The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-10-13
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Happenings Of the World In
49,. Brief Dispatches.

false entries In MS report 10 the COMP
troller of currency. Sentence was re-
served. The minimum penalty is five
years. Imprisonment.
Fire in ST. Raphael's (Cathol!c)
hospital at st. Cloud, Mimi, Tuesday
Quilted the building. The hospital was
filed with patients, forty of whom ara
typhoid fever sufferers, but all were
taken out. Loss, $4,000, with $4,000
insurance.
w. e. Brown, president OF the de-
funct First National bank of Storm
Lake, Iowa, was found guilty in the
federal court on thirty counts or
fraudulent banking by making false
entries in his books and false reports
to the government.
The structural iron workers en-
gagged on the new Canadian Pacific
hotel, the postoffice and many other
large structures at Winnipeg, Man,
have gone on strike to secure 40
cents an hour with a nine-honr day
They have been working ten hours
day at from 25 to 35 cents an hour,
About sixty men are out and the delay
to big buildings will prove serious.
A special grand jury at Lima, Ohio,
has returned indictments against
Elijah Bowsher and Thomas Wilkins,
charging them with stealing $4,000
from the American National bank on
Christmas day, 1898. Bowsher at the
time of the robbery was custodian Of
the building in which the bank was
situated and Wilkins was a leading
real estate agent with Offices in the
same building.
The Chinese journal, Sinwampao,
received on the steamer Tartar at Vic
toria, B. c., reports an attempt on the
life of Viceroy Yuan Shin Kai, one OF
China's most progressive officials. The
would-be assassin was 30 years OF age.
Having reached the age limit Of "a
years Sunday, MAJ. -Gen. George Nor
ton Randall, commander of the north
ern division Of the United States army
with headquarters in st. Louis, re-
tired from command. He will be sue
ceeded by Brig. Gen. John F. Weston.
Near Chapmanville, In Logan coun-
ty West Virginia, Sunday fight oc.
Cured between several young men
while returning home from church.
John Walker, aged 23, and Hiram
Snider, aged 80, were stabbed so bad
ly that death will probably ensue.
/ Others were injured. The trouble
arose over a young woman, relative
of Walker.
Correspondents of the London Morn
ing Post at Shanghai and Hong Kong
say that the Chinese government HAS
loaned to Viceroy Chag Chi Tung So
100000 at Az per cent for the final re-
turn to China of the HankowC Canton
railway concessions, the amount to be
secured by the opium revenues of tho
provinces of Tupe and Human and Of
Canton.
Frederick A. Miller, prominent
business man and a member OF the
wholesale firm of Walter r. Miller &
Co. of Binghamton, N. Y, has disap-
peared He was last seen at the firms
place Of business last Thursday. He
had been in poor health for some time
and it is feared he has broken down
and wandered away in a weakened
condition.
The commissioner of the general
land office at Washington has ordered
the withdrawal from entry all the pub.
lie land in twelve townships in the Al
lance (Neb) land district on account
of the North Platte irrigation project.
Announcement is made that on &C
count Of yellow fever in the south, tho
date fixed for the dedication of the
monument erected at Andersonville,
Ga, for Pennsylvania soldiers who
died in Andersonville prison has been
postponed from Nov. 10 to Dec. 7.
DR.. J. A. Ouchterloney, 81 years OF
age, surgeon, author and professor.
died Monday night of complication
Of diseases in Louisville. DR.. Ouch.
terloney had occupied chairs In med.
ical colleges In many cities. He was
knighted several years ago by King
Oscar Of Sweden and by Pope Leo
XIII.
An order was issued at the war de-
partment Monday relieving Maj. Gen.
Weston from the office of commissary
general and directing him to report to
the acting chief of staff for duty. It
10 expected that within a few weeks
Gen. Weston will be ordered to CON-
mand the northern division, with head.
quarters at st. Louis.
John r. Mclean, owner of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, has purchased from
the wilkins estate an even half inter
est In the Washington Post Company
in Washington. The amount of the
purchase money is not stated, but 1t is
understood to be In the neighborhoo6
Of 100000. Mr.. Mclean will be made
president Of the Post company and
will take an active part, with John F.
Wilkins, in the management of the pa
per.
Because of a rumor that Russians
from the cholera district of Europe
were to be struggled into the United
States, the steamer Slavonia was de-
tanned at quarantine in New York
Monday over two hours IN nor arrival