The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-03-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Happenings of the Past Week Given in
Condensed Form.

Happenings of the Past Week Given IN
Condensed Form.
The Gaffney Vitrified Pressed Brick
company, whose plant and yards are
near Edwardsville, Ills, died deed or
assignment. The assets are placed at
$4,000; liabilities, $4,000
Agnes Rogers was drowned i'm a we'll
at Clinton, Mich
James II. Gambrill, miller and ex-
porter Of -four at Frederick, Nd, as
signed. Assets, $4,000; liabilities, $780,
00O
p. w. Click, prominent Tifln, o.,
business man, was murderously assault
ed on his farm by his tenant, William
o. McClory, who attacked him with an
AK.
Benson Courtwright was sentenced 10
prison for eighteen months at VIM
cennes, Ind. for obtaining money under
false pretenses.
Rev. Townsend Van Voree's daugh-
ter, Nettie, committed suicide at Blad-
ensburg, o., by drowning.
The medical students of Laval uni
versity of Montreal beseiged the office
of Les Mouvelles and threatened to de-
molish ii because an article appeared
rejecting upon them. The police dis
persed them.
The inventor of the Prall concentrat-
ing vibrating engine, E. Prall, Jr, has
perfected a little gas motor, which he
will attach to an ordinary dog-cart<and
make a trip from Washington to New
York April l.
The Delaware constitutional conven-
ton, as a committee of the whole,
adopted a section which prevents the
Legislature from adopting the single
tax system, even should it be 80 in
clined.
The San Francisco police have been
notified that Josef f. Blanther, who
murdered Mrs. PHILIPPINE Longfeldt last
May, and then mysteriously disap-
peared, is in Jail in Austin, Tex.
There Is great agitation at Paris over
the question of allowing the electric
cars to cross the Rond point of the
Champs Elysees. The classes are against
it and the masses are for it.
A London dispatch says that the
Princess de Chimay and the gypsy mu-
stefan Rigo will leave Paris for Spain
in fortnight and from there will go to
New York.
The pastor of the Methodist church
in New Haven, Conn, objects to the
presence in the official board of a man
who plays whist.
Arthur and Albert Rounce lost their
way in the snow near Shell Lake, Wis,
and were frozen so that the former will
hot 10
The acreage of land in Georgia has
decreased from 100000 to 100000, as in
dicated by the tax returns.
A commission of five has just been
appointed by President Diaz Of Mex
leo to report on the best means of pre-
serving the timber throughout the re-
public.
The owners of Colorado sawmill
started well to supply water for their
engine and at a depth of sixteen feet
struck pay ore and will have a mine
instead of a we'll.
Shelbyville, Tenn, authorities have
passed a hog law, saying that hogs
found running at large will be arrest
ed" and put in the workhouse and their
owners fined.
Henry Hays of Cairo, Ills, took
pocketknife, and, holding the blade
against his breast, with a stick of wood
drove it into his heart.
Arthur T. Beal, brakeman on the
Chicago and Northwestern, is dead at
Clinton, Ia, from injuries received while
coupling cars.
Orval Mcpherson, who killed John
Finley at Morning Sun, Ia, has been
found guilty. The jury recommended
life sentence.
The new bridge to be built across the
st. Lawrence river between Montreal
and Longueueil is to be named the
Royal Albert, in honor of the queens
late consort and in view of the dia-
mond jubilee celebration.
Charles C. Epple was crushed to
death while coupling cars at Little
Rock, Ark.
William Edwards, a veteran British
soldier, who has fought in ninety bat
ties, is turning a mangle to support
an invalid wife.
Rev. j. Courtney Jones, an Episcopal
clergyman of Virginia, intends to pre-
pare a concordance of the Episcopal
prayer book. There is no such work in
existence.
In the house of Mrs. Pauline Sharp,
who died in Columbia City, Ind, has
been found over $4,000 secreted in vari-
Gus places. Mrs. Sharp for long time
lived in squalid poverty.
President McClelland Of Pacific uni
versity, Forest Grove, Or, announces
the gift of $4,000 for the university
from II. w. Corbett, who was recently
appointed United States senator from
Oregon.
A mining prospector, whose expert
ence is said to cover almost every min
ing region of the northwest, has been
lately waxing enthusiastic over the
future of the Cascade range in Oregon
as gold-p e,ducing section.
Electric light is much dearer In Paris
than in New York.
Stratton, the CRIPPLE Creek millionaire,
refused to go into any money-making
schemes. What L am trying to do"