The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-07-21
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

jured.
AMONG the indicted officials of the
Plankinton bank in Milwaukee, that
failed recently, is Judge Jenkins, of the
United States circuit court.
THE tiny viking ship from Norway, a
fac smile of the one in which Left
Erickson is claimed to have touched
upon American shores 400 years before
Columbus sailed from the harbor of
Palos, arrived in Chicago.
OSCAR NEEBE, the anarchist recently
released from the Joliet Ill.) peniten-
tiary by Gov. Altgeld, was married in
Chicago to Mrs. Eliza Hepp. Neebe's
first wife died while he was in prison.
THE Bank of Commerce at Spring
field, Mo-, closed it's doors with de-
posits of size, 900, and the Bank of Gar
nett, Kan, stopped business with
heavy liabilities. ss.t.G
The six members of the Kreider fam
lily murdered at Cando, N. d., were
buried at Elizabethtown, Pa, over 49,
900 persons attending the ceremonies.
| You've women from fifteen states met
at Lake Geneva, Wis, for the Young
Women's Christian association summer
school
TWELVE business buildings at Max
well, Col, were destroyed by an incen-
diary fire, the loss being 100000.
Two MEN were killed, two fatally in
jured and two badly hurt by an explo-
sion of gas in a coal mine at Wyoming
Pa.
THE value of the exports of cotton
from the United States during the
month of June last was So, $3.50, 1865. The
total value of the exports of domestic
breadstuffs during the same time was
SIS, 912, ISL.
Two shocks of earthquake were felt
at Albuquerque, N. NJ, being severe
enough to stop clocks in different parts
of the city and to rattle dishes and
crockery on the shelves.
A FIRE at Princeton, Ind, destroyed
two churches, hotel, bank and many
business houses, the total loss being
$500, 200.
GEORGE II. EATON & Co. IS large fac
tory at Stoneham, Mass, was burned
with all its contents. Loss, 500, ZOO.
HARRIS BROS, dealers in gloves in
New York, failed for 100000.
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at Ocala, Fla, for criminally assaulting
Fannie Alexander, white girl.
FIVE men were hurt and two horses
killed by the fall of rotten bridge at
Cleveland, o.
CHARLES M. BARNES, a wholesale
bookseller and stationer in Chicago,
failed for s113, 1000.
ISAAC MITCHELL and his daughter
Ada died at Charleston, S. c., from ar
senical poison placed in water and
three other members of the family were
critically i'll.
THE main building of the packing
house of John Morrell & Co. at Ottum-
wa, Ia, with its contents, were burned,
causing a loss of $500, 600.
THE postmaster general has decided
to abandon the three sizes of postal
cards now in use and to substitute one
size for both single and reply cards
KELLY and Peterson, two Iaborers
were instantly killed by lightning at
Cedar Rapids, Ia
THE National Retail Clerks union in
session at Nashville, Tenn, decided to
make Chicago their permanent head
quarters and elected L. p. Fitzwilliams
of Nashville, as president.
II. G. W. MEYER was arrested in De-
troit charged with poisoning no less
than five young women-each of whom
he represented as his wife-and one
man, for the purpose of securing life
insurance which he had taken out on
their lives.
| j. X. ARMSTRONG, of Upton, o.,
county treasurer, was said to be short
S25, 900 in his accounts. His term ex-
pires August II, 1898.
The dead bodies of two unknown men
were found in a dense thicket on the
Ray farm near West Newton, Pa.
THE business section of Luckey, o.,
was almost completely wiped out by
fire, the loss being 100000.
For the first time in the history of
the trade every plate-glass factory in
the United States is closed, and that
indefinitely, and fully 10000 men are
idle. Overproduction is the cause.
The Nebraska savings bank at Lin
coin closed its doors with liabilities of
100000.
ANNA WAGNER, the indianapolis
servant of the Koesters, has been in
dicted for poisoning five of the family.
THE total number of original pension
certificates of all kinds issued during
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1898, was
121, 62s, against 222, 297 during the pre-
ceding year. The net increase to the
rolls during the past fiscal year was 81,
62s, against 1919, sos for the year before.
THOMAS CRAIG and William Shan
non, two well-known explorers, were
drowned by the capsizing of their boat
in Rainy lake, Minnesota.
FIVE persons were killed and score
more injured by an accident to West
Shore express train at Newburg, N. Y.
THREE highwaymen rode into Mound
Valley, Kan. bound the cashier of a
bank and secured 5000 in money.
RoLFE N, with a record of 2:26, val
ned at $4,000, dropped dead on the
track at Saginaw, Mich.
APPLICANTS for pensions must here
after file their military and medical
history, according to Commissioner
Lochren's order.
| WHILE drunk William Cook, of Penn
berville, o., made a murderous assault
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