establish home for infirm Presby-
| terrain clergymen who do not use to-
bacco.
Five hundred school-boys at Troy,
| New York, struck for single daily
| session of four hours, threw stones and
| mud at the police, and forced the
school board to listen to statement of
| grievances.
II. V. Powderly has written to Con-
| gresham O'Neill that the labor arbi-
tration bill is the best that could have
been passed. although il will not be the
means of settling all disputes between
capital and labor.
President Cleveland has nominated
| Howell e. Jackson, senator from Ten
nessee, to be judge of the Sixth circuit;
Frank III. Dyer to be marshal for Utah,
and Robert &. Jordan to be surveyor
Of customs at Omaha.
Mrs. John a. Logan. who is man.
aging ball in Washington, in the
quarters of the Chinese legation, for
the benefit of the Garfield hospital
fund, has received an anonymous warn
ing of political boycott.
S. Barnes of Grand Haven, Mich,
has been awarded 500 damages against
JudsOn Rice. whom Barnes charged
with alternating his wife's affections.
The case was the most noted ever tried
in Grand Haven county.
Henry III. Porter has organized in
Indiana a company with S5,OOO,OOO cap
ital to operate the Chicago and Great
Southern road, which he recently pur-
chased under foreclosure for $501 600.
The directors are all Chicagoans.
Under warrant from the court of
general sessions at New York an Off
Ger arrested James A. Richmond, pres
ident of the Broadway Surface Rail-
road company, as the direct result Of
the confession of Alderman Waite.
Twelve or more citizens of La Porte
have been summoned 10 Washington
by the judiciary committee of the SEN
ate to testify rs to acts of offensive
partisanship by Edward Hawkins,
nominated TO be marshal for Indiana.
Judge Gresham has decided not to
appoint receiver for the Chicago and
Atlantic road on the applicationrecent-
ly heard, but holds that the owners of
their interest, and to foreclosure if
not paid.
The officers of the First brigade of
Illinois militia are very indignant over
the selection Of permanent camp at
Springfield, and some of them threaten
to resign unless separate encampment
is secured III the northern quarter of
the state.
Thaddeus Fairbanks, the scale in
ventOr, who was knighted by the en-
peror of Austria, died Monday at st.
Johnsbury, Vermont, in his ninetieth
year. He aided with generous hand
the religious and educational interests
of his state.
In the railway wreck at Deerlield,
Massachusetts, several lives WcIo saved
through the heroism of Henry G..
Couillard, of Charlemont, who was be-
ing taken to Jail for selling liquor. The
railroad authorities have started a
movement for his pardon.
The governor of Texas sent militia
company from Pearson to report to the
mayor and sheriff at Laredo. General
Roberts and staff are on hand with two
companies and conference in regard
to the recent riot is being held with the
civil officials.
The earl of Shaftesbury, while riding
in Regent street, London, Tuesday,
drew revolver and discharged the
contents of all the barrels into his
body, dying almost instantly. lie had
been greatly depressed by illness. lie
leaves a widow, a son, and five daugh-
ters.
The boOk-bindery of Charles Lowell,
in New York, where one hundred girls
are employed. has twice been set on
fire by mesSenger-bOy named Will
liam j. McNicholl, who confessed that
he attempted to destroy the building
so that he would no longer have to
work there.
The Iowa legislature commenced i'm
parchment proceedings against Audi
tor Brown, but the court took an adj
journment to May 10. The accused re-
ported himself as having been bank
rupted by his official troubles and was
allowed to employ three attorneys at
the cost of the state.
On writ of habeas corpus, the GRIM
inal court at st. Louis released the
deputies who fired on the mob last
last Friday. But they were immed-
lately rearrested, at the instance of the
authorities of East st. Louis, and will
be kept in Jail to await a requisition as
fugitives from justice.
a fire in the Academy of Fine Arts
at Philadelphia burned many valuable
pictures and damaged several pieces of
statuary. A Lake Shore car, carrying
eleven pouches of mail from the west
for all points east of Toledo, was
burned during Wednesday night near
Oak Harbor, Ohio.
The Northwestern road is anxious to
build a track from Evansville to James,
vile, Wisconsin, over which to run
through trains to st. Paul. at cost of
$250,000. The company asks citizens
interested along the line to furnish the
right of way, when the tracks will be
laid within ninety days.
L. T. Koehler, pastor of the German
Evangelical church at Watertown,
Wisconsin, borrowed from various
friends small sums aggregating $500,
stole the funds of church concert,
beat clothiers and jewelers., and fled.
He wrote back from Detroit that he
was about to cross to Canada.
The April report of the national de-
partment of agriculture shows areduc-