The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-03-18
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS GIVEN IN
CONDENSED FORM.
News Items Caught from the Wire and
Given In Brief Paragraphs for tho Bene-
fit of the Busy Readcrs-Crimes, Casual
ties and Other Matters.

Given In Brief Paragraphs for tho Bene-
| fit of the Busy Renders Crimes, Casual
ties and Other Matters.
Thursday, March 10,
The remains of the late patent COM
missioner, Hon. Benjamin Butterworth.
were taken from Washington yesterday
to Mainevile. o.. for interment.
Prince Albert of Belgium, has arrived
at New York.
Up to date eleven Episcopal dioceses
have voted against the conservation of
Archdeacon Brown, Of Ohio, as bishop
coadjutor of Arkansas.
Both wives of Edward j. Radcliffe,
the actor, have secured their freedom
from the convict.
Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, of Chi
cago, were among the passengers on La
Gascogne from New York for Havre
yesterday.
The directors of the New York Cen
trail railroad have declared the regular
quarterly dividend of 1 per cent.
The result of the municipal election
at Seattle was victory for the Repub-
licans, who elect mayor, comptroller,
treasurer and majority of the council.
Friday, March IL.
Manager Sullivan, Of the Dubuque,
Ia, Western Association base ball club,
has signed Warren Beckman, the SON.
in-law of Robert T. Lincoln. to pitch.
George Muller, the phlanthropist is
dead at London.
Fire destroyed the Deadwood and
Delaware smelter and a considerable
amount of railroad property at Dead
wood, S. d. Loss about $150.O00.
The Duke of Norfolk is said to have
spent more money among the building
trades than any Englishman now liv-
ing.
BY order of the, Indiana supreme
court the vast marshes of the Tolleston
Gun club will be drained and made use
less as a duck-hunting ground.
National Committeeman II. j. Dixon
has called a convention of the Missouri
middle of-the-road Populists to meet
at Sedalia, Mo-, May IL.
Miss Annie Emery, of Atlanta, Ca,
was struck by fast freight and in
stantly killed. Miss Emery met death
while on an errand of mercy.
Bombay is quiet again. Two soldiers
killed sums up the European fatalities.
Saturday, March liz.
Esterhazy has abandoned his prose-
cution of Matthew Dreyfus, brother of the
ill-fated prisoner of the Islse of Devils,
for defamation in accusing him of hav-
ing written the bordereau.
Senator Davis, of Minnesota, has one
of the finest Napoleonic Libraries in the
world. 1t comprises more than 800 vol
umes.
Articles of incorporation of the Amer
lean Thread company, with an author
lied capital stock of $12.000,000, were
filed with the secretary of state at Tren-
ton, N. j.
In duel just fought at Buda Pest
Deputy Ivanka shot Privy Councillor
Szalvaszky, the governor of Pressburg,
in the knee.
The president has signed the bill ap-
propriating $2SSOO0 to be paid to the
book agents of the Methodist Episcopal
church south as full compensation.
The Duluth, Mesabe and Northern
Railway company has filed trust deed
running to the Central Trust company,
Of New York, for $5,OOO,OOO.
Monday, March Ia.
The steamship Paris has arrived at
Southampton. She was delayed by a
broken shaft and had to make way with
only one screw.
The secretary of the treasury has
awarded to H. Ferge, of Milwaukee, the
contract for the erection Of the Denver
mint building.
An ominous rumor in circulation at
London has it that the Marquis Of Sails
bury is suffering from Bright's disease.
Ticket Brokers j. II. Friedman and r.
H. McCluskey have been arrested at St.
Louis under indictments charging them
with forgery.
Queen Victoria arrived at Cimiez Sun
day. Her majesty is in her usual
health.
The Pioneer Klondike Transportation
company, of st. Louis, will "grubstake'
500 men to the gold fields Of Alaska.
A block of warehouses at Toronto,
Ont, was Quilted by fire Saturday. The
total loss is $135,000, fairly covered by
insurance.
Tuesday. March 10.
The Philadelphia, Reading and New
England Railroad company first mort
gage bondholders committee has pre-
pared a plan of reorganization of the
property.
Wisconsin turner's have voted not to
admit women.
Corea's king has notified Russia that
he has decided to dismiss NJ Alexeiff,
the Russian representative in the GUS
toms, and the Russian military instruc-
tors.
The Zoarites, the communistic colony
of Ohio, are about to disband.
After paying dividends to the amount
of $2,175,O00 the Hecla Consolidated
mine at Glendale, Mont, is reported to
be in a bad way at last.
The properties of the Geyser- Marion
company at Mercur, Utah, have been
bonded on basis of $450.000 to an Eng
lish syndicate, represented here by
Banker Downey.
Wednesday, March 16.
Henry ]. Butler, of Fort Scott, repre-
captipC ahott a half million dollars of