San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-11
BOSTON LETTER.
Newsy and Cosby From Our Special
Correspondent.

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Boston, Mass, July 8.-The Massa-
chusetts Benefit Life association is
meeting with good deal of adverse
criticism at the present time. Elk
President Geo. A. Litchfield has come
in for large share of vituperation,
and 1t is insinuated, il not asserted,
that there is embezzlement somewhere
Nevertheless this company will bear
| favorable comparison with any other
institution of a similar kind doing bus
mess in this country.
Rev. w. f. Davis is undergoing a
three months sentence in st. Charles
Jail for preaching on Boston Com
mon without a permit Several years
ago he spent a year in the same place
| for the same reason. Franklin park
Marine park and the shores Of the
ocean are shut off entirely from open
air preaching, but anyone can obtain
a permit from the mayor to hold forth
ON Boston Common. This Mr.. Davis
refused to do, as he claims that he re-
ceived his authority from higher
power and that this right is guaran-
| teed the American people by the con-
stitution of the United States. The
question was referred to the United
States Supreme court, who decided
agains his claim, hence he was fined,
and refusing to pay the fine, went to
Jail.
Cornell, as all know, won the victory
over the eight-oared shells of Harvard
and Yale. Now Harvard and Yale
cannot say to the other universities OF
this country, You are not in our
class; we must row alone" Corneil
has proved her. vast superiority.
We are having perfect days here in
! Boston, while other cities are being
roasted.
"masher" has been sent for brief
soiourn to the House of Correction.
Verify the vulgar practice of MASKING
should meet with the rod of correction
in some form.
This vicinity is infested by a gang
of highway robbers. An electric car
was held up in Reading the other day
and the motorman lost his gold watch.
A bicycle rider was intercepted while
| riding home at night through Pine
Banks park in Maiden, but by MS
speed managed to escape Another
was attacked in Somerville, and num-
erous other robberies or attempted ROB-
berries are of frequent occurrence.
John L. Sullivan, has been In
training for boxing match with F1tz-
simmons as everybody knows. Poor
fellow, his sun is beginning to set at
| the early age of 80. He imagines that
snow balls are roses. He cannot over
come the dire effects of years OF RIO
tous, reckless dissipation. what can
he do with his $50 pounds weight2 The
lthoughtsthat come to the mind are
painful when we consider the necessity
that drives him, who might have been
a millionaire, to the desperate endeaV-
or in which he is now engaged. What
a warning is ne to all men to be TEN
nerate in all things" Gray hair,
wrinkled forehead, care-worn face!
The sudden exit of ex-Mayor Perry
| of Medford perry and the story OF
his embezzlements has aroused the
deep interest of the public. Medford
being an immediate suburb of Boston.
| Here is a man who was trusted with
| large sums, involving the estates of
| widows and orphans and has been hV-
| ing in luxurious splendor in princely
mansion, which his wife has just sold,
the property being in her name. Yet
this wolf in sleeps clothing" was all
this time using this sacred money I'M
til his populations have reached the
sum. it is said, of 100000. Many OF
his victims have been brought down
| from a life of affiuence to the verge OF
the poor house. One mans losses
amount close on to 100000. What
shall we say of such man, " years
of age, honored so highly only year
and a half ago by his fellow-citizens!
The story of his misrepresentation De-
gan to leak out in about the middle
of his mayoralty term. He immedi-
ately claimed to be too sick to be
seen and has remained ostensibly in
that condition until one day last week,
when he was driven to the station in
a closed carriage, and took an early
train which is said to have finally
landed him in South Nerridgewook,
Me. He has not a dollar to repair the
wrong he has done. He cannot live
many years more and the belief is that
he will not be prosecuted. But alas!
What an example to young men.
The case of jeremiah t. O'Sullivan,
editor of the Lawrence Sentinel, has
been on every tongue for two weeks
| past. The Boston Traveller took up
the championship of his cause. Editor
O'Sullivan determined to fight against
the political ring whose methods he
believed to be corrupt. Against what
he believed to be a dangerous coterie
of men whose dastardly doings were
poisoning the city's life, the accusa-
tions and maledictions of his vigorous
pen were direct. He turned on the
search light and the moral sun began
to shine on many dark and crooked
paths. The men of power whom he
attacked determined to crush him. He
was deemed guilty of criminal libel
and sentenced to eighteen months
hard labor in the Salem Jail. His pur-
pose was right. What might be deem
ed to be undue zeal on his part he al
so believed to be right. But no such
sentence was ever heard of before,
and believing him to be deserving of
no such sentence, the Traveller has been
circulating pardon petition blanks.
But 10! Mr.. OSullivan was suddenly
taken sick in Jail with hemorrhages
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