The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-03-31
DOMESTIC,

on sandbar few miles below st.
Joseph, Mo-, when he noticed large
dry goods box floating down the stream.
The box was opened and five bodies,
four men and one woman, all in ter
ribly decomposed condition, were dis
covered
Mr.. MERRITT, a membe of the Min
nesota Legislature and millionaire
owner of iron lands, has offered a
bonus of 500, 900 in cash to anyone
that state.
The University, fashionable edu-
cational institution for young men, at
Nashville, Tenn, was burned to the
ground.
A FEUD between whites and negroes
at Purvis, Miss, resulted in the latter
burning the town, nearly every store
and residence being wiped eff the face
of the earth.
The Missouri state board of agricul-
ture has adopted quarantine lines in
conformity with the lines adopted by
the national government.
FOUR big British ships left San Fran
cisco on a race around Cape Horn to
more, Lord Templemorc and Lochee.
The five bodies found in a box in the
Missouri river below st. Joseph, Mo-,
had been dissected in local medical
college and thrown into tho stream by
man who was hired to bury them.
WILLIAM FRAZIER, a miner, whose
wife left him on account of his drunk
ennees, went to Hiteman, Ia, where
she was staying and killed her and her
sister, Mrs. Smith, and then cut off
the leg of his baby. An Infatuated
mob of miners took Frazier from the
officers and hanged him.
PRAIRIE fires in Oklahoma swept
whole townships and hundreds of cat
tie persisted Near Evansville num-
Der of farms were swept clean of all
buildings
Mrs. CAROLINE HAGAN, wife of
Charles Hagan, a member of the fire
department at Dayton, o., in a fit of
jealous rage put her husbands eyes out
with vitriol.
BEN MCCARY and John Terry me
groes) were hanged in Copiah county,
Miss, for the murder of j. c. Davis.
S. II. FREEMAN murdered his wife
and child at Tyertown, Tex. Domes-
tic trouble was given as the cause.
MISS b. NJ. DooLITTLE left Chicago on
a Pullman sleeper to travel via Port
land, Ore, San Francisco, El Paso,
City of Mexico, New York and Boston
back TO Chicago without putting her
foot upon the ground. English rail-
way officials made wager with Amer
lean railway officers that suck jour
ney could not be made.
j. j. ERvERs fatally injured Mrs
Christian Onstall at Gridley, Cal, and
then killed himself She was engaged
to marry Ervers but had Tilted him.
Mrs. Onstall was divorced woman
with five children.
AT Laramie, Wyo., W. j. Hunter in
censed at his wife for having him ar
rested for beating her, shot her fatally
and then shot himself dead.
MOTHER" MANDELBAUM the famous
| New York fence and accomplished
criminal, is dead. For nearly nine
| years she has lived like a princess in
Canada, where she found refuge when
| she fled from New York, leaving her
bondsmen in the lurch.
FIRE swept away large portion
| of the town of Pauhuska, Oklahoma,
and five lives were lost.
THE sale of a negro at Mexico, Mo-,
was stopped by proceedings instituted
by George Robertson, a leading attor-
ncy, who will test the constitutionality
| of the vagrant law of the state.
A CLAM mine, full of little necks, and
of great breadth and depth, was discov-
cred at the mouth of the Delaware bay,
near Cape May, N. J.
A CYCLONE wiped the town of Kelly,
Miss, off the face of the earth, not a
soul being left to tell the tale. Great
| damage was also done at Tunica and
| Cleveland, in the same state, and TWEEN
| ty-five persons were killed.
THE supreme council of the Patrons
of Industry in session at Detroit, Mich,
elected r. =. Kerrick, of Durell, Pa,
as supreme president.
E'HE Morgan, a fashionable apart
ment house in Cleveland, o., was
burned, and Mrs. Mary L. Abbey, Mrs.
Jesse Hunt and her daughter, Mrs.
| Emma Somers and Mrs. +. G. Somers
persisted in the flames.
j. c. DAVIS, a grocer at Scdalia, Mo-,
who was in love with Miss Mary, the
17-year-old daughter of M. A. Miller,
prominent real estate dealer, SHOT
her dead because she refused his atten'
tions and then killed himself.
THE east wing Of the state prison at
Jacksonville, Ind, was destroyed by
fire.
ELLA FUeATE, Is years old, daughtey
of j. f. Fugat,, of Brazil, Ind, has not
eaten mouthful of victuals for the
last twenty-five days and persistently
refuses subsistence in any form. Grief