The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-11-02
BRIEF DISPATCHES.

President Morton Of the Clover Leaf,
has placed his order with the Baldwins
for ten new engines to be delivered be-
fore March /.
Comte Cahen d'Anvers. a we'll known
figure in Partisan society. was killed
Sunday in an automobile accident
near Mezieres.
Tom Sharkey Thursday made pub.
lie answere to Tom O'Rou- kes chal-.
enge in behalf of Joe Walcott. Shar.
key declines to meet Walcott
The will Of Baron Russell of XIII.
owen has been admitted to probate.
The testator bequeathed his entire es.
late, valued at e150,O00 to my dear,
good wife"
Rev. Henry Carey Shuttleworth.
professor of pastoral theology and lee
turer in divinity in Kings college, Lon
don, died Wednesday. He was born
Oct. 20, 1850
The Dublin Evening Herald revives
the report, which it asserts is we'll
founded, that the Duke of Marlborough
will succeed Earl Cadogan as lord lieu
tenant of Ireland.
The registration , Of voters, which
closed at Canton, O., Saturday. shows
total registration in that place of
SOL voters, a gain of 519 over the
registration of 1896.
Wednesdays session of Patriotic Or.
der Of America at Binghamton, N. Y,
was devoted to routine work. Phillips.
burg, N. j., was chosen as the place
for the next meeting.
The report that Germany is consid.
ering the ACCESSIBILITY of leasing Mar.
garita Island from Venezuela for
coaling station is unqualifiedly denied
at the German foreign Office
w. S. Weed of Toledo, formerly
freight traffic manager of the Glover
Leaf, has been selected traffic mana.
ger for the Chicago Junction railway,
and will take charge Nov. /.
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 Iroquois club of Chicago has
rendered VIM. ]. Bryan reception
and banquet, to take place on a day to
he designated by Mr.. Bryan during his
stay here between November l and 8.
The gold in the treasury Friday
amounted to $451, AIT ,404, the highest
point ever reached since the founda-
ton of the government. This is said
to be the largest gold fund in the
world.
at Lima, Peru, to establish, with Peru
Wan capital, line of steamers to ply
along the coast. The ordinary session
of congress came to an end Friday
evening.
John L. Sullivan, who was operated
on at New York Thursday for hernia,
was resting comfortably Friday night
The physicians say that Sullivan will
not be able to leave the hospital for
six weeks.
Fridays statement of the treasury
balances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $3.50, 900 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, shows: Avail
able cash balance. $133, 1888; gold,
$S8,725,S05.
Acting Secretary of Agriculture
Moore has detailed J. X. Haywood, an
assistant in the chemistry division, to
make a complete examination Of the
waters of the gov 2rnmeat reservation
at Hot Springs, Ark.
c. L. Stone, for many years general
passenger agent of the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois railroad, has been APP
pointed general passenger agent of
the Louisville & Nashville railroad,
the appointment to be effective Nov. 1.
The battleshlp Kentucky sailed from
Tompkinsville Thursday on her voy.
age to the China station, adjustments
in her gun mechanism having proved
entirely satisfactory. She touches first
at Gibraltar.
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 ne" Eritish 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.
Col. John M. Fleming. aged 6S years
and for many years editor of the old
Knoxville Tribune and later of the
Sentinel, died Sunday night at the
East Tennessee hospital for the insane
where he has been for the past seven
years. He was noted confederate
soldier and prominent politician.
Guilty of murder in the second de-
gree was the verdict brought In Mon
day by the jury before which Arthur
Harris, the negro, has been on trial
for killing Patrolman Robert ].
Thorpe. II was Harris unprovoked
crime that melted the wholesale race
riots In New York couple OF months
ago.