The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-04-28

pared with the corresponding week OF
1892 was 1876.
FRANCIS ID. HARRIS, a p eminent
young man at New Haven, Conn, died,
and when his wife was told of HIS death
she took her own life with pistol
The rivers in Minnesota and Dakota
were booming, and the Red river valley,
the great wheat region of the north,
was one sea of water almost from Fargo
to the Manitoba border.
BUSINESS failures to the number OF
20S occurred in the United States in the
seven days ended on the 21st, against
200 the preceding week and 201 for
the corresponding time last year.
REPORTS made to the comptroller OF
the currency by the $500 national
banks doing business in the United
States show that in round numbers
these banks have $4,000 900 in gold
coin and gold treasury certificates and
gold clearing house certificates approx
imating SIS, 100000.
The 500, 900, 900 gold reserve of the
government has been depleted to the
amount of $2,700,000.
BY fire in one of the shafts of the
Butte and Boston company at Butte,
Mont, nine miners were cut off from
escape and were either burned to death
or suffocated.
FATHER VANDEvER, a priest i'll the
parish ut Butte, Mont, was said to have
squandered $4,000 belonging to the
church.
FATHER CHARLES FLAHERTY, of Mount
Morris, N. Y, on trial at Geneseo for
criminal intimacy with Mary Sweeney,
parishioner under 16 years of age, was
found guilty.
WILLIAM p. CASPER, colored hod
carrier at Kensington, Pa, is heir to
s10,0 left him by slavery days mis-
tress, Miss Mary Struthers, living near
New Philadelphia, o.
RoHLE and Pallister, two murderers
under sentence of death, escaped from
the prison at Sing Sing by throwing
pepper in the guards eyes. They are
both New York men.
STORM damaged to the extent of $780,
900 the United States ship canal con-
Meeting the Harlem and Hudson rivers
in New York.
A CYCLONE in Virginia did great dam
age at Danville, South Boston, Martins
vile, Greensboro and other towns.
The home of Julius Manthieu at
Beaver Falls, Pa, was burned, and Mr..
Manthieu and his wife persisted in the
flames.
FRED BADGERM, George Lyons and
William King were killed by the ex.
plosion of a glycerine house at EN-
porium, Pa.
JACOB NEWMAN, a Chicago lawyer
was swindledtout of $2s, 900 by an adroit
sharper known to his victim as Lyman
l.. Lamb, of Akron, o.
A WEILs-FARGo express car was
burned near Albuquerque, N. NJ, and
$75, 900 in gold in one of the safes was
melted.
ELEVEN white caps, some of them the
most prominent men in Carrollton, Ga,
were sentenced in the superior court to
twelve months in the chain gang.
A STORM in the Ohio oil fields wrecked
over 100 wells, the Standard Oil COM
pany alone losing over $500, 1000.
THE government expenditures so far
this month have been heavy, exceeding
the receipts by over 50, O0O,O 900. The re-
ceipts have been $22, roc, 900 and expen-
ditures S24, 300, 900, and this has had the
effect of reducing the net cash balance
in the treasury to s24, 9O5, 900.
DURING q recent storm in the oyster
growing districts along the Connecticut
coast the oyster crop was almost ruined,
the loss being estimated at over $500, 900.
THE schooner Newell Eddy, with a
crew of eight men, foundered on Lake
Huron, and all were supposed to be lost.
. THE Bank of Milbank, S. D., made an
assignment with liabilities of over
500, 900.
The hide firm of Benjamin Mclean &
Co., one of the oldest institutions in
Kansas City, Mo-, failed for $4,000.
John BULL" the first locomotive
ever put in service on the old Camden &
Amboy railroad, with it's two passenger
coaches built in 1886, arrived in Chicago
for exhibition at the worlds fair.
THE Friend & Formy Paper company
at Franklin, o., failed, with liabilities
of $1,000
The two leading business blocks at
Colfax, Wash, were destroyed by fire,
causing loss of $250,000.
JACK BRADY (colored) was hanged at
Bendersville, N. c., for the murder OF
l.. d. Taylor, white man, last August.
Brady confessed his crime.
THE Surrey Lumber company's mills
at Dendron, Va, with 10000 feet of
lumber, were burned, the loss being
5000, 900.
The Tennessee legislature has passed
an act authorizing state banks to issue
currency redeemable in gold and silver.
Col. CLARK E. X. Royce, treasurer OF
the Veterans Home association at
Yountville, Cal, was said to be $40, 900
short in his accounts.
JOHN s. SMITH and his wife and three
small children were struck by train
at crossing in Jackson township, near
Wabash, Ind, and all were killed.
DURING the recent storm on Lake
Michigan fifteen vessels were wrecked,
nine lives were lost and property val
ued at $500, 900 was destroyed.
PERSONAL, AND POLITICAL.
SAMUEL PAsCoE was elected United
States senator from Florida to succeed
himsa1f receivinO On ont of +bo 100 votes