The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-29
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Happenings Of the World In the Last
Week Told In Brief Paragraphs.

Col. Charles w. Johnson, for several
years cler. Of the United States sen.
ate and now teasurer of Hennpin
county, Minnesota, has been stricken
with paralysis. He is in a precarious
condition.
Miss Ethel Watterson, youngest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wat
terson, was married Wednesday ut
Mansfield, KY, Mr.. Wattersons county
home, to Mr. Alexander Gilmour, :.
LCUisv.ie business man.
Gov. Douglas, Gov.-elect Guild, and
the members of the executive council
Of Massachusetts, have signed an H.
Illuminated memorial to be presented
to congress urging the senator's and
representatives to save the frigate
Constitution. The memorial, which is
very massive, will bear tn signatur
of citizens of the commonwealth.
The Prince of Pless has been Gre
ated duke by Emperor William, but
the title is not transferable to his
descendants. The eldest son of the
prince of Pless is Prince Henry of
Pless, who married Mary CORVALLIS
West.
Henry M. Cowles, who last June re-
signed the secretaryship to the Balti-
more board of school commissioners,
after having filled that office for 3S
years, died Christmas day. He was
SO years old.
Charlotte Hacker, a negress, is in
jail at Greene Isle, Tenn, charged
with having murdered Mrs. w. A. Kid
well, white woman. 1t is charged
that robbery was the motive for the
crime, that the negress poured oil on
the body and set the woman's cloth.
ing on fire.
Edward G. Wetherill, a member of
the firm Of George d. Wetherill & Co.,
paint manufacturers of Philadelphia,
shot himself twice Monday morning
and is not expected to live. The reas-
on for the act is publicly known, the
members Of the family refusing to talk
about the matter.
Mrs. Almira Pierce Johnson, one of
tiC OldNoI vi lllG WOUldu -
Relief Corps in the country and of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, is dead at her home in Milford,
Mass, at the age of 101 years 6 month.
Mrs Johnson's father, Levi Pierce, of
Worcester, served in the war of the
revolution.
Mary Foretiminie, aged 20 years, of
New York, was shot and instantly kill
ed Christmas night by her brother
Cesare, aged % years, at her home in
East 104th street. Immediately after
the shooting Cecase jumped from a
window to the street and was so Sc
verely hurt that he was unable to es-
cape and was arrested and taken to a
hospital.
AS the result of dispute during a
card game in Wise county, Virginia,
near the Kentucky state line, Geo.
Mead was shot and instantly killed
and VIII Ferguson, a bystander, and
Mary Rainey, a servant, were fatally
wounded. Ralph Snyder and John
Leslie were playing cards with Mead
and participated In the fight.
B. r. Mitchell. a stock broker of
San Francisco, has closed his doors.
Lllo lldOllltlGS are YlUU,OUO.
Fire in Louisville, KY, damaged the
Jefferson county courthouse to the ex-
tent of $4,000. Hard work by fire.
men and employees prevented serious
damage to the accumulated records of
century.
Prof. Gustav Hanback,, instructor Of
geology and zoology at Washington
university, and regarded as one of the
most eminent biologists in the United
States, was run down by a fire engine
at a down town street crossing in st.
Louis Tuesday night and seriously in
jured. Prof. Hanback, was "a years
old and a member of many national
scientific societies.
Uric La Fontaine, police justice of
Montreal, has been dismissed from the
position as eXtradition commissioner
by the dominion government. La Fon-
taine issued writs OF extradition in
many celebrated cases, among them
being the Gaynor-Greene proceedings.
1t was stated when this case was be-
ing heard that La Fontaine had in
Cured the enmity Of powerful pol
itical friends of the law firm which
represented the American contractors.