The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-04-07

week ended on the 3lst nit. aggregated
Sl, O50, S6S, $50, against 81, 227, 224, AIS the
previous week. Tine decrease as com.
pared with the corresponding week Of
1892 was 81.
THIRTEEN buildings were DESTROYED
by lire at Walnut Ridge, Ark, the loss
being 100000 A man and child per-
ished in the flames.
In the United States during the seven
days ended on the 31st the business
failures numbered 1914, against 243 the
preceding week and 2lS for the cor
responding time last year. The fail
ures during the first three months of
the present year number 5000, against
3,207 during the same time last year.
ADMIRAL GHERARDI. with the Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, Yorktown, Vesu-
vius and Cushing, arrived at Fortress
Monroe.
The American Stove and Cooperage
company was Incorporated with cap
ital stock of $4,000 900 at Trenton,
N. j. The. company proposes to con-
troll the manufacture of whisky and
drug casks and barrels.
WILLIAM BLUNcK, aged IA, and John
7. Luviene, aged Is, were each sem
fenced in Chicago to forty years inn
prisonment for the murder of Albert
Eckroth.
The new Columbus stamped en-
velopes were placed on sale in Wash
ington for the first time. The stamped
impression is of the same color as the
Columbian adhesive Stamp, but the de-
sign represents an eagle with out
stretched wings and open mouth.
THE Electric company's plant at Nc
Keesport, Pa, was totally destroyed by
fire, the loss being $1,000
THOMAS G. ALLEN, of Ferguson, Mo-,
and VIII L. Sachtleben, of Alton, Ill,
rolled into st. Louis on their bicycles,
having completed a tour of the world
in three years.
THE American Press, an organize
ton for the gathering and dissemina-
ton of news, filed articles of incorpo-
ration at Trenton, N. j. The capital
stock is So, 800 900.
THE town of Galena, Nd, containing
500 inhabitants, was destroyed by fire.
A TRAIN Oh the Denver e Rio Gra lde
road was ditched near Leadville, COL,
by the rails spreading and seventeen
persons were injured.
w. c. RIPPEY, the old man who shot
John w. Mackay in San Francisco and
shot himself, has been indicted by the
grand jury for assault with intent to
commit murder.
The Rock Island railway discharged
twenty-seven employees at Peoria, ILL.,,
for visiting saloons during working
hours.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has announced
that no one who has been discharged
from the treasury department will be
restored.
The original drafts of the dcclara-
ton of independence and the constitu-
ton of the United States will not be
sent to the worlds fair, Secretary
Gresham having decided that the risk
is too great.
A sNowsLIDE near Durango, Col,
buried two men under thousands of
tons of snow.
HUGH EVANS and David Morgan two
young miners, fought at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, over young woman and both
were horribly cut. The woman in the
case quietly married another fellow
within two hours after the fight
JOE JEFFERsoN's beautiful villa,
Crows Nest, was destroyed by fire at
Buzzard's Bay, Mass, the loss being
$3.50, oOO. Helen McGrath, the cook,
persisted in the flames.
THE business portion of Bardolph,
ILL.,, was destroyed by fire.
JESSE WooTEN shot and killed his
wife and himself on the streets of
Chadron, Neb His wife had deserted
him on account of his abuse.
A BOILER explosion at Lacona, Ia,
killed Henry McKinness and his three
sons
Thompson, from Sagua for the Della
ware brealswater, sixty-two days out,
and the Portuguese bark Faro, from
Philadelphia for Faro, Portugal, 1913
days out, were, with their crew of thir-
teen men each, given up as lost.
TIE cigarette factory of William
Duke & Son in New York was burned,
the loss being S435,OOO
Four blocks of storehouses and resi-
dences, comprising the principal part
of GAINESVILLE, Va. were destroyed by
fire and two colored men were burned
to death
c. L. KRIssINe, of Pittsburgh, Pa, has
received "a legacy of $4,000 from a
tramp TO whom he gave a meal some
time ago.
E. Ross SMITH, of Portland, Ore,
shot and killed Miss Fife Clark, daugh-
ter of Rev. N. Clark, of Spokane Falls,
WASH. in Evanston, ILL.,, because she
refused to marry him and then took
his own life.
JOSEPH HATTERMACK, a tailor, aged
40, and his son Charles, aged 10, were
drowned at Lincoln park in St Paul
by the capsizing of boat.
BLANCHE KEIsTER and Maggie Blair
were drowned at Butler, Pa, by the
upsettiug of boat.
MRS PHILIP KLINE and two children
died at Lima, O., from the effects of
poison obtained in eating pies made
from prepared pie fruits
UP to date the receipts for the worlds
fair were SIT, 496, 432 and the expenses
were $l6, 70s, s26. leaving balance on
hand of $7S7, 606..
The plant of the Granite Paper Mills
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