The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-02-09
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Happenings Of the World In the Last
Week Told In Brief Paragraphs.

T. n Rene, has decided to
SET At2tlvC 10 the marriage
OF Kn so to Princess Ena of
Battch 1t is believed that either
Cardina Jerry del Val. the secretary
OF state, or Cardinal Rampolla, the
former papal secretary of state, will
be charged with the mission.
The Weston Transit Co. Of Tona-
wanda, N. Y, has placed contracts
with the American Shipbuilding Co.,
at Cleveland, for three boats which
will be the largest freight carriers on
the great lakes. The boat will cost
100000 each. The dimensions Of
each boat will be COS feet over all, 60
feet beam, 32 feet deep. Each will
have capacity of $4,000 gross tons.
Rufus H. Darby, a leading employing
printer, of Washington was founl
dead Friday, at his country home near
that city. For many years he was
prominent in Masonic circles, and was
identified with the Royal Area chapter
of the Knights Templar and the Mys.
tic Shrine. He was "a years of age.
The plant of the Southern Oil Co.,
at Cordele, Ca, was practically de-
stroyed by fire Sunday. Loss $4,000.
The double tracking of the railroad
across the Isthmus of Panama, is pro-
crossing rapidly, and it is expected
that both tracks will be ready for SER
vice in July. Steam shovels are be-
ing utilized in cutting the side en-
banl1ments.
While walking along the Pennsyl-
vania railroad tracks at night near
Spring Mills, Pa. JOS. Nasal, 2S years
old, and Michael Augustine, 35 years
of age, were struck by locomotive of
a freight train and they were instant
ly killed
Egbert Whitaker, the oldest mem
Der of the Ulster county, New York,
bar, is dead, aged so. For several
years after his admission to the bar
he practiced at Des Moines, Iowa,
where he formed a lifelong friendship
with Elihu B. Washburn and Amos
Catlin.
Count De La Rochefoucald, who was
arrested in connection with the church
riots, in Paris, was sentenced to three
months Imprisonment.
Postmaster-Ge Cortelyou has
announced the appointment Of Richard
l.. Ashurst as postmaster at Philadel-
phia to succeed Clayton McMichael.
A dispatch from Chihuahua, Mexico,
to Ell Paso, Texas, says that Luis Ro-
cha, who killed Gilbert Johnson,
mining man, has been sentenced to 20
years in prison. Johnson was chief
engineer Of Thomas w. Aawson's min
ing properties in California and Mexi-
co.
The Maryland state senate has pass
ed q bill imposing a penalty of $25
for the first offense and 500 for the
second, upon any person who sells,
barriers, gives away, or in any manner
disposes of any cigarettes in the state
of Maryland. The house of delegates
has yet to pass upon the bill.
Chicago police Monday, recovered
jewelry and silver valued at more than
$4,000, said to have been stolen in
Pittsburg, by Ely Cohen, from his
fiancee, Miss Freda Cohn. Cohen was
arrested in Chicago one week ago and
taken back to Pittsburg.
More than $500 members of the
Swedish United socities honored Otto
Nordenskjold, the Attic explorer, Mon
day night with parade and sere-
made in front Of the Hotel Savoy, in
New York. Previous to the parade a
dinner was rendered to the explorer
at the hotel, by members of the Am
erican Society of Swedish Engineers.
George Freeman, an artist, formerly
Of Boston, committed suicide in Birm-
ingham, Ala, Tuesday afternoon. He
leaves family.
Prince Paul Metternich, second son
Of the Prince Matternich, who took a
prominent part in the events which
led to the fall Of Emperor Napoleon,
III, is dead in Vienna, Austria. He
was in his 74th year.
In a state of delirium Tuesday
night, Mrs. H. W. Kavel, of Allegheny,
Pa, killed her newborn babe, and SO
seriously cut her three-year-old daugh
ter, Margaret, with penknife, that
her life is despaired Of
DR.. George Ryerson Fowler, brevet
brigadiergeneral and surgeon on the
staff of Major-General Roe, of the New
York National guard, member of the
state board Of medical examiners, and
one of the best known surgeons of
Brooklyn, died Tuesday night at a
hospital in Albany, N. Y, after having
undergone in the past week, two oper-
atoms for appendicitis.