The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-03-17

forty-five valuable horses persisted.
The total loss was 500, 900
The Kentucky legislature has passed
bill prohibiting BARRIERS from work.
ing on Sunday.
ANOTHER Chinese highlander war has
broken out in San Francisco. and the
results have been two Cinnamon killed
and three wounded.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 10th aggregated
81, 3O1, $50, ZIG, against 81, $40, 500. COS the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1892 was 30.
BUSINESS failures to the number of
225 occurred in the United States in the
seven days ended on the 10th, against
$50 the proceeding week and PSI for
the corresponding time last year
WILLIAM GILL, Abner Lowe and Gill
Sanders were fatally shot by the ac-
cidental discharge of Thomas Gil Is
gun while en- route TO party few
miles from Monticello, Ark.
FLAMES among business buildings in
Boston destroyed property valued at
1900, 900. Two persons persisted in
the flames, nineteen others were in
iured and several more were missing
SHERMAN ARP (colored) was hanged
at Center, Ala, for killing an cid white
farmer named Hoque several months
ago.
THE total receipts of the worlds fair
thus far are SIS, 1852, 44S, and the total
expenses 15,5S4.310.
SAMUEL DAVIS and d. S. Starraw,
two well-to-do citizens and merchants
at Montgomery, Ala, fatally injured
each other in fight caused by an old
feud.
The estimated proportion of wheat
on hand in the United States is &C. per
cent. on the last crop, the smallest per-
centage in ten years. The quantity on
hand aggregates 1875, OOO 900 bushels
SO, 900, 900 bushels less than last March
Miss KATE DoNoHUE and Miss Mary
Foley were burned to death in Pitts
burgh by the explosion of kerosene oil
with which they were starting a fire.
The total appropriations of the Fifty
second congress, including permanent
appropriations, are given at 5000
$50, O49, exceeding the Fifty -fra, con-
gress by S3S 4O4 $685.
THE governor has signed the bill pro-
hibiting prize fights in California.
AT special cabinet meeting to con-
slider the Hawaiian annexation treaty,
which was withdrawn from the senate,
it was said decision was reached to
send to Hawaii as soon as possible a
senatorial committee or "a commission
to be appointed by the president TO in
vestigate the alleged revolution and to
make report later in the summer.
THE immense gorge in the Susque
hanna river near Wilkes barre, Pa,
broke, and several villages were
flooded.
FIVE fishing schooners from Glou-
cester, Mass, were given up for lost
with sixty lives. They were supposed
to have foundered in u recent storm.
CHAIRMAN ALLISON of the United
States senate appropriation committee
says that for some years to come the
aggregate appropriations for each con-
gress will be in round mum bers not less
than $1,000, OOO OOO
IT was announced that enough mon
ey by popular subscription had been
received by the trustees to pay Gov
McKinley's debts, and that by April
every cent of the $685. liabilities
would be wiped out The fund was
raised by nearly 1000 contributors, in
sums ranging from 81 to drafts for co.
900, and the money came from nearly
every section of the country.
HIGH water in the Susquehanna river
flooded many houses at Port Deposit,
Md, and many poor families lost every
thing,
OFFICERS of the National Board OF
Health association met in Cincinnati
and expressed the opinion that cholera
will be prevalent abroad all summer,
and that only the most careful and
strenuous efforts will keep it out oil
America.
Mrs. MOSES MILLER, 6S years old,
and Mrs. Ann Julian, go years old,
well-to-do sisters living at White
Plains, N. Y, were suffocated by coal
gas.
A DOZEN steamships arrived in port
at New York and 2,170 immigrants,
mostly Italians, were landed at Ellis
| island.
OFFICIAL denial of an intended strike
among the switchmen on the roads en-
tering Chicago was made at meeting
of grievance committees of the Switch
mems Mutual Aid ASSOCIATION.
JOHN l.. SULLIVAN and company were
arrested at Cincinnati, O., for violating
the Sunday laws.
NEGROES at Rolling Fork, Miss, took
Lee Walton (colored) from Jail and
hanged him. He had murdered Rufus
Haywood, negro, without cause.
l. AUGUST DoHLING, aged 10, an inmate
of the poorhouse at Hastings, Mimi,
fell into n conatose state six weeks
ago and since then has slept continu-
ously except when being fed.
THE California legislature has passed
resolution to submit to the people a
constitutional amendment removing
the capital to San Jose.
JOSEPH MASSEY fatally shot Mary v.
Lafave at Quincy, Mass, because she
refused to marry him and then shot
himself.
u. f. KErEs, of Chicago, while in O
drunken frenzy shot Mrs. Weir, a
neighbour, his sick wife and then him.