The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-06-09
TGe Times,
OWoSsO. MICH, JUNE o, 1898.
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

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CILLIo LUCERo was lynched at Las
Vegas, N. NJ, for the murder of Sheep
owner and his herder.
Il. NELSON BLAKE, of Massachusetts,,
was elected president of the Baptist
Home Missionary society at its session
in Denver, Col.
KANSAS bankers who have adopted
the rule of the Kansas City Clearing
House association in reference to
charges on checks and drafts will be
proceeded against for forming trust
MOUNTAINS statue of Justice, made of
silver worth 1000, and standing on a
gold pedestal valued at 5000, 900, was
unveiled on the worlds fair grounds.
DURING tornado in Kentucky the
courthouse and seven churches at
Smithland were unroofed. Three per-
sons were drowned by the capsizing of
boat on the river
The comptroller has given the Capt.
tai national bank at Indianapolis per-
mission to resume business, but refused
the request of the Chemical bank of
Chicago to resume.
GENERAL MANAGER ALLEN announced
at Davenport, Ia, that he would not
reinstate the men discharged from the
Rock Island e. Pacific railroad for Wis
iting saloons while on duty.
The wholesale lumber firm of Muth-
leisen & Co. at ST. Joseph, Mo-, failed
for $3.50, 900.
JOHN STIPP, one of the best known
farmers of Monroe county, Ind, was
swindled out of 81, 900 in cash by two
sharpers by the old scheme of exchang-
ing packages.
BY cyclone in Mississippi the town
of Rosedale was destroyed and five per-
sons were killed and many hurt.
JOHN WALLACE (colored) was lynched
at jefferson Springs, Ark, by mob Of
his own race. He had assaulted Ida
Warren, a 9-year-old colored girl.
A BLAZE at Columbus, o., destroyed
the Case Manufacturing company and
Neil whsel works plants; loss, $3.50, 900.
GEORGIA is to be REINFORCED by large
colony of Mohammedans. They have,
through an agent, secured $4,000 acres
of land in that state and the option
upon as much more.
The White county bank at Beebe,
Ark, closed its doors.
DURING the month of May the attend
ance at the worlds fair was 1857, 22S
and the paid admissions numbered L.
or, 1888.
AT the sixty-ninth annual meeting in
Saratoga Springs, N. Y, of the Home
Missionary society of the United States
Gen. o. o. Howard, United States army,
was elected president.
The general assembly of the Presby-
terrain church in session in Washington
declared DIR. Charles A. Briggs guilty
of heresy by a vote of 3S3 to 116.
THE remains of jefferson Davis were
reinterred in Hollywood cemetery at
Richmond, Va.
BY the wreck of a stock train near
Sioux City, Ia, one man was killed and
four were hurt.
ONE passenger was killed and five
seriously hurt by an engine crashing
into a street car at Council Bluffs, la.
INDIANAPOLIS has a carnival of crime.
Ten persons have met a tragic death in
less than ten months.
GOLD was being rapidly withdrawn
from the United States treasury, more
than S., 600, 900 having gone out during
the past seven days.
THE government receipts during the
eleven months of the current fiscal year
were 1856, 762, 910, against 1926, ia, 1874
the preceding eleven months. The ex-
penditures were 1868, ,055, against
1892, 4Os, O35 during the eleven proceed
ing months.
THE Victoria Cordage company of
Cincinnati failed for S4OO,OOO
THE giving away of a post in anad-
joining exhibit in the government
building on the worlds fair grounds
caused the destruction of the Alabama
exhibit.
THE Merchants national bank, the
Oldest banking institution in Tacoma,
WASH, suspended payment temporarily
with 100000 liabilities and $1,000, 900
assets.
DURING the first five months of 1898
there were twenty failures of national
banks, the capital involved being &c..
100000, against seven failures for cor
responding period of 1892, when the
capital aggregated s625,Oo0.
THE Presbyt erian general assembly
in session in Washington suspended
Prof. Charles A. Briggs from the min
istry.
The Plankinton bank of Milwaukee
closed its doors with liabilities of ST.
100000. Continued withdrawal of de-
posits was given as the cause.
The Home brewery and rice mill at
New Orleans were burned, involving a
loss of S250,o0o Thirty horses persisted
in the flames.
WITH a paid-in capital stock of ST.
200,0 the National union bank of
New York has begun business.
MANY hou ses were wrecked by a
cyclone near Forest City, Ark, and
Mrs. Thomas, widow, and her 49,
year-old daughter were instantly killed.
AT Van Buren, Point, n. Y, farA-
house was burned and four of the five
inmates persisted in the flames.
FIRE destroyed the iron foundry
works of j. b. e. j. M. Cornell in New
York, the loss being 100000.
THE public debt statement issued on
the I'd showed that the debt decreased