The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-06-16


AUDITOR AcKERMAN's report shows
the worlds fair receipts to May 81 were
$20.309,545 and the expenditures $l9,-
| 142, 1881.
THE floors of Ford's theater building
in Washington, used by the pension
and record division of the war depart
ment, collapsed, and twenty-five clerks
from all parts of the country were killed
and over fifty others were injured, some
| fatally. War records on which the
claims of thousands of veterans in all
parts of the land depend were de-
stroyed. The building had been in an
unsafe condition for some time, and re-
pairs were being made when the acct
| dent occurred.
BANK failures were reported at Mas
coutah, ILL.,, Hudson, Wis, Ellenburg,
Wash, Missoula, Mont, Gillespie, ILL.,,
and two private banks in Chicago.
SUSAN b. ANTHONY and others spoke
at the congress of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance union in Chicago and
the worlds fair directory was de-
nounced for permitting the sale of
| liquor on the grounds.
| THE Paramount wooden mills at Gin
cinnati were burned the second time,
the loss being $4,000
BOB BROWN, @ negro, was hanged at
Mayfield, KY, for the murder OF Albert
Colley, well-to-do farmer, on the night
| of December 10, 1922.
The total loss by the recent fire in
Fargo, N. ID. is placed at s., 500, 900. and
an appeal for aid for the many persons
left destitute has been made.
The Lehigh Valley coal trestle and
coal storage house, containing 10000
tons of anthracite coal, were burned at
Buffalo, N. Y. Loss, $500, 900.
NEAR Lemont, ILL.,, on the line of
the new drainage canal, a sheriff's
posse met and put to rout 400 striking
quarrymen, killing seven of the num-
Der and seriously injuring score of
others. Gov. Altgeld ordered troops to
| the scene of the strife.
| MELCHoIR Fox, an old and wealthy
resident of Eau Claire, Wis, was found
shot through the heart on his Iarm q
short distance from town.
Snow & BURGESS, shipping and COM
| mission merchants of New York, failed
for $3.50, 900.
THE jewelry firm of E. f. Sanford
& Co., of New York, made an assign
ment, with liabilities of $150,o0O and
assets of 500, OO0
| A BOX of opals valued at $4,000, the
property of Gov Casio, of Queretaro,
Mexico, was stolen from the private
dining-room in ex-Postmaster General
Wanamaker's Philadelphia store.
LAURIE and Willie Osborne (broth-
ers) were drowned while bathing in
the Mississippi river at Fort Madison,
Ia.
THE bureau of statistics at Washing
ton reports the total values of beef,
hog and dairy products exported for the
five months ended May 81 last at S45,-
245, 992, loss of more than $40, 900, 900
as compared with the same months of
1892.
CHEF JUSTICE FULLER, of the United
States supreme court, granted the SUI
persedeas sued out by the Worlds CO.
lumbar Exposition company and the
gates of the fair were open on Sunday.
| All the eastern state buildings and
many of the exhibits in the public
buildings were closed.
WHILE temporarily insane Mrs. G. j.
Weaver drowned herself and two chill
dren in a creek in Fultonham, o.
The Union stockyards bank of Sioux
| City, Ia, with assets of S4S2, 1867 and
liabilities of S'63, 40, made an assign
ment.
| HARRY L. GAMBLE, of Brooklyn,
chairman of the New York delegation
to the international typographical con-
vention in Chicago, was drowned at
Diamond Lake, ILL.,, by falling from a
boat while in ft-
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 10th were as follows:
Pittsburgh, .611; Brooklyn, GIL; Bos-
ton, sos; Philadelphia, GOO; Baltimore,
.541; Cleveland, .533; New York, .514;
Washington, .472; Cincinnati, 1882; Chi
cago, .429; st. Louis, .412; Louisville,
.14s.
SAvAGE's livery stable at Charles
town, w. Va, was burned and thirty
one valuable horses persisted in the
flames.
| AT the conference of charities and
corrections in Chicago L. c. Storrs, of
Michigan, was elected president.
| Hin Odiiiorhid cAPTcSS Oh LHc oduId
Fe road was held up by five men near
Cimarron, Kan, aud robbed of money
and jewelry amounting to $4,000.
| OARsMAN GAUDAUR won the Smile
professional race at Austin, Tex, in
1906, which breaks the worlds record.
THE little town of Liberal, Mo-, was
almost destroyed by blaze of incen-
diary origin.
ANNIE L. MURPHY, aged 25, was con-
victed of forgery at st. Cloud, Mimi,
and sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment
ANTON SHoLL, of Odell, ILL.,, died
from drinking too much whisky from a
jug he was carrying home.
FLAMES in the warehouse of j. Ii.
Hobbys &c Sons in New York caused a
loss of over 100000
Rev. DWIGHT l.. MOODY preached to
a congregation of 10, 600 persons in the
big tent of the Forepaugh circus in Chi
cago.
| The Citizens national bank of Hills