The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-07-21
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Happenings Of the World In
Brief Dispatches

John, the 12-year-oli son of John D.
Bowen OF Cumberland, Nd, died
Thursday night of lockjaw, resulting
from Injuries sustained while firing a
toy pistol July 4.
The announcement has been made
at the navy department in Washington
that Rear Admiral Higginson, COM
nandant Of the Washington navy
yard, will be retired July 10.
Mr.. Rockhill, the American minister
at Pekin, has cabled the state depart
ment at Washington that the Chinese
government is vigorously opposing the
threatened boycott of American goods.
A contribution to the United States
treasury conscience fund received in
Washington Thursday carries the total
amount beyond the 100000 mark. The
conscience fund was established in
1911.
All hope Of discovering the cause of
the recent wreck on the Lake Shore
railroad at Mentor, O., ia which TWEEN.
ty-one lives were lost, has been given
up by Coroner Siegelstein at Cleve
land. .
Congressman Harvey c. CARRIER OF
Greenville, o., has been elected chair.
man of the Ohio democratic state en-
ecutiye committee, and he will man.
age the democratic campaign in Ohio
this year.
Because he persisted in coming TO
her home, Mrs. Emiline Kyle of Inge..-
soil, Ont, shot and killed David Nc.
Gee and 'hen went to the police head
quarters and gave herself up. She
said she was sorry but she was forced
to shoot MCGEE to protect herself.
Charles Edgar Brown, postmaster at
Cincinnati under the second Cleveland
administration, former member Of the
Ohio legislature, for years police COM
missioner of Cincinnati and prominent
as an attorney, is dead at Morgan.
town, W. Va, after a prolonged attack
Of dyphtheria.
Thomas McFadden, aged Is. aud
William Franz, IA years, OF Milwau-
kee, were drowned in the Menominee
river Sunday while bathing. McFad-
den was drawn down by an undercu--
rent and Franz, while attempting TO
rescue him, met similar fate. Both
bodies were recovered.
The governments of Great Britain
and Spain have accepted the invitation
Of the sultan of Morocco to attend the
international conference on Moroccan
reforms on condition that the contents
of the program to be discussed by the
conference be communicated to them
befor ehand.
The plant of the Columbus Packing
Co. at Columbus, Ohio, was destroyed.
by fire Sunday The president of the
company estimates the loss at s1S5
600. The insurance is $65,000. The
fire is believed to have been incendj-
airy, as it broke out in three different
places.
The formal orders have been issued
by the navy department at Washing
ton assigning Commander Cameron
McRae Winslow to the command of
the u S. S. Mayflower, which is soon
to be placed in commission to be used
in the entertainment of the peace eu-
voys Of Russia and Japan.
After resting in vault at Oak Hill
cemetery at Washington since his
death last December, the body Of
James N. Tyner,, former postmaster.
general, assistant encouragement and
representative in congress from Indi-
ana, was finally inferred in the family
lot at Oak Hill Friday. The burial
was private. There was no service.
The presidents secretary and Mrs.
Loeb left oyster Bay Sunday after
noon for months sojourn in and near
the Yellowstone National park. Dur
ing the greater part OF their sojou n
they Will be in camp in the mountains.
Assistant Secretary B. F. Barnes will
be in charge Of the work at the execu-
tive Offices in the absence OF Mr.. Loeb.
BY the discharge OF a shotgun,
which he had loaded for the purpose
of shooting stray cats, Thomas l.. Ha-
gar Of Weston, Mass, . cousin OF NAL
Gen. Leonard Wood, was instantly
killed Hagar's family had been away
and when they returned home about
midnight Hagar's body was found ly-
ing outside of the door. The top of his
head had been blown of.
Benjamin Webb Williams, who a
generation ago was pioneer In con-
Quoting lecturing tours in the United
States, is dead at his home In Dor
chester, Mass. He was 81 years OIL.
Among those who appeared under Mr..
Williams management were Henry
Ward Beecher, Horace Greeley, John
r. Cough, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wen
dell Phillips and George William Cur.
It's.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas has asked the
builders of the battleship Kansas the
fate of whose launching mas beoc
liked for Aug. IL, to postpone the
event few days In order that he may
be present. Miss Anna Hoch, the gov
ernor's daughter, has been selected as