The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-01
Happenings Of the World In
Brief Dispatches.


United States military academy, at
West Point, committed suicide Thurs
day, by. drinking carbolic acid. McClos-
XIV enlisted in Chicago, and was seat
here about month ago. He had been
absent from the post without leave for
several days.
The centennial celebration Of the
Christian church, as founded by Alex
ander Campbell, will be celebrated in
Pittsburg in October, 1909. This time
was agreed upon at the joint confer
| ence of the centennial committee,
representing the church at large, and
the Pittsburg committee, which must
! provide suitable accommodations for
| the visitors who will come on that &C.
casion.
| Dr. Charles Lee Smith was Friday
| night, formally inaugurated president
of the Mercer university at Macon,
| Ca, with exercises at which many Of
the leading educational institutions of
] the country were represented.
In a collision between freight and
| passenger train on the Boston &
| Maine railroad, near Wayland, Mass,
Friday, child was killed, the engineer
of the passenger train received prob
ably fatal injuries, and several persons
were seriously hurt.
Sarah Bernhard, the famous act
ress, is to build and maintain
L -, IN or
manager, w. F. Como. The new
| play house, which is to be named the
Bernhard Theatre, will be situated
opposite the Metropolitan opera house.
An attempt was made to rob the
| Traders bank, of Bridgeburg, vii
| lage on the Canadian side of the Mia
CARA river, opposite Buffalo, early Fri
| day. Eight men tried to break down
| the front door of the bank, and scores
| Of shots were exchanged before the
would-be robbers were frightened
away.
Thomas Reeves, a commercial tray
eler for glove company or New York,
was found dead Friday, on the floor of
his room in the Auditorium hotel at
San Francisco. On the bureau was a
hastily scrawled note, which, so far
as could be read, said: Rather than
60 to prison, I am t---." 1t is sup.
posed that Reeves committed suicide
By taking poison.
Three Boston & Maine railroad en-
ployes were killed and two others in
jured in q crash between two freight
trains at South WATERFORD, Maine,
Sunday.
During the voyage of the Austrian
line steamer Francesca from New
York to Naples, steerage passenger
named Forgione, went suddenly insane
and fired revolver, killing Domenico
Valluia and wounding several other
passengers. -. -~t'-',--..-~
Secretary Taft Sunday night gave
dinner in his home in Washington to
the board of consulting engineers of
the Panama Canal commission. The
occasion was a farewell entertainment
of the foreign delegates, who leave al
once for New York, en- route to their
respective countries.
Mary Shaylor, aged 30 years, and
Henry Whitmiller, babe or months,
were burned to death early Sunday in
fire which destroyed the house OF
William Acltley, near Towanda, Pa.
Two men were seriously burned and
several others sustained severe injur-
les.
William A. Clark, Jr, son of Senator
w. A. Clark, of Montana, Sunday I'M
derwent an operation in New York, for
mastoiditis, following which, his con-
dition was declared to be satisfactory.
The operation was performed by DR..
McKernon, who recently operated on
Senator Clark for the same disease.
The village of Rocca Soraggio, near
Lucca, Italy, has been entirely de-
stroyed by landslip, with the exception
OF church. Fortunately there were
no victims, the inhabitants having
fed.
For the first time in his reign Of
nearly forty years, King Charles, of
Roumania, Tuesday was unable TO
open the Roumanian parliament in
person. He was too indisposed 10 at
tend and the speech of throne was
read by the premier.
AT banquet of the Atlanta cham
Der of commerce Tuesday, at Atlanta,
Ga, plans for holding the southern
industrial exposition in that city in
1910 were formally launched.
]. B. Morford, assistant to the gen.
eral manager of the Michigan Central
railroad, is dead, after two weeks
Illness from pneumonia, at st. Thomas,
Ont. Mr.. Morford was superintend.
ent of the road for 81 years up to
1908, when he retired from active SER
vice and was appointed assistant 10
general manager.
The students at the state college, at
Bellefont, Pa, refuse to work The
entire body of over 500 students, with
the exception of the fotball squad
went on a strike, owing to a dis
agreement with the faculty over the
system of cuts" and "excesses" on
the force this term.
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