The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-05-10

AN explosion of dynamite on the 9TH near
La Porte, Ind, set fire to sixteen large Ice
houses belonging to the Washington Ice
Company OF Chicago, and they were de-
stroyed.
In Northern Wisconsin forest fires were
doing great damage on the 4th
Thirty small dwellings I'm New Orleans
IN the square bounded by Julia, Locust.
Cypress and Magnolia streets were de-
stroyed by fire on the 9Th
THE entire business portion Of Waldron,
Mich, was burned on the 9th.
The St. Vincent Orphan Asylum, three
miles east OF Vincennes, Ind, was burned
on the 9th. Fortunately none OF the one
hundred and five homeless and parentless
boys were injured.
HON. EDWARD s. ToBEY was on the 9th
reelected at Boston as president of the
American Peace Society.
The centennial of the introduction OF the
first piano into the United States by John
Jacob Astor was celebrated In New York on
the 9th.
CLARA GRAHAM, beautiful girl of eight
cen years. was convicted in the criminal
court at Kansas City on the 9th OF horse
stealing, and sentenced to two years I'm
prisonment She is the only woman ever
convicted in Missouri of horse-stealing
On the 9th Assistant Attorney-Generai
DulelQs utClu0u tudL appointments w pcA v
ice under the Census act were not within
the civilservice rules.
Four THOUSAND miners returned to work
on the 9th at Brazil, Ind, the differences
with their employers having been adjusted
The building trades strike ut Pittsburgh,
Pa, which involved fifty thousand men,
was settled on the 9th in favor Of tie en-
ployes, and work would be resumed at once.
LINCOLN CURTIS, chief salesman in the
wholesale boot and shoe house OF Congdon
& Aylsworth, at Providence, r. l., was ar
rested on the 9th on a charge Of embezzltng
$l2, 900 of the firms money
The jury in the case of Irving Latimer,
on trial at Jackson, Mich, for the murder
of his mother January 81 last returned
| verdict on the 9th of murder in the first de-
| gree.
MAUD JAMESON, ten-year-old girl living
| at Lima o., set fire on the 9th to the barn
| of James Hawer, with whom she was Hv-
ing, burning it and all its contents, includ-
ing three horses
NEAR Mount Sterling Ky, Bert Curtis,
farmers son, aged eighteen years, died on
the 9th of hydrophobia He was bitten
few days before by a dog.
GREAT suffering was reported on the 9Th
among the miners in the Scranton Pa) coal
| region. But few of the mines were In
| operation, and the men could not get work
| enough to provide them with the necessi-
| ties of life.
The horses and carriages used by Mr..
Cleveland while President were sold ut
auction on the 9th in Washington, the en-
tire outfit realizing s2,043.SI. q
AN election at Lafayette La, on the 9Th
was prevented by white regulators, armed
with rifles, who refused to permit negro
citizens to cast their ballots The sheriff
ordered the polls closed and reported to
the Governor.
OF fifty-three persons who started in a
six days pedestrian contest at New York on
the morning of the 9Th over half had
dropped out before noon, among them be-
ing Dan O'Leary, who completed only
| twelve miles.
AT Hungarian christening on the 9th at
Philipsburg Pa, one man, Joseph Teeser,
was instantly killed and others were Sc
verely wounded Seven persons had been
arrested.
AN operation performed some time ago
at Richmond upon the eyes of Mrs. Sydney
Smith Lee, mother OF Governor Lee, of Vir-
| ginia proved entirely successful, and her
sight was restored on the 9th.
AT St Joseph, Mo-, Floren Beck, aged ten
years, was frightened to death on the 9th by.
a runaway team
| OKLAHOMA boomers were hocking into
Pierre, ID. T., on the 9th, waiting for the
opening of the Sioux reservation.
AN incendiary fire on the 7th at Peoria,
Ill, destroyed the packing house of WILL
lam Reynolds and spread to Zell, Schwa-
backer & Co Is distillery sheds, which were
burned, together with eighty cattle.
A CYCLONE on the 7th in Stafford County,
Ran, injured twenty-five persons five
fatally wrecked several houses, and wagons
| a,nd MI ia6 for hpv, of
yards, and horses were picked up and
whirled through the air. Over one hun
dred persons were made homeless and des-
titute
BOY named Bates who was bitten
month ago at Middlebury, Ind. by dog,
died on the 7th in terrible agony from hy-
drophobia
THREE masked burglars entered Frazer &
McDonald's bank at Forest City, Mo-, on the
eth, compelled the cashier to give them the
contents of the safe, $780, and then made
their escape.
AT Pittsburgh. Pa, two young ladies,
Margaret Donovan and Margaret O'Brien.
were struck by an engine while walking on
railway track on the 7th and both were
killed.
CONTRACTOR J. L. MCCORMICK disappeared
from Tacoma, W. t., on the 7th with about
$50, 600 secured from friends
ONE man was killed and seven others
were badly injured by premature explo-
sion of dynamite near Ashland, Pa, on
the 7th-
FOREST fires were raging on the 7th in
Northern Michigan, where there had been
no rain for several months. The fires ex-
tended through several counties, and much
valuable timber had been destroyed and
} more was threatened.
THE stables of Captain Moore, near Gym
Y thiana, KY, were burned on the 7th, consum-
ing fifteen valuable horses One of them,
Van Wilkes, was valued at $4,000, and
colt was valued at $4,000
!, THREE alternating current electric
dynamos. to be placed in the penitentiaries
at Sing Sing, Auburn and Clinton, to be
used for the killing of condemned Grim
inals, were purchased on the 7th by the
State of New York.
The residence of Watson Bownes, at
westchester, N. Y, was destroyed by fire
early on the morning of the 7th, and Mr..
Bownes mother, two children and two serv-
| ants were burned to death. Mr.. Bownes
| L.. L. De. 60 ox.I <xolsl6