The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-04-28
TIE Times,
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

The announcement was made of an
immense iron and steel combine that
includes thirteen of the most extensive
companies in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
They are organized under one manage
and Cincinnati is headquarters.
AN explosion In the blacksmith shop
of the Minnesota mine at Tower, Mimi,
killed three men and nine others were
injured, two fatally.
CAssvMLE, the county seat of Barry
county, Mo-, was almost wholly de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being s150,000.
FRANK c. ALMA, the murderer of
Christie Warden at Rutland, VT, has
confessed that he is George III. Abbot, q
noted desperado.
THE town of Boles, Ark, was almost
entirely destroyed by cyclone and
seven persons were killed and large
number injured.
FRANK C. HARGRAvEs, Theodore
Heitzberg and w. III. OBrien, all we'll
known men, committed suicide in St
Louis the same dav.
FIRE destroyed the great structure of
the Clifton Wire Cloth company's works
at Clifton, Mass, the loss being $3.50, 900.
PETER L. SMITH, late paying teller of
the First national bank of Wilmington,
Del, who embezzled $4,000, was SEN
fenced to pay fine of Sic, 200 and serve
seven years imprisonment.
The sloop Elida, silk laden, foun-
dered off Cape Flattery in a heavy gale
and four lives were lost.
A BILL to prohibit combinations
formed to advance tho price of the
necessaries of life was passed by the
New York legislature.
A CYCLONE swept over Jasper and
Clarke counties in Mississippi, doing
great damage to property and killing
over a dozen negroes.
The total domestic rice crop for the
current season of 1892 and 1898, care
fully estimated, is reported to be 1885,
600, 900 pounds of clean or edible rice.
FIVE lives were lost at Centralia, w.
Va, on the line of the West Virginia G.
Pittsburgh railroad, by the falling of a
jack used to hoist an engine.
THE house of Dan Erickson at Brad
ford, Mimi, was burned with all the
household effects and the man, his wife
and two children were cremated.
FLANAGAN THORNTON, the negro
murderer of Constable Pate, was taken
from Jail at Morrillton, Ark, by mob
and hanged.
A TRAIN on the Iron Mountain rail-
road jumped the track near Victoria
Station, Mo-, and seven persons were
injured.
In Minnesota and North Dakota snow
fell to the depth of 10 inches.
A TERRIFIC cyclone near Fayetteville,
Ark, swept path 800 yards wide, up
roofing trees and destroying many
houses, leaving several families home
less and destitute.
AN abstract of reports made to the
comptroller of the currency shows the
resources of national banks in the coun-
try SO, 459, 721 1928. Among the liabilities
capital stock paid in aggregate $685.,
100000, and individual deposits $1,751,-
100000.
In their ninth annual report the civil
service commissioners urge that the
classified service be extended as rapidly
as practicable to cover every position in
the public service possible, and hope
that bill may pass congress to take
the fourth-class postmasters out of poll
tics. The whole number of places sub
ject to competitive examination under
the rules is now 42,92S.
THE governor of Tennessee ordered
troops to Tracy City to suppress a
miners riot.
ALL the gambling houses in Louis
vile, KY, were closed by order of the
mayor.
AT Salina, Kan, a mob of 500 citizens
lynched Dan Adams, a young negro, for
having assaulted Agent Stout of the
Union Pacific freight Office with razor
ALL over Illinois, Michigan, Indiana,
Wisconsin and Iowa violent blizzard
ragged, accompanied by hail, sleet and
snow, stopping all travel and wrecking
many barns and several houses.
A STEAM scow was upset in the river
at Lock Haven, Pa, and three men were
drowned.
MINERS made a desperate attempt to
liberate the convicts from the stockade
ut Tracy City, Tenn, and during the
DaUtle Two men were killed. anu uOZen
others were wounded.
FURTHER advices from the cyclone in
Jasper, Clarke and Jones counties in
Mississippi state that over 200 homes
were ruined and nearly fifty persons
were killed. A negro named Henry
German with his wife and nine children
were imprisoned under the ruins of his
cabin, and fire originating from a
stove slowly roasted the unfortunate
wretches.
An Ohio River railroad train was de-
rallied on the twelve-pole trestle near
Ceredo, KY, and one man was killed
and thirteen other persons were Sc
riously injured.
The town of Shubuta, Miss, was de-
molished by tornado.
WARNER, town of / ZOO inhabitants
In the Cour d'Alene mining district of
Washington, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $500, 900.
A CYCLONE struck Midland City, Ala,