The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-06-02
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

withdrawn their exhibits at the worlds
fair from competition for awards under
the single judge system.
y AN extensive and desperate gang of
counterfeiters has been unearthed in
southwest Missouri by government Sc
cret service officers.
Snow to the depth of inches fell
throughout the northern portion of
Michigan.
A SMALL town in Cherokee county,
Tex, was almost wiped out by fire and
DIR. j. e. Roberts was burned to death
in his Office.
LAWRENCE DEvANEY was caught in
the machinery of Pittsburgh (Pa.)
mill and torn limb from limb.
CHARLES SCHAEFFER, of Sedgwicl,
Kan, the newly appointed consul to
Vera Cruz, was made consul before he
was a citizen of the United States.
AN attempt was made to wreck a pas
senger train on the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton g. Dayton road on which Superin-
tendent Hustled was passenger
JOHN MARIO, of Green Bay, Wis,
killed his wife and then took his own
life. The woman had applied for q di-
vorce.
AMOS AVERY was hanged at Lamar,
Mo-, for the murder of James A. Miles
on September %, 1891. He made a
speech on the gallows proclaiming his
innocence.
The National Federation of America
has issued an appeal to the public for
funds to aid the cause of Irish home
rule.
CHARLES TowNE, farmer, and his
young wife were probably fatally shot
while eating supper at their home near
Plymouth, Ia, by some person unknown
who fred through a window. No mo-
tive was known for the crime.
THE worst forest fire for many years
was raging about Staffordville and
Union, Conn, and the loss would be
immense.
THE American Baptist Publication
society held its siXty-ninth annual ses-
sion in Denver. The reports showed
that more than 35,OO0,OOO copies of
books, tracts, pamphlets and period
icals had been printed during the
year.
Two CHILDREN of Frank Manaiget, of
st. Clair, Mimi, met death by the eX-
plosion of the tank of gasoline stove.
JAMES BROWN and Miss Mary Snutz
were killed by the cars while walking
on high trestle near Bluefield, w. Va.
DAVID c. ROBINSON, mayor of Elmira,
n. Y, failed for 81, 500, 900.
AN express train on the Missouri Pa
cific was held up and robbed of $1,000
by four unmasked men just beyond the
suburbs of st. Louis
n. A. NETTLEsON, potato dealer at
Scandinavia, Wis, was robbed on the
highway by two men of 81, 200.
WHILE engaged in drunken fight at
Pueblo, Col, Evan Owen and Griff
Harris, employees of the steel works,
fell in front of an electric car and were
instantly killed.
AMoNUMENT to Alexander II. Stephens
was unveiled at Charlottesville, Ga.
THE Atlantic tannery property at
South Salem, Mass, operated by Poor
Bros, was destroyed by fire, the loss
being S232, 900.
THE tobacco factory of d. Buchner &
Co. in New York was burned, the loss
being 100000.
HUGH ETTER, colored man, shot and
killed another colored man named De-
Witt Sherrell in Chicago in quarrel
over woman, and Etter was fatally
shot while resisting arrest.
EFFIE Poison, 16-year-old girl at
Morberly, Mo-, poisoned herself with
strychnine because her father told her
to perform household duties while her
sweetheart was in the parlor.
A BILL giving women the right to
vote at municipal and school elections
has been passed by the Michigan legis-
lature.
THE Farmers state bank of Brook
Ign, Mich, closed it's doors, with liabil-
tiles amounting to about $40, 900.
FRED MCKINNEY, Thomas o. Brien and
Thomas Kilisky, small boys, were
drowned in the river at Brooklyn, N.
Y, by the upsetting of boat.
A wEsT-BoUND passenger train was
held up by two masked men at Cole
man, Tex, and the express car robbed
of all it's contents
A CYCLONE swept over central Mis-
souri,, doing immense damage. The
town of Ladonia, with 1000 inhab-
itduJS, was eHtlrely ueSIrOyeu anu
twenty persons were killed. At Mo
berly, Sadalia, Brookfield and other
places property was destroyed.
FLAMES swept away two-thirds of the
business portion of Rocklin, Cal.
THIRTY convicts died in three days in
the Pratt mines near Birmingham,
Ala, from pneumonia.
RICHARDSON g. DENNIE, dealers in
hides in Boston, failed for s3O0,O
ANNA WAGNER, an Indianapolis SER
want girl, is charged with the death by
poison of five members OF the Koesters
family, where she was en- ployed.
Ex-MAYoR DDoND, of Arcola, ILL.,,
was shot and killed by David E. Miller,
his partner.
j. A. MCAULEY, who was working to
get money enough to go to Chicago to
receive $4,000 left him by his father,
was buried and killed under tons of
rock in the Berdilla mine at st. Louis,
Col.
Miss BLANCHE CULBEBTsoN, of Chica-
go, engaged to British officer, eloped
with Leigh French, of Minnesota,
i r. Il IL.