The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-01-05
SUMMARY OF News
Happenings of the World In the Last
Week Tald In Brief Paragraphs.

Mrs. Emma Isabel Peabody, a
killed Herself in her apartments at "A
West 69th street, Monday night.
The mistake of a switchman result
ed in street car accident in Paris
Thursday on the Avenue de La Re
publique, in which twenty-five persons
were injured.
The st. Petersburg correspondent OF
the London Times reports that the re-
lations between Russia and Germany
are distinctly strained and that there
is a possibility of international COM
plications arising from the rebellion in
the Baltic provinces.
Troops in La ROCHELLE, France.
charged the striking dock laborcrs
Thursday with bayonets as they were
attempting to gain entrance to the
docks in order to force the laborcrs
there to cease work. A number of per-
sons were wounded.
Alex Mcdonald, Birmingham, Ala,
negro, attempted the life of Policeman
Henry Nichols, of Elkmont, Ala, injur-
ing him slightly. He was pursued by
a hundred men and brought back to
town Thursday, with a rope around his
neck and his body riddled with bull
lets. The body disappeared myster-
iously after the affair.
BY the explosion of a dynamite
charge in the Mantner mine at Stoyes-
town, Pa, Thursday night, Charles
Johnson, William Savage and Edward
Berkebile were literally blown to
pieces. The explosion occurred just as
the men were getting ready to quit
work for the night. They had pre-
pared big shot of dynamite and were
about to place 1t in the hole, when it
was prematurely DISCHARGED
Fire Monday night destroyed the
large four-story brick plant of the Hag-
erstown, (nd.,) Storage & Transfer
Co., entailing a loss of between $685.
600 and $150,000.
Three trainmen were killed and sew
eral injured in head-on collision be-
tween freight trains on the Big Four
railway four miles west of Column
bus Ohio, Monday night.
Charles H. Darling, of Bennington,
VT, former assistant secretary of the
navy, took the oath of Office as col
lector of customs for the Vermont dis
trict at Bennington Monday.
H. j. Handy Of the Chicago Cenral
Young Mems Christian association, in
an open swimming meet in Chicago
Monday night broke four American
records.
w. o. Thompson, president of Ohio
State university, who is a member at
large of the Columbus board Of edu-
cation, at the meeting of the board
Monday night, rendered his resigna-
ton because as he said the members
were playing politics"
The .acqueduct which conveys water
to the city Of Naples, burst Tuesday,
resulting in the inundation of the dis
trict and causing great alarm The
accident was due to the sudden cold
weather.
Miss Louise Morewin, a member Of
n New York theatrical company, play
ing "Heir to the Hoorah," in Chicago,
OISu IutlS ucoudy IlBuJ DIT Iuc WSo-
ley hospital from lockjaw, the result of
a Slight injury received by falling
down an elevator shaft at Newark, o.,
a week ago.
The monthly comparative statement
| of the government receipts and ex-
penditures shows that the total re.
ceipts for December 1906 were $780,.
| $780, 63, and the expenditures $44,931,.
| 745, leaving a surplus for the month
tf $5,41S,718.
A great sensation has ben caused in
Rome by the elopement of a. daughter
Of Count Lutti of Treviso, 10 years old,
with Count Giovanni Correr, who is 60
years old. Both belong to the most
ancient of the nobility. Count Lutti
| reported the elopement to the police,
who succeeded in arresting the couple
at Venice.
The boiler makers and riveters at
| the Baltimore e. Ohio shops at Glen
wood, Pa, have struck against piece
work. They are now being paid SO
Ter day, and claim that while at piece
work few can make 81 per day, the
majority could not make living wages.
| The strike, unless speedily settled, will
| affect large number of skilled work
men in other branches.
l ---------------