The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-04-19

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JOHN JACKSON, president of the St Louis
Grain Elevator Company, and awell-known
business man, hanged himself in his place
of business on the 18th. Unfortunate spec
ulations were responsible for the act.
The American commits sioners to the con-
ference at Berlin on Samoan matters sailed
from New York ON the 18th on the Etruria
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, an international six
days go-as-y ou-please race closed on the
18th, Noremac winning with the score of sol
miles.
The largest oil we'll yet obtained in Ohio
was struck by Smith a Craig in the North
Baltimore field on the 18th.
IT was announced on the 18th that several
persons lost their lives in Dakota during
the recent prairie fires in their efforts to
save the lives of others.
HENRY d. WEIGH, of Philadelphia, was on
the 18th elected president of the Allegheny
Valley railroad, to succeed the late John
Scott
JOHN CLARK shot his wife on the 18th at
Haverhill, Mass, and then killed himself
by swallowing laudanum. No cause was
known
NEAR Ravenna o., on the 10Th Chauncey
Taylor was fatally injured and his wife was
killed at a railway crossing.
GEORGE s. HASKELL, dealer in seeds at
Rockford, Ill, failed ON the 18th for 800, 600.
In the Missouri Court OF Appeals on the
18th Judge Ellison rendered decision that
baseball playing on Sunday is illegal
MINE of rock-salt which was said to be
as transparent as glass, was struck at King
man, Kan, on the 18th, at depth of $50
feet
AN assignment was made at Norristown,
Pa, on the 18th by the Conshohocken Worst
ed Company, which operated three mills,
and had monthly payroll of about $751;
000
FRAME stable at Louisville, KY, ewned
by James Miller, colored hickman, was
burned on the 18th, and Miller and his col
ored driver, Felix Williams, and four horses
persisted in the flames.
No TIDINGs whatever were received at
New York on the 18th as to the fate of the
steamer Danmark and the seven hundred
persons who were aboard of her when she
sailed.
PETER McGoFF, of Elmwood, Neb., was
found dead on the 10Th lying across the
grave of his wife. Mrs. McGoff was buried
three days before, ana her husband in
respondent mood took poison.
JOHN BARRETT, aged seventy-four years,
living on farm fifteen miles northeast OF
Fort Wayne Ind, beat his wife to death on
the 10Th with poker during quarrel
ADvIcEs of the 18th say that forest fires
in Patrick County, Va, destroyed over one
hundred houses and five men and many
horses, cattle and hogs persisted in the
flames
AT Minneapolis on the 18th President
Charles f. Hatch, of the Wisconsin, Mime
sofa & Pacific railway, and p, +. Lockwood,
well-known real-estate dealer, committed
suicide.
THE pilot boat Enoch Turley was on the
18th reported as lost while trying to reach
the Delaware breakwater. Ten men, resi-
dents of Philadelphia, were on board and
lost their lives.
AN unknown Italian laborer met with a
terrible death in the sandstone quarry at
Marquette, Mich, on the 18th. large
stone rolled slowly on to him, pinning his
feet and passing gradually over the whole
length of his body, crushing him flat from
feet to head.
MISS MINNIE ANDREWS, white girl OF
eighteen years, was married in Lincoln,
Neb., on the 10Th to a Chinaman named
John Tong.
On the 18th Assistant United States Treas
urer Roberts assumed charge of the sub
treasury in New York, and the sixteen ex-
pert counters from Washington began
counting the $27, 900 in the vaults 1t
would take them three weeks to do the
work.
EDWARD LUTz, farmer near Canton, O.,
fell into kettle of boiling sap on the 18th
and was fatally scalded
Mrs. HANNAH BATTERsBY, said to be the
largest woman in the world, died on the
18th at her home in Frankfort, Pa, aged
forty seven years A few years ago she
married John Battersby a ''living skele-
ton" and when married weighed 6SS
pounds. At the time of her death she
weighed 500 pounds
MEMORIAL services were hold on the 18th
at Springfield, ILL.,, commemorative the
twenty-fourth anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln's death Flags were at half-mast
on many buildings and bells were tolled.
The floral offerings were profuse, and in
cluded handsome pillow from Mrs Har-
rison, wife of the President.
Ex-Governor. JOHN s. PILLsBURY, of
Minneapolis, on the 10th presented to the
Minnesota State University of which he is
q regent, the sum of $3.50, 900.
JOSEPH p. STEWART (colored), who had
spent twenty-nine years of his life in
prison at Trenton, N. j., was given his free
dom on the 10th.
In o struggle with his son for loaded gun
on Une lOUn al Unelr farm near hcarney,
Neb, W. ii. Pettitt, aged seventy-two
years, was killed by the weapon being dis
charged
AN epidemic Of suicide struck Chicago on
the 10th, no less than five persons taking
their own lives. Sickness and dependency
were the causes
1T was reported on the 10th that the
Standard Oil Company contemplated chang
ing it's base OF operations from the Penn
sylvania fields to those of Ohio.
Dora WEBSTER, aged sixteen years, of
Fletcher, o., was shot and killed on the 10th
by her cousin, Joseph Heath, with re-
volvor which he thought to be empty
MRS. JOSIE GuRLEY was found guilty by a
jury in Chicago on the 10th of kidnapping
little Annie Redmond, and the jury fixed
her punishment at five years in the peni-
Tertiary.
FIRE on the 10th at Muir, Mich, de-
stroyed twenty-seven buildings.
CENTERvuLE. II. l., was almost entirely
destroyed by fire on the 10th.
WHILE excavating at Duluth, Mimi, on
the 10th for new Masonic temple blast
fired revealed q vein OF copper ore of great
richness.
WITH capital of s5,O00,0Oo, the Beet
Sugar Company was Incorporated on the