The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-04-21
DOMESTIC.

ED PARTRIDGE, the famous Chicago
board of trade plunger, lost $3.50, 900 by
rise in wheat.
JAMES JEFCoTE was lynched by mob
near Pickens, Miss, for numbering his
wife.
The will of Col. Elliott +. Shepard,
late proprietor of the Mail and Express
in New York, leaves an estate valued at
$1,350,000
FRAUDS and conspiracies most gigan-
tic and far-reaching were said to have
been unearthed by the Minnesota legis-
lature in the methods of appraising and
selling state swamp lands for school,
university, railroad and other state uses
The whaling schooner Leon Swift, of
New Bedford, Mass, was lost at tn,
Island of Mayo, Cape Verd islands, and
the first mate, Edgar M. Grape, of New
Bedford, the second mate and nine men
We're lost.
SIX members of the Clothing Manu-
facturers' association in New York were
arrested on charges of conspiracy pre-
ferred by the cutters.
CYCLONES and windstorms passed
over portions of nine states, doing
great damage. In Indiana buildings
were wrecked at Jacksonville, Koko-
mo, Greencastle and Rockport, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank being killed in the latter
place. At Ypsilanti, Mich, nearly
all the business buildings and sew
eral residences were demolished. In
Mississippi the town of Robinsonville
was swept away and several persons
were killed and many injured. At
Coudray, Mo-, only three houses were
left standing, nine persons were killed
and fifty Others were injured,
some fatally. In other portion
of Missouri trees, fences, house
and barns were demolished an
many persons killed and injured. In
Illinois many buildings were unroofed
and trees leveled at Rockford, Quincy,
Galena, Alton, Vandalia, Olney and at
other points. Kansas and Iowa also suf-
fered from the tornado.
THE advance sheets of the report of
the chief of the bureau of statistics for
the exports of breadstuffs for the nine
months which ended March 81 show that
the total exports were only S145, 032, 766,
against 1888, 1929 for the same period
of last year.
THE governors of the southern states
met at Richmond, Va, the object being
to encourage immigration into that Sec
ton of the union.
THE Ann Arbor Mich road has be-
gun suit against Chiefs Arthur and Sar-
gent, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, to recover damages to the
amount of 100000. The suit grows out
of the recent strike.
MCDONALD CHEEK, serving a life SEN
tence for murder in the Indiana state
prison south, was pardoned by Gov.
Matthews. He had served twenty-one
years.
THE monument at Waldheim cemetery
in Chicago to the memory of the an
archists who were executed will be
dedicated June 25.
THERE are Is, 900 men at work on the
worlds fair grounds in Chicago.
THE extensive planning mills and lum-
Der yard of Hardy, Voorhis & Co. in
Brooklyn, N. Y, were burned, the loss
being $3.50, 900.
The entire business portion of Null
Vane, Nan, Town OF 6U0 inhabitants,
was destroyed by fire.
The cottage of George Jensen in Chi
cago was burned and his three little
children persisted in the flames
THE barn near Gallatin, Tenn, OF
Charles Reed, a prominent horseman,
was struck by lightning and twenty
five brood mares in foal by the cele.
brated horse ST. Blaize were instantly
killed. Loss, 500, 900,
THE cyclone that wiped out the town
of Robinsonville, Tenn, killed seven
teen persons and injured over 100
others, some fatally.
The town of Saline, Mich, with a
of 1900, was entirely wiped
out by cyclone.
The recent cyclone at Ypsilanti,
Mich, destroyed all of the principal
business blocks, stores, the opera house,
post Office, hotels and $50 dwelling
houses. No person was fatally injured.
On farm at Bradford, Wis. Matthew
Bitson, during a quarrel, shot and
killed his wife and Mrs. Arthur Hearn,
a neighbor who was acting as peace
maker, and then burned the house in
which the two women lay and made his
escape.