The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-06-02
SUMMARY OF news
Happenings Of the World In
Brief Dispatches.

| DR.. j. e. Loves, a capitalist OF Day.
ton, o., is dead at Pasadena, Cal, aged
81 years.
Former Governor e. w. Wilson, OF
West Virginia, died at Charleston, w.
Va, after suffering for year of tu-
berculosis.
James F. Xavier O'Brien, nation
alist member Of parliment for Cork, Is
dead at London. His death was sud-
den. Mr.. O'Brien was born in 1881.
At Cheyenne. Wyo., Judge Scott has
overruled the motion for new trial
Cf Col. w. F. Cody's divorce suit case.
The case will go to the supreme court
ON appeal.
Whitelaw Reid, the new American
ambassador will be presented by For
eign Minister Lansdowne to King Ed
ward at noon on June 5, when he will
present his credentials.
At Trenton, N. j., the court Of par
dons has refused TO commute to life
Imprisonment the death sentence i'm.
posed upon Guiseppi Marmo, who was
convicted of murder in Essex county
The commissioner of the general
land Office has ordered the withdrawal
from entry OF 100000 acres of land in
The Minot IN. d. land district on &C
count Of the Williston recalamtion
project.
The annual meeting of the Associa.
ton of Second and Third Class Post.
masters has closed its session at
\ Washington, d. c. The old officers
were reelected and the next meeting
will be held in Detroit.
The National Association of Secre-
taries of State, in session at Nash.
vile, Tenn, passed resolutions oppos-
ing fees on acquisitions and warrants
and in favor OF uniform corporation
laws for all states.
Rear Admiral Train, COMMANDMENTS
chief of the Asiatic station, has adj
vised the navy department by cable
that he has made the battleship Ohio,
which recently arrived at Manila, the
flagship of the feet.
Statues of Presidents Lincoln and
Grant, occupying conspicuous posi-
| tons In the famous statuary hall IA
the capitol, have been decorated vita
| flags and flowers, according to annua!
Memorial day custom.
D. ]. O'Day, general superintendent
| Of the Standard Oil company's inter
| ests west of Pennsylvania, died at
Lima, Ohio, after an illness of several
weeks. Death was due to a collapse
| of the nervous system.
Charles G. Magoon, governor of the
canal zone, in the Ancon district, was
sworn In by Judge Gruder of the canal
zone, at Panama, in the presence Of
President Amador, his cabinet and
other prominent officials.
1t is reported from st. Petersburg
that M. Stichinsky, formerly assistant
minister of the interior under the late
Interior Minister Won Plehve's admin
istration, will be chief of the new OH.
reau of peasant affairs and agriculture.
Japanese colonization is conten.
plated in Texas by wealthy Japanese
agriculturist One thousand farmers
are to be collected in Japan and, as
first undertaking, $500 acres will be
cultivated in Puddy Fields, in Texas
David w. Ross, general superinten-
dent Of the Illinois Central railroad,
has been made purchasing director of
the Panama canal, position of much
power and responsibility. He will
move at once from Chicago to Wash.
ington.
A. G.. Barry of st. Andrews univer.
ship at Prestwick, Scotland, defeating
Osmund Scott by up and Q to play
Barry, who is only 10, Is the youngest
player who ever secured the cham.
pionship.
The large mill, owned by Ackley md
Sprague, at Washburn, Wis, has been
destroyed by fire together with tn
machine and blacksmith shops and a
large quantity Of lumber. The loss Is
Sis, 900, Of which $4,000 was on the
mill and shops.
Clifford Pinchot, chief Of the bureau
Of forestry, department Of agriculture,
has decided that forest officer may
exercise his rights under the homo.
stead and desert Land laws, provids,
he intends to make the claim his per.
manent home.
The st. Petersburg Syn Otetchestva
Gays the Hebrews of st. Petersburg
and other cities have decided to alb
stain from attending theaters, oon-
corts. etc., for three months as q mark
Gf mourning for those killed during
the recent rioting at Zhitomir
A Naples dispatch says: The erup-
ton of Mt. vesuvius continues. the
volcano showing four new openings
through which lava flows, while tho
immediate surrounding country Is GOV.
cred with ashes. The Funicular rail-
road. has been compelled to cease run.
ming
Secretary Hitchcock has rendered a
decision which will result in forfeiting
to the government all purchase money
received with applications for timbe~
and stone lands which are afterward
foupd IN no fraudu1ent The docietoo