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The Times, owosso, MICH. JUNE 16,1893. The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. AT the annual meeting in Chicago of the National Prison association eulogies in memory late president, were ford B. pronounced Hayes, of elected and Ruther- Gen. Binkerhoff, of St. Paul, was to fill the vacancy caused by Gen. Hayes' death. FIFTY elevators belonging to the Northern Pacific Elevator company in North Dakota were attached on claims aggregating $400,000. FIRE destroyed a dozen buildings at Oshkosh, Wis., causing a loss of $200,000. OTHO STEVENS, Mrs. Emma Morrow and Luther W. Turner were drowned near Spring Valley, Minn. Their team plunged into Deer creek, upsetting the carriage. FIVE men were probably fatally injured in an explosion in a mine at Nieville, Pa. D.B. MONROE, leader of the miners the Coal Creek (Tenn.) war last August, in was sentenced at Clinton to the penitentiary for seven years. THE New Albany (Ind.) Banking liacompany suspended payments with bilities of $100,000. NEARLY the entire business portion of Fargo, N. D., was destroyed by fire, the loss being over $3,000,000, and six persons perished in the flames. The fire made a elean sweep twelve blocks long by five blocks wide. Over 3,000 persons were made homeless JOSEPH RATHBONE & Co., wholesale for lumber merchants in Chicago, failed $250,000. D. B. LOVEMAN, the heaviest retail dry goods dealer in Chattanooga, Tenn., failed for $150,000. AT the thirty-third annnal convention of the United States BrewWilliam A. of in ers' Chicago association president. Miles, The New York, was elected association represents capital to the amount of about $400,000,000. AN explosion of gasoline gas in the basement of Samuel Rezepper's grocery store in St. Louis injured sixteen persons, four fatally. to the failure of the private A. C. Robert at the Shell Lake savings bank Wis., OWING of Washburn, rasobliged bank, of which he is principal owner, to suspend. A CLOUDBURST at Hinton, W. Va. and vicinity did damage to the extent of $200,000. THE discussion of constitutional prohibition and the religious aspects world's of the cause closed the congress in temperance temperance Chicago THE anti-trust convention finished in Chicago after for the of labors lutions providing adopting with formation two naanti-trust association, an tional committees to prepare remedial legislation. JAMES D. NICHOLAS, aged 50, at one time owner of the Indianapolas Journal, took his own life with poison at Denver, Col. Whisky was the cause. fit of jealousy Dora A. Velzy shot killed W. G. Gray at then took her own in and ids, IN Mich.,and a Grand life Rapthe same manner. L.C. DUMAS, a young colored man, was lynched by a mob at Gleason, of a Tenn., for assaulting the daughter farmer. MEN and women whose official posi- for tions make their duty the caring in the public instituof the country con- in tions the unfortunate inaugurated corrections a gress of charities and Chicago. MARSDEN BELLAMY, of Wilmington C., was elected supreme dictator of the N. Knights of Honor at the annual meeting in Milwaukee. THE tabernacle choir of the Mormon church at Salt Lake City has decided fair send 250 members to the world's of in to September to compete for prizes $5,000 offered. NENRASKA dedicated her state building on the world's fair grounds with great enthusiasm. THE congress of vegetarians was opened in Chicago and papers setting forth the benefits to be obtained from abstention from the eating of flesh were read. FIVE prisoners escaped from the jail at Marietta, O., by locking the deputy in charge in a cell. JOSEPH G. DONNELLY, of Wisconsin, and Van Leer Polk, of Tennessee, have been appointed consuls general at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Calcutta, India, respectively. G.C. Pray, aged 26, shot and killed Shirhis wife and then shot himself at ley, Me. Domestic trouble was the cause. THE Mobile & Ohio New Orleans press train was held up by six masked men at Forest Lawn, Ill., and the express car robbed of $10,000. WOODS and Jenkins of the States circuit court of the World's exthe United JUDGES gates Columbian decided that position should be closed on Sunday Judge Grosscup rendered a dissenting opinion. JOSIAH B. KENDALL, a real-estate dealer and broker in Boston, failed for $279,446. WORTHINGTON FORD, of Brooklyn, has been made chief of the bureau of statistics by Secretary Carlisle. A TERRIFIC windstorm swept Rice county, Minn., doing fully $50,000 damage. The village of Dundas suffered the most severely. LEE, of St. Louis, was elected of the association at the tive JOHN president A. Traveler's annual meeting Protecin Peoria, Ill.