The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-16
600. The outstanding indebtedness IS
poxy oplv ahout C1H0 000

tiOnS of miser named Frank Moore,
residing near Pennsboro, West Vir-
GINA, took from his hoard $1,000 In
bills and $500 in gold.
Charles Marsh, the Boston dry-goods
merchant, died from astroke of paraly-
sis, in his tifty-seventh year. His estate
is estimated at $10.0OO,OOO, including
life insurance for $250,OOO.
About ten thousand bills have been
presented in the present house, most OF
them for private measures. This is
more than was ever introduced in both
sessions of any other congress.
known on both SIDES of the Atlantic
from his connection with railways, is
about to be committed to prison by
order of the bankruptcy court.
William l.. Scott has been unani-
mously renominated for congress by
the democrats of the Erie district of
Pennsylvania. Judge Wilson, OF Wi
mona, will probably be placed in the
field by the democrats Of the First
Minnesota district.
William Brown, the head of gang
of Canadian counterfeiters arrested at
Coburg, carried in his pockets a large
amount of false money and orders for
packages as high as 81 900 each.
President Cleveland vetoed the bill
for public building at Dayton, Ohio,
on the ground that the federal officials
at that point are well accommodated
at a rental of 1880 per annum.
The California congressional delega-
ton handed to President Cleveland,
engraved on solid gold plate an invi-
tation to attend the Grand Army en-
campment at San Francisco next
month.
A. G.. Brown, Jr., a militia lieutenant
of Jackson, Michigan, has disappeared
with 81 500 company funds. His friends
claim that he went to Chicago to wit
ness the ball games and lost the money
in bets.
In the anarchist trial at Chicago,
Friday, vain attempt was made to
obtain some Jurors by summoning
bankers and leading merchants. Eight
men have been accepted out Of 725 ex-
amined
The chief of the fire department at
Evansville, Indiana, cut all the tele-
phone wires in that city, and COM
menced to take down the poles, be-
cause the company failed to comply
with a recent ordinance.
The grand jury at Boston has in
dicted ParsOn Downs for adultery with
girl named Alice Walton, who last
March became q mother, and who teStl-
fed that she yielded to the preacher in
disreputable hotel.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for the
erection of a monument to mark the
birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, near
Hedgesville, Kentucky, was intro
duced in congress by democratic rep
resentative from that State.
The Louisville furniture-workers'
eight-hour strike, which began May 10,
has ended in acknowledged failure.
The places of nearly all the strikers
have been filled, and they will find it
difficult to get work at any terms.
William M. Jones, of Des Moines,
brought suit in the federal court at
Chicago to compel John b. Alley, of
Boston, to refund 100000 or more &C
quired through manipulation of the
Des Moines and Minneapolis road.
Seventy-five republican editors of
Ohio met at Columbus Thursday and
passed resolutions earnestly requesting
the United States senate to investigate
the charges of bribery in connection
with the election of Senator Payne.
President Cleveland has pardoned r..
Porter Lee, the embeZZling president
served five years in the penitentiary.
The main reason given is the need of
his support by his wife and five chill
| dren.
Sam Archer, one of family Of In
diana desperadoes, was hanged at
Shoals Friday for the murder of Sam
uel A. Bunch. In the Tombs at New
York the execution of Cuban negro
named Chacon was witnessed by forty
six persons.
In the Jail at Ann Arbor, Michigan,
after confessing the preparation of a
murder, man from New Mexico
hanged himself in his cell with rope
cut from a hammock. Officers from
SocoIro are supposed to be OH the way
| to claim him.
The International Bimetallist league,
at meeting Thursday in Cincinnati,
passed resolutions asking that the coin.
| age of silver dollars be suspended until
concurrent action can be taken by the
great commercial nations, as the Bland
law has proven failure.
DR.. Calling will soon exhibit in
Washington gun specially devised for
the suppression of riots. Its weight
will be fifty pounds, and it will be
capable of firing one thousand shots
per minute. The intention is to place
the weapon on police patrol wagons.
The people of Shackelford county,
Texas, are said to be in a starving
condition from the almost total failure
of crops, and cattle are rapidly perish
ing. No rain has fallen for fourteen
months. The settlers in that region
were mainly from the northern states
M. j. Haley, special agent of the
general land office, seized lumber
yard at Fort Keogh for the unlawful
cutting of timber on government land
He was promptly arrested under the
territorial statutes, and will be prose
cuted by the ablest lawyers in that re-
gion.
Early Friday morning, during 8
heavy rain, the safe in the postoflice al
Minneapolis was drilled by burglars
who took 500 in currency and $18, OO(
worth of stamps. The mail-carrier'
horse and mercantile delivery-wagoI
were seized by the thieves to carry
their booty to st. Paul.
The Commercial Bulletin estimates
the loss by fire in the United State:
and Canada between Jan. and june
AxNa naD