The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-08-11
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Happenings Of the World In
Brief Dispatches.

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isle, isxiead at her country home i,
West Is1p, L. l., after an illness OF
three weeks
Rear Admiral Goodrich, in tele-
gram to the navy department from San
Diego, reports that all the wo lnded
men from the Bennington ara doing
well.
| President Schurman 0ftCornell uni
versity has received diploma and the
announcement of his appointment as a
life member of the American academy
in Rome, established for the advance
ment of the fine arts.
Nearly 300 miners at the Adventure
mine at Houghton, Mich, went on
strike Friday because the management
! ordered the men to eat their dinners
under ground instead Of coming to the
surface as formerly.
Early Sunday morning the local
treasury at Opatoff, Russian Poland,
was attacked by forty armed men, who
killed or wounded all the watchmen
guarding the buildings. The robbers
secured $4,000. r
A collision at Pleasant Hill, Mo-, be-
tween local passenger train on the
Missouri Pacific railway and switch
ing engine, Engineer Frank G. Berry
| and Engineer Raymond were injured,
Berry fatally. None of the passengers
were injured.
While standing in the door of her
home at Donora, Pa, Julia Kalkum
was shot dead by Nitno Scyegar, a
Slav. It is said the girl was Scyegar's
sweetheart and had Tilted him. Scye-
gar fled after the shooting and has not
yet been captured.
Seward, Alaska, has been connected
with the outer world by Geographic
Communication, according to a report
received Sunday With the connection
Of the Seward and Valdez cable, the
government now has about 1900 miles
of cable in Alaskan waters.
An estate valued at $3,300,000 is left
by the late Col. Daniel S. Lamont, Sec
rotary of war under President Cleve-
land, according to Mr.. Lamont's will,
just filed for probate in New York.
Mrs. Lamont and her three daughters
are the beneficiaries.
The steamer Kanagawa from Hong
Kong brings news of plot there TO
ship 10000 rifles and 100000 rounds
of ammunition to Samar and other un-
pacified districts in the Philippines,
The scheme was discovered and the
fihbusters are in hiding.
Gen. Keystone, a veteran of the civil
and Spanish-American wars and dis
tinguished civil engineer, is dead in
his Goth year at his home in Zendham,
N. J. He leaves widow, who was
Miss Marker, of Pennsylvania, and
one daughter, Lady Monson, wife Of
Lord Monson Of England.
Eight persons, including both motor
men, were injured in collision be-
tween two cars of the Hartford avenue
line at the entrance to Clifton park in
Baltimore Sunday. For some undis-
coverable reason a northbound car
jumped the track and crashed into one
southbound.
Mr.. Russell, the newly appointed
American minister to Venezuela and
Mr.. Calhoun, the presidents special
agent to investigate the Venezuelan
financial status, will sail from New
York for Lagauira Saturday. Mr.. Cal
houn will be accompanied by Frank L.
Joannini, who has been detailed as
disbursing agent.
A brutal murder has been brought
to light at Bishop, Penn. The dead
body of Joseph Barr, aged SO, coal
miner, was found lying in his room
with the skull literally crushed i1to a
shapeless mass. The authorities have
absolutely no clue to work upon to
secure the arrest Of the murderer.
The chief of police of Homel, Russia,
has issued manifesto that, as his life
has been twice attempted by Jews of
the lowest classes, hereafter any such
men approaching within fifty PAGES of
his carriage will be shot. He also
has instructed the Cossacks to fire on
houses from which abusive remarks
are made.
BY the will of Thomas Fitzgerald.
who died recently in Los Angeles, Cal,
100000 will be divided between two
brothers and niece residing in Little
Falls, N. Y. The niece works in a mill.
When told Of her good fortune she was
asked If she would now resign her DO
sition. She replied that she saw no
reason why she should stop work.
DR.. James M. Buckley, chairman Of
the episcopacy committee of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, eclared Tues
day in an address atechhutauqua that
a clergyman has no right to make his
congregation laugh and that to do so
Is irreverancaIs,."Yet there are good
many clo1En6 m the pulpit" he con-
After a Jealous quarrel over white
man, nth whom she had lived as his
wife, MARY Matthews, colored, shot
and Instantly killed Martha Martin,
also colored, in theTooms of the lat
Ter In Brooklyn. Mrs. Matthews then
returned to her rooms and committed
suicide. Mrs. Matthews had accused