The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-12-29

recommended the appointment OF NAT
French, city attorney OF Davenport, to
I'LL the vacancy.
The increase of smallpox in Balti-
more has caused the managers of sew
eral public institutions to establish
quarantine against visitors, and orders
have been issued for the revaccination
OF the police.
The secretary of the New York cham
Der of commerce reports that the ex-
ports for the year by American vessels
aggregated $l07, 5S5 $50, while foreign
vessels carried away goods valued at
$79S, 813,7 09.
G. s. Sackett, the Cleveland broker,
who recently suspended payment, is in
residence in Lake street in that city,
but keeps himself secluded from the
public. He states that he is awaiting
remittances to settle every obligation.
A hat house in New York which en-
ploys the labor in the Massachusetts
penitentiary on contract has just dis
covered that for long time it has been
Systematically robbed by collision be-
tween convicts and junk-dealers.
James Bennett, an old and enterpris-
ing citizen of ManitOwoc, Wisconsin,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the mouth with shotgun.
He was recently stricken with paral-
ysis, and had become melancholy.
f. l.. Jones was hanged Friday for
murder at Louisville, Miss. Before his
execution he asked the use of his liber-
ty and two good pistols for about an
hour, and then he would cheerfully
meet death.
nff NJ oil Iaxr
night to rob Texas Pacific westbound
desperadOes were beaten off by a guard
of State Rangers, who wounded some
of the robbers.
The Association of American Econo-
mists was organized at Washington
Thursday evening, having for it's OBJ
jects the gathering of business and in
dustrial statistics and the dissemina-
ton of economic knowledge.
The United States steamer Bassier
has arrived at San Francisco after a
seven months survey of the Alaskan
coast. They discovered many excellent
harbors, and speak highly of timber
resources.
A pugilistic contest, lasting ninety
minutes, took place Monday at New
ark, New Jersey, between Charles Gray
and Fred Reichert. Five hundred per-
sons were present. Reichert fell I'M
conscious in the twenty-eighth round.
Lucius w. Pond, the famous forger
of Worcester, Massachusetts, has been
pardOned from the penitentiary after
serving half his term. He had been a
member of the state senate and q
leader in religious circles.
A murderer who has been in the
Michigan state prison for sixteen years
piled the contents of his cell against
the door, poured over them the oil in
his lamp. and applied match. AS he
was naked, it took but a few moments
to literally bake him.
Residents of Leadville will at once
commence suits in the United States
court to test the validity of the four
placer patent claims on which the city
is situated, on account of recent de-
cision ejecting squatters from their
homes OH the patented ground.
The Ways and Means Committee fix
ed the following rates: Brown acetate
of lead, 4 cents per pound; white ace
tate of lead, q cents; white lead, when
dry or in bulk, 5 cents; litharge, 3 cents;
orange and mineral red lead. 81 cents;
lead in sheets, pipe, or shot, II cents.
William G. Russell was brought into
a courtroom in Brooklyn Saturday, to
face three wives and three other women
to whom he was engaged. AS his sec
Ond wife walked toward the witness
stand the accused sprang to his feet
and pleaded guilty.
The surprising statement comes from
Washington that Guatemala is about
to ask admission as one of the United
States, and that President BarriOs
visited Washington to ascertain the
feelings of the administration and of
the opposition leaders.
The grand jury at Louisville return
ed indictments for fraud against David
Ferguson, back-tax collector; Philip
Hinkle, city auditor, and George w.
Levi, assistant chief of the fire depart
ment, and they were held to answer.
They will be impeached by the council.
The heirs of Benjamin s. Rotch, of
Milton, Massachusetts, who had fgur-
ed upon receiving $500, 200, have been
agreeably surprised by the discovery
that the estate inventories over SO, 0O0,-
600, Of which SAG, 900 is in Chicago real
estate.
Lewis Thompson, mulattO, 81 years
of age, the first man ever committed to
Sing Sing prison, has been sent back
for six months for stealing dOOr-met
in New York. Over forty years of his
life have been passed behind grated
windows.
Judge Smith, of the superior court of
Chicago, refused the Western Indiana
road an injunction to restrain the open
ing of Dearborn street, deciding that
the law gives power to extend streets
over any railroad lands within the cor
porate limits.
III. A. w. Tabor, famous as the lieu
tenant governor of Colorado, claims to
have obtained decree of divorce last
March, in La Plata county, while his
wife maintains that she never was
served with papers, and will contest on
the ground Of fraud.
Mr.. George G. Min and Landlord
Sink, of the Hotel Holland, at Rock
ford, ILL.,, had a heated dispute Thurs
day afternoon, the tragedian being
ordered to quit the hostelry. The prop
erty of the Min Burleigh Company