The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-23
SUMMARY OF NEWS STATE NEWS NOTES
Happenings OF the World In the Last
Week Told In Brief Paragraphs.
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The Hon. A. Pitt, minister OF de
Tense of New Zealand, is dead.
A runaway" coal train near Buena
Vista, Col)., on Colorado and South
ern railway Sunday, killed two men
and injured another fatally.
Passengers are being carried free
OF fare or river packets between
Wheeling, w. Va, and Parkersburg as
result Of competition between rival
lines.
Mrs. ]. W Bailey, mother of United
States Senator Joseph w. Bailey, died
Sunday afternoon after an extended
illness. Senator Bailey, with other
members of the family was at tie bed.
side.
One hundred and twenty contestants
took part iE peculiar race in Paris
Sunday afternoon, which consisted in
running up the 730 steps leading tc
the second stage of the Eiffel Tower.
The winner made the distance in three
minutes and four seconds.
One trainman was killed and several
others injured as the result of col
lision between an empty engine and an
eastbound milk train on the Delaware,
Lackawanna e. Western railroad at LIE.
high, a small station on the Ponconc
mountain, ten miles east of Scranton,
Pa, Sundaj night.
A small panic was caused at the
Lyric theater in New Orleans Sun.
day during a matinee performance by
a shout of "fire!" The audience rose
en- masse and rushed towards the
exits. Some person in the audience
shouted that it was only a small fire
across the street. This stopped the
stampede. Several women tainted,
but otherwise no one was injured.
There was a great popular dem.
onstration in Brussels, Belgium, Sun.
day, in favor of obligatory education
which hitherto never has been insisted
upon in Belgium. Not less than 10000
persons marched in procession to the
city hall and presented a petition to
the mayor, voicing their demand. This
petition has 100000 signatures The
mayor promised to bring the matter
10 the attention of parliament.
Practically the entire business sec
ton of Fayette, Miss, was destroyed
by fire Monday night, entailing a loss
OF about A75,000, partly covered by
insurance.
A tornado struck the little town of
Eenneger in Dc Kalb county, Ala, on
Sunday morning at daybreak, and not
building was left Standing. Fifteen
stores anu houses were reduced TIC
splinters. Henneger is twelve miles
from the nearest railroad station. No
fatalities ere reported
The Will OF Mrs. Varina Jefferson
Davis, Wife Of the president of the Goa.
federate States, was filed in Vicksburg
Miss, Monday for probate. The will
leaves % Mrs. Davis daughter, Mrs.
Margaret Howell Davis Hayes, of Col
orado Springs. Colo, all of the estate
with the exc option of $4,000 life insur.
ance. This sum is divided into numer-
Gus small requests.
The demurrer of the defendants in
the $4,000 damages brought by
Charles H. Boyer, president of the
Western Federation Of Miners, against
Former Governor Peabody, FORMER
AdjutanI General Sherman Bell and
Adjutant General Bulkeley Wells, of
Colorado, Is sustained nan opinion re.
turned Monday by Judge Robert e.
Lewis, of the United States district
court in Denver. Meyer alleged wrong.
full Imprisonment.