The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-16
SUMMARY OF News
Happenings Of the World In the Last
Week Told In Brief Paragraphs.

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The management of the Rock Isl
and railroad, it was announced on
Monday, has issued orders for new
equipment to cost $5,O0O,OOO. This is
in addition to orders previously giy-n
this year, aggregating $3,OOO,O0O.
President Roosevelt will be asked to
deliver the address at the unwilling CT
the monument to General Lawton be-
Ing erected in the court house yard in
Indianapolis by the people of Indiana
The ceremony will take place next
Memorial day.
Mrs Mary Hitchcock Cowles, wife
of Col. Calvin d. Cowles, of the Fifth
United States infantry, and a cousin
of Captain William s. Cowles, U. S.
NJ, died at the John Hopkins hos
pital, in Baltimore, Monday, of aenem-
ia. She was So years of age.
All the building contractors of Mo-
bile, Ala, Monday declared for the
open shop basis. AS a result 1900
nen in the building trades refus ID to
work. Only one firm acceded t.. the
demand for closed shop.
Two lives were lost and the village
Of Richland, near Martins Ferry, O.,
was practically wiped out Tuesday, by
fire, which was caused by an ex-
llosion of gas. Two children of for
eign miner were burned to death in
the flames which swept over the place
aided by a brisk wind. The village
has no fire department.
One man was killed, three fatally
and two seriously hurt in the ex-
plosion of casting at the Youngs-
town foundry and machine company's
plant, in Youngstown, o., Monday
afternoon. Michael Key, a furnace
man, was terribly burned and was
killed.
Sister Mary Julia, founder and
mother superior of st. Vincent's or
phan asylum in Chicago, who gained
an international reputation in relig-
ious circles because of her benevolence
and assistance to the poor, died at
The orphanage Tuesday, of pneumonia,
after an illness of a few days.
One man was killed and three others
were seriously, probably fatally in
jured, at $3.50 Tuesday evening, when
fast eastbound passenger train on the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad ran
into wagon heavily loaded with logs
at a grade crossing at Edensburg, Pa,
six miles west Of Newcastle.
Six bystanders were injured, two
seriously, during a balloon ascension
in Mount Vernon, ILL.,, Sunday. A
score of persons were knocked down
as the balloon shot into the air. The
accident was caused by the topping
over of heavy pole used to support
the bag while it was being inflated.
Anarchists in Rome, Sunday, at
tempted demonstration to commem-
crate the hanging of the Chicago
anarchists nineteen years ago. They
were dispersed by the police, and
many were arrested. This demonstra-
ton conceded with the anniversary of
the birth of King Victor Emmanuel.
General Brugere, former command
er-in-chief of the French army, will
leave Paris shortly, for tour of the
world. Gen. Brugere's son is at pres
ent attending a military school in the
United States. While in America,
Gen. Brugere will be the guest OF
President Roosevelt.
Mrs. Esther Sumner Damon, said
to be the last surviving widow of a
soldier of the revolutionary war, died
Sunday at her home in plymouth
Union, VT, at the age of SO years.
She was married in 1885 when she
was 81 years old, to Norah Damon,
who was then rs years old. Damon
served through the revolutionary war,
having enlisted in 1775.
A state Of panic exists in Mario,
Preside county, Texas, over twelve
deaths that have occurred from
strange and malignant disease that
recently made its appearance on the
Mexican border and spread rapidly to
Maria Local physicians have been
unable to diagnose the disease and
have appealed to the state depart
ment.
Deputy Sheriff Eugene Cribley of
Dover Plains, N. Y, surprised q bur-
glar at work in the Office of the meat
market of l.. l.. Colligan late Monday
night. When the deputy entered the
Office the burglar pulled his revolver
and fired, killing Cribley instantly,
The burglar disappeared without any
plumber.
A complimentary dinner was given
to William Randolph Hearst Monday
night at Delmonicos in New York, by
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, w. S. Jack
son, John S. Whalen, julius Hauser
and f. w. Skene, his associates on
the democratic and independence
league state tickets. Besides Mr.,
Hearst there were twenty-six other
guests.
For the protection, the preserva
ton and the extension of the civil ano
religious rights and privileges of the
Jews, the American Jewish committee.
composed of prominent. members of
the race from all parts of the United
States, was organized at the Hotel
Savoy in New York, Sunday. It is
not the purpose of the committee &c
interfere with the work OF any EXIT