The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-08
SUMMARY Of NEWS NO court FOR YOUTHS
Happenings of the World In the Last
Week Told In Brief Paragraphs.

The monthly statement Of the public
ness Nov 80, 1905, the debt, less cash
in the treasury, amounted to S999,752,-
S31, which is a decrease as compared
with last month of $12,S93,294. This
decrease is accounted for by a cores
ponding increase in the amount Of
cash on hand.
DR.. Ambrose L. Ranney of Bloom
field, N. j., dropped dead of heart
disease, in New York, Friday, while
consulting his attorney. He was an
authority on nervous diseases, having
held chairs of anatomy and nervous
diseases in several colleges, and be-
ing the author of several books on
these subjects. DR.. Ranney was born
in Hardwick Mass, 81 years ago,
The mansion built near Rye, N. Y,
on Long Island Sound, by John "A.
Dix, the war governor of New York,
was destroyed by fire Sunday. The
house was owned by w. H. Browning,
of New York, who estimates the loss
at about $4,000.
A number of Russians were severely
wounded by an explosion in Geneva,
Switzerland, Sunday, while they were
preparing bombs in a private resi-
dence. An investigation by the auth
critics led to the discovery of a num-
Der OF explosives, fraudulent passports
and secret printing press.
At a meeting of the international
typographical union of Birmingham,
Ala, Sunday 1t was reported that
every job office and every newspaper
in Birmingham employing union men
has signed the S-hour agreement to
go into effect on Jan. 1. About 100
union printers are affected by the
agreement.
DR.. Ernest ]. Mierie, confederate
army surgeon, Is dead Of pneumonia,
| in Cripple Creek, Colo, aged rs years.
| Mierie was appointed a consul in Chi
| ma in 1886 by President Cleveland, but
resigned, it is said, because President
| Cleveland demanded he apologize to an
| army lieutenant whom the doctor
struck for refusing to shake hands IN
| Washington.
The correspondent of the London
| Daily Telegraph at Toxic, sends a dis
patch to his paper, outlining the pro-
visions of the Japanese budget. These
| include the withdrawal Of the army in
Manchuria at cost of $4,000, 900,
and gifts to soldiers and sailors ap-
proximating $75,000,000. 1t is estimat-
ed that the total expenditure called
for will be $515,OOO,0OO, of which sum
| $500, 100000 may be set down as the
outcome of the war.
Several buildings of considerable
size are being erected at Empire, Pan
anna, where the employees OF the en-
! gineering department of the Panama
canal, will be housed. At Ancon, also,
several big hotels are being built.
An explosion in the magazine Of
the citadel at Lille, France, during
the manufacture of cartridges, injured
eight artillery men. Some or them
were seriously hurt.
A delegation of eighty newspaper
| men, from South Dakota, are IN Wash
ington this week, viewing the sights.
The party is made up or members of
the State Press association or South
Dakota.
Orla Morey, of Rupert, Vermont,
25 years old, captain and pitcher of
Beloit's baseball team, at Beloit, Wis,
was drowned Monday afternoon in
Rock river at Beloit, while skating.
Miss Fannie Foster, a college senior,
who was with Morey, was rescued
unconscious.
At all Of the Jewish houses of wor
ship in Chicago, memorial services
were held Monday for the Jews killed
in the massacre in Russia. Little
business was done by the Jewish mer.
chants in any part of the city, and the
synagogues were filed to overfowing
all day.
On the ground that her husband is
convict, Mrs. Catharine Bryant Wat
son, wife Of James M. A. Watson, Jr.
who embezzled $4,000 of the funds OF
the District of Columbia government
and who is now serving ten-year sen
tence at Moundsville. w