The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-10-27
SUMMARY OF News
Happenings Of the World In
Brief Dispatches.


at Cherbourg, France, Friday at the
arsenal where three submarine boats
are being built. did extensive damage
to the boats and other property.
| Mrs. Lloyd Wheaton, wife of Maj
Gen. Lloyd Wheaton, is dead at her
home in Chicago after a months i'll
ness. Mrs. Wheaton was a member
of the Daughters of the American.
Revolution, the Mayhower society and
the Women's Relief Corps, G. A. H.
She was so years old.
| George Van Keuren, general super
| intendent of the Erie division of the
| Erie railroad, will retire from railroad
service on Nov. 1 to go into other
| business and will be succeeded by r
| II. Bowron, now general manager of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
| railroad
| The American tug Bertha L. CockeIl,
| seized in Lake Erie by the Canadian
| cruiser Vigilant and condemned as a
lawful prize by the Ontario courts, has
been billed for sale by auction by the
| Dominion government.
The elgian government is maturing
plan for the reorganization of the
| army which it will soon present 70
| parliament. This establishes personal
| military service similar to the Swiss
| system.
The Canadian customs department
| has issued an order that all sheep eX-
nd nnf 70 Tnit "a
| States must have a certificate thai
| they are free from disease, no matter
| whether they are destined for the Eu.
ropean market or for the United
| States.
Mrs. Helen Stallo, widow of John
Bernhard Stallo of Cincinnati, who
was minister to Italy twenty years
ago, died Thursday at ScandIcci, three
miles from Florence, at the age of II
years. In accordance with instruc-
lions left by Mrs. Stallo the body will
be cremated
Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy
has just completed journey Of 5000
miles in an automobile through Swift
erland, Germany and Holland anil
France. Her majesty has expressed
her intention of visiting the United
States next year with forty-horse-
power machine.
The Russian battleship Kniaz Po-
temkine, the crew of which mutinied
in the harbor Of Odessa last June, has
by imperial order been re-christened
the "Pandleimon," after the famous
martyr of the Russian church, who
died in the third century and who is
looked upon by the doctors as their
patron saint.
The lubricating oil building Of the
Atlantic Refining Co. at Philadelphia
Sunday night was destroyed by fire.
The loss is $4,000. Three men were
Injured, one seriously.
The tank of a gasoline launch, which
was carrying four passengers on the
Mississippi river, exploded Sunday af-
ternoon near st. Louis and Fred Phee
and a companion were drowned, while
Edward Duffy and his son were prob
ably fatally burned.
Baron William Henry Leigh died
Sunday in London. He is succeeded
in the title by his eldest son. Hon.
Francis Dudley Leigh, who in 1890
married Frances Helene Forbes,
| daughter of n. M. Beckwith of New
York. Baron Leigh was born in 1924.
While returning from Beverly to
Marietta, o., in a motor boat M. i.
| Williamson, dentist, Probate Judge G.
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wealthy oil producer, went over a dam
at Lowell on the Musldngum river,
end Williamson was drowned.
The Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity
will hold it's fifty-ninth annual conven-
| ton in New York city Nov. $40 The
fraternity has forty-one chapters in
| colleges and universities in this coun.
try and Canada and thirty alumni as.
scciations in the larger cities.
Mrs. Theodore Planz, wife Of mers
chant tailor, while driving an auto
nobile in San Francisco, was killed.
| Mrs Planz while speeding along Van
Ness avenue made a quick turn to
avoid running down a pedestrian. The
automobile was upset. Mrs. Planz met
| death almost instantly.
1t is being persistently rumored in
| the canal zone that Chief Engineer
John F. Stevens intended resigning.
Mr.. Stevens in an interview said there
| is absolutely no truth in it.
A statement OF the foreign trade of
| Germany for the past nine moths, Is
sued Monday, shows imports valued
at 1925, 100000, an increase Of $685.
100000, and exports valued at $1,02S,.
500, 900, an increase of 63,250,000.
Sons OF Poland from all parts of the
| United States and Canada gathered in
Cuffalo Monday to celebrate the TWEEN
| ty.fifth anniversary of the organization
Of the National Polish Alliance and to
| meet in annual convention. Four hun
bred delegates were present.
The pope Monday received in pri-
| late audience Bishop J. j. Hartley OF
Columbus, Ohio, to whom he gave q
large photograph Of himself, auto
eraphed and appropriated inscribed.
His holiness told the bishop that he
took special interest in the large num-
Der of Hungarians living in the do
| cese.