The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1901-01-18
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MONDAY.
The only question as to the Jeffries-
| Rubin fight, scheduled for Cincinnati
Feb Is, seems to be how soon the
Saengerfest Athletic club will declare
It off,
A mass meeting was held at Barcel-
, ona, Spain, for the purpose of formu-
lating demand on the Spanish gov
eminent for the suppression of bull
fights.
Louis Mentz, travelling salesman,
arrested In New York on charge Of be-
ing implicated in jewelry robbery at
Pittsburg. Held in $4,000 bail as a
fugitive from justice.
The Beers attacked Kaalfontein sta.
ton. They were driven off, but retired
unmolested with transport train half
a mile long. Their supposed object
was to obtain supplies.
Rankin Clemens, farmer, of Fay
cite county, KY, whose estate Is val
ued at half a million, had his skull
fractured by robbers, who struck him
with a hay fork, but failed to effect an
entrance into the house. He will PROB
ably die.
Secretary of the Navy Long has re-
ceiyed a testimonial from a number
of missionaries who were passengers
on the hospital ship Solace from San
Francisco to Yokohama, in which Com
mander Winslow and his crew are
highly complimented.
The commander of the Canadian
mounted rifles, which reached Winni- |
peg from South Africa Sunday, de- |
,rt a.
ing paid only 85 cents a day, the Cape |
Colony and Australian volunteers re-
ceiving SLIPS day.
Citizens of Leavenworth, KS, have |
formed a vigilance committee, with
the object in view of driving all men |
who have no visible means OF support |
out of the city. They are also deter
mined to lynch Fred Alexander, who |
attempted criminal assault on Miss |
Roth Saturday.
Thomas C.. Moshier, a farmer Of
Gorham, Me-, was beaten to death and
his mother seriously injured by two
men who visited the house for the pur-
pose of robbery. One OF the robbers,
a negro, was captured and acknowl-
edged his guilt. His companion, a
white man, is still at large.
TUESDAY.
A destructive hurricane swept over
the island Of Maritius and did consid-
cradle damage to shipping, several
vessels being driven ashore, including
French and a British steamer
BY the falling of scaffold over a
deep reservoir at the jamestown, NJ
Y, water works, nine men fell a dis
lance of 30 feet Nearly all received
broken bones and bruises, and four
are thought to be fatally injured.
A woman registered as Mrs. Sam T.
Jack was found unconscious from gas
at New York hotel and taken to a
hospital A man who knows the widow
of Sam T. Jack declares the uncon-
scious woman is not Mrs. Jack.
The fact that the Turkish govern
ment has contracted fNr the building
of warship in an American shipyard
is taken as an indication of the good
will of the Sultan and a disposition to
secure a final adjustment of Americas
claim
Some damaging testimony was in.
troduced at the trial Of Capt. Herlihy,
of the New York police force, for neg
lect or duty anu unDecomlng cOnduct. |
The evidence tended to show that he
could have suppressed vice in his pre-
cinct had he SO desired.
Fred Alexander, the negro who as
sauted Miss Eva Roth at Leaven-
worth. Kas., last Saturday, has been
formally charged with the murder of
Pearl Forbes, factory girl who was
assaulted and killed Nov. 6. It is be-
lieved Alexander has confessed.
The trial of McAlister. Campbell
and Death for the murder of Jennie
Bosschieter commenced at Paterson,
N. ]. The men are accused of giving
the girl Knockout drops which caused
her death, and assaulting her. Kerr,
the fourth Of the gang, will have a
se1arate trial. The cv.dence so far
presented Is very conclusive.