The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-07-07
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Happenings of the World In
Brief Dispatches.

a Syuuey N. -. W., UlSpalcn says
that great damage has been caused in
Samoa by hurricane.
All public business was suspended
Tuesday in Manila in honor of the
memory of the late Secretary of State
John Hay
The Haitian chamber of deputies
has voted TO an American company a
contract for the building OF railroad
from Gonaives. to Einche.
A terrific wind and rain storm visit
ed Pittsburg Tuesday and laster only
twenty minutes, but in that time did
/ much damage in the way Of blowing
down trees, fences, telegraph, tele-
phone and trolley wires.
In collision at Wiley, four miles
from Lexington, KY, between west
bound Chesapeake & Ohio and an east
bound Louisville & Nashville passen-
ger train Tuesday twenty-five persons
were injured.
The health authorities of Ecuador
have declared Panama to be infested
with bubonic plague and have de-
clared a quarantine against vessels
from Panama ports. The reports pub
lished there are alarming.
A bandstand at Findlay. O., from
which several hundred persons were
viewing the fireworks. collapsed the
night of the Fourth, throwing nearly
all the spectators to the ground. Many
persons were trampled on and severe.
ly bruised.
Elmira, N Y, and immediate neigh
borhood was the center of terrific
electrical storm Sunday afternoon,
which did damage amounting to $780,
900 or more, Lightning struck dozen
buildings in the city and Elmira
Heights.
The will Of Nine. Francisco Romania
Janauschek, the famous actress, has
been filed in the surrogate's court in
tate of only 5000, which is left to her
only daughter, Teresa 2ahn of Darn
stadt, Germany.
Bishop l. W. Joyce Of me Methodist
Episcopal church in Minneapolis Sun
day suffered a cerebral hemorrhage,
followed by an attack OF paralysis,
while addressing meeting at Red
Rock. The condition or the bishop is
serious.
The Arabs have risen in the prov
ince of Assyr and Turkish communi-
cation with the port Of Cumfuda is in
tercepted. Abba, the capital OF the
province of Assyr, has been invested
| by the rebels for some time. Turkish
reinforcements are being dispatched to
| Assyr.'
Metlakahtla, on the southeastern
| coast of Alaska, was destroyed by fire
June 90, according to officers of the
steamer Cottage City, which arrived
at Seattle from the north Thursday.
Metlakahtla is situated on an island
near Ketchikan and had number of
large buildings.
An heroic equestrian bronze statue
| Of Gen Thomas Francis Meagher lead
er of the Irish brigade in the civil war
and later secretary and acting COVER
nor Of the territory of Montana, was
unveiled in the capitol grounds at
| Helena Tuesday afternoon in the pres
| ence of people from all parts OF the
state
Statistics of Boston at the close of
the federal fiscal year. which ended
Friday, show that the immigration rec
| ord has been broken. During the year
there were admitted G6,646 immi-
grants, which exceeds the greatest pre-
| vious record, that of two years ago,
when $3.50 immigrants landed there.
The wholesale grocers of the United
States, in convention at Milwaukee.
fully endorsed resolution reported by
the committee on resolutions, favoring
"a reasonable and eair national pure
food law, and one which the various
states can, to advantage, endorse and
enact into state law, il Desired"
The correspondent Of the London
Times at Pekin says: THE boxer in
demnity question has been settled. All
the powers have signed note accept
ing Chinas proposal to consider the
indemnity as SOlu lHSJt al Oh silver
debt. The movement for the boycott
ting OF American goods is subsiding."
Secretary of the Navy Morton has
approved the report of the board OF
naval officers, which selected the Off
GERS who are to be retired to create
the vacancies nece 5sary under the
naval personnel act. Fifty-seven Of
ficers from the grade OF captain down
have been named for retirement. The
afixing of his signature approving the
report was Mr.. Mortons last official
act.
Frederick Nurenberge Of Fargo, N.
| d. charged with land frauds, has been
convicted on seven counts in the
| United States court after a long trial.
Nqrenberger took advantage Of the
| provisions Of the homestead law al.
| lowing old soldiers to obtain deeds to
homesteads after living on them for
| the difference of time between the
| term of enlistment and the five years
required Of other homestead seekers.
A severe wind storm, accompanied
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