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


THE United States navy gets three
gunboass as the result of the confer
ence on the naval appropriation bill
The boats are to be about 1900 tons
displacement each and to cost, eXclu-
sive of armament. within $500, 600 each.
A SEVERE earthquake shock was eX-
perienced in the central portion Of
New York city and along Long Island.
THE steamship Pikhueben, from
Hamburg, arrived at Baltimore with
the German governments exhibit for
the worlds fair.
MARY MONTGOMERY, domestic in
the employ of Thomas w, Corner in
Pullman, ILL.,, was brutally outraged
and murdered by burglar.
THE steamship Runic, of the White
Star line arrived in New York, bring
ing no news of her sister ship, the Ma
ronic, now twenty-five days overdue.
1t was thought the Naronic with her
entire crew of seventy had gone to the
bottom.
ALL the union engineers on the To-
ledo & Ann Arbor railway went on a
strike, tying up all trains except those
carrying the mails.
The directors of the Western Union
Telegraph company in annual meeting
in New York elected T. Il. Eckert pres
ident in place of Dr. Norvin Green, de-
ceased.
EMMETT DALTON, last or the Dalton
gang, in court at Independence, Kan,
pleaded guilty TO murder and was SEN
fenced TO the penitentiary for life.
Bob FITzsDIMONs knocked out jim
Hall in four rounds at New Orleans,
winning purse of $40, 600.
L. X. FORD was hanged at Magnolia,
Miss, for the murder of Marshal r. A.
Clay about year ago
GEORGE and Joseph Watkins, father
and son, cotton raisers of Arkansas,
were drowned in the Red river while
bathing.
A CAPITALIST at Youngstown, O.,
said that all the money had been raised
by personal friends to pay Gov McKin-
ley's indie btedness caused by his in
dorsing for Robert l.. Walker.
WHILE Jasper Young, of Brazil, Ind,
was teasing his wife by swapping re-
volver in her face, which he supposed
to be empty, the weapon was dis
charged and Mrs. Young was fatally
wounded. The couple had been mar
ried only short time.
MRS. U. S. GRANT. the widow of Gen.
Grant, has sold her New York home
for $50, 900 and has begun negotiations
for the purchase of the Blaine house in
Washington, where she intends to
make her home in the future.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAN has definitely
decided and has authorized his cabinet
ministers to announce to applicants
for appointments that all officials now
in Office against whom no charges are
made will be permitted to hold till
their commissions expire,
THE grand jury at Atlanta, Ca, in
dicted for murder Julia Force, who re-
Gently killed her two sisters
THE general managers of the twenty
three railroads ccntering in Chicago
announced that they could not and
would not grant the increase in wages
demanded by the switchmen on their
lines.
Mrs. EDGAR WooDs and four chill
drcn who attempted to cross Cedar
creek at Glcnford, Ga, were drowned.
Az earthquake shock did consider
able damage in the city of Railway, n.
j., aud vicinity.
JUDGE WEBER flied decisions in the
celebrated tax title cases at Redwood
Falls, Mimi, by which title sharks are
recognized by the law and more than
u Thousand acres of land are wrested
from innocent settlers.
STATISTICS show that in the United
States and Canada six out of every ter
men who have reached the age of 81
are unmarried.
A PASSENGER train on the P-hilade
phia, Wilmington &c Baltimore railroad
crashed into freight train at Chaddes
ford junction, Pa, killing Engineer
Phillips and injuring several passen
gers.
THE ministers at San Antonio, Tex.
| have inaugurated a crusade against thu
opening of saloons there Sunday.
Mrs. J. d. KIsLER, of Omaha, started
the kitchen fire by the aid of kerosene
which exploded, probably fatally burn
ing herself, her husband and three
children, besides destroying the hous'
and all its contents
MGR. SAToLLI has restored to w. $
Bowen, Of West Chester, Pa, his pew
in the church which was taken from
him six years ago because he refused
to send his child to the parochial school
WHILE fording Little Rock creek nea
Hinckley, ILL.,, Henry Binder and II
Carlson, two well-to-do farmers, wer'
caught in the ice and drowned.
THE first of a series of gigantic rea
estate frauds, involving St Paul, Chi
cago New York and eastern KentuclS.
people, has been unearthed at st. Paul
Mimi, and L. ii. Cole, the allege'
principal in the rascality, was unde
| arrest
The mail train on the Toledo, AM
Arbor g. North Michigan railroad wa
ditched short distance out of Ami
Arbor, Mich, by wreckers, but N
one was injured.
PRESIDENT PALMER of the world
fair stated in New York that the clos
ing of the exposition on Sunday wa