The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-06-09
SUMMARY OF News
Happenings of the World In
Brief Dispatches.


Sunday.
In a fight at a picnic near Lee City,
KY, two men were killed, two MORALLY
wounded and three were slightly
| wounded.
DR.. John Williams Streeter, autho.
OF "The Fat of the Land" and for sew
eral years a leading Chicago physi-
clan, is dead.
The president has proclaimed the
entire Wichita forest reserve a game
preserve. The reserve is in Oklahom,
and contains 57,120 acres.
William Court Gully has officially
announced his resignation on the
ground Of ill-health, of the speakership
Of the English house of commons
James Smalley Clark, assistant gen.
cral passenger agent of the New York
Central railroad, is dead at his home
in Yonkers, N. Y. He was 62 years of
age.
Secretary Taft Friday presented to
the president an invitation from the
Ohio state fair to attend the fair in
September. The president was obliged
to decline on account Of other engage
ments.
During a thunder storm Sunday
three churches in Chicago were struck
ty lightning and two of them were de-
stroyed. Several other buildings were
struck and damaged. The total loss Il
100000.
The tenth supreme camp of the
Royal Neighbors of America, the Ia
dies auxiliary of the Modern Wood
men of America, is in session at To-
peka, Kan, this week. Gov. Hoch
made the address of welcome.
Patrick ]. Hanway, formerly editor
and publisher Of the Brooklyn Stand
ard and editor and publisher Of Vigi-
liant, an insurance publication, is dead
at his home in Brooklyn Of typhoid fe-
yer. He was SO years old.
The president has issued an order
creating the ratings of tailors and as
sistant tailor in the navy. Hereafter
the sailors may pick out suit of
clothing and without charge the ships
tailor will make any alterations neces-
sary to make 1t fit neatly.
Confederate Memorial day was OBJ
served Sunday with appropriate cere-
monies in the confederate section of
the Arlington National cemetery at
Washington. The services were held
linden the auspices Of the various con.
federate societies of Washington.
Gov. Magoon of the isthmian canal
zone reports one more case Of yellow
fever on the isthmus, the patient be-
ing J. B. ]. Rensing, an American en-
gineer, aged 80 years, employed at
Culebra, who was taken Ill May %.
The First National bank Of Lady
smith, Wis, has been closed and placed
In charge of P. F. Earring, special bank
examiner. The total deposits aggre-
gate $4,000, which will be paid in
full. The bank will be reorganized.
Gen. Wilmon Blackmer, commander
in-chief Of the Grand Army Of the Re-
public announced today that he would
leave Boston Monday to attend the
campments, including that of Mich.
gan.
Col Andrew Jackson of Nashville,
Tenn, has sold the old Washington
chair, the most priced relic of Presi-
dent Jackson, to the Mount Vernon as
ISOLATION for $500. This chair was
willed by Gen. Washington to his FAM
sly physician, DR.. Craik, and members
of the Craik family gave 1t to Gen.
Jackson.
The Vienna Neue Freie Presse an
rounces that Gen. Baron Fejervary
has practically succeeded in forming
cabinet for Hungary and that the
names of those who will accept port
folios under his premiership will be
made public at the beginning Of next
week.
D. w. Ross, formerly Of the Illinois
Central railroad, has assumed his
duties as purchasing agent for the
isthmian canal commission. Major
Hugh ]. Gallagher, U. s. A., who has
been acting as purchasing agent, has
been appointed deputy purchasing
agent of the commission.
Clarence Bellinger, FL years old, anil
Mrs. Anna Meyer, her mother, of MI
waukee, are dead after drinking from
bottle ostensibly containing brandy.
A note was found on the table besi1e
tie bed of Mrs. Meyer, which reads.
"Sell everything and give the dead
Decent burial"
To the eleventh international Sun
day school convention, to be held al
Toronton June 1927, It Is expected
sixty-seven states, provinces and terri
tories in North America, with Cuba.
Mexico and Central America, will send
2,100 delegates and several thousand
visitors.
Gen. w. T. Wilson, SO years old, one
Of the two survivors Of the delegates
TO the first Ohio state republican con-
vention, which was held in 1855, Is
dead In Columbus, Ohio. Gen. Wilson
enlisted as a private in the civil wa
aid came out as breveted brigadier
general.
Many persons were injured, and II
~ reported that some were killed, dur
ing a panic in a concert hall at Paw