The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-04-05
DOMESTIC.

The cases of twenty-five persons indicted
for election-law violations were dismissed
on the 2Sth at indianapolis, Ind, for want
of proof against them.
MASKED men took three accused cattle
thieves, Gannow, Babcock and Remus, from
their homes at Ainsworth, Neb., on the 2Sth
across the line into the reservation and de-
livered them to band of Indians, who
killed them all.
AT Accomac Courthouse, Va, on the
29th ult Mrs. Virginia Taylor was found
guilty of poisoning her husband, and was
sentenced to five years in the penitentiary
PRAIRIE fires were raging on the Goth
nit in the Huron ID. IT, district, and
many farmers had lost every thing The
wind was blowing forty miles an hour
Il. +. BAKER, a capitalist, was arrested on
the Goth ult. at Spokane Falls, W. T., on the
charge of having seven living wives.
THE warehouse of Il. w. Blatchford, in
Chicago, was destroyed by fire on the 29th
ult, causing loss of $4,000 600.
THE Standard Oil Company on the Goth
uit purchased the entire Grafton oil field
near Pittsburgh, Pa The field is an extern
sive one.
The Spanish American Commercial Union
was organized by merchants OF New York
ON the Goth ult, the object being to promote
trade between the United States and South
America
JED PRIToHETT (colored) was hanged on
the Goth ult ut Danville, Va, for an assault
upon little white girl The prisoner
fought like tiger and refused to stand on
the trap. The trap was finally sprung and
Pritchett was pushed off the scaffold to his
doom. The services of four deputies were
required to execute him.
On the morning of the Goth ult an un-
known well-dressed man entered the office
of President Moffatt of the First National
Bank of Denver, Col, and pulling revolver
from his pocket told Mr.. Moffatt that he
must have S21 900 or he would kill him and
then blow up the institution with a bottle
of nitro glycerine, which he pulled from his
pocket. Thus menaced Mr.. Moffatt filed
out check and had it cashed, and the I'M
known, taking the money, backed out to
the front door, raised his hat to his victim
and disappeared
IT was stated at Washington on the 29th ult
that the German Government had made a
formal request for the arrest of Correspond
emit Klein and his return to Apia, in order
that he may be tried before the American
Consul there for alleged murderous assault
The Mississippi 4 Tennessee and the Illi-
nois Central railroads were consolidated on
the Goth ult.
THE schooner James H. Gordon. which
arrived at Baltimore on the 18th ult from
Charleston, encountered large school of
whales near Cape Henry.
DURING the seven days ended on the Goth
ult there were 30 business failures in the
United States, against 249 the previous seven
days.
A FIEE on the 10Th llt at Bloomingburgh,
N Y, destroyed the barn and out-buildings
ON the farm of N. G. Horton with contents,
including four horses and fifty two head of
cattle.
THE exchanges at twenty-slx leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 30th ult aggregated
1901 ,03i, SO7 against 81 ,0l5,9S9056 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week of 1888 the increase
amounted to 23S
A TERRIBLE gale swept over Ohio on the
3lst ult, and many houses in Cincinnati,
Dayton and other towns were unroofed
No person was hurt
JOHN HARRIS, thirteen-year- old boy, ac-
cidentally stepped into the top of a coke
oven near Uniontown, Pa, on the Goth ult
He sank to his arm-pits in the burning coke
and was burned to death.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals decided
on the 30th ult. that the property which
woman has bought and paid Tor with money
earned by herself is liable for the debts of
her husband.
The new public library at Braddock, Pa,
built by Andrew Carnegie, the iron and
steel manufacturer, at cost of $780, 600,
was formally presented to the citizens OF
that place on the 30th ult.
The Spiritualists of Boston on the 3lst ult.
celebrated the forty-frst anniversary of
modern Spiritualism.
A BREAK in the Erie canal on the 30th ult.
near Medina, N. T.. did great damage to sur
rounding farms.
GREAT excitement prevailed on the LIST at
Lowell, Ia, over the discovery Of cold