The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-14
W. Dorsey was declared forfeited, and
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w. Dorsey was declared forfeited, and
his arrest was ordered,
| "A petition to. congress not to inter
fere with Chinese immigration has beer
signed by four thousand firms of New
York, including the entire dry-goods
trade and the president Of every bank in
the clearinghouse.
1t is alleged that Vogel & Co., silk
merchants at Hong Kong, have swim
died American and European merchants
out of 81 ,000, 600 or more by forwarding
inferior goods. The head Of the house
has fled to Italy. -.
The principal and interest of the debt
Of Tennessee amounts TO SOS, 000, 900. 1t
is understood in legislative circles in
Nashville that the creditors of the state
are about to propose settlement at GO
cents with interest at 4, 5, or 9 per cent.
Developments since the slaughter of
Jesse James have led to the discovery
of the body of Wood Hite in a spring
near Richmond, Mo. 1t Is believed that
Dick Little and Robert Ford were con-
cerned in the murder. .-...--s...,-.-,
A Dublin cablegram states that six
suspects who are naturaliZed citizens of
the United States have been released,
who were liberated. BOytOn, of Pitts
burgh, is among the number, i'll health
being the reason.
Sindram, the blasphemous murderer
of New York, has recently lost his de-
sire to be hanged, and showed disap-
pOintment when informed that his eX-
ecution would certainly take place with
in two weeks.
Tucker Basham, one of the Glendale
train-robbers, who was pardOned out of
prison to testify against Bill Ryan, is
believed to have been assassinated in
Kansas. His wife writes that he has
disappeared.
The house in which Jesse James was
killed was on Sunday inspected by two
thousand persons at 10 cents each.
Many petty relics were sold at extrava-
CANT prices, and the household goods
were auctioned off Monday.
The appeal of President Arthurin be-
half of Lamson, the convicted murderer
of London, is denounced by several
German journals as meddlesome, espe-
cially,in a country upholding the Monroe
doctrine.
1t is said that George Scoville has at
last, in sheer disgust, withdrawn from
the Guiteau case. Mrs. Scoville tele-
graphed Charles II. Reed to have a con-
servator appointed to take charge of
the estate of the assassin, he being in
sane.
The mayor and other officers of st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, on reaching New York to in
quire into the bond mystery, identified
James Fisk as William Scott, for whom
they had requisitiOn from the govern
or OF Missouri as fugitive from JUS
tice.
Parnen is represented as pale and
haggard, but remarked that he had lit
tic to complain of in regard to his pris-
on treatment. He will remain in Paris
until The latest moment consistent with
his parole. An American suspect named
White has been Internationally released
from Haas jail,
At Melrose, Mass, in the presence of
invited guests from all parts OF New
England, William III. Thurber, a Provi-
dence merchant, was married to Miss
Julia Ann Butler, who was born in the
Himalaya mountains while her parents
were hiding from the Sepoys.
John Nassett, an aged farmer near
Cambridge, o., maddened by breach
of faith on the part of his son, shot him
through the abdomen with rifle, and
then killed himself. The son had &C
cepted deed of the homestead on con-
dition of maintaining his parents.
A third trial was Wednesday morning
granted to MOett, of Poughkeepsie, n.
Y, who has twice been sentenced to the
gallows for the murder Of his wife. In
the same court, in the afternoon, a plea
of guilty in the second degree was ac-
cepted, and life sentence pronounced.
Sixteen affidavits in behalf of DR..
Lamson, convicted of murder in Lon
don, have been forwarded, and Secre-
tary Frelinghuysen has telegraphed an
epitome of their contents to Minister |
Lowell, with instructions to call the at
tention of Lord Granville to the matter
at once.
Alphonse Narcotic, the. merchant |
who abscOnded from Montreal, has |
made partial compromise with his |
Canadian creditors, and in their interest |
has left Chicago for Winnipeg, to en- |
deavor to secure something from the |
$75, 900 stock Of goods in the hands of |
Moody, his confederate.
A bill has been introduced in the legis-
lature of Texas to prohibit railroads |
from consolidating their stock and fran
chises. A favorable report has been
made on a measure to repeal railway
land grants, preventing the location of
s, 900, 900 acres already given away.
Thomas Fishburn, farmer near Graf
ton, o., who had been immured in the
insane asylum, killed his wife with a
stick of wood and disappeared. Next |
he was found dead in a neigh
boring field, having slain himself with
a knife.
It is stated by Washington paper
that Secretary Lincoln has recommend
ed mitigation of Sergeant Mason's |
sentence to a confinement of few
months in the regular guard-house, the
forfeiture of pay, and dishonorable
The Illinois department of agriculture
has reports for April on the condition
of the wheat crop from five hundred
points, which give promise of more than
an average yield per acre throughout
the state, the northern division being 2
per cent above the usual condition.
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