The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-06-02


| mated.
THERE were 273 business failures re-
| ported in the United States during the
seven days ended on the Goth. In the
week preceding there were 26l, and
during the corresponding time in 1892
he number was 1913.
The Brunswick state bank at Bruins
wick, Ga, where the state funds were
deposited, has failed
CHARLES FOSTER, eX-secretary of the
treasury and one of the most prominent
business men in Fostoria, o., made an
assignment with liabilities of $4,000
and assets about the same. Stringency
in the money market was given as the
| cause.
The Bank of Puyallup at Puyallup,
| Wash, closed its doors with liabilities
| of $50, 900.
THE children of the Brooklyn Sunday
School union celebrated the sixty
fourth anniversary of the organization
| by parading In different parts of the
city with more than 65, 900 little ones in
| line.
WHILE fishing in Wall lake near
Marshalltown, Ia, George Burgess,
Bert Corey and r. Corey were drowned.
A GOVERNMENT surveying party on
the Colville reservation in Washington
was attacked by Indians and two of its
members were killed.
A CYCLONE in Illinois wrecked many
houses, barns and trees at Rentchler,
Olney and Lawrenceville and injured
several persons
ROBERT ALEXANDER and LOUIS and
Howard Pugh, negro boys, were hanged
at Tuskegee, Ala, for criminal assault
on Mrs. Cox, farmers wife. This was
the first legal hanging for this offense
| in the state.
The father of Lou Trenck, who was
hanged by an Indiana mob in Jackson
county, has offered reward for the
conviction of the ringleaders.
THOUSANDS of people have been rem
dered homeless by the floods in north
west Louisiana and an appeal has been
issued for aid.
WARRANTS were issued for several
dishonest gatelleepers at the worlds
fair, from 5000 to 5000 souvenir tick
cts having been purloined daily.
THE sixteen foreign countries dissat-
isfed with the single judge plan of
making awards at the worlds fair have
decided to enter into competitor among
| themselves.
e y MARBLE bust of Harriet Beecher
| Stowe, the famous author OF ''Uncle
| TOMS Cabin was unveiled in the Ii
brary Of the Womans building on the
worlds fair grounds Ivy Mrs. Isabella
Beecher Hooker, her sister. The entire
work is a gift of the women of COnnec-
ticut.
The town Of Blue Mound, Kan, was
nearly destroyed by a tornado. Houses
were lifted bodily and blown away,
orchards were ruined, fences blown
down and vast damage done. Thomas
| Higgins was killed.
THE percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 2Sth were as
follows: Pittsburgh, .G52; Cleveland,
| .6t7; Brooklyn, 500; ST. Louis, .542;
Philadelphia, .522; Boston, 500; Balti-
more, $50; Cincinnati, .462; Washing
ton, 40; New York, .440; Chicago, 400;
| Louisville, .214.
The heaviest rainfall in years oc-
Cured throughout Tennessee, Missis-
| sippi. Arkansas and Louisiana and the
| whole country was hooded and incalcu-
| liable damage was done to planters.
OWING to the recent floods there was
said to be 10000 homeless and hungry
people in East Carroll, Moorehouse,
| West Carroll and Madison parishes in
| louisiana anC the sufferings and pri-
vations they were undergoing were APP
palling.
-PRoHIBITIoNIsTs of Cheney, Kan,
raided the saloons and hotel bars, de-
stroying the fixtures and spilling the
| liquors.
HORTICULTURAL hall at Philadelphia
was burned, causing a loss of 100000.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH made pen
sion ruling to the effect that applicants
must be incapacitated from manual
labor before they can be eligible to a
| pension.
On the Cass Lake Indian reservation
in Minnesota Shoe-wawaw-ge-sh, the
venerable Chippewa chieftain, was
stabbed and instantly killed by an as
sassin The chiefs relatives captured
the assassin and shot him dead.
THE sugar refinery at Baltimore,
NlU. .Ndo DuIhCt, UuC 1859 pCibS Fi,OVO,-
| 900; insurance, $685., 1000.
REV. WILLIAM GRAHAM and wife
while walking on the Central railroad
near Miner, Ga, were struck by an
ngine and both were killed.
The worlds fair grounds were thrown
open on Sunday and also all the main
exhibit buildings except the United
States headquarters and the exhibits
from Great Britain and the British colo
MES. Eighteen state buildings were
open and twenty-five were closed.
THE firm of Weaver, Getz &c Co., one
of the largest and most important in
the coal business in Chicago, has sus-
pended with liabilities of $500, 1000
CHRISTIAN HABERKUs, aged ~, Of
Roanoke, Ind, while temporarily in
sane killed his wife, aged 20, and then
took his own life.
WHILE playing with a revolver Willie
Knapp, of st. Paul, aged IL years, shot
and killed his sister, two years his
| junior.
| II. II. MuBURN. aged 30. son Of the