The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-02-08

Olive Fremstad. pay the expenses
out of his own pocket and so 1t was
agreed that the owners of the house
should carry the loss. The defense of
"Salome' was, in brief, that after hav-
ing been produced in more than twen-
ty European cities critics had called it
the greatest work which musical gen.
ius had produced in this. generation,
that in all operas the libretto Is over
Swallowed by the music, that the only
religious parsonage, John the Baptist,
is treated reverently as a pure man
and that the hideous deed of Salome
meets with swift retribution in death.
Chicago Fever Wave Spreading.
Extraordinary precautions have been
taken by the Chicago health authori-
ties in their efforts to checks the wave
of contagious disease-namely, scarlet
fever-which has now passed the star
Ting proportions of $4,000 cases in the
city and suburbs. Health Commission
er Whalen issued proclamation ask
ing that all balls and public gather
ings be abandoned for a few weeks,
and q commission of doctors has been
formed by the city council to aid in
checking the disease. The death rate
has broken all records since the days
of the Worlds fair.
Tea as an Army Beverage.
Assistant Surgeon General Hazard
Of the army has recommended that tea
be substituted for coffee in the army
subsistence, thus following the practice
of the English, Russians and Japanese
armies. Colonel Hazard is satisfied
that tea Is superior to coffee because
it is easier to transport, preserve and
prepare and can be drunk without any
disagreeable after effects.
Accidents.
An explosion of fire damp In a coal
mine at st. Johann, Prussia, on Jan.
% entombed large number of min
ers, probably over 300, of whom at
least 100 are known to be dead A
fire delayed the work of rescue and en-
dangered the lives Of all.
On the same day fire damp ex-
ploslon In the mines at Levin, France
four miles from Courriers, where 1900
miners lost their lives last spring, oc-
CURED while 800 workmen were under
ground, but most of them were able to
escape unframed.
In the Stuart mines, near Thurmond,
w. Va, on Jan. 20 an explosion bur-
led about 100 men, seventy of whom
lost their lives.
An ammonia explosion in the power
house of the Armour refrigerator plant
at Chicago caused a panic of injured
men, and in their efforts to escape
from pit four were killed.
Five men were killed and one in
jured in freight and passenger train
collision on the Boston and Maine rail-
road near Deerfield, Mass.
The plant of the Phelps Publishing
company at Springfield, Mass, publish
ing Good Housekeeping, the American
Agrlculturist and other farm papers,
was destroyed by fire on Jar. 20 at a
loss of $1,000,000.
The Baldwin Locomotive works of
Philadelphia were damaged by fire on
Jan. 20 to the extent of $10O0,O00.
WtIc eight
cen Injured In trying to check a fire
which destroyed a 100000 building at
Buffalo.
A 100000 factory at Dover N. H..
was burned on Jan. 90. and four opera
tlves lost their lives.
Deaths.
The Rev. Henry NJ. Field. last of the
famous Field brothers, who was for
forty-four years editor of the Evangel-
LIST, died at his Stockbridge CMass.)
home Jan. 26. aged eighty four.
Moritz Steinschneider. the famous
Hebrew scholar, died at Berlin Jan. 2S. |
Samuel It. G. Dodd, solicitor for the
Standard Oil company, died at Pine
hurst, N. c., Jan. so. He first came
under the notice of the Standard COM
pany through his activity in fighting 1t
In behalf Of independent consumers,
but In 1881 he became solicitor for the
company and held the position until his
death.