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


BILL making the use of obscene, vulgar
or profane language q misdemeanor. and
inflicting fine for each and every offense,
was introduced In the House at Springfield
Ill. on the l,th
In a hotel at Atlanta, Ga, on the 18th c.
f. Hamilton, a railway man. cut his wife's
throat alleging that she had been untrue to
him.
JOHN M. Stout, a well-known bicycle
rider, dropped from his wheel on the Eth
near Mount Sterling, ILL.,, and died almost
instantly. His death was caused by over
exertion
KELLY Bnss.' warehouse at Grecnvllle, 8
O.. with twelve Thousand bales of cotton,
was burned on the 18th.
JAMES LAFFERTY, q stock dealer of Wyom-
ing County. W. Va, was waylaid, killed and
robbed of 81, 900 on the / til near Rockville
creek
TIE South Birmingham (Ala.) Coal & Coke
Company was organized on the l. tn with q
capital of sl,WO,OO0. 1t owns three thou
sand acres of land near Birmingham, and
will build at once one hundred coke ovens
and u furnace.
The six miners recently entombed in the
Black Diamond colliery near Mount Car
mel Pa, were rescued alive and well on
the tn
! In Washington on tho 18th James s. Clark
son received his commission and immedi-
ately took tho prescribed oath and entered
/ uron bis duties as First-Assistant Postmas-
! ter-General
GANG OF counterfeiters in New York
! City who for several weeks past had been
successfully putting spurious silver dollars
In circulation was arrested on the L. tn
The Illinois Supreme Court on the 18th
denied the claim of Mcssrs Felden, Schwab
| aud Naaho IA IN Dri cOna1 EhicapO AOarch-
lists, that their sentences was illegal.
WILLIE GREEN, Anderson Mitchell and
| Daniel Jones, all colored, wero angcd on
the 18th at Philadelphia, Ark, for the muir
der of a negro preacher named Arthur
Horton. May u, lSSS
AT Italian Canyon, New, on the 18th
Samuel Rumble shot and killed his father
in-aw, George Hosking and his wife. his
brother-in-l law, aged fifteen, and then killed
himself Family trouble caused the crime.
THE discovery OF new oil wells ut East
Titusville, Pa, the homo of the famous
''grrsshopper wells" of old, had on the 18th
| caused great excitement and every foot of
the land within a milo of the little settle
ment had been gobbled up by spectators
DURING the seven days ended on the tn
| there were 19j business failures in the
United States. against al the previous
seven days The total failures In the United
States from January l to date was S.l43,
| against 2626 in 1888
WILLIAM BUFFALO (colored,, and only six
years of age, was arrested on tho l tn ut
| Norfolk, Va, for the murder of Riddick
Harrison. ten years old also colored.
TIE house of William Flowers. at Hollow
Rock, Tenn, was burned early on tho
morning of the 18th, and Flowers his wife
and two children persisted in the flames
The Tennessee Legislature on the 18th
passed bill transferring the Hermitage,
the old home of President Andrew Jackson
| at Nashville, to the Confederate Veterans
Association for twenty-five years.
THE exchanges ut twenty leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 10th aggregated $l,-
O56 524 %, against 81 ,047, 76 ,46i the previous
week AS compared with the correspond
ing week OF 1888 tho increase amounted to
54.4
A TERRIFIC cloud-burst occurred on the
10th in lower California, killing several
persons and destroying a vast amount OF
property.
| EDWARD SWAN, paying teller of the Ma
ton City Bank of Lynn, Mass, was on the
10th said to be defaulter to the extent OF
s63,0O0.
AT fire on the 10th at William Schmidt's
bakery in Chicago several persons narrow
| ~ escaped With their lives. Loss, SlUO,uUU.
DR. CARVER defeated Al Bandle at Gin
cinnati on the 10Th In tho gun contest for
the world championship. Carvers score was
03 and Bandles %.
AN Immense cave-in was going on In the
works of the Central Colliery Company at
Scranton, Pa, on the Eth, and many
| dwellings and business houses were threat
ened
THE captain Of the steamer Caroline Mill
er, which arrived in New York on tho 10th
from Cape Haytien, said that twelve of Leg
| times soldiers who had been taken prison.
ers by Hippolyto were shot in the public
square at Cape Haytien.
The white laundrymen OF Dubuque, Ia,
organized on the 10th for the purpose of
driving out the Chinese laundrymen.
JOHN M. GARDNER, farmer, seventy
eight years of age, was burned TO death on
the 10th near Seymour, Ind, while trying
to extinguish the fire that was burning his
fencing.
The lumber firm of Meyer Il Mcthudy, one
OF the oldest in sc. Louis, failed on the 10th
for S2W,00.
HARRY HOLMES in Jail at Sacramento for
criminal assault, was found dead in his
cell on ho 10th He had starved himself to
death having refused food for two weeks
RUSSELL j. HARRISON, son of the Presi
dent on tho 18th purchased an interest IL
Frank Lcslos Weekly.
| A PARTY % oklahoma boomers were o,
| the lHtb ". from the forbidden territory
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