The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-05-03

THE safe In the law Office of Hubbard 4
Conley at Elkton, Ind, was blown by burg
larg on the night of the Dist and "A, 800 In
money and notes taken.
THE street-car barnes at Rock Island, Ill,
were destroyed by fire on the 22d. Loss,
$4,000. Fifteen cars and forty two horses
were burned
AT Marshalltown, Pa, Michael Porinski
shot and killed Michael Croniclo on the I'D.
They had quarreled over trivial matter
THIRTY-Two packages OF prepared opium,
valued at s., 900, were found concealed In q
steamer at San Fradcisoo on the 22d, and
were seized by the Government authori-
ties.
IT was said at Toledo, o., on the 22d that
salt trust with a capital stock OF $40. 000, 600
was being formed to control the entire salt
product of Che United States
THE steamship Missouri, with 36j OF the
people from the wrecked steamer Dam
mark, arrived at Philadelphia on the 22d.
All were cared for and sent to their destina-
tons by the agent OF the Danmark at New
York
The business portion OF the town of Har-
risburg, o., was destroyed by fire on the
22d Loss, $l2, 600; insurance, $4,000
MRS WILLIAM BEAGLE, seventy years old,
accidentally set fire to her dress on the
22d at Martins Ferry, o., and was fatally
burned
ToRGAs TcReERsoN and Henry Herman
son were arrested at Belvidere, Ill, on tSe
ed charged with completely in the murder
OF Ole Wonge near there March !.
FEARS were entertained on the 22d that the
United States war-ship Monongahela,
which sailed for Samoa over sixty days ago,
had been lost, as no reports had been re-
ceived of her arrival
was said to have been discovered at Spring
Lake, Wis. on the 22d.
ALEXANDER ScHMALzREID, a farmer near
Carthage, ILL.,. shot himself in the mouth
with a revolver on the 22d, death resulting
instantly.
M. +. HALE, one of the defendants In the
famous match bond" case at Chicago ten
years ago, returned to the city on the 22d
voluntarily from Canada and surrendered
himself.
IssAo NEWMAN, aged seventy eight, and
wife seventy-two two pioneers OF Northern
Indiana, died near Mexico, Ind, the hus-
band on the 21st and the wife on the 22d
THE Gaze tie Oil Refinery at Lima, o., was
destroyed by fire on the 22d. Two men,
John Steiner and William McClain, were ia
tally burned
AT Muscatine, Ia, Drummond Wilson,
Methodist minister, was killed by a switch
engine on the 22d
The rush of "boomers" into Oklahoma,
which began at noon on the 22d, fully met
all expectations in point of immensely and
Importance Thirty thousand men were
estimated to be within the Territory, only
about one third of whom would be able to
take up claims. Guthrie, from way sta
ton on the Santa Fe road, sprang into
city of fifteen thousand inhabitants
DESTRUCTIVE forest fires were raging
north of Clintonville, Wis, along the line
of the Lake Shore road on the 23d The
town of Buckbee was entirely wiped out,
and much damage was being done at points
north and south of Amigo.
THREE men who took claims in Oklahoma
were said to have been toully murdered by
claim jumpers on the 23d. vigilance
committee was securing the country in
search of the miscreants, who it is said,
would be summary dealt with ii caught
AT Halifax Court House, Va, Scott Bailey
(colored) assaulted one of the young ladies
in the village on the 23d. Bailey was caught
soon after, confessed his crime and was
lynchod
The street-car strike of the Minneapolis
car-drivers was virtually ended on the 23d,
number of the old hands returning to
work at tne company Terms.
Mrs. BERNBRIDGE, a farmers wife of Elk
mound, Wis. was driving her COWS to past
ure on the 22d, when dogs set upon them
and the cattle stampeded and ran over the
woman, trampling her to death.
CAROLINE NOLAN, a domestic at Lincoln,
Ill, committed suicide on the Esd by taking
rat poison.
YOUNG & MILLER lumber dealers of To-
ledo o.. transferred their business to their
three principal creditors on the Esd. The
liabilities are sl33000; assets, $4,000.
REPORTS from Sanford, South Florida,
on the sd were to the effect that yellow
fever had broken out there.
Bon WOODS, an inoffensive old colored
man of Lincoln, Neb., was murdered on the
Odd. John Taylor and Charles Curtis, both
colored, have been arrested for the murder
WILLIE +. WEIGH, a twelve-year-old boy
of Rockland, Me-, died ON the 23d from i'm
moderate cigarette smoking.
LAIDLEY's pork-hosise at Cincinnati was
burned on the 23d The loss is estimated
at 100000
DAVE BALLsER and q colored fireman were
killed by the explosion of a boiler at the
Bessemer rolling-mills on the 23d at Bir-
lnirgham, Ala
FOREST fires were raging near New Provi-
dence, Ind, on the 23d, and had already de-
stroyed the timber on fifty farms
WILLIAM SHERWOOD, a street-car driver at
Grand Rapids, Mich, was fatally injured on
the 23d in a collision between the street.
car and n freight train.
VINCENT RICHARDSON an old and wealthy
farmer living near Jacksonville, Ill, was
swindled out of $1,000 in cash on the 23d by
sharpers
ALBERT WILLIAMS, a married man, met
Albert johnson and Annie Casper on the
streets of Cincinnati on the night of the
23d. He shot johnson dead and fatally
wounded the woman
The body of Paul Lemoyne, a lumberman
of Chippewa Falls. Wis, who disappeared
two weeks ago, was found in the river near
Eau Claire on the Esd. One hundred dol
lars were found la his pockets.
The General Electric Company was in
corporated ut Albany, N. Y, on the sd with
a capital stock of $l2,000,000
LEWIS WEBER, of Chicago, while stealing
a ride on n Wabash train near Illipolis, Ill,
on the 23d, was pushed from the train by q
brakeman and killed
MRS MooRE's female seminary at Nor
pnntOWn w Vn was DESTROYED nv fro ON