The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-09-03

can rot be controlled On an appeal
| from the mayor of the distressed town,
the city engineer of Chicago sent thilh-
er two skillful men to meet the emer-
gency.
The trustees of the proposed Catho-
lie university at Washington intend
soon to have the building commenced.
The sum of 100000 was contributed
by Miss Caldwell, of New York, and
nearly an equal amount has been
raised by Bishops Spalding, Keane,
and Ireland.
The police of Chicago, Sunday. ar
rested anarchists named Louis Juhl,
Henry Batzel. and William Kloth, all
residing on, West, Seventeenth street;
They have been holding meetings at
night, with their followers, in Kloth's
co0pershop. Guns and swords were
found in their houses.
The widow and two sons of G. p. r.
James, the novelist. reside at Eau
Claire, Wisconsin. Mrs. James con-
tinues to draw pension from the
British government for her husbands
services as royal historiographer. One
son, now an alderman, has become
quite widely known as an anarchist
writer.
In the Missouri Pacific railroad sys-
tenn at the beginning of the present year
were included 1863 miles Of line, radi-
ating mainly from st. Louis to the
south and west. The company is now
engaged in building several hundred
additional miles of road, the chief pro-
ductive sections of Texas being it's
objective points.
The American schooner, A. r.. Crit
tenden, with 430 barrels Of mackerel on
board, was seized by the Canadian GUS
toms collector at Port Mulgrave, and
is held to await instructions from OF
tawa. The schooner Legal Tender
waiter in harrington Bay, refusing to
obey an order to come to anchor.
The prohibitionists of Pennsylvania
nominated Charles S. Wolfe for COVER
nor and A. A. Barker for lieutenant
governor: The sum of $1,000 was con,
tributed for campaign purposes, and
$500 flung into the hat for the widow
of Rev. Mr.. Haddock, of Iowa, sup
posed to have been murdered for his
labOrs in the cause of temperance.
Press dispatches from the City of
Mexico deny that Mr.. Sedgwick, the
American special agent sent to investi-
gate the Cutting case, was treated with
insolence at club ball. 1t is proposed
to honor him with series of dinners
and receptions. He is comforting with
Minister Jackson, and will next pro-
coed to Chihuahua and Paso, del Norte.
The Illinois Central has inserted no
tees in several Illinois papers, calling
for receipts given to purchasers OF
land by John w. Turlay. Last winter
Turlay suddenly and mys teriously dis
appeared, and subsequently it turned
out that he had failed to pay over sew
eral thousand dollars which he had
collected from delinquents. Nothing
has ever been heard of his where
abouts.
"A report has been prepared by the
Auditor OF the Treasury, showing the
fiscal operations of the postal service
for the quarter ended March 81, 1856.
The receipts were S11 .53S. 630.S1: eX-
penditures, $12,794 ,224.92; deficit, 81,
30,S06.97. A comparison with the
corresponding quarter Of the previous
year shows receipts to have been SO,
1888, 548.34; expenditures, So, 544 ,S40.96;
deficit, 81 ,56l, 1872.
The miners on the Baltimore 81 Ohio
Railroad have another reduction of
wages staring them in the face. The
smaller operators claim to be unable
to pay more than Scott. and according
ly the miners at the Republic works
are now working at q cents per BUSH
ell. Several other operators are con.
templating similar action. The min.
ers will probably inaugurate. another
strike. They claim that q cents is
low enough, and will not submit to
reduction from that figure.
The statement of the business of all
lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company east of Pittsburg and Erie
for July, 1856, as compared with the
same month in 1885, shows an increase
in gross. earnings of $671 ;572 and an in,
crease in expenses Of $250,993. All
lines west of Pittsburg and Erie for
the seven months of 1856 show de-
ficiency in meeting all liabilities of
$413, ST., being decreased deficiency,
as compared with the same period of
1885, of $6lO,321.
The democrats Of the Eighth Penn
sylvania district renominated Daniel
Ermentrout for congress. II. V. Pow
derby having declined to take part in
political contests, the democrats of the
Twelfth Pennsylvania district nomi-
mated j. Ii. Swoyer, the largest coal
operator in the anthracite region.
Joseph III. Cultivate was renominated
by the democrats of the Lancaster dis
trict of Ohio; Congressman Worthing-
ton in the Tenth Illinois district, and
Congressman Rowell in the Fourteenth
Illinois.
About o'clock on Sunday morning
the citizens of Chicago were startled
by an explosion resulting from stroke
of lightning at the powder magazine of
Latin 81 Rand, near Brighton Park.
Windows were broken in the business
portion of the city. One person was
killed and six others fatally injured.
The pecunlary loss in the Immediate
vicinity will reach $4,000 The bride
well sustained damage to the amount
of $4,000. A wild panic occurred at the
Jesuit church, on West Twelfth street.
The explosion dug hole twenty feet
deep and one hundred feet long.
The Central national bank has shut
down on Nj. Pettengill q Co., manu-
facturers Of wholesale boots and shoes
of Peoria, ILL.,, on Judgment note of
$27 900. The Peoria national has
note for $4,000, and there is about
1909 outside. The partners are Il.
L. Pettengill and Joseph A. Bent. 1t
is one of the oldest firms in Peoria.
Pettengill says he has no hope of tiding