The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-06-09

MARTIN PETRITUs fatally shot Mrs.
Frank Wiethom at Springfield, o., be-
cause she would not leave her husband
for him and then shot himself.
The Thorp 81 Martin company Of
Boston, manufacturers of stationery,
made an assignment with liabilities of
125, 900.
AN unknown schooner was sunk in
collision with the steamer Corsica in
Lake Huron and all on board persisted.
A NEW counterfeit two-dollar treasury
note has made its appearance in Chica-
go. 1t is described as initiating the series
of 1891 and as bearing the check letter
3D." and the counterfeit signatures of
w. s. Rosecrans, register, and E. III.
Nebeker, treasurer
THE worlds congress on social purity
was opened in the Art institute in Chi
cago.
PoTTER's bank, the oldest bank in
Paulding county, and heretofore con-
sidered one of the safest closed it's
doors at Paulding, o.
NEAR Cotton Plant, Ark, q cyclone
spread death and destruction. The
plantation of John Gazallo was left
without a house of any kind standing
The width of the cyclone was about ~
miles,
Two DAUGHTERS of f. G.. Smehla, liv-
ing near Wilson, Kan, persisted in the
flames which consumed their residence.
The rear coach of a Nashville, Chatta-
nooga & st. Louis train jumped the
track near Newsom's, Tenn, and eleven
persons were hurt.
A CYCLONE swept over Huntingdon,
Falcon, Camden and Trumble, in Ten
nessee, destroying a vast amount of
property and killing several persons.
GREAT damage was done by extensive
floods in eastern Galicia and eight
cen persons were drowned.
The village of Eldorado, Ark, was
destroyed by cyclone and fifteen per-
sons were said to have been killed.
PROF. HOLDEN, of Lick observatory
telegraphs that large group OF spots
are now clearly visible on the sun,
which can be seen with the naked eye
by the use of smoked glass.
The survey to settle the Alaska
boundary question has been begun by
the American and Canadian commits
sioners.
THE plant of the American Straw
board company at Lima, O.. was burned,
causing loss of $300,O00
THERE were 23S business failures re-
ported in the United States during the
seven days ended on the ed. In the
week preceding there were 276, and dur
ing the corresponding time in 1892 the
number was 175.
STRIKING quarrymen inaugurated a
reign of terror along tie route of the
drainage canal between Romeo and
Lemont, ILL.,, and several men were in
jured, some fatally.
DURING the week ended on the I'd the
leading clearing houses in the United
States reported exchanges amounting
to $500 142, 352, against 81, 043, Ola, 447 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1892 the de-
crease was 1910.
FIVE men charged with heinous
crimes escaped from the Jail at Sedalia,
Mo.
A NAIL train was wrecked by wash
out near Ridgeway, S. c., and the engi-
neer and fireman were killed.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the Sd were as follows: Pitts
burgh, ZOO; Boston, .625; Brooklyn,
.567; Philadelphia, 567 Cleveland, .542;
Baltimore. SIC; New York, .4S4; Wash
ington, .467; Cincinnati, .452; ST. Louis,
.44S; Chicago, Ala; Louisville, .143.
JUSTICE BRADLEY has ruled that
courts have the right to inquire as to
sufficiency of the cause of removal of
government employees under the civil
service act.
JOHN G. MINING, treasurer of Fort
Jennings, O., disappeared, leaving a
shortage of $4,000.
Four persons were killed and two
fatally injured in a cyclone which
swept Wharton county, Tex. Wash
ington Jenkins, a colored man aged 100,
was among the killed.
Two MEN were killed and two others
were mortally wounded at primary
election in Pineville, Ky.
FURNITURE manufactures in Cincin-
natl, some seventy in number, employ
ing 1000 persons, have shut down,
owing to the demand of their workmen
for nine-hour day.
THE magazine of the Hecla Powder
company near Virginia, Mimi, ex-
ploded. Nearly every building in town
was wrecked.
CHIEF Cox was killed and three fire.
men and one citizen fatally injured at
the burning of The furniture house OF
Charles Shiverick & Co., in Omaha. The
property loss was 100000.
SAM BUSH (coloredD was taken from
Jail at Decatur, ILL.,, by indignant Mount
Zion citizens and hanged for criminally
assaulting the wives of two farmers
WILLIAM BENTE and his wife and
Elsie Bente, Helen w. Dietz and Charles
Pugsley lost their lives by the burning
of building in New York
HERMAN SCHAFFNER e Co., of Chica-
go, the oldest and largest private bank
ers in the west, failed for s5OO,O
AUGUSTUS VIcToRsoN and Thomas g.
McLaury committed suicide at the
Hotel Metropole in Chicago. The
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