The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-09

pool rapids in barrel on July
The manager of the Lake Shore road
recently ordered the suspension of
twenty-five passenger conductors run
ming between Buffalo and Chicago,
without giving them any reason.
A lumber firm of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, has this year entered one
hundred thousand acres of pine lands
in Louisiana and Mississippi. Other
western men are prospecting in that
section.
Postmaster General Villas removed
twenty-seven railway mail clerks, on
charge of attempting to form an or
ganiZation to dictate action to the de-
partment and menace it with embar-
rassment.
The New York Central road has re-
Gently invested 100000 in new Sleep
ing:-cars, with which to equip Boston
and Chicago train, making the distance
twelve stops.
William K. Smith resigned the assist
ant secretaryship of the treasury to be-
come solicitor for the Manitoba road.
Hugh S. Thompson, governor of South
Carolina, was nominated to the vacancy
by President Cleveland.
The president of the Minnesota and
Northwestern road has let the contract
for grading his line from Freeport to
Chicago, and has arranged to join the
Wisconsin Central ten miles outside
the city and use its terminal facilities.
The river and harbor bill, as remod-
eled by the senate committee on COM
merce, provides for the acceptance of
the Illinois and Michigan canal by the
government and appropriates $500, 600
for its extension to the Mississippi
river.
A cotton-buyer in Texarkana sold to
eastern parties three thousand bales of
good middling by sample and arranged
to draw against them: BY filling his
grades, he robbed his customers of
$35, 900.
Jack Connors, desperate burglar,
escaped from the Wisconsin peniten-
tiary three years ago, and nothing
could be learned of his whereabouts
until he was found at work in a shop
in the Joliet prison, on q nine years.
sentence.
A Pittsburg dispatch says that the
long-pending troubles between the pro-
prietors OF the Philadelphia rolling
mills and their employees have come to
crisis, and that four large concerns
in Pittsburg will bank their fires, which
will directly affect 800 men.
Gems. Sheridan. Schofeld, and Terry
have been appointed by the Secretary
of War to examine the sites offered for
military post near Chicago and to
report which in their judgment is the
best one in order that he may recon-
mend its acceptance to Congress.
The present week in the House of
Representatives at Washington will be
devoted to the consideration of appro-
priation bills and bills declaring the
forfeitures of land grants. In the
one day to the consideration of the
veto of the Des Moines River Land
bill.
Near Elkhart, Ind, during a heavy
fog, the limited express on the Lake
Shore road ran into the rear of freight
train. Thomas. Stephenson, the engi-
neer, chung to his post and put on the
air-brakes, and the locomotive was de-
molished as he leaped off. He declined
purse of $500 rendered by the passen-
gers.
1t is said to have been pretty definitely
settled that the love-sick Senator Jones
of Florida will not return to Washing
ton during the present session of Con-
gress. His daughter graduated at the
Catholic seminary in Georgetown last
week, but he was not present on the
occasion. He still remains in Detroit,
the home Of the object OF his hopeless
passion.
The Comte de Paris, on embarking
for England, babe farewell to twelve
hundred sympathizing friends assem-
bIed at the door of his chateau. He
was met at Dover by the Rothschilds
and other social leaders. The Due
d'Aumale and Prince de Joinville will
live together in retirement. Prince
Jerome Napoleon will spend three
months with his family in Switzerland.
Charles l.. Bodendiek, the Chicago
anarchist, who, on the night of March
Is, robbed Justice White of so cents.
was convicted before Judge Rogers
and sentenced to one year in the peni-
Tertiary. Bodendiek pleaded in his de-
Tense that he was penniless and hungry,
and, according to his belief, share In
all property belonged to him.
The Socialists INDUCED in picnic
and beer at Sharpshooters' Park at
Chicago Sunday, about 5000 persons
being on the grounds. Oscar Neebe,
he is alleged to have taken in the re,
cent haymarket riot, made speech.
His reference to the police blood
hounds" however, brought some Of
ficers to the front, and the speakers re-
marks thereafter were brief and mild.
Paul Wilzig of New York, German
waiter, was found guilty of extorting
money under the boycott system from
George Thesis, owner of concert hall
and saloon on 14th street. Wilzig was
remanded for sentence, which will
range from one to five years in the
penitentiary. This is the first decision
In the boycotting cases in this city, and
it is looked upon as another huge club
placed in the hands of employers who
do not agree with the Central Labor
union as to the ACCESSIBILITY of the boy
colt.
John Protzmann, who delivered an
incendiary speech atMilwaukee garden
during the riots, was found guilty by
jury, and Henry Lampel, who was
charged with carrying red flag and
urging the mob to do deeds Of violence,
was acquitted. he having proved an
alibi. Half dozen persons swore that
he was at the Office of the Arbeiter lei