The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-06-23

lHE interstate convention OF the
American Sabbath union met at In
dianapolis and formulated a protest
against Sunday opening of the worlds
fair.
WOMEN may practice law in Indiana
courts according to decision of the
supreme court.
For the first time in American his
tory there was general celebration at
Philadelphia of the anniversary of the
adoption by congress June IA, 1777, of
the stars and stripes. In every school
the story of how the first flag was made
was told.
The worthy grand lodge of good
templars in session at Des Moines, Ia,
voted to change its designation to the
international supreme lodge of the In
dependent Order of Good Templars.
+. G. CAMPBELL, of Minneapolis, was
elected most worshipful grand master
of the Loyal Orange Lodge of America
at the session at Minneapolis.
THE Baaclzes Wire Nail company at
Cleveland, O., made an assignment
with liabilities of s225, 900 and assets of
5000, 900.
MRS. Il Hll4lf hEhCh, IuC WIG Oh d
well-to-do farmer near Pleasant Hill,
w. Va, while insane murdered four of
her children and then committed sui
eide.
In riot at Reading, Pa, two Hun
garian strikers at the Henry Clay fur
mace were fatally injured
THE Lake county bank at gainesville,
o., the Citizens bank at Paramount,
Ind, and the Riverside Banking COM
pany at Riverside, Cal, closed their
doors.
CESAR BENNINGTON was hanged at
Hazelhurst Miss, for the murder last
September of DIR. j. c. Davis.
FIVE men were injured, one fatally,
and twenty cars smashed in a wreck on
the Nickel Plate road at Hamburg,
Ny.
THE third floor of the old government
building at Pittsburgh collapsed and
four men received probably fatal in
juries.
The Populist Woman's Progressive
league of Kansas was organized at
Topeka with Mrs. John G. Otis as pres
ident.
THE maple has been selected as the
official tree of Wisconsin by the votes
of the school children.
E. E. KIPLING, New York importer
fprecious stones, failed for $3.50, 900.
WILLIAM SHEEDY and Paul Lewis
were under arrest in Chicago for at
tempting to steal a one-story frame
house.
LORENZO b. OIDs, of Helena, Mont,
ex-state senator, was charged with
swindling several persons to the extent
of $50, 900.
N. ID. RICHMOND, of Dunlap, ILL.,, was
killed and five other persons were badly
injured in an accident that occurred on
the ice railway at the worlds fair.
The Kings Daughters and Sons
opened their congress in Chicago with
delegates present from many states
THE body of Herman Schaffner,
Chicago banker, was found in the lake.
He committed suicide owing to finan-
cial embarrassment.
ACCORDING to the figures of Auditor
Alderman the total expenses of the
worlds fair for May were 5000, 600; total
receipts, s72O, 900; increase.
b. A. DENNIS, sheriff of Hitchcock
county, Neb., was found dead in bed
in Council Bluffs, Ia. He blew out the
gas.
BY the capsizing of a boat in the
North river at New York Rev. Father
Charles i. McKenna, 26 years old,
priest and Mrs. Margaret Burchell,
his cousin, were drowned.
The trial of Chief p. M. Arthur, of
the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engi-
neers, for $500, 900 damages for alleged
encouragement of the recent strike on
the Ann Arbor road at Toledo will COM
mence at Cleveland September Is.
THE international Supreme Lodge of
Good Templars in session at Des
MONIES, Ia, elected d. ii. Mann, of New
York, right worthy grand chief
THE Kentucky legislature defeated
bill to move the capital to Louisville,
thus ending finally fight for removal
that has been going ON for forty years.
The suspensions were reported of the
Farmers and Merchants bank at Fair
mount, Ind, the City bank at Parsons,
Kan, the Exchange bank at Weston,
o., and the First national bank at Kan
sas City, Kan.
THE International Typographical
union in session in Chicago for the
third time made w. b. Prescott, of
Toronto, president.
The Lone Star Iron company of JEFF
ferson, Tex, failed for $4,000
AT meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Union Theological seminary
in New York it was decided by a unan-
imous vote that Rev. DIR. Charles A.
Briggs should continue his work in the
department of Biblical history as hith
erto.
THE Indiana and Arkansas state build
ings and the German building on the
worlds fair grounds were dedicated.
The seventeenth international and
second worlds convention of Sunday
school workers will be held in st. Louis
from August 81 to September 8, inclu-
sive.
FIGURES show that the savings banks
in the United States contain s1,700,-
600, 900.
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