The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-07-14
SUMMARY OF NEWS
happenings of the World In
Brief Dispatches.

mas destroyed the BUSINESS pOTtlOH W
Grldley, Cal. Loss, 100000.
The formal announcement was mad
at the state depa. Anent Monday thai
Elihu Root, or Ne York has been ap'
pointed secretary ~ state
Frank Hall aged y years, an1 Cha'
Rice, II years of age, the sons OF
farmers living near Cowgirl, De-, were
drowned Sunday while bathing.
George, e. Wood, pioneer lumber
man of Chicago, is dead OF pneumonia
He had engaged IN the lumbeH. bust
ness in Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and
the southern states at various times
Terrific storms in northern Italy con
tinue with increased loss OF life. The
storms, however, have cooled the tenn
perature. There are numerous deaths
from sunstroke.
The navy department Is Informed
that the 16000-ton battlcship Kansa;
will be launched at the yard OF the
New York Shipbuilding Co., at Cam
den, N. j., August 18th.
William B. Lyons, former chief Of
police of Baltimore and for many years
one of the best known detectives ::
tho country, is dead at the age of "
from the result of fall from a street
car in June.
Gov. Stokes of New Jersey an
nounces the appointment OF James B
Dill Of Essex county for judge OF the
court of errors and appeals to sue
coed Judge Peter P. Voorhees, of Cam
den, resigned.
Japanese bonds to the amount oil
$50,O00,OO0, one third of the entire
bond issue were subscribed for in Bos
ton Tuesday. The banking house
handling the issues early in the day
reported heavy applications.
Gen. o. o. Howard, who for the las
thirteen years has been engaged in
promoting the finances of the Lincoln
Memorial University at Cumberland
Gap, Tenn, has received information
that Andrew Carnegie has given $40,
900 to build library for the institu
ton.
The body Of Rear-Admiral Louis ]
Allen, who died in New York city June
20, buried in the Arlington Nationa
cemetery Friday with military honors
A troop of cavalry from Fort Myel
escorted the remains from the rail
road station 10 the cemetery.
George Ritchey, farmer has sur
rendered to Sheriff Allphin of Boone
County at Hebron, KY. and is held
on a charge of killing William Smith
with knife, and probably MORALLY
wounding John Warner, Smiths faith
er-in-law The tragedy was the cul
mination of feud.
| Representative OF the japanese
government nave purchased f1vA high
ly bred stations at Lexington, KY, :
be sent to the royal stud. Three arr
thoroughbreds and two are reg sterej
trotters. The consideration IS each
case is private.
NOV that the S1,000,000 endow men.
fund for the maintenance of the Ameri
can Academy of fac arts in Rome, has
been practically completed by the sub
scription of 100000 by H. c. Frick
1t is proposed to raise 100000 for d
library for the institution.
Silas Mcdonald, who was for years
cashier of the Stale National bank /:
st Joseph, Mo-, and who went 20 Phi.
adelphia after that institution went in.
to liquidation, committed suicide in
Philadelphia Sunday, by cutting his
throat in the presence of his wife. H :
had been in ill-health.
While running at the rate Of 60
miles an hour Sunday, eastbound Ne. =
York fast mail train on the big Four
collided with westbound freight tran
which was pulling on to siding ct
Oakhall, five miles west of Greer castle,
Ind. Fireman Tippy, of Indiarapoli
was fatally injured, and Engineer A.
M. Garner, Of Nation, Illinois, was
seriously hurt.
The Providence, r. I. police have
received a telegram from Houston
Texas, stating thai Percy B. Gibson 4
prominent young 4 an OF the formcr
city, who disappeared on June IA, has
been located in HDuston. Gibson Is Il
son-in-law of Rev. III. Floyd w. Tom
kins, rector of the church of the Hols
II rinitv PhiIadelnhia
Official announcement has be n
made at tho navy. department a.
Washington Of the twenty-four sue.
cessful candidates n the examination
for assistant paymasters, recently
held at the navy .ard, Washington,
and the navy yard a. Mare Island. FC-
the first time the merit system w.s
adopted in making designations 70.
this examination.
Postmaster-General Cortelyou has
ar bounced the appointment OF Steven.
son A. Williams, of Bel Air, as mem.
Der of the republican national commit
tee for Maryland to fill the vacancy