The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-11-23
BRIEF DISPATCHES.

holm.
Gen. Wood. Secretary of War Roo
and Mr.. Roots son arrived at Santa:
de Cuba Sunday.
The steamer Mariposa, which arrv
I'd at San Francisco Friday from Aus
ralia. brought $3,000.O0O in gold.
Joseph Parker, father of Gilbert Par
ker, the well known novelist, died al
Belleville, Ont. Friday. aged SO years
American capitalists, it is asserted
are projecting an underground cleo
trio railway from the west end of Lon
don to Putney.
Brooks Story, the celebrated express
robber. escaped from the Mississippi
penitentiary at Jackson Monday. Thi:
Ia his fourth escape.
A severe earthquake shock was fell
Friday morning in the Island Of Cur
acoe. Venezuela. Only slight damage
however, was done.
THE Indian government" says the
Simla correspondent of the Daily Mall
rs about to spend f2.500.000 on new
guns for the Indian army"
Frederick w. Royce. widely known
as an inventor electrician and veteran
telegraph operator. dropped dead rom
Apoplexy at Washington Friday.
| The United States transport Sheri
Ian sailed from San Francisco Friday
Tor Manila with 210 recruits. She also
carries large number OF civilians.
Major Willard s. H Matthews, sur,
geon U. s. ", has been honorably dis.
charged from the service OF the Unit
ed States. his service being no longer
rQuired
Lord Wolsley, 1t Is asserted, intends
as soon as the opportunity is afforded,
to visit the scenes of his campaigns in
Canada QS6O; South Africa (1879)
and Egypt (1S82).
Chicago dispatch says that Robert
j. Stell, secetary-treasure of the Mon.
adnock Loan & Investment Co., has
disappeared. 1t is said his books show
shortage of $4,000.
Mr.. John Lionel Fegan, secretary for
mines and agriculture of New South
Wales, asserts that the recent down
pour of rain has largely improved the
prospects of the wheat crop.
The United States supreme court
Monday sustained the Tennessee law
prohibiting the sale of cigarettes by a
very narrow margin, four of the nine
members giving dissenting opinion.
There is considerable commotion
here" says the Hong Kong CORE.
spondent of the London Daily Mail Gin
consequence of report that Great
Britain intends to send out flying
squadron"
The billet mill and converters of the
Illinois Steel works at Joliet, resumed
operations Sunday night, after a
three weeks shut down. About 1000
cd Wnrl Tho ntrf1nnly &c
good for long run.
The A. p. Frank Co., wholesale gro
GERS, and Gold, Frank e Co., wholesale
dry goods, at San Antonio, Texas, suf
fered fire Monday which inflicted a
loss of over $250,000, The damage Is
covered by insurance.
General Weyler denies the state
ment published in Paris and cabled to
the United States that he had told an
interviewer that If he had remained
In Cuba he would have ousted the
Americans from the island.
An outbreak of bubonic plague is re-
ported among the natives of Szinoyka,
near King Williamstown, South Africa.
Precautions are being taken to prevent
the spread of the disease among the
whites.
The naval board of construction
Thursday considered proposed change
of the Panther to training ship and
although no decision was made the
board probably will recommend the
change.
Martin Irons, who was once leader
of the union labor organizations and
who was director of the great Mis-
souri, Pacific strike In the eighties,
with headquarters at st. Louis, died
Saturday at Bruceville, 20 miles south
AS the German first class battleships
Kaiser Friedrich III and Kaiser Will
helm ii were entering Kiel harbor Sat
urday they collided, both vessels be-
Ing slightly damaged. Divers have
been examining the extent of their in
juries.
Fire Frluay in the Alabama Com
press & Storage warehouse near Riv-
erside Park, Montgomery, destroyed
one of the four sections of the building
together with between 500 and 1000
bales of cotton. Loss $4,000; fully in
sured.
About 400 clerks in the census bu-
reau will be dismissed between now
and December l. owing to the dimin-
ishing of the work. This will leave a
force of about 5000 at that time and
the number will be materially reduced
at intervals.
The situation in the labor troubles
at Tampa, Fla. between the organiza-
tons in the cigar trade remains un-
changed No settlement of the diff
culties has yet been reached and the
laborers are generally in an unsettled
state of mind.
The United States cable ship Burn
side, carrying the full equipment of
apparatus designed to establish tele.
graphic communications between Ma.
Mia and all the military stations in the
Philippine archipelago arrived at Co
lombo Monday.
An official of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Co. stated Monday that the ad
journed special meeting called to Sc
| lect successor to the late Coils p
Huntington probably would be held
Wednesday at the regular quarterly
meeting of the board.
The Kunch Kong Koi of long Kong
was recently held up by pirates on the
West river and all the passengers loot
ed of money, clothing and jewelry. The
pirates also secured IA boxes Of specie
| Of the value of $4,000
The impression exists in most Euro
pean cities that the illness Of Emperor
! Nicholas is more serious than II Is rep