The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-11-20
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LOCAL. MATTERS.
Carton. Case or R,sainy.


in this city, with occasional intervals, one
"Dr. A>kenaz', Hungarian physician"-a
small man. OF ill-favored yet strongly mark
ed Jewish counterance-speakin English,
and several other European lan@uagr s very
br"ken'y, claiming to have been surgeon
in the Hungarian patriot army in 1913. and
t" have come t" this country wi kes>u'h.
but hy his vernacular betraying that he was
originally either from Poland or Southern
Russia. HIS mo of life was in the high
est degree rar.im"ni"us- occupying g'nc'-
ally . small, cheap ro"m, which answered
a. well for his office. d"rmit"ry and kitch-
en-, in which he prepared his own real>.-
Among his intimatrS-whow were very few
he passed AZ man Of great learning, and
bv those with whom he prscticed a. ply.
.i,:ian or surgeon, he was regarded as q man
Of high professional skill.
"Er. Ashkenazi, Hungarian" vas thus
getting along smo"thiy and prosperou>ly,
until some ten days ago, when his dream of
rep"s- was very materially interrupted by
the arrival Of lady in tins city. who claim
ed to be his lawful, welded spousc-who
made upon him. in that character. certain
weigh,y ella ,:.s, and preferred against HIM
certain weThty charges, the effect Of which
have been To place the little d" tor" IN
limbo from that day 10 this. The lady h av-
ing proved the identity of her mar, sought
aAy Z NH sts an. t,Sya
TALLY the following statement.
Some twenty years ago. being then a lass
OF fifteen suInmrrs-ti.e iavorite OF her pa
r MIS-, who were III easy circumstances, lv-
ing III the village of Krecna (Krasnoy =
Russia, near the borders of Poland-a jew
esS-she made the acquaintance Of ayoung
tnan-poor, but distinguished for his learn
& and pie,y, named ASST VI Se'tzar. He
greatly won the esteem and confidence Of
the chief raibi Of the place, tina, lie was f. .
qu-nty entrusted with the administration
OF the (Jewi>l) law in his The Chief rabbI'>)
absence. Her parents and all parties as>en
tiuy, she was married TO the learned vours
rabbi. On their marriage, her parents gave
them = marriage portion OF about .UUb,
on which they lived about We n a, kreena,
u hen the you, rahb su'idvu.y dlsappvar.d
aud was gone SOME three years b fore she
ascertai,i 4 his whereabouts FINALLY she
heard az him al Dan'z'c, III Prussia, whittier
she irl owed HIM, found him, auI returned
with hun sn Sersi, in Poland. Here they
lived Together another year. during which =
child was born 10 them. When the child
visi, to her mother at kreena-remain in, d
There few weeks, then started back i"r
S raj. Arriving ut the harder, the rabbi, it
appeared, had pr"vid, d a passport only for
hnS II, and rnti,na'ing 10 an officer that the
i,Ay was nonSof his, and had n psS>por',
h was Conveyed across til. stream. while
she was left behind. Ills vas the last she
had >, Ell Of e. loving spouse until she nSsi
him ten days ago in Ottawa.
But she Was unwilling tngive him up so.
A ming herself with fenIS and the rec, sSa-
~ papers, she started III pursuit. She found
traces of him in various places throu CHOU,
Europe. hut WIS never able TO fix his iocaIi-
", until after some three years. she learned
{ iaI no I.-.i ','-rn a; jerusalem, hsu there
been married to second wile-had in u
year l.tt hen had thence been wandering
over Europr assuming the character of 4
Jtru>alrrn,e." begging funds tor the de-.
I r.,
in tb,s way i.e had accumulated considerable
none, lint a bro her o! his second VII.
had pursued hiu - Uund him in Germany
and got Jewish writing Of divu'cemenl'
from hin --r-iurn,i with il to jerusalem
and iounc It defective, followed h!ni sc'
eni time and found L.In IN London, " fri {
he got another writing that Was IN Que form.
Tn-n all trace 81 hum disappeared. unit
me two years ago, She learned that he bad
DEPOSITED soia. money with u banker ~
II mover, with urdurs 10 forward it WHITTIER
he snnuld direc, by letter. The baukrr Fl
nallv 90; / letter. directing. b m IA send the
money to banker named Israel. in ka'a
mazoo, Mic',. tt ser she fol o& j. AID
ture was informed that the money / 1t
been sent to Sei,zar. in care OF DIR. Ashten
All, at Ottawa, Ill. So sh. came 10 Ottawa
| and here. by accident, met Dr.. \. in th'
street, whom she al once reccgnFz as lac
truant lord The DIR. male feeble efior
to deny his identity. hut soon cav.d, an,
showed disposition to come IL terms.
| IT,, demsnd> were reasonable enough
, All she asked was Il enforcement and som,
$1,000 in money To enable her to retu n ID
| hci parents. The first. the Dr. WAS wllin,
/ enough to .ceje To, but bel ga great mi
! Ser, utterly sr"utS the latter part o! the pro
| pnsitio to .va'', which he ,!i-d earnestly
| to PERSUADE her To Eve with, him s.ssaii -
! ihis she perrinp;orily declines, bu, com
mences proceeding in our Circuit Cour
| for divorce and slimony, and for fear lac
"rabbi" may take leave of her again, he ha
him locked up Oh a wri. Of re Great.
| The doctor is known to have some ei.h,
or ten thousand dollars in gold in his pos
session, and could easily discharge the Ia
dy's moderate demand, but + so mis-r!,
that he may linger long while IN Jail br
fare he will do it, The lady is not unhand
snsne. apparently very intelligent, and evi
delIy brim fu of grit.
Ee dropped in a, O,,on's Bookstore late
! ", and noi,rcd for the first time that he Ia.
in operati"a = large and we'll selected circu
la,ing Library.
| THIS is just what we want in Ottawa
and We think our fiirud O.,on will make hl
| library all that tn. In st literary could WISH
Parents caurot confer greater dement,
their children team To give them access
! a y.nd coll eeIinn 1.f hnlIx ii.us encaufaYIn