The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-05-24

OF thirty-SeYen feet ana one-hal1 lncn Deao
the record. He also cleared forty feet with
three jumps, beating the worlds record
AT dance on the 18th near Portsmouth,
O., Hurry Nichols shot and killed Wilson
and Amos Cooper, brothers, who had forced
quarrel upon him after having bcsp
warned to desist
AT Cincinnati on the 18th Moritz Blanc,
| workman I'm Dahls fireworks mandatory,
shot and killed his wife and seven-year-old
daughter and then killed himself. Jealousy
was supposed to have been the cause.
| TIE exchanges at twenty-six leading
| clearing houses in the United States during
! the week ended on the 18th aggregated
81, los, 6S, 35l, against SSi3, 146, LAB the pre-
vious week AS compared with the cor
responding week of 1855 the increase
amounted to 1873
OVER three hundred colored persons were
baptized in the James river near Rich
| mond, Va, on the 18th This was the first
result OF the unprecedented revival that
had been going on there for three weeks in
the colored churches.
TROUBLE which had been brewing for
several days between the whites and
blacks of Gretna, La, eliminated on the
18th in the wounding of four negroes and
the burning OF the negro fire companys en-
CINE house, the negro Baptist church and
four small houses occupied by negroes
WHILE insane on the 18th George Loomls
of Osceola Wis, killed his wife by cutting
her throat and then killed himself
EDWARD HARTsHoRN and Amos Turley
were killed and four other men were badly
hurt by the explosion OF boiler on the 18th
at saw-mill near Payne, O.
THE United States Supreme Court on thS
18th affirmed the validity of the law ex-
GLIDING Chinese laborers known as the
Scott Exclusion act
GEORGE WARD, an engineer at Memphis,
Tenn, shot and killed his wife on the 18th
because she refused to live with him, and
then killed himself.
FRED MEDLEY, proprietor of the Pueblo
House at Denver, Col, while drunk on the
18th shot and killed his wife because she
refused to give him money to purchase
beer.
AT Springfield Mass, on the 18th Royal
b. Sturtevant mistook his brother-in-law,
James b. Smith, for u burglar, and shot him
dead
THERE appears to be an epidemic of
rabies among the dogs throughout the
country. Numerous cases were reported
on the 18th from Kentucky, West Virginia,
Indiana and other sections,
L. CORNWALL, a jeweler at Sedalia, Col,
was robbed on the 18th of So, 600 worth of
his employers absence, packed up the goods
and LETT town.
IN collision by q runaway on the 18th
at Grafton, j.. T., Miss Johanna Goodman
son was killed and four men were wounded.
THE Gear, q phenomenal three-yoar- old
colt died of pneumonia on the 18th ut
Council Bluffs, Ia. The Gar was the prop
erty of Theodore Winters of Sacramento,
Cal. and was valued at $4,000
WIND wrecked q new building on the 9Th
mt Tacoma, w. r., and of the twenty men at
work on the structure twelve were killed
by falling timbcrs
The new California Theater at San Tran
cisco was opened on the 18th by l. 10Th and
Barrett
c. w. HATCH. the Boston insurance man,
accused of killing his uncle at Burlington,
Col, was acquitted by jury on the 18th
The younger son of i. Ellis, OF Westport,
Wis, was instantly killed on the 18th by his
older brother, aged thirteen years, who
, shot the chid's head off with shotgun
with which he was playing.
The United States Supreme Court on the
18th awarded the executors of tho will of
Myra Clark Gaines the sum of $4,000.
This decision ended one of the most famous
courts since 1854.
IT was decided in New York on the 14th to
erect a monument in city hall square to the
memory of Horace Greeley.
AT Richmond, Ind, on the 14th Dick
Sinex, q local tough in fight with John
Bristow, a wandering soldier bit the lat
ter's nose off 1t was an unprovoked as
sault
The United States Supreme Court adj
journed on the 14th until October next.
THERE was heavy fall of snow in Mime
sofa and Dakota on the l4th.
The strike of the seven thousand railroad
coal miners of the Pittsburgh district
which began two weeks ago, was settled
on the 18th
T.. II. PLATT and John Allen, the former
riding instructor and the latter hotel
keeper, started from New York on the 18th
to ride to San Francisco on horseback.
The annual conference of the Hote
Mems Mutual Benefit Association of the
United ,.tates was held in Chicago on the
18th M. S. Gibson, of Portland, Ore, was
chosen president for the ensuing year
NEAR Henryvllle, Ind, two freight trains
collided on the 14th and both engines and
thirty cars were wrecked. No one was in
jured
The Supreme Lodge OF the Knights OF
Honor met in sixteenth annual session on
the 14th ut indianapolis The secretary's
report showed total membership of 49,
600, divided among 800 lodges, which paid
SO, 21O, 0G0 death benefits last year.
SAMUEL CUNNINGHAM, a bachelor of Ga
lena, Ill, seventy years Of age, was on the
14th sued for $4,000 for breach of promise
by Mrs. Louise Lebram, widow OF three
score and ten. ="
MRS G. f. NYGREN, Of Star Lake, Mimi,
disocated her jaw on the l4th while yawn-
ing, and was obliged to ride twenty three
miles to have it set.
The famous trotting horse Joe Hooker
killed himself ut Parkersburg, w. Va on
the 14th by running away and cutting his
head nearly off against barbed-wire fence
The fifty-seventh annual meeting of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians was opened
on the 14th Mt New York, with delegates
present from all the States and Territories
AT the annual meeting In Boston on the
18th of the Woman's Baptist Home Mission
airy Society reports showed that the total
sum collected for the year was s39,773, an
increase of 81, 400 from last year Mrs J.
N. Grouse, of Chicago, was elected presi-
dent.
MARGARET HENDIICK, n colored woman in
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