The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-05-12
TIE Times,
OWoSSo. MICH, MAY 10, 1898.
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

| VOlr near huntsville, w., covering IL,
900 acres and known as the secon,
largest artificial body of water in tn,
world, broke with a thunderous roar
inundating $4,000 acres and washins
away the village of Lakeview ans
many other houses in it's course. Tn,
property loss was estimated at 81, 900,
600. Many farmers lose everything but
their land and they will be financially
ruined.
JOHN WOOD, Brooklyn IN. W fur
niture dealer, who is the chief lieuten
ant OF Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage and
supposed to be the financial pillar OF
the Tabernacle, failed for large sum
HARRY G. OsGoop, of Lockport, N. Y.
a great-grandson of the first post
master general of the United States
has been appointed chief clerk to Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell
OLATHE, Kan, will send to the
worlds fair an American flag made in
1776, which was carried at the battle OF
Plattsburg, N. Y, in 1919 and in the
battle of Hubbarton, VT, in 1914.
A TORNADO passed through portion
of Lexington and Newbury counties, N.
g., unroofing houses and mills and de,
stroying barns, stables and outhouses.
A woman was killed and a number OF
persons were injured.
AUGUST WILMAN, a German work
man near Wilbur, N. Y, committed
suicide by placing dynamite cartridge
in his mouth and exploding it with his
teeth His head was completely
blown off.
WHILE drilling for water on the
Sherman farm at Nelson Lodges, O.,
the drillers struck at depth of 200 feet
vein of lubricating oil.
CHARLES l.. GALE, city treasurer of
Laramie, Wyo., left for parts unknown
with $4,000 belonging to the city.
AT meeting in Galveston of the
Texas State Medical association women
were admitted as members but negro
doctors We're barred.
Mrs. w. III. PECK, wife of the depot
agent at Grady, Tenn, and Barton
Warren, a farmer, were killed by light
ming.
EX-PREsIDENT HARRISON was elected
by the Ohio commandery of the mill
tary order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States as its commander for the
ensuing year.
A GANG of forty-five moonshiners
were captured by United States officers
in McDermott and Wyoming counties,
West Virginia.
A CYCLONE struck Oxford, N. c., de-
one man and injured several other per-
sons.
The evangelists, Moody and Sankey,
have arrived in Chicago to hold meet
ings during the worlds fair.
The National normal university at
Lebanon, o., made an assignment with
liabilities of 100000. The institution
is an old one, and the first Of its kind in
the United States. The failure was
caused by obligations incurred when
new buildings were erected.
MANY thousand acres of corn and cot
ton in the vicinity of Tuscaloosa, Ala,
were inundated and ruined by an over
flow of the Warrior river.
OWING to great shrihkage on the
New York stock exchange of the stock
of the Cordage Trust company the firms
of Schuyler Walden, Henry Allen & Co.
and b. L. Smyth 81 Co. suspended and
several other equally reputable firms
were trembling on the verge of suspen-
sion.
A STATEMENT prepared from the
records of the post Office department
shows that during the first two months
of the present administration the total
number of fourth-class postmasters APP
pointed was 1884.
A SCHOONER was wrecked at Plum
Island, Mass, and its crew of four men
were drowned.
THE application of Carlyle w. Har-
ris for executive clemency has been de-
MED by Gov. Flower, of New York, and
the murderer will be electrocuted at
Sing Sing.
A CYCLONE at Bailyville, Kan,
wrecked the st. Joseph g. Grand Island
depot, Gregg Bros elevator, the post
office building, the odd fellows hall,
the Baptist church and other buildings.
TwENTY-oNE buildings and dwelling
houses were burned at Bonnie Terre,
Mo-, the loss being $1,000
DURING April 1O,7s6 immigrants ar
rived in New York, against 5000 in
April, 1892, and 1882 in April, 1891.
AN explosion in railway shop at
Chattanooga, Tenn, killed John Quig-
ley and William Teak and injured three
other men.
JOHN S. PRINCE, the champion pro-
fessional bicyclist, ran against two
horses for twenty miles at Houston,
Tex. The horses gave out after the
fourteenth mile, but Prince finished
handily in $50 minutes.
GEORGE TAYLOR was convicted at
Berrien Springs, Mich, of the murder
of Mary Comely at Niles and sentenced
to Jackson prison for life.
ACCORDING to q report compiled by
Comptroller Eckles there were organ
lied within the United States during
the year ending April 80 new national
banks to the number of $50 and repre-
senting $14, 1926, 900 capital Thirty-two
states and four territories are repre-
sented by the organizations.
AN attempt was made to wreck the
west-bound express train on the Lake
Erie e. Western road near Paxton, ILL.,,
but the distractions were discovered