The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-02-23
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Happenings of the World In the Last
Week Told In Brief Paragraphs.

Four people were burned to death
and three seriously hurt in a fire
which destroyed the home of Patrick
Grogan at Tunnel Hill, about twenty
seven miles 'east of Johnstown, Pa,
early Tuesday morning.
Henry G. Yeats, young married
man, was shot and killed late Sunday
night by Mrs. Charles Dove, of Natal,
| Va. Yeats went to the home Of the
Dove woman, sending her husband off
for some whisky, and meantime, she
had to force him to leave the house.
Upon Yeats attempt to re-enter, she
opened fire with shotgun, the shot
lodging in his breast
The operators OF the nine large cot.
ton and wooden mills at Spray, N. c.,
which are among the largest factor
les in the south, have agreed upon the
ten-hour day system, which will go in
to effect March 5. The present sys-
tenn is eleven hours.
j. H. Hill, president of the Eden
Park Coal Co., and one of the wealth
lest men of Guyandotte valley, w. Va,
was shot and killed Monday, by Edwin
Porter, Is years old. Hill lived two
| hours after being shot. Porter escap-
ed to the mountains, but later was cap
tured.
Two Italian children, aged respect
| lively and 2 years, were burned to
death in fire that destroyed miners
cabin at the Dagus mines, near Du-
bois, Pa, Monday.
Fire in the building occupied by
G. H. Butterworth e. Co, paint man.
ufacturers, at 1875 Market street, in
Philadelphia, did damage Monday
night to the extent of $4,000.
Vladan Georgevitch, former premier
of Servia, has been sentenced to six
months in prison on the charge OF re-
vealing state secrets in the published
book, "The End of Dynasty" furnish
ing sensational exposures of Russian
intrigues against the Obrenovitch
regime.
Colombian newspapers received in
Panama, contain a dispatch from
President Reyes, stating that on Feb.
10, he was shot at eight times by
paid assassins, while he crossed the
Arjobispo bridge in Bogota with his
daughter. None Of the bullets struck
the president or his daughter.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson en-
tertained the president and Mrs. Roos-
evelt at dinner Tuesday night. The
other guests included, Senator ALI
son, Senator and Mrs. Burrows and
Senator and Mrs. Dolliver.
Through an accidental explosion of
dynamite Thursday, at the plant of
the Deckers Creek Stone e. Sand Co..
at Sturgisson, w. Va, one man was
almost instantly killed, another IA
tally injured and five seriously hurt.
Alfred Steele, aged 65, one of the
best known operative potters of East
liverpool, -O.,-dieur ueSuay nrsnu-
Harmony, Pa, where he was visit
ing his son, Rev. Alexander Steele,
pastor of the Harmony Memberships
copal church.
General Oliver, acting secretary OF
war, has authorized the issue of the
Krag-Jorgenssen rifles to institutions
Of learning, where military sciences
and tactics are taught, to replace the
$4,000 Springfield cadet rifles, which
they are now equipped with.
Edwin s. Cunningham, OF Marys-
lille, Tenn, American consul at Ber-
gen, Norway, called on the president
Tuesday and told him that the pros
perity Of Norway was increasing under
the recently crowned king, and the
country was looking forward TO i'm
proved commercial relations with Am.
erica.
A cablegram received at the war de-
partment in Washington, from
Comptroller Cotton, at San Domingo
| City, states that the customs collected
| for the ten months ending Jan. "a,
exceeds two million dollars, and tho
amount of money credited to the trust
| fund, or deposited in New York for
| the benefit of foreign creditors, was
| one million dollars.
DR.. II. L. Logetz, of Marshalltown,
| Ia, former president of the Interna-
| tional Association of Railway Physi-
| clans and Surgeons, threatened in a
sudden frenzy Tuesday, to kill his
family. His mental condition is be-
lieved to be due to cocaine, which he
had used recently in large doses to
alleviate pain caused by diabetes. The
doctor has been taken to the state
| hospital at independence, Ia.