The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-02-16
SUMMARY OF NEWS
happenings OF the World In the Last
Week Told In Brief Paragraphs.

Mrs. Hannah A. Washburn, widow
Of former Governor William b. Wash.
burn, Of Massachusetts, died at her
home in Greenfield, Mass, Sunday
from heart disease She was 81 years
of age.
The entire plant and equipment of
the Poughkeepsie City and Wappin-
gers Falls Electric Railway Co., at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, was destroyed by
fire Sunday. Twenty-Five electric cars
were burned. The loss is $4,000; in
surance. $4,000.
The meeting of the Sovereign Grand
Lodge of the Independent Order OF
Odd Fellows will be held in Toronto in
September. The executive committee
in the Grand Lodge has decided to ap-
proprfate $4,000 for the entertain
ment of the delegates.
Matthew c. Fleming, who was asso-
ciated with Charles e. Hughes as
counsel in the legislative life insur.
ance investigation in New York, has
been retained by District Attorney Je-
rome to assist him in the preparation
Of the cases against the life insurance
company officials whom 1t is said the
district attorney will prosecute.
Dispatches received from Canton,
China, say that the anti-foreign sent.
ment there is due to the attitude Of
the viceroy, who appears to be deter
f0 p,,ia he Int
ed States. The viceroy up to the pres
ont has taken no action in connection
with the representations of the con-
sular body regarding the recent at
tacks on foreigners.
Henry Angus Rogers, claiming to be
a son of Count Angus of Denmark, is
under arrest in Dubuque, Ia The pris-
oner has confessed to embezzling mon
ey from the Benton club of st. Joseph,
Mo.
A statement issued by the postoffice
department at Washington, shows the
gross receipts of the fifty largest post
uary, 1906, were $7,118,6S9, as against
$6,260,360 for January 1905, nearly IA
per cent increase. The only decrease
was at Peoria, ILL.,, IA per cent. At
lanta, Ca, showed the largest gain,
nearly 27 per cent.
Anniversary exercises of the birth
day Of Lincoln, under the auspices Of
two patriotic associations, were held
in Washington Monday night, at the
congregational church, under the aus
pices of Burnside Post, No. 8, of the
department of Potomac, of the Grand
Army of the Republic Addresses were
made by Rep. Graft, of Illinois; Rev.
II. N. Couden, chaplain of the house
of representatives, and others.
The jury in the st. Louis circuit
court at st. Louis, has returned YER
dict for S27,S54, in favor of Mrs. APP
polonia Blair, widow of the former
general counsel of the worlds fair, in
her suit against the Provident Savings
and Life Assurance Co., of New York,
on policy on her husbands life. The
company refused payment, on the
ground that Blair contemplated sui
eide when he signed the policy con-
tract.
General Marquis de Mandegorria,
aide-camp to the king of Spain, CON-
mitted suicide Tuesday. He was the
Spanish attache in the Russian army
throughout the recent Russo-Japanese
war;
Mary e. Holmes, founder Of the
Mary E. Holmes seminary at West
Point, Miss, an industrial school for
colored girls, and prominent as a
scientist, died at her home in Rock
ford, ILL.,, Tuesday.
John j. Esch, of Sandusky, o., the
convicted embezzling secretary Of the
Aeria of Eagles, was sentenced Tues
day to two years in the penitentiary.
Esch, until recently, was a prominent
merchant in Sandusky.