The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-03-29
FOREIGN.

A FIRE on the 21st destroyed three OF tho
finest business blocks at Brownsville, Ont
A GENOA paper stated on the 2lst that SO
far this year there had been fifteen duels
and sixteen suicides at Monte Carlo
FOURTEEN of the largest paper makers In
England formed syndicate in London on
the 2ist for the purpose of raising prices
The capital of the syndicate is 81, 100000.
Mr.. FOSTER, Canadian Minister OF Finance.
said on the 2lst that the Government had
under consideration the ACCESSIBILITY OF ex-
Guiding American lard, by increasing duty
or otherwise on account OF the extensive
adulteration practiced
COLONEL JOSE VICENTE vnIANDA was on
the 22d inaugurated Governor of the State
of Mexico.
The Mexican Government 1t was reported
on the 22d, had taken steps TO prevent the
introduction into that country OF American
lard owing to the reported adulteration In
that article.
The number of deaths caused by the fam
inc In Shangtlnk China. was on the 22d
said to be appalling and many OF the citi
Gems were committing suicide rather than
die from starvation
IT was stated on he 23d that the Hawaiian
sugar crop exceeded the estimates, the en-
tire crop being ~ 100 tons.
CHOLERA was raging on the 23d at Zam-
branga in the Philippine Islands. The last
accounts reported five hun red deaths
Yellow fever was fast becoming cpl lemic in
Cuba
SIR GEORGE GRAY. Ex-Governor of New
Zealand. said in an interview on the I'D
that Anne lea would become the leading
Anglo Saxon race, and would disDlace En-
gland from the position she now holds.
- lr., do. un,k eta
almost wholly destroyed by fire on the Ped,
and six persons were killed and great
many others injured
THE Dominion Government at Ottawa on
the I'D decided to renew the issue of
modus vivendi in connection with the
fi,hery treaty negotiated ut Washington
last year.
A RENCH torpedo boat foundered on the
Esd in storm off Cherbourg, and her cap
tain and fourteen OF her crew were drowned
SERIOUS floods were prevailing on the 23d
In many parts of rrussian Silesia several
small towns being submerged and the
people made homeless.
AN excursion party of seventeen persons
enjoying sail on Lake Clapala on the 2 IN,
in the State of Jalisco, Mex, were capsized
by gale and all were drowned
SIXTY sudden deaths have occurred in a
hos ital at Florence Italy, and the author
tiles on the 2 tn were trying to find out
whether bad food or cholera caused them.
COMMERCIAL interests a over the 18TH
mus were on the . th reported as being
virtually wrecked by the stopp; ge OF work
on the Panama canal
A DISPATCH of the g tn from Rome said
that the Pope's fainting fits had become
more frequent OF late
DISPATCHES of the 2 tn from st Peters
burg say that 4 large number of foreign
Jews had been expelled from Kieff
ADvIcEs OF the 10Th say that the stei m n
Ocotian having large ex ;uIsion rarity on
board, foundsred on Lake GladIlajara,
Mexico anil over fifty lives were lost,
KING CHARLES nephew, Prince Ferdinand,
was on the Goth proclaimed Grown Prince
of Roumania.
w. A. HARVEY. u bookkeeper at Guelph,
Ont. was arrested on the 10Th for embez-
cling $4,000 from his employer, J. w. Lyon.
He was released on bail, and going home
fatally shot his wife and two daughters. He
was arrested in an insane condition
THE Governor of Lower California re-
ported on the Goth that the discoveries at
the Santa Clara placers had been exagger-
ated, and only practical miners were find
ing gold.
The Spanish mil steamer Mind mic was
sunk by q c)l,ision with another steamer off
Manila on the 10Th and thirty of her crew
and passengers We're drowned
The Holland Ministry decid ID on the Goth
that King William was no longer ~ u co idi-
tion to egn and announced that regent
would he pointed