The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-12-22

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Samuel Jurden, travelling cancer
doctor, has been imprisoned at Decatur,
Mich. charged with outraging the per-
sons of two sisters, Camille and Ger
trude Yeckley. There sCe mutterings
of iynching in the air
George j. Rice, ex-fresident of the
Utica. Ithica and Elmira Railroad, was
held Saturday in $4,000 bail at New
York for raising and .appropriating
$4,000 on bonds of the company which
shOnld have been cancelled.
A hat house in New York which en-
plOys the labor in the Massachusetts,
p6nitentiary on contract has just dis
covered that for long time it has been
systematically robbed by collision be-
tween convicts and junk-dealers.
Eighteen cases of smallpox have
developed at Minneapolis within the
past two weeks. The illness Of an ac-
tor rooming in the Theater Comique
building caused the establishment of
quarantine in the upper stories.
John G. Whittier was rs years of age
Sunday, and received many calls at his
residence in Boston and scores of con-
gratulatOry letters. His mind is unim-
paired, but his physical vigor is thing
of the past.
Two liquor-dealers in New York,
named George Bayard and Gustave Il.
Penmond, charged with refusing reve-
nue. stamps. and out on $4,000 bail,
have offered the federal authorities
$1O0, 900 to settle.
The governor of Idaho, IN his mes
sage to the legislature, calls attention
to the fact that in several counties
Mormons vote and hold Office, and sug-
gests that the Edmunds bill should be
extended over that territory.
Two weeks ago the Northern Pacific
road sold tract of land adjoining Bis
marck for $4,000. The purchaser
plated it, and sold $4,000 worth of
lots from it Monday in less than two
hours.
Henry James, ST., the philosopher
and metaphysician, an associate of
side of the Atlantic, and of Carlyle,
Mill, and Tennyson on the other, died
in Boston Tuesday.
George Gareis, German tramp. kill
ed Thomas Connolly last month at
Blissfeld, Michigan. The authorities
are now satisfied that the murderer has
been insane for years, and was shipped
from Europe by his relatives.
The attorney general of PENNSYLVANIA
has cited the president of the Western
Union Telegraph company to show
cause why it should not be restrained
from doing business in that state for
violating the law by consolidating with
a competing line.
The United States supreme court, in
denying a writ of habeas corpus to
General N. M. Curtis, holds that the
law prohibiting the assessment of gov
eminent employees by federal officers,
for political purposes, is clearly consti-
tutiOnal.
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 figur-
ed upon receiving 500, 900, have been
agreeably surprised by the discovery
that the estate inventories over s., OOO.-
600, of which $4,000 is in Chicago real
estate.
Lewis Thompson, a mulatto, 81 years
of age. the first man ever committed to
Sing Sing prison, has been sent back
for six months for stealing a door-met
in New York. Over forty years of his
life have been passed behind grated
st. Louis packers now make the ao-
ditional confession that their business |
has been demolished by the removal OF |
many houses across the river into Hi |
nois, and that Kansas City is securing |
shipments of hogs which formerly went |
to st. Louis, and is getting control OF |
the eastern market.
James r. Keene, a speculatOr of !
twenty years. experience, testified be- |
fore the New York senate committee |
that he never knew q corner in any |
production to work injuriously to the |
pnblic. He thought the bucket-shOp |
system should be crushed out by legis- |
lation, but legitimate speculation was |
of the greatest benefit to the people of |
the country.
The New York senate committee on
grain corners called before it Henry |
Ward Beecher, who expressed his con-
viction that the gambling carried on
by merchants is far less Injurious to
public morals than the effect produced |
by church fair and religious lotteries.
As to stock speculation, he got a liber-
al education by buying Panama rail-
road at $500 and selling at 500.
People who keep abreast of events
will remember that q fellow named
Westgate, tramping through South
denounced himself as one of
Ihe murderers of Cavendish and Burke
in Dublin. BY slow stages he was for
yarded to Ireland, and he now fatty
ienies that he ever made confession
)r knew anything of the crime.
Robert Ould, assistant secretary of
war of the confederate states. died Fri
lay in Richmond. He was brought in
% great prominence by his labors in
he exchange of prisoners, and was
selected by President Davis as sec
'etary Of peace commission whose
,yertures were rejected by the authori-
les at Washington.
Professor J. ii. Campbell reports to
he governor of Indiana that he has
the Kankakee swamp lands
or distance of eighty-one miles, and
inds the average slope to be one and
'our-tenths feet to the mile, with a
mean elevation of ninety feet above
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