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

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cigarettes or cigarette papers
A CYCLONE at Ms1ksville, La, CAUSED
great destruction, Scattered timbet and
uprooted trees marking the place
where once handsome residences stood.
Two persons were killed.
A SOLE leather trust with a capital
of s0,0O0,o0O was said to have been
formed at Buffalo, N. Y.
WHILE launching vessel at ship
yard in Bay City, Mich, nine persons
were injured and five others were prob
ably drowned
ALEXANDER p. HETHERINGToN, o
young Greek, shot Miss Emma Klaus
at Bridgeport, Conn, because she re-
fused to marry him and then shot him-
self.
BoLE DAVIS, white pauper at Mex
leo, Mo-, was advertised to be sold st
caution to the highest bidder.
AT meeting of the Homestead pa
relief committee the treasurcr's report
showed the total amount of money re-
ceived to be IS, S50.6s, and the amount
expended $4,432. %, leaving q balance
in the treasury of SOFIA. No more
help was needed.
JOE GODDARD, the Australian, was
knocked out in the eighteenth round in
a fight at New Orleans for purse of
$40, 900 by Ed Smith, of Denver.
THE organization of the Associated
press was completed in Chicago with
Melville Z. Stone, of that city, as gen.
eral manager, succeeding William
Henry Smith.
THE last meeting of President Har-
rison's cabinet took place on the Sd.
All of the members were present, and
the president thanked them for the
loyal support they had always given
him and attributed much of the success
of his administration to their wise
counsels, faithful services and devotion
to the country's highest good
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the Sd aggregated
ST, $40, 500, 00S, against 81, 215, 93S, 075 the
previous week. The decrease as COM
pared with the corresponding week Of
1892 was H.
AN engine on the Lehigh Valley road
exploded her boiler near Mcl,une's
station, Pa, killing William Erown
and fatally injuring Charles Sinsa-
baugh, the engineer; Perry Refenburg,
the fireman, and John Schott, brake
man.
In the United States during the seven
days ended on the Sd the business fail
ures numbered 251, against go the pre-
vious week and 270 for the correspond
ing time last year.
FOREST fires near Austin, Tex, de-
stroyed much valuable property.
"BoB" SIMS, aged 20, was hanged at
Birmingham, Ala, for the murder of
Ebender Jordan a year ago, and Jose
Gabriel, an Indian, was executed at
San Quentin, Cal, for the murder of
Mr.. and Mrs. Geiser, an old couple.
REV. HENRY LAURENs HAMMOND,
aged rs, one. of the Oldest Congrega-
tional ministers in Chicago, dropped
dead from heart disease.
WILLIAM Coy was hanged at Pitts
field Mass, for the murder of John
Whalen in August, 1891.
FIVE children named Bernstein were
suffocated by smoke in a room in
which they were locked by their
parents in New York. A bursting
lamp caused the accident.
PETER CARBON, wealthy lumb erman
of Chippewa Falls, Wis, was robbed of
$4,000 while sleeping in chair in the
Union depot in st. Paul.
In the family of w. s. Hammalker, of
Findlay, O., five children died within
four weeks of a malignant form of
diphtheria.
A CYCLONE at Marion, Miss, de-
stroyed large amount of property,
killed Mrs. Meader and her daughter
and fatally injured Mr.. and Mrs w. j.
Harrison and severely injured several
other persons.
GOULD CoeswELL, a wealthy farmer
living near Havana, N. Y, shot and
killed his invalid daughter and then
hanged himself Loss of money was
the cause.
LoRENz ZEIs and his three children
died near Mascoutah, Ill, from the eff
fects of eating apple butter cooked in a
copper kettle.
PRESIDENT HARRISON approved the
car-coupling bill and the pen with
which he signed it was presented to E.
A. Mosely, secretary of the interstate
commerce commission.
Mrs. MARY PUsHMAN, aged 10, was
found guilty of manslaughter at Butte,
Mont, for the murder Of her baby.
She tortured the little one to death
with pins.
BREWSTER & DENIKE, commission
merchants at Loredo, Tex, failed for
s172,3oo.
DICK BIC BIRD and Solomon Blue,
two Red Lake Indians, who had fire.
quently been witnesses in Indian
liquor cases, were tarred and feath-
cred by citizens of Fosston, Mimi, and
made to run the gauntlet of 100 men,
receiving kicks and bruises at every
step.
FLAMES at Covington, KY, destroyed
hardware factory, tobacco houses
and other buildings, the total loss
being $3.50,
The men convicted of poisoning non
union workmen at Homestead, Pa,
were sentenced as follows: Hugh
Dempsey, master workman Knights of
Labor, seven years in prison; Robert
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