The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-03-10
DOMESTIC,

ONE HUNDRED pounds OF gunpowder
exploded in the sporting goods store of
Rawlings Brothers in St Louis, badly
injuring four persons.
EDITOR CHEvIs, of Baton Rouge, La,
and Editor Hicks, of Shreveport, La,
fought duel with pistols in Texas.
but neither was injured.
A TRAIN on the New York, New
Haven e. Hartford railroad collided
with train at Norwood, r. l., killing
one child and injuring half a dozen
passengers.
BUD GARTH became involved in a
difficulty with two negroes and fatally
shot them both at Trenton, Tenn.
The residence of Cyrus Lee near
Greenville, KY, was burned and Cyrus
Lee and his sister and brother, wife
and child persisted in the flames. There
was no one left to tell how the fire
originated.
importer of suiphite, pulp and paper
stock, failed for $500, 900.
JUDGE STOWE in the criminal court
at Pitts burgh overruled the motion for
a new trial in the case of Hugh +.
Dempsey and Robert j. Beatty, charged
with poisoning Homestead non-union
workers.
PRINCESS KAIULANI, a beautiful girl
of IS years, and niece of the deposed
Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, ar.
rived in New York. She had come TO
the United States, she said, more for
the purpose of observing and learning
for herself the nature of the people
who had been asked to take control Of
her country than to make formal Pc
tition for her crown.
For the eight months of the current
fiscal year the government receipts
from all sources aggregated in round
numbers $26i, 200, 900, or $4,000, 900
more than during the corresponding
months of the preceding fiscal year.
The expenditures were S266, 233, 544, or
$27, 900, 900 more than during the same
months of the preceding year.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed that the interest and
non-interest bearing debt increased
$615, 500 during the month of Februa-
ry. The cash in the treasury was
$764, 332, 266. The total debt, less the
cash balance In the treasury, amounts
to $500, 1853, 665
IT was reported that in the next few
months 100, 600 negroes would leave the
south for homes in the west
THE eastern portion of Adams coun-
ty, Miss, was visited by a cyclone that
destroyed houses and outbuildings and
killed several persons.
, A TRAIN on the Iron Mountain rail-
road was wrecked near Hope. Ark,
and sixteen passengers were injured,
some fatally.
THE fourteenth annual commence
ment exercises of the Indian industrial
school took place at Carlisle, Pa, and
was largely attended.
THE treasury departments monthly,
circulation statement shows a net de-
crease in the circulation during Febru-
airy amounting to So, 3o2, S9z The total
circulation of the country March was
placed at ST., 500, 655, $40, or a per capita
of $24,07, against $1,000, SIS, 500 March
1, 1892. The treasury store of money
and bullion was as follows: Gold coin,
S139, S37, 900; standard silver dollars.
SASS, 474, S95; subsidiary silver, $1O,97
S76; silver treasury notes, s., 42O, 24O;
United States notes, 49,, 500, 274; ma.
tional bank notes, S5,57s, 1873; gold bull.
lion, $40, s35, 042; and silver bullion,
Sl02, 973,771
THE Arkansas Baptist college build
ings established at Little Rock six
years ago by the colored Baptists for the
education of girls was burned, and the
twenty inmates had narrow escapes.
IT was reported that President Har-
rison had accepted professorship in
the Leland Stanford, Jr., university
of California lie will deliver a series
of lectures on, constitutional law.
A FIRE at Constable Hook, N. j., de-
stroyed seven buildings and rendered
fifty families homeless