The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-05-26
SUMMARY OF news
Happenings Of the World In
Brief Dispatches.


dor to Russia. has left st. Petersburg
for Paris.
Auruturier. Frenchman, won the
Bordeaux-Paris bicycle race, covering
the $40 miles in 20. hours and Is min.
utes.
Lady Georgiana Bloomfield, a per.
sonal friend OF the late Queen VIC
toria, is head. She was born in April.
1922. ea
George Hamlin, the Chicago teno-,
made a successful debut at London,
and the critics praise his dramatic and
musical style.
The Hungary official crop bulletin
seys the general conditions are salts
factory and that the wheat promis -
good average.
A hunger riot broke out at Alcazar
de San Juan, in the province of Ciudad
Real, Spain, workmen attacking sew
eral -four mills.
Howard Malcolm Tichnor, author,
lecturer and critic, Is dead at his home
in San Francisco after brief illness.
He was a'native of Boston.
Mr.. Dawson, the American minister
to San Domingo, Is coming to the
United States on leave. He reports
that all is quiet on the island.
A London dispatch says the value of
the estate in the United, Kingdom of
the late w. G. Whitney of New Yorl,
has been sworn to at $125,000.
An open air fete at Vienna for the
purpose Of raising funds for poor and
sick children was largely attended and
resulted very satisfactorily financially.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
and experts Of the agricultural depart
ment are on a tour of Investigation of
agricultural conditions IN the south
west.
]. Edward Coffin Of Manchester, N.
H., prominent as a cartoonist ami
newspaper writer, is dead of typhoid
fever at the age of as years He was
native of Minneapolis.
Forty-six thousand acres of land il
the Burns, Oregon, land district have
been withdrawn from entry by the sec.
rotary of the interior on account Of
the Payetts-Boise irrigation project.
Emperor Nicholas has raised Bishop
Tikhon of the diocese of the Aeutian
islands and North America to the rank
Of archbishop, in consideration of dis
tinguished services and devotion TO
duty.
The Duke of Sutherland was pre-
scented to President Roosevelt by
Hugh O'Beirne, charge d'affairs of the
British embassy, and later was the
guest of the president and Mrs. Roose-
welt at luncheon.
The steamers Philadelphia, South.
ampton and Cherbourg, for New Yord,
have been In communication by wire
less telegraph with Siasconsett, Mass.
The vessels were 140 miles east Of
Nantucket lightship.
The leaders of the workmen's organ
ization at LODI, Poland, have issued a
proclamation urging their followers to
return to work and not heed the propa-
ganda of agitators, who have brought
them to beggary.
The Spanish government has grant.
ed new credits, amounting to $3.50, 600,
for the relief of the distressed PROV
iEce Of Seville, In consequence of the
drought. Madrid newspapers state that
famine threatens Seville.
An encounter between Graeco-Mace-
DOMAIN bands and strong Turkish de-
tachment Is reported to have occurred
in the district Of Langadina. In Mace
donia. Eleven insurgents and fifty
Turks are reported to have been killed
The freshman crew won the Harva 4
inter-class boat race at Cambridge,
thus acquiring the Beacon cup and the
right to represent Harvard In, the
American Henley at Philadelphia, May
27. The sophomore Grew was second.
The three days automobile endur-
ance contests between Breslau and
Vienna have been completed without
serious accident. The American ma.
chine made an excellent showing in
short distance and hill-climbing con.
tests.
King Oscar Of Sweden will resume
the direction OF state affairs at the end
OF this week, thus terminating the re-
gency Of Grown Prince Gustave. who
will proceed to Berlin to attend the
wedding of Crown Prince Frederick
William.
At Cincinnati William Patton, q
union ironmolder, having pleaded
guilty to killing Samuel Weakley,
non-union molder, last summer during
q strike Of holders. was sentenced by
Judge Smith to twenty eyars In the
penitentiary.
Aemelius Jarvis. who has sailed the
Comedian representative in every race
for the Canada's cup, has notified the
racing committee Of the Royal Canadl.
an Yacht club that he will not be able
to sail the. challenger this year. M.
Wedde, 1t is said, probably will be Sc
fected.
Roumania insists upon reparati1n
for the act Of the veil Of Yanina in ar.
resting several Roumanian school In.
spectors In spite. of the privileges con-
ferred upon them by the porte. and ie-
clares that unloss the demand Is grant
ed relations with Turkey will 5e