The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-01-12

tickets. for passage from Kansas City
to Chicago, were offered for sale in the
former place Monday and found to be
counterfeits. The holder had purchased
them on speculation. About $4,000
worth have been palmed OFF upon
scalpers.
Judge Caldwell, of Cleveland, dissolv
ed the junction which prevented the
Western Union Telegraph company
from taking tickers from bucket-shops,
because of the Chicago board of trade,
and took occasion to denounce the bust
ness of the bucket-shops as gambling
Of the most dangerous class.
M. II. Folk, the absconding treasurer
Of Tennessee, reached Houston, Texas,
Sunday morning. He was arrested at
San Antonio by order of Governor
Hawkins. but has been released on q
writ of habeas corpus. The legislature
OF Tennessee adopted a resolution Offer
ing reward of 5000 for the delivery
of the defaulter to the state authorities.
The City of Brussels was wrecked
about three miles from the lightship ut
the mouth of the Mersey. Her masts
and funnel obstruct NAVIGATION, and
will he removed niv0~S nvn y IN save
gOOd portion or the cargo, winch WAS
valued at S350,000. The shipwrecked
passengers passed resolutions express
ing gratitude and admiration for the
conduct of the officers.
Four cars of crude silver, in bars of
ninety-seven pounds each, consigned
from the Montana mines to the First
National bank of Chicago, arrived Mon
day morning. Their value is estimated
at 81, 0OO,0 900. The treasure was taken
from Helena to Muir City, 123 miles,
by bulltrains.
An appeal to the press to be set right
has been made by j. II. Langtry, a
merchant of Boston, who happened to
return from Europe on the same steam
ship with the sister of the Jersey Lilly,
giving rise to the rumOr that the hus-
band of the English actress had secret
ly made his appearance OIL this side OF
the Atlantic to learn what is going on.
Engineer Melville and all the men,
bers of his family appeared in q Penn
sylyania court Monday, he having
applied for writ of habeas corpus to
recover his children. He testified that
for three years his wife received 500 per
month and residences; that for thir-
teen months she had drawn $40 per
month. and ran in debt $1,000. Two
servants of the family and three neigh
bors testified that Mrs. Melville drank
great deal Of whisky.
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri in
his biennial message, calls attention to
the report of the commissioner of labor
that street-car employees are compelled
to work from twelve to seventeen hours
per day, and argues that it is against
the interest of the state to permit such
demands to be made upon any class Of
citizens.
The railway track between Geneva
and Bellegrade has been washed away.
Five thousand persons have been rem
dered homeless by the floods near
Worms. Preparations have been made
at Vienna to ring the alarm-bells if
the dikes show signs of yielding. The
town of Robstadt is deeply submerged,
and the market square at Dusseldorf is
flooded.
The programme of the marquis of
Lorne and Princess Louise may have
been wholly changed for fear of their
being assassinated along the route, or
the public may have been duped by
false reports. The party and its armed
escort spent fifteen minutes Tuesday at
Tucson, Arizona, understanding the
announcement that they would remain
some days in the San Gabriel valley in
California.
st Mary's provincial school, at Knox
vile, Illinois, the largest Episcopal in
stitution for girls in the country, took
fire at o'clock Thursday morning and
was totally destroyed, the loss being
100000. There were sixty scholars
many reached the ground by means of
loAHaro Mics GiIlnffn nf Rnffnlln hDA
a leg broken. and Miss Hosford, of Du-
buQue, was injured by fall. All wear
ing apparel and books were burned.
A party of citizens of Hawkesbury,
Ontario, made determined attempt to
lynch Frederick Mann. who butchered
the Cooke family, but were driven back
by Sheriff Merrick and posse. who
lodged their prisoner in Jail in Lorig-
nal. Maggie Cooke, the sole survivor
of the tragedy, bids fair to lose her rea-
son. 1t is generally believed that
Mann outraged Emma Cooke, and then
killed the entire family to escape detec-
ton.
The governor of Tennessee has re-
ceived dispatch announcing the re-
arrest of Treasurer Polk in Texas by a
deputy United States marshal. 1t is
said that on Monday Polk passed
northward on the Missouri Pacific road
to Forth Worth, where he took the
west-bound train for Ell Paso ut IL
o'clock at night. A San Antonio cor
telegraphs that the de-
faulter was captured Monday afternoon
near Webb Station, eight miles from
the Rio Grande, by Detective Joe
Shelley and Pullman car conductor,
who took him to Laredo and placed him
in Jail.
A select committee of the Tennessee
legislature appointed to settle with the
state treasurer, NJ. Il. Polk, found that
he had been absent for two days at
some unknown point. The senate
adopted a resolution announcing de-
Iicit of S4O0. 900. and ordering the at
torney general to attach all available
assets OF the defaulter. The bond IS
for 100000. Polk was last heard IRON
Mt Milan. He is n nephew of the ex-
president. is 81 years OF age, graduated
nc West Point. lost leg among the
at Shiloh, and served on
General Folks staff.
WARRINGTON N0TC9