The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-03-22

\ Aocoubiy kiiihk tcu grin ouQ WOuu0iuS
many others comics ed before dying on the
18th that 1t was he and not Katie Jones who
caused the explosion He was smoking and
a spark from his pipe ignitea a keg Of
powder
DAMAGE 20 the extent of $1,000 was dono
70 property In the vicinity Of Asbury Park,
N. j., by storm on the 10Th
THE loss of the bark K l. PettinQii IN
Chesapeake bay. with her crew of thirteen
men, was reported on tho 18th The bark
hailed from Pc tland Me.
The Indians near Reno, Cal, being de-
termined to break up drunkenness among
their eople. stoned to death squaw on
the 10th who persisted in getting intoxi-
Gated.
A MAN at walla walia W. T., eats an egg
for each year of his life on every birthdiy.
He was forty two years old on the 18th and
ate that number of eggs on that day.
NATURAL gas was struck on tho 18th at
! Hadley, o., and tho flow was at the rate OF
fourteen million cubic feet per day.
FRANK JONES brewery at Portsmouth, N.
d.. was SO d on the 18th to an English syn
| dictate for 81, 80 100
| BOILER In Whitney & Tuttse's saW-mill
at Pound Wis exploded on the 18th, wreck
ing the mill and killing Otis Clement and
| August Rebel Three Others were fatally
hurt
WILLIAM J. CALHOUN, sentenced to be
hinged at New Castle. Del for assaulting
woman aged sixty years, was on tho 18th
granted respite for twenty-five years,
owing to his yo lth.
FIRE on the 18th at Brandon, Vt, de-
stroyed the finest building in the town. con-
tanning fo.ar stores, offices and the Masonic
Hall
handed to the Commissioners of the Dis
trict OF Columbia to be invested and the in
tsrest devoted to relieving tho wants of
the poor OF Washing ton The money was
received from the Inauguration, over and
above all expens,s
The large I rniture establishment of
Comstock ~ Avery In Peoria, Ill, was COM
pletely destroyed Ivy fire on the 18th. Loss,
$4,000
FARMERS In the vicinity of Mason City
Ia had on the 18th finished sowing winter
wheat and were flowing for oats.
ADvIcEs OF the 18th from oklahoma stat
cd that many OF the boomers, instead of
leaving the country, as ordered by, Lieu
tenant Carson, were taking to the woods
and were concealing themselves in camps,
especially In the forests along the north
fork OF the Canadian river
ELSIE AGER u wea thy youngmerchant OF
Hazleton. Ind, was teri IDLY beaten on the
18th with black-snalke whip by Miss Sallie
Burnett, who claimed that he had DETAINED
her character
RIGA gold finds were reported on the
18th In the S-eet Grass hills fifty miles
northwest OF Big Slndv. NJ T. There was
great rush OF miners to the locality, and
those on the ground were said to be making
from fifty to eighty dollars day
JUDGE BATES of the superior court at
Cincinnati on the lS6h decided that the
law i'm osing a fine ON restaurants for re-
fusing to feed colored people was uncon-
stitutional
A GREAT salt trust was on the 18th said to
be in Iocess OF formH ton 1t would in
Guide all the salt producing territory In the
country and would represent O capit..l of
s 500, CO.
PECULIAR accident happened on the 18th
to Mr.. William Fisher of Lima, o. He was
standing under street lamp, when the
glass broke and q isce OF it struck his left
eve, cutting the ball entirely In two The
eye WAS removed
A HEAVY rain-storm OH the 10th submerged
POI ton OF Dayton Tenn dI nins sew
erll negroes, and 81 eat damage was done to
buildings live stock and growing croIs
TIE wife of james Crane, druggist at
Clinton, Ind shot herself dead on the 18th
She had been grieving over her husband
financial losses
A HOUSE near Days Mills Mass was
burned on the 10Th. and Mrs Rus 'ell. ag I'd
seventy years. and two daughters of n
neghbor n med Truehnrt aged five and
nineteen we Irs peii'hed in the fumes
JOSEPH RHODES and his mother, while at
tempting to cross the Ohio IV er in q boat
n nj n tod
under feet of barge and drowned
SMITH Bros mill sa block and docks
near Bay City, Mich, with two mi lion feet
OF lumber, were bLrned on the 18th Loss.
Sl2J.ttN.
The Woonsocket Rubber Company on the
10Th pun CHI ised the entire Buffum's island es-
tate of eighty acres in Woonsocket II l., on
which to erect the largest rubber boot and
shoe fac DRY In the world
The collections of intel nal revenue for the
first eight months OF the fiscal year ending
JunL 81, 1889. were $S3.3j .2ll, an inci case
OF 81 q 3 744 over the collections for the cor
esronding period OF the last fiscal year.
FIERCE fires were rag ng ON the 10Th on
the Blue mountains in the vicinity of Beth |
lehem. Pa and hundreds OF acres of wood
land nd valuable crops had be IN de stroyed.
RUMoRs from Oklahoma on the 9Th were
upon the boomers, and that serious tiouble |
was feared
BILL was passed by the Michigan House
on tho 10th prohibiting the sale OF II Iuor in ,
any place OF amusement or any adjacent |
room by a vote OF q? to ID
CHARLES II. NORTH & Co., an extensive /
pork-packing firm ut Boston, failed on the |
10th for s75,,OO.
In special order from army headquar- |
ters Major General schO cid announced on |
the 10Th that he would be MARSHAL of the |
military parade at New York on April b. in
honor OF the centennial OF the Inauguration |
of President Washington
The annual report on the 10Th of the Chi
cago Burlington Quincy ioid showed q
deficit OF 81 33i .4?5 in the finances of the
company. The directors charged 1t mainly |
to the Late strike
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
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