The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-08
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Happenings Of the World In
Brief Dispatches.


Bawden, has donated 100000 for char
table and educational purposes and
has trusted the ALLEGATION Of tho funds
to Edgar Speyer, of Speycr & Co.,
bankers, New York
A hurricane of extraordinary severl-
ty has caused considerable damago 20
the banana plantations in Costa Rlca
American enterprises suffered n great
deal. No details OF the loses arc yet
available.
William Bachman, a farmer llvnA
near Milan, Ohio, attempted to XIII
his wife by shooting her The woman
ran to cistern and jumped into It
drowning himself.
A dozen persons were injured sun.
day when seven coNches and bag
gage car Of westbound Atchison, To
peka & Santa Fee passenger train
jumped the track one mile west OF
Boone, Col. None of the injuries are
severe.
Floods In the Mohawk valley. TO-.
lowing continuous heavy rains, are the
greatest ever known at this time Of
the year. Crops in the low land dis
tricts have suffered damage amounting
to thousands Of dollars.
Reports on Gil production In The
Texas district during August show a
decrease as compated with July OF
more than a million barrels. The fig
ures for July were 4,5S5,5O and for
August 3,503 800. Every field In the
region has shared in the slump
Edward Edwards, dramatic editor
Of the Boston Transcript, and one of
the best known newspaper men In the
city of Boston, is dead. He was con-
nected with the Transcript for forty
eight years and had been political
news editor and general editorial
writer.
Charles Dewey, the only surviving
brother Of Admiral Dewey, died at his
home in Montpelier, VT, Thursday
night. He was 70 years old and diel
from old age. He was president of tt ,
National Life Insurance Co. from 1877
to 1900 retiring from business at that
time.
Reuben A. Torrey and Charles M.
Alexander, the American evangelists,
Sunday night started revivalist cam
paign In Sheffield, England, with
service at which over 5000 persons
were present. The chairman of their
campaign committee ie Archdeacon
Eyre of the Church of England.
Friday being the anniversary of the
accession to the throne of Sultan Alb
dull Hamid II. Of Turkey, his majesty's
reception at Constanunople was at
tended by all the members Of the dip
lOmatic corps. The city was decor
al5ed with flags and salutes were fired
but displays CT fireworks were forbid
den The sultan ordered the release
Of !, 143 prisoners.
The monthly statement of the
United States public debt shows that
ait the close of business Aug. 81, 1905,
the debt, less cash in the treasury,
amounted to $1,O05, ,595, which is
an increase as compared with last
north of STATS, 594. This increase IS
accounted for by a corresponding de-
crease in the amount of cash on hand.
The expedition sent by the Canadian
government to make observations Of
the eclipse OF the sun from point in
the interior Of Labrador was COM
plete failure. A telegram received in
Montreal from Rev. Father O'Brien Of
Loyola college, one Of the members of
the expedition, says that owing to the
weather conditions no observations
could be made.
One man was killed, another per
haps fatally injured, and a score OF
others were most seriously by bolt
of lightning which struck in the cen
ter of a crowd of 1900 persons who
were watching the horse races at the
Richfield fair in Richfield, Utah. More
than 200 persons were thrown TO TIA
ground and most of them were insensi-
BILE for several seconds.
Through train service is to be estab
lished between Chicago and Mobile,
and thence by fast steamer to Havana.
Cuba. The route will be over the Chi
cago e Alton to st. Louis and then by
the Mobile & Ohio road to Mobile.
From that point the Munson Steara-
ship Co. will establish fast line of
steamers to Havana. The time from
Chicago to Havana Is TO be fifty-e.ght
hours.
Thirty-eight pedigreed dogs were
burned in fire that damaged the Yale
Club kennels in New York late Thurs
day night. Among the prize winners
to lose their lives were French bull.
dog owned by Mrs. Richard Harding
Davis, another the property Of George
c. Boniface, Jr., the actor. The keep
err was showing some dog fanciecs
through the kennels when one of tns
dogs overturned an oil lamp. Before
the fire that followed could be extil-
gulshed all but five of the dogs in the
place had been fatally burned.
On the occasion Of the installation
of Andrew Carnegie as lord rector of
st. Andrews university Oct. II, the