The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-05-26
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Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


blew up, wrecking the building and
killing seven workmen and terribly in
juring four other men. The property
loss was S15O,OOO.
JOHN DAGGETT, of California, has
been appointed superintendent of the
mint of the United States at San Fran
cisco.
WILL NEAL (colored) was lynched by
negroes near Williamsville, Miss, for
assaulting the 6-year-old daughter of
Jackson Comfy, also colored.
CHARLES Il. GRINER, timber buyer,
was waylaid and robbed of $1,000 while
on his way from Smyrna, Mich, to Bowl
ing Green, D.
IT cost John l.. Sullivan, the pugilist,
81, 200 to settle for his assault on Law
yer M. L. Lizette at Biddleford, Me.
A FLOOD at Erie, Pa, caused by heavy
rains, did damage estimated at $1,000
600. Many houses were swept entirely
away and 100 families were rendered
homeless. At Titusville, Oil City,
Beaver Falls, New Castle and other
Pennsylvania towns great losses were
also reported from high water.
Mrs. ANGELO, aged about 90 years, re-
siding at Port Eads, La, was killed
and partially eaten by an alligator.
The will of the late Rufus Hatch, of
New York, leaves most of his property
to his children, and in the will he warns
them not to use tobacco in any shape or
form, nor to touch, taste or use wine or
liquor in any way and to refrain from
gambling.
ONE HUNDRED feet of levee in Chicot
county, Ark, near Grand Lake, col
lapsed, flooding many plantations and
causing immense loss
THE chief of the bureau of statistics,
in his monthly statement says that the
total value of the exports of merchan-
disc from the United States during the
twelve months ended April so, 1898,
were SS4S, 594, 427, and during the CORE
spending period of the preceding year
81 ,011, 343, 173, decrease of $162, 74S, TAG.
The values of imports during the same
periods were 1926, 151 1888 and 1882, 49,
81 respectively, an increase of S94, OO6,-
617.
SECRETARY GRESHAM has appointed
Clinton Kurdish, of Chicago. to sue
coed William e. Curtis as director of the
JAMES Roy and Elmer Arbo, of Bart
lett, and Alexander Alearow attempted
to shoot the rapids at Sewall's Falls Me-,
in boat, but the boat capsized and the
men were drowned.
FLAMES in Chicago in the building oc-
cupied by the DR.. Price Baking Powder
company caused damage of $1,000
THOSE best informed on the subject
estimate the amount the government
will have to rebate to the importers un-
der the recent decision of the supreme
court in the so-called chat trimmings"
case at about Sc, 900.
ISAAC RosENwEIG and Harris Blank
were hanged at Tunkhannock, Pa.
They were both Russian peddlers and
each 81 years of age. They murdered
Jacob Marks, q peddler, on Dutch
mountain, Wyoming county, March IS,
1892.
SEVENTEEN business houses and resi-
dences were destroyed by an incendiary
fire at Montfort, Wis. Loss, 500, 900.
THE Evanston Qll.) national bank,
with capital of 100000, closed its
doors.
AT the twenty-seventh annual meet
ing in New York of the national board
of underwriters ID. w. C.. Shelton, OF
Hartford, Conn, was reelected presi-
dent.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked near
Dubois, Pa, the cars took fire and three
trainmcn were burned to death.
THE Illinois building on the worlds
fair grounds was dedicated.
A wINDsToRM which swept over Col
orado did great damage. At Telluride
and Brighton many houses and other
buildings were wrecked
JOHN WILSON, of Mulberry, Ark,
eloped with his niece, Mabel Summers
Her father followed them and shot and
killed Wilson.
THE representative negroes of South
Carolina met in Columbia and adopted
resolutions in which lynching was con-
demned and an appeal made to the hui
name people of the state to aid them in
suppressing any attempt to violate the
law by lynching.
The Oglethorpe national bank and
the Brunswick national bank, both of
Brunswick, Ga, suspended, and NJ. Ull-
man, president of the hrst-named bank,
committed suicide.
OVER 1,0O0,0 600 logs were swept down
the river at Fairfield Me-, by the re-
cent heavy freshet, and the loss will be
very heavy.
THE floods throughout northern Idaho
and the western part of Washington
had reached the highest point known
to the oldest residents and the damage
would amount to many hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
THE Spanish steamer Maria Christi
ma, having on board the Spanish Infan-
Ia Eulalie, the official representative
In this country of Queen-Regent Chris
tina, arrived in New York.
THE chiefs of police of many cities
met in Chicago and organized "a national
union with w. S. Scavey, of Omaha, as
president
MRS. MICHAEL BIERGE, wife of
wealthy farmer residing near Barnard,
Mo-, suddenly became insane and killed
her 5-montils old babe and cut her own
throat, dying instantly.
AFTER standing fourteen wears the