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


26th and took from the safe about $4,000 in
sh belonging to the town of Seneca, of
which Mr.. Smithurst was treasurer.
The exchanges Mt twenty-slx leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended ON the 27th aggregated
1854, ,359, ,316, against 81 ,008 7S6, ,27S the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the cor
responding week OF 1883 the increase
amounted to 90.
were killed in fight between cowboys and
settlers in the old soldiers colony IN the
western part of Oklahoma
The Greenbrier mountains near Green
brier White Sulphur Springs, W. Va, were
q mass of fire on the 2Sth, and millions OF
feet of valuable hard timber had been con-
sumed with tens of thousands of rails and
other property
WHITE CAPS soundly whipped Frank Gehr-
line, of Riversdale, o., on the 27th for abus-
| ing his wife,
WILLIAM PLUM and q small son were
| crushed to death on the 27th near Wheel
| ing, W. Va, by log which rolled down q
! steep hill and struck them
A STRANGE and fatal disease was prevail
| ing on the 27th at Paulina, Ark. Several
| deaths had occurred and the citizens or the
town were terror-stricken
| THE Grain Gambling bill passed both
| branches of the Missouri Legislature on the
| 27th. The bill makes all option business
| unlawful
| In San Francisco on the 27th Tom Avery,
! well-known local prize-fghter, fell dead
| In the ring during sparring exhibition
THERE was considerable excitement in Sa-
| line County, Mo-, on the 27th over the dis
| covery of gold near Arrow Rock, Cali
fornia expert having pronounced it rich
| find.
The First Baptist Church Society of
| Providence, r. l., celebrated its two hun
dredth anniversary on the 2Sth. The pres
ent church building is over one hundred
| years old
A FIRE on the 27th in the Lowell Manu-
featuring Company's mills at Lowell, Mass,
caused loss of $40, 900.
The dwelling of James Hannish, near
Hookerville, w. Va, was burned on the
27th and Hannish's wife and two children
were burned to death. Hannish was away
from home.
In Albion, N. Y, William Fl. Whaling,
while drunk cut his wifes throat on the
2Sth.
AT Chelsea Park, summer resort near
Kansas City, bridge across an artif"
lake gave way on the 2Sth and ~ .,,,,,t..S.,
about seyentv,nve I rerso as into seven feet
Of water All were rescued, but several
were badly injured
FIRE on the 27th at Jonesboro Ark.
destroyed over forty houses causing loss.
of $150.000.
COUNTERFEIT ten-dollar bill, United
States note of the series of 1885. letter @,
was In circulation in St Louis on the 27th.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAM SIEE issued
an order on the 27th that the buildings.
of his department should be closed Sunday
in future and there should be no Sunday
work performed.
MRS. SUSAN BINKLEY, aged seventy-nine
years, was burned to death on the 10Th ult
at Xenia, o., by her clothes catching fire
from the CRATE.
The Boston & Maine railroad managers on
the Goth ult ordered heads OF departments
to allow no work on Sunday except to run
regular trains
FROM two to four inches of snow fell in
the upper peninsula of Michigan on the Goth
ult.
PATRICK MCGINNIs was hanged on the
Goth ult at Oregon City, Ore, for the mur.
der of Sheriff Robert Lockwood July last
In the Federal Court at Fort Smith, Ark,
on the Goth ult Judge Parker sentenced
Jack Spaniard, Frank Capell, William
Walker, Joe Martin and Elsie James to hang
Wednesday, July IL next, for murder.
Four men were drowned on the 10Th ult
boat on the Columbia river.
BARRY STREIF, an aeronaut, made an as
cension on the Goth ult at Boonville, Ind,
and when at the height of three hundred
feet the balloon burst. Streif fell with
frightful rapidIty, and was fatally injured.
The Windsor Theater in Chicago was de-
stroyed by fire on the 3Jth ult.
The centennial celebration in New York
City on the Both ult. was a grand and i'm
FrI-s
seen its like before In the great parade
nearly every State and Territory was repre-
sented In the evening the Metropolitan
Opera-House was the scene of probably the
greatest banquet ever held within the rec
ollection of man. On the evening of the
Goth the great ball took place.
In Chicago the centennial celebration on
the 30th ult was very enthusiastic. Serv-
ices were held In all the churches and
schools, and in the evening there was q
grand display of fireworks. In the crush
to see the latter scores of persons were in
jured, some fatally. In other Western cities
the day was also fittingly observed
L. w. JOHNSON and A. L. Pease middle
aged men and apparently farmers, blew
out the gas in Chicago hotel on tho night
of the 29th ult and were found dead the
next morning.
THROUGHOUT the entire country on the
3Oth ult the centennial OF the inauguration
of George Washington as the first President
of the United States was fittingly observed
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
HON. ELIJAH M. HAINEs died at his home
In Waukegan, Ill, on the morning of the
25th, aged sixty EIGHT years. He had been
long in public life, especially as member of
the Legislature, having been elected seven
different times to seat in that body. In
1885 he was chosen Speaker of the lower
House on account of a deadlock in which
he held the balance of power. He was a
member of the present Legislature.
| EDMUND LOWELL DANA, q distinguished
veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, died
on the 18th at Wilkesbarre, Pa, aged sew
enty-two years.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN Z. JOHN ELLIS of Louis
lana, died suddenly at his residence in
Washington on the 25th
LESTER ii. THOMPSON. ex-Senior Vice
Commander of the New York Department,
g. A. r., died at Denver, Col, on the 18th.
aged forty eight years