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

| Victoria Square, business block In
Montreal, was partly destroyed by
fire Thursday night, causing loss of
| 100000.
| One death resulted from the explos-
ion Of an oil lamp at the home of
| James A. Spence, five miles from In
diana, Pa, Thursday night, while four
were seriously burned.
The United States army transport
Sheridan sailed from San Francisco
| Thursday for Honolulu, Guam and the
| Philippines with the officers and mel
| Of the Twenty Fourth, colored, infant
| ny.
The big drydock Dewey is getting
along well on her way to the Philip
| pines, and the almost daily reports re-
ceived at the navy department in
Washington, by wireless telegraphy,
have almost assured the officials Of
the success of the venturesome ex
pertinent
While endeavoring to protect his
wife from attack, Boyd Carpenter Of
Coatesville, Pa, was shot and killed
by unknown assassins. His wife was
also shot, and it is not expected she
will recover. Mrs. Carpenter was on
her way home from Coatesville to Ber-
nardtown, when she was approached
by two men. Her screams brought
her husband, who in trying to protect
her, was shot down.
The dowager empress of China has
sent to the American legation, in Pc
kin, number of wedding presents for
Miss Alice Roosevelt. The presents
consist Of costly jewels, silks and
ermine robes.
Chief Puc-Aa-Un. feudal lord of the
Igorottes, died in New Orleans, Sun
day of heart disease. The body will
be kept until the tribe, now in winter
quarters there, returns to the Philip
pines, where the funeral will be con.
Quoted.
A strike in the book and job print
ing shops Of Boston and vicinity, be-
ginning on February LIST, was voted
Sunday by the Boston Typographical
union No. 13. The strike will effect
all shops in which the eight-hour
work day has not been established,
and it is expected that 1000 printers
will go out.
An explosion of dynamite at the
Canadian Pacific railroad construction
camp near Keewatin, Manitoba. killed
three laborers and injured four
Count Maurice De Paregny, an arch.
aeologist, Of Mexico City, has discover.
ed in the Peten district OF Guatemala,
an immense ancient city OF the Mayas,
which will take months to investigate.
At Neuilly-Sur-Seine, near Paris,
Minister of War Btienne, of France,
Sunday unveiled a monument to the
aeronauts who served during the siege
Of Paris. After the ceremony the min
lister presented crosses OF the legion
of honor and other decorations to the
surviving aeronauts. The monument
was designed by Bartholdi.
Jules Despecher, one of the first
men to take part in the promotion of
cable communication between Europe
and America, is dead in Paris. He
was S3 years old.
A wage increase of approximately
seven per cent, in which 1000 EN-.
ployes participate, went into effect on
the Boston e. Maine railroad system
Monday.
Three men were killed by what is
thought to have been premature ex-
plosion of blast Monday night in the
Ellington mine, two miles west OF
Pittsburg, Kas.
Representatives Of Swift &c Co., of
Chicago, are in Portland, Ore, and are
perfecting plans for the construction
of an abbatoir and packing plant to
cost in the neighborhood of one mil
lion dollars.
When the employees of the First Ma
tional bank, at Talihana, I. T., entered
the building Monday morning, they
found that the safe which contained
$4,000, had been dynamited and it's
contents stolen. The robbers left no
clue.
Willard Reed Green, Of New York,
representing syndicate of capital
lists and contractors, has filed bid
with the war department at Washing
ton, for the construction of the pro-
posed system of railways in the Phil
ippines.
Capt. Stephen Russell Kirby, one Of
the founders of the Detroit Drydocll
Co., which built the first iron and steel
boats that sailed on the great lakes,
died Monday at his home in New York
CITY Cant Kirby Was 90 Years old