The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-03-15

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TIE Bartholomae Brewing Company's
plant, the largest in Rochester, N. ", and
valued at over s2,0O0O00, was on the 9th
transferred to an English syndicate.
THE North Wheeling wv. Va-) glass works,
employing two hundred hands, shut down
on the 9th on account of slack business.
1T was reported on the 18th that A. j.
Drexel, the well-known Philadelphia bank
er, had given 100000 to establish ut
Wayne, Delaware County, the Drexel In
dustrial College for Women. The benefits
of the college are to be extended, first, to
the daughters OF clergymen, and second,
to daughters Of respectable parents unable
to give their children proper training and
education.
NAVIGATION on the upper Mississippi river
opened on the 18th.
1T was announcud on the 18th that con-
tracts for the construction of new war YES
sells, ombodying the latest approved ideas
of high speed and heavy armament, would
be let within u few months by the Secretary
OF War.
ROBERT NEAL and Sonnie Lawrence, of St
Marys City, Ind, were drowned in the river
there on the 18th.
A BOILER in the Cleveland rolling-mill at
Cleveland, o., exploded ON the 18th, killing
two men and badly injuring twelve othSt,
persons
THE issue or standard silver dollars from
tho mints for the week ended ON the 9th
amounted to S31 $50, and for the corre-
spending week last year the issue was
1901, 564.
J. l. ADAMS, young defaulter of Atlanta,
Ga, was ON the 18th dying from voluntary
starvation. He had passed twenty-five days
without tasting food of any kind.
CLIFTON HALL the fSmous winter resort
st Lakewood, N. j., was destroyed by fire
carly on the morning of the 18th. The in
mates escaped In their night-clothes
The story of the murder of five French
tourists by Indians In Yellowstone Park was
on the 18th said to be hoax.
SIX THOUSAND weavers employed In fifty
different mills at Fall River, Mass, went on
q strike on the 18th for higher wages.
IT was stated on the 18th that during Feb
ruary over five thousand negroes left North
Carolina for the West and Southwest, and
farmers were experiencing difficulty in Sc
curing help on account of the exodus.
DISPATCHES of the 18th say that Captain
Holmes, of the whaling-b boat Sea Fox, New
Bedford, Mass, another officer and serv-
ant were killed off the west coast of Africa
by the explosion of q whaling bomb gun.
THE report of tho Department of Agri-
culture for March shows the proportion of
merchantable wheat and corn average
eighty two per cent, which liz less than in
1884 81, and the lowest percentages were
In the principal wheat-growing States.
THE will of the late Isaiah v. Williamson,
of Philadelphia, was admitted to probate on
the 18th. The estate was valued at $9,O0O,-
GOO, and 81 600 was given to charity and
the remainder was devised to the grand
nephews and grand-nieces of the deceased,
share and share alike.
THE bobbin trust, an organization formed
In 1886 to regulate the price of bobbins,
spools and similar articles, went to pieces
on the 18th.
FRARK BENNETT, notorious counterfeiter,
was arrested near Dubuque, Ia, on the 18th.
AT Valparaiso, Ind, on the 18th five
liquor-sellers were fined $50 each for in
fraction of the law.
CAPTAIN +. w. DAWSON, editor of the
Charleston g. c. News and Courier. was
shot dead on the 18th by DIR. T. b. Mellow,
who tho editor had chided for immoral
practices.
FINAL experiments were made on the 18th
by the New York State authorities to satisfy
themselves as to the best means of execut-
ing condemned criminals by electricity.
III. M ADAMS, q colored deputy, shot and
fatally wounded Sam Patterson (coloredD at
Kansas City NO., ON the 18th Adams was
placed In Jail, and during the day was visited
by ten women, each one claiming to be his
wife.
FOURTEEN business buildings at La
Grange. Ind, were burned on the 18th.
Tom KELLY, of Owasso, Mich, shot and
instantly killed his brother-in-law, Stanley
Graham, on the 18th, as the result Of stand
ing feud
"BoYCoTr tho saloons" was the advice
given by the leaders to the striking weavers
at a big mass meeting in Fall River, Mass,
on the 18th.
THE Postal Telegraph Company was en-
the 18th placing poles for two new copper
telegraph wires from Chicago TO St Joseph,
Mo-, along the line of the stickney road.
THE village of McClellandtown, Pa. was
terrorized on the night of e 18th by
part OF armed masked robbers, who en-
tered o number of houses, and aft r tortur-
ing the inmates until they gave up what
ever money was in their possession ran
sacked the houses and in some cases burned
them.
AT the meeting on the 10Th of the Ropes
Gold and Silver Mining Company at Ish-
peming, Mich, the directors reported a
good production and q surplus in tho
treasury.
LIZZIE JOINS of Lima, o.. took strych-
nine on tho 18th because George Elsten, to
whom she was engaged married another
girl.
THE Pittsburgh & Western Express, OPP
Grated over the lines of the Pittsburgh &
Western road, was sold on the 18th to the
Wells-Fargo Express Company.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
MEMORIAL services in honor of Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher were held in Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, on the evening of the
Sth, it being tho second anniversary of his
death.
GENERAL. SIMON CAMERON celebrated tho
nineticth anniversary of his birth on tho Sth
at the old Cameron mansion In Harrisburg,
Pa.
THE Woman's Suffrage League has ar
ranged for q National convention of wom-
ans suffrage leagues, to be held in New York
April 27 and 90
r.. W. TowHsHErtD, Of Shnwneetown, Ill,
member of Congress from the Eighth dis
trict since 1873, died in Washington on the
9th OF pneumonia He was forty-nipe years
of age, and leaves a wife and two children.