The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-05-26

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United States reported exchanges
amounting to s1,9al ,547, 4O6, against
Sl,370, 1894, 100 the previous week. AS
compared with the corresponding week
OF 1892 the decrease was So.
THERE were DAT business failures re-
| ported in the United States during the
seven days ended on the 9th. In the
week preceding there were 257, and
during the corresponding time in 1892
| the number was 269.
LEWIS TAYLOR (colored) was hanged
in the Jail yard at Lake Charles, La,
for assaulting negro woman some
months ago.
CHARLES ). ROGERS, president of the
Northwestern cordage works and a
millionaire, in moment of frenzy
leaped from the high bridge in st. Paul
and was killed.
AT meeting of the'cabinet it was de-
cided that the president could not exc
cute the Geary Chinese exclusion law
and the measure will not be put into
operation until congress provides the
means therefor.
KERR CRAIGE, of North Carolina, has
been appointed third assistant post
master general vice A. ID. Hazen, re-
| signed.
THE international convention of press
| clubs in session in st. Paul elected
John A. Cocl1erell, of New York, as pres
ident. 1t was decided to establish a
home for aged and infirm journalists.
FLAMES in the Arbuckle Brothers cof-
fee mill in Brooklyn, N. Y, caused a
| loss of S250,000.
THE worlds fair directory adopted a
rule that for the future all children
under II and over years of age will
be admitted to the fair for twenty-five
cents.
SANTOS MANIA, the Peruvian giant,
who was to have been exhibited at the
worlds fair, died at Bellevue hospital
in New York.
WILLIAM PATTERSON, a wealthy far
mer living near Weston, o., was worked
by the fanning-mill racket to the tune
of So. 900.
ETHELINDA MAYHUE has brought suit
for divorce against Oliver Mayhue, a
Bellaire CO., grocer. They were mar
ried April 20, 1854, and have fourteen
children. Cruelty was the char sc.
SAMUEL r. GALLOWAY, of Cleveland,
has been appointed receiver of the
Toledo, st. Louis e. Kansas City rail-
way, known as the "Clover Leaf line.
The government will pay all bills
presented for the entertainment of the
duke of Veragua while in this country
FIVE THOUSAND miners in the south
eastern Kansas coal fields struck for
higher wages.
MARY HANBACK,, child aged 3 years.
was blown by the wind into well 70
feet deep at Omaha, Neb., and killed.
TWENTY-FIVE horses belonging to the
Peoples Quitting company were
burned to death in fire in Chicago
THE percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 21st were as
follows: Cleveland. .75O; st. Louis,
.632; Philadelphia, .5Ss; Brooklyn, .5sS;
Pittsburgh, .5SS; Boston, 500; Cincin-
natl, .476; Washington, .474; Baltimore,
.421; New York, .421; Chicago, 1868;
Louisville. 1896.
ALLEN CAUsIUs, a noted colored des-
perado, while drunk shot and killed his
wife and mortally wounded his father
in-law at Knoxville, Tenn.
w. b. STRONG, of Fort Atkinson, and
d. ID. Smith, of Whitewater, students
in the Wisconsin State university at
Madison, were drowned in Lake Men
dota by the upsetting of sailboat.
The Empire State express on the
New York Central road made the run
of 146 miles from Syracuse to East Buff
falo in 141 minutes. At one point q
speed of 100 miles an hour was reached.
The barn of ID. j. Gallery in Chicago
was burned and twenty-eight horses
were cremated.
REV. JAMES MACKEY, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Lam
pasas, Tex, while delivering his SER
mon dropped dead in the pulpit. The
breaking of blood vessel in his head
was the cause.
THE stable of the Cru,n Livery COM
pany in st. Louis was destroyed by fire
and $50 horses were burned to death
and Eddie Quinn, u 7-year-old boy, lost
his life in the flames. The total loss
was $1,000
IN an interview Attorney General
Olney said that the worlds fair could
not be opened on Sunday, and that if
the local directory should decide TO
open it the United States courts would
interfere Immediately by injunction.
THE Archer 81 Pancoast Manufacture
ing company of New York, probably
the largest concern engaged in the
manufacture of gas and electric light
fixtures in the United States. failed for
81 100000.
AT the meeting of the National Edit
orial association in Chicago Walter
Williams, of Columbia, Mo-, was elected
president for the ensuing year.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, and vicinity was
visited by violent hailstorm that did
damage estimated at 100000
A FIRE destroyed Needs sawmill,
planning mill, boarding house and thirty
or forty residences in the south part of
Amigo, Wis, the loss being 500, 900.
The. AK polishing and finishing de-
partments of the American Ak g. Tool
company at Douglas, Mass, was
burned, causing loss of 800, 900.
JOHN DowNEY's cottage in Buffalo,
N. Y, was burned and three children