The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-01-06

E-AsA..@4ssas ..1aAAa-sl dercurrent must have
impressed the car, so
rrince Mlrsky' that when the popular
hatred of the reactionary minister De
Plehve eliminated in his assassination
July % man of broad and liberal
tendencies, Prince Syietopolk- Mirsky,
was called to the vacant place Sept. 8.
The new minister had but given the
zemstvo men the privilege of public
meeting at st. Petersburg when they
took the bits in their teeth by making
q revolutionary programme for a repre-
sentative form of government. Many
popular uprlsings were repressed with
ruthless hand. The one bright spot
in the year for the ear was the birth
of male heir Aug. u, after which the
knout was abolished and amnesty
granted to political offenders.
GREAT BRITAlN'S only new moves
of international consequence were the
disciplinary expedition Of Colonel
Younghusband to the forbidden Tibet
an capital, Lassa, and the negotiation
of arbitration treaties with France,
Germany, America and Portugal. III
bets resistance ceased after her defeat
at Gyangtse, and the terms made
amounted to virtual British protect
crate, besides indemnity. Mr.. Bal
tours ministry hung on with wonder
full tenacity in the face of Chamber
lain's protective tariff campaign for the
colonies, and big deficit was met by
tea and tobacco taxes.
CANADA projected a great transcon-
tinental railway system, and her cleo
lions sustained Laurier and the Liber-
ais with increased majoritles. Earl
Grey was named governor general to
succeed Lord Mimic.
AUSTRALIANS new federation came
lnder the sway of the Labor party. with
Watson as premier, but the Watson
cabinet was succeeded Oct. l by n
coalition of free traders and protection
lists, labor obstructing legislation.
FRANCE, led by Premier Combes
and his epublican-Socialist coalition,
began by prohibiting all forms of re-
ligious teaching April 3, broke off all
relations with the Vatican July 80, and
ended with the denunclatlon OF the con-
cordat Oct. %. after the two recalci-
trant bishops went to Rome. Foreign
Minister Delcasse was credited with
three striking achievements, the treaty
which meant the virtual absorption of
Siam, the treaty settling all disputes
with England and the reciprocal labor
convention with Italy.
ITALY seethed in a Socialistic fer
ment, eliminating in general strikes
Sept. 16, suppressed by military force.
In the subsequent election the Socialist
gains were offset by the participation
of the clerics, the pope not objecting,
with the result that the Conservatives
retained power. The king and queen
were rejolced by the birth of a male
heir Sept. IA, christened Humbert OF
Piedmont.
GERMANY coquetted with war trou-
bled Russia by taking big loans and
concluding commercial treaty July 2S.
A big deficit was due in part to the
suppressing of the revolt in southwest
Africa. The kaiser was attacked 10y
throat disease resembling cancer.
AFRlCA'S various political divisions
were not materially altered by the
competing powers. In Cape Colony DR..
jameson succeeded Sprigg as premier
The Transvaal under British guidance
cured its labor famine by admitting
100000 Chinese coolies. Lord Miner
resigned. First German and then Por-
tuguese colonies in the southwest were
paralyzed by native uprlsings, still in
progress. Despite the missionary out
cry about slave horrors In the Kongo,
Belgium's sway was unchecked. Abys-
synia came into closer trade relations
with. America by treaty. British rule
in Somaliland was unquestioncd after
the battle Of Jan. II, in which 1000
dervishes fell. Morocco's condition, Dor
dering on anarchy, CO me to the atten-
ton Of the civilized world in connec-
ton with the kidnapping of Mr.. Perdica-
ris, the American citizen, and his Brit
ish nephew. Varley, by the tribesman
Raisuli May "a; released by the sui
tan's compliance with Raisuli's de-
mands under American and British
pressure
LATIN AMERICAS event of greatest
interest to us was the erection and sue
ressful operation of the republican gov
ernment of Panama under President
Amador, who was elected Feb. 16, and
The beginning of surveys for the Pana-
ma canal. Colombia acquiesced in the
loss of Panama and chose General
Reyes president. Venezuela's congress
gave President Castro years dicta-
and he began damage suits
against the American asphalt trust for
revolution. Nicaragua gave up
the turtle fisheries to England. Peru
and Brazil agreed to arbitrate Acre dis
pute. Unsuccessful rebellions occurred
in Uruguay, Brazil, Haiti and Santo