The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-07-06
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Happenings Of the World In the Last
Week Told In Brief Paragraphs

JacA~Wilkerson, a white man, con-
licted of having murdered his wife,
vas hanged~in Lingwton, Tex, Friday.
The new ba!tleship Nebraska, on
a builders trial, Monday, made 1886
knots over the prescribed course, Of
Point Beals.
John Paxton Cooper, formerly sport.
| ing editor of the San Francisco Chron.
icle, dropped dead at his home Men
| day, OF apoplexy.
The conference between coal miners
and operators of the east Palestine
and the Washingtonville districts.
Monday adjourned without a settle
ment.
Actuated by revenge, a Negro, at
Cairo, H., put poison in the wa:er
cooler in the Office of the Singer Sew
ing Machine Co. An Office boy died
sitter he had drunk the water, and
FIVE others who drank were poisoned.
American Consul Jenkins, Of Saliva
dor, American Consul-General Wins
low, of Guatemala City, and a party
of Americans, from both Guatemala
and Salvador, are in Mexico City, en
route to the United States.
Leonard Boat, his wife and six chill
dren were drowned while attempting
to ford the Animas river, near Cedar
Hill, New Mexico, Monday. The fam
lily had started for Durango to at.
tend a street carnival
David ]. Ellington, of New York,
won the title Of worlds champion tel.
egraph operator and the silver trophy
offered by Andrew Carnegie, at the
international tournament or telegraph
crs, just held at fremont temple in
Boston.
Two persons were killed and several
injured at Aurora, ILL.,, Friday, when
a mammoth tent of the Ringing
Brothers circus was blown down DUR
ing a severe wind and thunder storm.
panic followed, in which scores mar
rowly escaped being trampled TO
death.
The total assessed valuation of real
and personal estates in the city of
New York was reported by the tax
department as S6,305,794,1S5. This is
an increase Of 1898, 649,95S, as COM
pared with the valuation reported one
year ago.
A statement by the director Of the
mint shows that during May, 1896, the
total coinage executed at the minis
Of the United States aggregated 81
056,751, as follows: Gold, $1,426,Q
silver, $S24,964; minor coins, S995,767.
in addition, one million five-peso gold
pieces were executed for the govern
ment of Mexico
Charles w. McWbarter, assistant
cashier of the Washington city post
Office, was arrested Friday on COM
plant of City Postmaster John A.
Merritt, charged with the embezzle-
ment of $4,000. The police say that
McWharter confessed to Mr.. Merritt
that he was short in his accounts in
the amount stated.
The resignation of George W. Per-
kins as trustee of the New York Life
Insurance Co., was accepted at Il
special meeting of the board. Mr.. Per
kins rendered his resignation last De-
cember, but no action was taken unit,
the last meeting of the board, when
the trustees declined to accept it. At
yesterdays meeting Mr.. Perkins in
sisted upon its acceptance.
The British committee having in
charge the Anglo-American project
for the purchase of the house In Rome
IN which the poet Keats died, as
Keats and Shelley memorial has u.s.
sued an appeal for donations, init
mating that the money raised private
ly has been contributed on much
more generous scale in the United
States than in Great Britain.
The body Of Dr.. George A.. Thomp.
son, Phoenix, Baltimore county, Nd,
who has been missing from his home
since June 2lst, was found boating
in the Gunpowder river, near Warren,
Nd, Friday. The skull was badly
fractured, and the left leg was brok-
en-, owing, it is believed, either to a
TALL down an embanl1ment into the riv.
er, or TO DR.. Thompson having been
struck by tram while attempting
to cross bridge.