The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-05-19

Unlteu oIdIeS reported exchanges
amounting to s1,370,664 100, against
s1,373,6SS, 1856 the previous week. AS
compared with the corresponding week
of s192 the increase was lilo.
JOHN u. Carlisle and Charles Luttrell
were hanged at Sherman. Tex, for the
murder of w. Il. Sherman at Denison
ON April 2S, 1892.
THERE were 257 business. failures re-
ported in the United States during the
seven days ended on the 18th. In the
week preceding there were 216, and
during the corresponding time in 1892
the number was 200.
| r. j. HoRINCK, conductor of general
store and private bank at Grand Ridge,
ILL.,, failed for 100000, and scores of
farmers are ruined by the disaster.
FOREST fires burned hundreds of
acres of oak, pine and cedar timber,
many valuable cranberry boys and
three houses in Berkeley township, N. j.
The twenty-five ringleaders of the
mob that took from Jail at Chattanooga,
Tenn, Alfred Blount, a negro assaulter,
and hanged him, have been indicted for
murder.
The Hygeian Ice company at Tren-
ton, n. j., failed for S15O,O0O
SEVERAL farms east of Pinckney,
Mich, were swept by cyclone and
buildings were wrecked and several
persons were hurt, but not seriously,
though many horses and sheep were
killed.
The collapse of the Columbia national
bank in Chicago caused the failure of
ha l<c or Nv
ford. Morristewn, Arcadia, Spiceland,
Orleans, Hebron, Brookston, Dunkirk,
Geneva, Boswell, Knox, West Labanon
and Greenwood in Indiana, the Rich
land, Edwardsburg, Lawton, Rockford
and Charlevoix banks In Michigan, the
bank of Oregon in Wisconsin, the bank
of Casey in Illinois and the bank at
Clearmount in Ohio.
MEMBERS of the local worlds fair d.
rectory passed resolution that the fair
should be open Sundays on and after
May II, the admission to the grounds
to be twenty-five cents, and the big ex-
hibit buildings to be closed. This &C
ton may be annulled by the national
commission.
JOE BRANNoN, aged 49,, was hanged
at Charleston, S. c., for the murder of
Stephen Kearney on the 3lst of August
last
THE police at Buffalo, N. Y, claimed
to have discovered evidence of plot by
anarchists to blow up the water works
and fire the worlds fair buildings to
avenge upon Chicago the execution of
the anarchists condemned for the Hay
market murders
THE new Cunard line steamship Cam
pania made the trip from New York to
Queenstown in days II hours and az
minutes. the quickest passage eastward
yet made by any steamer.
THE total value of the exports of
breadstuffs from this country during
the ten months ended April 30 last was
1857 ,653,913, a decrease of S95, 900, 900
from the corresponding period of 1892.
JOHN WEISS, grand treasurer of the
Order Germania, a relief fund, sick and
benefit association, departed from his
home in New York with $780, 900 be-
longing to the order,
KENDALL 81 SMITH, the largest mill
ing firm in Nebraska, failed at Lincoln
for $3.50, 900.
THE big department store of Frank
A. Lappen e Co. and the furniture store
of the Lappen Furniture company in
Milwaukee failed for S5OO,OOO.
AT Louisville, KY, the firm of w. II.
Thomas & Son, the largest dealers in
old Kentucky whisky in the world, sus-
pended with liabilities of 5000, 900.
A SEVERE windstorm at Astoria, Ore,
overturned a number of fishing boats
and four men were drowned.
THE percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 18th were as
follows: Cleveland, .667; st. Louis,
.667; Washington, .643; Pittsburgh,
1886; Brooklyn, .5s3; Cincinnati, .572;
Philadelphia, 500; Baltimore, .429; Bos.
ton, 400; New York, 1885; Chicago, 1856;
Louisville. 200.
Two PERSONS were killed and several
seriously injured by the explosion of
railway locomotive at Lebanon, Pa.
The jury in the case of w. G. Rippey,
accused of assaulting John w. Mackay
in San Francisco with intent to kill,
was dismissed, having failed to reach
an agreement.
JOHN TURLEY, who shot and killed
l.. +. Price, conductor, on train at
Seymour, Ind, was taken from Jail at
Bedford by masked men and lynched.
The Standard Oil company's works at
Whiting Ind, were burned, the loss be-
ing 100000.
Ten men fell 5000 feet to their death
down the Red Jacket shaft of the Calu-
met and Hecla mine at Calumet, Mich.
KENDALL &c SMITH, grain dealers at
Lincoln, Neb., failed for $4,000
The Kissamee (Fla.) City bank closed
it's doors with liabilities of 500, 900.
Tightness of money and slow collec-
tions caused the failure.
A FIRE caused by a defective flue in
the bakehouse of the Aldine hotel in
Philadelphia resulted in a loss of
100000.
A CREvAssE gave way at Brooks mill
in Arkansas, causing the destruction of
crops in eight or nine parishes.
BY request of Secretary Gresham the
resignation of William Il. Curtis as
chief of the bureau of the American re-
publics was sent to the president.