The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-03-23
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Happenings of the World In the Last
Week Told In Brief Paragraphs.

A
horne Shaw at the end of April IN
Virginia.
| The Cuban presidential electors
formally met in Havana Monday, and
unanimously elected Thomas Estrada
Palma president of the republic.
Three Russian students lave been
arrested in Stockholm and identified
as having been concerned In the Hell
singfors bank robbery which. took
| place on February 26.
A decrease in the number of naval
! assertions in the United States navy
is recorded for the month of February,
when they totalled 125, as against $40
during July and August last.
Antonio Mocri, Matio Shani and
Giuseppe Costa, Italians, lost their
lives Tuesday at Folsom, on the Cape
May division Of the Atlantic City rail-
road, by the caving-in or a gravel
bank.
An armed crowd in Warsaw, Rus.
sian Poland, Sunday attacked the pris.
or at aPwia street, killed a warden,
and MORALLY wounded two others and
| liberated a political prisoner named
! Zalesk.
Bernard Miles, a stationary en-
gineer, shot and killed a woman
known as his wife, and then ended his
own life at an Everett street, Boston
lodging house Tuesday night. No mo-
tive for the tragedy is known.
Stratton d. Brooks, superintendent
of schools, at Cleveland, O., who re-
Gently was offered the position Of si.
perintendent Of the Boston public
schools, has notified the Boston school
committee that he accepted it's offer.
II. Huffman Browne, New York
lawyer, was Friday convicted of
forgery in the first degree. 1t was
charged that Browne created several
fictitious persons as alleged heirs to
an estate. The prisoner was remand
ed for sentence.
John ID. Rockefeller, it has been
authoritatively announced, has for
warded to the board of commissioners
for foreign missions of the congrega-
tional church, a check for $4,000,
completing his gift of 100000 prom
ised some time ago.
The Seneca Transportation Co. has
been incorporated in Buffalo to oper-
ate line Of steamships between Buff
falo and other ports on the great
lakes. 1t is a subsidiary corporation
of the Lackawanna Steel Co., which
holds the majority of stock.
st. Vincent's academy, established
80 years ago, at Shreveport, La, was
destroyed by fire Friday afternoon,
loss 100000. The fire originated from
a defective flue while the teachers
and pupils were at lunch Almost a
panic resulted, but all escaped without
injury.
John Gehr, a former organizer of
the United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca, Sunday shot John Thomas and his
brother Tom Thomas. The latter
probably was fatally wounded. The
affair occurred in a saloon In Florence
Colo, where the three had been drink
known. Gehr escaped
Hundreds of delegates were sent on
Saturday and Sunday to President
Roosevelt, to members or congress
and to others in official life in Wash
ington, from commercial and other
bodies in almost every city and town
of Importance in Oklahoma and Indian
territory, urging them to work for i'm
mediate statehood for the TWO terri
tories.
President Roosevelt's second daugh-
ter, Miss Ethel, Secretary Taft's
daughter, Miss Helen, and a daughter
OF General A. w. Greedy, OF the army,
were among a class Of about twenty
five young people who were confirmed
at st. Johns episcopal church in
Washington, Sunday afternoon. Bish-
op Saterlee administered the rite of
confirmation.
A sailor belonging to the British
battleship Bulward, was killed Friday
b. stabbing, after a quarrel in p
barroom, in Genoa, Italy, with several
lOlSlsHClo, lhSluulhS LuCnOclo VI Tic
Buffalo Bits wild west company. One
Of the latter, called Davis, was arrest
ed, but his culpability has not yet
been established.
The William II. Baldwin, Jr., fund
of $150,O0O, which is to be presented
to the Tuskegee, Alabama, normal in
stitute, has been completed in New
York, the net amount of the sub
scriptions being $150,196.74. The fund
will be presented April 4, the occasion
of the 25th anniversary of the insti-
tute's founding. 1t will be retained
as separate endowment.
The postmaster-general has ordered
that articles mailed in the United
States addressed for delivery in Great
Britain, Canada or the Transvaal,
which are enclosed in envelopes,
wholly or in part transparent or semi.
transparent, shall be treated by the
United States postal officials as I'M
mailable. The countries mentioned
have refused to receive such articles,
saying they are indistinct.
Prince Henry of Prussia, while per-
sonally driving an automobile, ran into