The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-04-14

the fragile hotel buildings adjacent TO
the worlds fair in Chicago collapsed
under high winds.
AT Greensboro, KY, fire destroyed the
four large warehouses Of the Glenmore
Distiliing company, containing 1887
barrels of whisky. Loss, $3.50, 900.
NINE men were instantly killed and
six others seriously injured on the line
of the drainage canal at Romeo, H., by
the falling of massive iron crane.
CLIFTON, a village just below Pom
eroy, o.. on the West Virginia side of
the river, was almost completely wiped
out by fire.
RALPH CHAMBERS barn at Yorkville,
Wis, was struck by lightning and nine
teen cows and five horses were killed
ANDREW CAMPBELL, farmer at Ban
gor, Mich, shot and killed his former
wife, from whom he was recently di-
vorced, and then took his own life.
The new directory, just out, shows
st. Louis to have population of 574, $50.
THE clothing of Mrs. Claus Frahm, an
invalid at Hastings, Neb., caught fire,
and she jumped into bath tub and
flames and was drowned.
The Yellow Poplar Lumber company's
plant at Ironton, o., and thirty dwell
ings were burned, the total loss being
s470,000. Mrs. Brush, an invalid per-
ished in one of the burned houses.
A PRAIRIE fire destroyed timber and
buildings covering an area IL miles
long and fully as wide near the Black
Hills in South Dakota.
The counties of Banner, Keith, Daw-
son and Blaine in Nebraska were COM
pletely devastated by prairie fires, many
farmers losing their homes.
BURGLARS stole sig, 900 in cash from
the county treasurer's Office in Fort
Madison, Ia, and made their escape.
JUDGE JACKSON, of the United States
district court at Wheeling, W. Va, in a
labor riot case said that men could re-
fuse to work, but the law did not per-
NIT them to intimidate others from
working in their places.
NICHOLAS STEUER and his wife were
killed at Cumminsville, o., by train.
JESSE JACKsoN's large barn was
burned at Dayton, o., and with il six
teen horses and 100 sheep persisted
THE bodies of three persons. a man,
woman and child were found in the
river near Williamson, w. Va. Their
identity was uISinown and foul play
was suspected.
In st. Louis a six-day go-as-you-
please pedestrian contest ended as fol-
lows: Moore, 525 miles; Cartwright,
500; Hughes, 513; Hegelman, 4G5; Click,
454.
THE usual proclamation prohibiting
the taking of seals or other frrbearing
animals in Alaska or in Behring sea in
the season of 1898 has been issued by
the president.
THE hailstorm which swept over the
southern portion of Chicago did damage
to the extent of 100000.
MORE than 200 mummlcs have arrived
in Chicago for exhibition at the worlds
fair. They were collected for the most
part from the tombs of the Incas in
Peru, and from the burying grounds Of
the prehistoric Chilians.
HARRY HARING fatally shot Annie
Kurtz at Allen, Pa, because she re-
fused to marry him and then shot him
self
THE steamer Hel1la, after being TWEEN
ty-four days at sea, was towed into port
in New York by the steamer America
and her 700 passengers were safely
landed.
THE legislature of Nebraska I'd.
journed sine die. Before adjournment
resolutions of impeachment were adopt
ed against eX-Attorney General Leese
and eX-Auditor Benton.
LUKENs e. Co., lumber dealers at Phil
adelphla, failed for S170,000
THE total number of fourth-class post.
masters appointed from March 4, 1898,
to April 3, 1898, inclusive, is SIS, OF
which sos were to fill vacancies caused
by designations and deaths and $40
were removals.
w. "A. GILBERT, young member OF
an aristocratic southern family, and
highly educated, spent $40, 900 in two
years and paid the penalty of his folly
by throwing himself into Lake Michi.
gan at Chicago.
LEE NEWELL and Leon Styles were
burned to death in the calaboose at
Stanberry, Mo. They fred the building
in the hope of gaining their liberty.
STATISTICS just issued of grain ex-
ports from New York for the year 1892
show that 73,S06,s2s bushels were
shipped during the year. The wheat
amounted to 4S,O57 1928 bushels; corn,
1910, 119; oats, 1891 ,475; rye, 3,O63, 710;
peas, S23,67s; fax seed, s55, 913; barley,
674,S11, and buckwheat, 634 46S.
ALMOST the entire western half OF
Nebraska has been swept by prairie
fires, the area laid waste being 80 miles
wide and so miles long. The counties
of Grant, Perkins, Thomas, Keith,
Brown, Rock, Deuel., Scots Bluffs,
Kimball, Banner and Cheyenne suffered
immense loss.
The timber lands of the counties Of
Ross, Pike and Athens in Ohio were laid
waste by fire, the total loss being over
100000.
GEORGE Snow and Arthur Gamer were
shot and killed by Arthur Fields as
they were going to church at Living
stone, Tex. Jealousy over young lady
was the cause.