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

The FEDERAL authorities at Parkers-
burg, West Virginia, have bagged all
the members Of gang of counterfeiters
which had long operated with impunity
in that region. Il. w. Mannion, the
leader, was once Baptist preacher, a
member of the legislature, and prose-
cutting attorney for Wetzel county.
The Standard Oil company, the tow
ering monopoly Of the United States,
turned its attention to pasturage in the
Indian Territory, and by planting red
men on quarter sections and taking
leases from them, secured temporary
possession of two hundred thousand
acres, and placed barbed-wire fence
around 1t. But Secretary Teller has
refuse to approve Of the dicker.
The directors Of the Chicago board
of trade have dismissed the charge Of
cutting commissions made against
Robert Lindblom y Co. by William
Beck, formerly chief of police of Mil
Beck begged for the return of part of
his losses in speculation, and that Mr..
LindblOm gave il to him as a charity,
and was then betrayed by him.
Governor Hubbard, of Minnesota,
has pardoned from the ,penitentiary
w. w. Keen. who, while assistant
bank, embezZled $125,0O0, one-fifth of
which he is suspected of having retain
cd. He will return to Saltwater after
the holidays and enter the service of
firm of prison contractors whose books
he has kept during his confinement.
Rev. Robert COllyer, in sermon on
Sunday, attacked the New York penal
code as cruel and unjust to the poor,
and gave notice that he should fight 1t
with all the power he could summon.
He pleaded tor day of rest, but
thought the poor man should be allow
ed to work on Sunday If he can live the
easier for it.
Theresa Sturla, of Chicago, who kill
ed Charles Stiles, was arranged before
Judge Gardner and sentenced to one
year in the Joliet penitentiary. She
replied that she needed eleven months
to cure her disease; that two jurors
favored her execution, one of whom
had kept brothel and the other was
put on the jury to convict her.
Charles +. Upton, president of the
City bank of Rochester, has wrecked
that institution by speculations in pc
troleum, in which he is believed to
have sunk $350,000. He has surrender
ed property valued at $50,000. The
bank held the funds of the Episcopal
diocese of western New York and large
deposits by the county and the savings
banks.
Toledo people were greatly surprised
at the result of the election of officers
of the Wheeling and Lake Erie road.
Through the efforts of Commodore
= 1AvS a.,1 II
S. Oliver were dropped from the board.
house and shops at NOrwalk, after To-
ledo had given franchises valued at
$3.50, 900, and Swayne had made strong
protest.
The board of trustees of Asbury uni
versity at a recent meeting elected
Rev. S. l.. Bowman, of Jersey City, to
fill the chair of theology. DIR. Bowman
is a nephew of the bishop. Reports
were had showing considerable progress
in the work of soliciting endowment
subscriptions, and it was thought the
required amount, as provided by the
De PAW bequest, will be on hand by
January.
The Louisville, New Albany s. Chi
cago railroad has offered Miss Anna
Fowler, teacher in the public schools
of New Albany, $500 for the damages
sustained by her in the accident on that
road. near White river last July. Miss
Fowler has asked that the company pay
all the doctors bills and nurse hire dur
ing the time she was confined by her
injuries, in addition to the 81, 500.
Nearly ten thousand boot and shoe
lasters of Montreal went on strike
because of the employment of two non
union men. Bishop Fabre denounced
the revolt in the churches, and aided
the employers in securing new labor.
Work has been suspended for three
ed an agreement to resume duty as in
dividuals.
Captain A. G. Mutt, state cashier of
town by N. Lyman Dukes, q member
elect of the legislature. The ARRAY
took place in the room of the latter at
a hotel. and is believed to have been
caused by domestic wrong suffered
by the deceased. Dukes walked to the
police station and surrendered. He is
graduate of Princeton college, and had
borne an excellent character.
A constable drove up to the residence
of Rush Tevis in st. Louis, Friday, to
collect $500 borrowed by his faithless
wife on chattel mortgage conveying
everything in the house. This was the
first intimation Mr.. Tevis had of the
debt most of which was incurred before
the shooting Of Inglehart in the street.
the last installment having been used
by the fleeing woman to buy railroad
ticket for some unknown point.
Masked robbers are committing a
series of depredations in Clay, county,
Arkansas, and in the adjacent counties
of Missouri. This revives the appre-
hensiOn that the remnants of Taylor's
gang of desperadoes have returned to
their old haunts with the intention of
Outdoing the criminal record made
there few years ago under the leader
ship Of Taylor, who was hanged in April
last. His wife Is said to be living in
Ray county, Missouri, where two of the
old gang also dwell.