The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-06-16
TIE Times,
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.


the National Prison association eulogies
were pronounced in memory of Ruther-
ford d. Hayes, late president, and Gen.
BinlSerhoff, of st. Paul, was elected to
fill the vacancy caused by Gen. Hayes
death.
FIFTY elevators belonging TO the
Northern Pacific Elevator company in
North Dakota were attached on claims
aggregating 100000.
FIRE destroyed a dozen buildings at
Oshkosh, Wis, causing loss of $780,
900.
OHIO STEVENS, Mrs. Emma Morrow
and Luther w. Turner were drowned
near Spring Valley, MINI. Their team
plunged into Deer creek, upsetting the
carriage.
FIVE men were probably fatally in
jured in an explosion in a mine at Me
Vile, Pa.
d. B. MONROE, leader of the miners
in the Coal Creek (Tenn.) war last Au-
gust, was sentenced at Clinton to tho
penitentiary. for seven years.
THE New Albany Qnd.) Banking
company suspended payments with La
bilities of $1oo, 200.
NEARLY the entire business portion of
Fargo, N. D., was destroyed by fire, the
loss being over So, 600, 900, and six per-
sons persisted in the flames. The fire
made a clean sweep twelve blocks long
by five blocks wide. Over 5000 persons
were made homeless.
JOSEPH RATHBoNE g. Co., wholesale
lumber merchants in Chicago, failed for
$3.50, 200.
ID. B. LovEMAN, the heaviest retail
dry goods dealer in Chattanooga, Tenn,
failed for s15O,OoO.
AT the thirty-third animal convention
in Chicago of the United States Brew
ers' association William A. Miles, of
New York, was elected president. The
association represents capital to the
amount of about s400. 000,00
AN explosion of gasoline gas in the
basement of Samuel Rezepper's grocery
store in ST. Louis injured sixteen per-
sons, four fatally.
OWING to the failure of the private
bank of A. G. Robert at Washburn,
Wis, the Shell Lake savings bank, of
which he is principal owner, was obliged
to suspend.
A CLoUDBURsT at Hinton, w. Va,
and vicinity did damage to the extent
of 5000, 900.
THE discussion of constitutional pro-
hibition and the religious aspects of the
temperance cause closed the worlds
temperance congress in Chicago
THE antitrust convention finished it's
labors in Chicago after adopting reso-
lutions providing for the formation of
an antitrust association, with two ma
tional committees to prepare remedial
legislation.
JAMES ID. NICHOLAS, aged so, at one
time owner of the Indianapolis Jour
nal, took his own life with poison at
Denver, Col. Whisky was the cause.
In fit of jealousy Dora A. Velzy shot
and killed w. G.. Gray at Grand Rap
ids, Mich. land then took her own life in
the same manner.
L. c. DUMAS, a young colored man.,
was lynched by mob at Gleason,
Tenn, for assaulting the daughter Of a
farmer.
MEN and women whose official posi-
tions make their duty the caring for
the unfortunate in the public institu-
tions of the country inaugurated con-
gress of charities and corrections in
Chicago.
MARsDEN BELLAMY, of Wilmington,
N. c., was elected supreme dictator of
the Knights of Honor at the annual
meeting in Milwaukee.
THE tabernacle choir of the Mormon
church at Salt Lake City has decided
to send $50 members to the worlds fair
in September to compete for prizes of
s., 900 offered.
NEBRASKA dedicated her state build
ing on the worlds fair grounds with
great enthusiasm.
THE congress of vegetarians was
opened in Chicago and papers setting
forth the benefits to be obtained from
abstention from the eating of flesh were
read.
FIVE prisoners escaped from the jail
at Marietta, O., by locking the deputy
in charge in a cell.
JOSEPH G. DoNNELLY, of Wisconsin,
and Van Lcer Polk, of Tennessee, have
been appointed consuls general at
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Calcutta,
India, respectively.
G. G. PRAY, aged 20, shot and killed
his wife and then shot himself at Shir-
ley, Me. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
The Mobile e. Ohio New Orleans ex-
press train was held up by six masked
men at Forest Lawn, ILL.,, and the ex-
press car robbed of $4,000.
JUDGES WOODS and Jenkins of the
United States circuit court decided that
the gates of the Worlds Columbian ex-
position should be closed on Sunday.
Judge Grosscup rendered dissenting
opinion.
JOSIAH b. KENDALL, a real-estate
dealer and broker in Boston, failed for
s279,446
WoRTHNeToN FORD, of Brooklyn, has
been made chief of the bureau of sta
tistics by Secretary Carlisle.
A TERRIFIC windstorm swept Rice
county, Mimi, doing fully $50, 900 dam
age. The village of Dundas suffered
the most severely.
JOHN A. LEE, of st. Louis, was elect
ed president of the Travellers Protec-
tive association at the annual meeting
in Peoria, Ill.