The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-26
BRIEF DISPATCHES.


1t is reported that Prince Christian
Victor, now serving in South Africa is
suffering from enteric fever.
Johanna" Barnum & Bailey's IA
nous gorilla, has died of pneumonia
at Nuremberg.
The Berlin municipal council has ap-
pointed committee to investigate the
scarcity OF dwellings in Berlin.
Traverse City suddenly finds It's
street funu collapsed. The council has
ordered all street work off
At Madrid Gen Linares has been
gazetted as minister Of war and Gen.
Azecarraga as president OF the sen.
ate.
A Berlin dispatch says Herr Won
Wildenbruch, the poet and dramatist,
has received the crown order second
class.
Lord Wolsley on retiring from the
post of commandments OF the
British army, will take an extended
tour in Canada.
Andrew Carnegie has presented the
town OF Hawick. Roxborough county
Scotland, with the sum of 100000 for
public library.
Rev Father John Paul Mccarthy,
pastor of the Immaculate Conception
church of Toledo. died Sunday after a
lingering illness.
Mr.. Bellamy Storey. United States
minister to Spain, arrived Friday in
Barcelona from Switzerland, on his
way to Madrid,
A surgical operation was performed
in New York on Thursday on Roland
Reed, the actor. 1t is said that Mr..
Reed is doing we'll.
The municipal council of Berlin Fri
day adopted resolution to build mu-
nicipal railways after the expiration
of the present charters.
The night turn at the Rockdale plant
of the American Steel & Wire Co., at
Joliet, ILL.,, has been laid off indefinite
ly. About 400 men are affected.
The Venezuelan government an
nounces that Venezuela will not make
an exhibit at the Pan-American expo
sition to be held in Buffalo in 1901
John Demlin, treasurer of the Gal
weston relief fund, has given out a
statement showing that the total con-
tributions to date are $1,095,202.
Joseph A. Conry of East Boston was
nominated for congress Thursday aft
ernoon by the Democrats of the 9th
congressional district Of Massachus-
etts.
Mr.. Jno. j. Clancy has given notice
that he will move at the next meeting
of corporation that the freedom of the
city of Dublin be conferred upon ex-
President Kruger.
The British admiralty, according to
the London Daily Mail, is about to or
ganize an additional reserve squadron
under Rear Admiral Sir Gerard Henry
Noel for home waters.
The abbattoire of the West Philadel-
phia stock yards was partially de-
stroyed by fire of unknown origin
Sunday causing loss Of about $4,000,
fully covered by insurance.
F. w. Vaille, director of posts in the
Philippines, has notified the postoffice
department that he has opened night
school for native employees at Samol-
poe, where they may study English. 8.
Advices received at Kingston Sun
day from Hayti assert that the revolu.
ton in Santo Domingo is not ended
and that fighting is proceeding in the
interior although the revolutionists are
weak.
Three Brazilian warships left Rio
Janeiro Friday with President Campos
Sales, bound for Buenos Ayres, to re.
turn the visit of Gen. Roca, the presi.
dent of Argentina, who visited Rio
Janeiro in 1899.
Prof. Pickering of Harvard, has ar
rived at Kingston, Jamaica, to estab-
lish an astronomical observatory at
Vaudeville Immediately. He says the
surroundings there are favorable for
special researches.
Senior Carbajal, former minister of
marine, left Lima. Peru, for Europe,
Saturday, going by way of Panama
and the United States, to purchase
gunboat for the Peruvian government
together with war material.
A Brussels dispatch says A train
was derailed at lie Crosse station and
three carriages filed with passengers
were precipitated over an embank-
ment IS metres high. Thirty persons
were injured, one seriously.
The Barkentine Morning Star ar.
rived at San Francisco Monday, %
days from st. Michaels. Besides her IS
passengers the steam barkentine car.
ried 81 000,00 worth of gold dust from
the mines of Dawson.
The new British minister to China.
Sir Ernest Mason Satow, has arrived
in Pekin, and Sir Claude M. MacDon.
aid, the retiring minister, who has
been appointed British minister to
Japan, will leave next Tuesday.
According to the st. Petersburg cor.
respondent of The Daily Express, so
persons were killed and many others
terribly scalded by boiler explosion
on board the steamer Eugenia, run
ming between Tomsk and Barnaul.
At London Friday, the Imperial lib
eral council adopted resolution in ia.
vor of reorganizing the liberal party
upon the basis of social reform at
nome and of the consolidation and ul.
innate federation of the united king
dom with the colonies.
The reunion of the Second Michigan
infantry closed in Flint with the cleo.
ton Of the following officers: Presi.
dent, N. M. Richardson, of Caro-; vice
president, J. H. Brown, of Vassar; sec.
fetary and treasurer, Albert Durham.
Of Jackson; next reunion at Caro-.
Rear Admiral Silas Casey, at pres
emit commandant of the League Island
navy yard, Pa, has been selected to
succeed Rear Admiral Kautz as com.
mander Of the Pacific station. upon the
latter's retirement in the near future.
Sato, hitherto first secretary of the