The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-05-19
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

carpets at vienna, failed Tor ZOO, 600
forms.
SEVERE earthquake shocks were felt
at Madison, Howard and Carthage in
South Dakota.
NEARLY thousand sons and daugh-
tiers of the Green Mountain state wit
messed the dedication of the Vermont
state building on the worlds fair
grounds.
THE State Investment Sc Insurance
company of California has failed, caus-
ing loss to many persons.
Gus THoMAsToN, Cornelius Wagner
and Andrew Olson were killed by the
cars while crossing railway track in
Chicago.
AT the thirtieth international conven-
ton in Indianapolis of the Young Mems
Christian association G. N. Pierce, of
Dayton, o., was chosen president.
JOHN l.. LAMB, of Scranton, Pa,
grand treasurer of the international
organization of machinists, decamped
with $4,000 of the funds belonging to
the order.
AT the annual meeting in Toledo, o.,
of the Order of Railway Conductors
Rapids, Ia, was reelected by acclama-
ton.
THE shrinkages in values since the
panic on the New York stock exchange
shows losses of over $50, 900, 900, and
most of this represents total annihila-
ton of fortune.
w. r. DREwEY, an attorney at Nor
folk, Va, was under arrest charged
with securing large number of fraud
ulent pension claims, the steals aggre-
eating over 100000.
A NEW counterfeit s. United States
silver certificate is in circulation. 1t is
of the series of 1886, check letter 1S b,
bearing the signature of w. S. Rose
Grams, register, and E. III. Nebeker,
treasurer, and has a small, scalloped
seal The portrait of Gen. Grant is
poorly engraved, having a scratched APP
pearance, and some of the lettering is
irregular.
THE Washington crop report for May
shows decided falling off in the con-
dition of wheat during last April The
average for the whole country is given
as 1873 per cent, as against 77.4 for
March. The condition for the six great
surplus states is reported as: Ohio, SO;
Michigan, II; Indiana, 10; Illinois, e2;
Missouri, ~, and Kansas, 81, the aver
age for these being 6S.3 per cent,
against 74.2 month earlier.
THE North German Lloyd line steam
ship Gera, from Bremen, arrived in
New York with 1,400 steerage passen-
gers, $50 of whom were suffering from
smallpox.
The New York Central engine 10.
900, which had made record of 1O2
miles an hour, beat that by doing a
mile in thirty-two seconds, which is
equivalent to 11215 miles per hour
A YOUNG negro who attempted to as
sault a daughter of Capt. James Wham
at Chestnut Ridge, S. c., was lynched
by mob.
SIX horses ran in the nineteenth an
nual Kentucky derby at Louisville,
Lookout winning by four lengths in
2:S9i4.
THE levee near Lakeport. Ark, gave
way, flooding thousands of acres of cot
ton land and causing heavy losses to
planters.
WARREN q. BUTTERWORTH, aged 20,
committed suicide at Warren, Mass,
by shooting himself through tine head.
His daughter Emma, who was trying
to prevent the shooting, received the
bullet in her brain after it had passed
through her fathers head and she died
also.
THE steamer Danube left Portland,
Ore, for China with 406 Chinese on
board who had been refused admission
to the United States.
A FREIGHT train on the Ohio River
railroad went off the tracks at Walkers,
w. Va, falling 50 feet, and three men
were killed.
FIRE destroyed two business build
ings at Pittsburgh, Pa, causing loss
of S150,O00 and the fatal injury of two
firemen.
THE seventy-seventh annual meeting
of the American Bible society was held
in New York and the reports showed
the total cash receipts for the year ended
March 81 to be s57S, $50 and the disburse-
ments S526,537.
The Columbia national bank in Chi
cago suspended with liabilities of over
S1,000,000. The principal business of
the bank was with country banks and
they will be the chief sufferers.
r. r. ROBINSON e. Co., bankers and
brokers at Wilmington, Del, failed for
$500, 600.
The Capital national bank at In
dianapolis closed it's doors with liabili-
ties of $1,OOO,O00
A GRANITE monument to the memory
of James Barren Hope, known as the
poet laureate of Virginia, was unveiled
at Norfolk.
THE Scotch-Irish congress of Amer
lea convened at Springfield, o.
THE house of John NJ hin and two
other houses at MuscatiEc, Ia, were
destroyed by dynamite. Mr. Mahin is
editor of the Muscatinc Journal, post
master, and an ardent prohibitionist;
and the residences destroyed were those
of prominent citizens who have been
active in prosecuting saloon cases.
Mrs. ANNA HARRIS, of Tonawanda,
N. Y, charged with starving her O.
year-old stepdaughter to death, was
convicted of manslaughter in the Sec
ond degree and sentenced to eleven