The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-10-12
SUMMARY OF News
Happenings Of the World In the Last
Week Told IN Brief Paragraphs.

iEc cAcSulifc DOdTu VI the NdllOu-
al Encampment committee, United
Spanish War veterans, bas extended
a general invitation to all the soldiers
in the southern states who served in
the war with Spain to attend the ma
tional encampment, to negin in Wash
lngton on Oct s.
| Laura Adams and Harry Morgan,
(colored), who were arrested in Salt
Lake, Utah, on complaint of the Port
land and Chicago police On charge
Of robbing Anton Fritz, an eastern
tourist, of $4,000, and of conspiracy to
murder him in Chicago, were dis
charged in the district court in that
city Thursday ON the ground of in
sufficient evidence against them.
The department of justice in Wash
lpgton has taken measures to enforce
| the eight-hour law, and instructions
have been sent to special agents to
investigate whether there have been
any violations by contractors engaged
on public works. AS complaints have
been made Of such violations by the
contractors employed in the improve
ment of the Ohio river, special in
| structions have been ,ent to the
agents in that section. Any evidence
collected will be turned over to United
States attorneys.
| The machine shops AMI round house
Of the ella Valley, Globe end Northern
railroad, in Globe, Ariz., were destroy
ed by fire Sunday. Loss, 100000
Daniel Tarbox Jewett, former Uni
| ted States senator from Missouri, died
in st. Louis Saturday, aged SO years.
| Half q century ago he vas a promi-
nent attorney in St. Louis, and on
several occasions opposed Abraham
Lincoln in court. He was born in
| Princeton, Maine.
The Tangier correspondent OF the
| London Times says: The recent as
saults upon Europeans, including the
| German consular agent at Morocco
| City, were committed by followers of
Maclain, and are direct result of the
sultan's astounding infatuation for
this uneducated and fanatical sorcer-
er, who hates everything European.
Casper c. Clemens, well known
lawyer. died of pneumonia at his
home in Topeka, Kas., Sunday, aged
50. He was once prominent in state
| politics, and was Governor Llewellyn's
| legal adviser during the famous legis-
| laturc war of 1898. He was after
wards candidate for governor on the
| socialist ticket. He was a native OF
| Ohio.
Pursuant to an appeal issued re-
Gently by Bishop Alexander Walters,
OF the African Zion VI. E. church,
prayers were offered in practically all
of the Negro protestant churches in
New York, Sunday, for more cordia
relations between the white people
and the Negroes of the southern
states. In some instances the racial
problem formed the theme of the
pastors sermons.
Measures will be taken by the Mex
lean government to prevent boarding
of corn in anticipate On or higher
prices, and it is probable that the duty
on foreign corn will be temporarily re-
moved Government experts believe
there is an abundance of native corn
In granaries all over the country, and
that the high price is the result Of a
combination which is luxurious to the
great mass of the people.
Mrs. Roosevelt Monday afternoon,
received more than one hundred and
fifty members of the womens auxil-
larry of the Spanish American War
NJ ioh ;c IoI
convention in Washington. They were
escorted to the White House by the
Edith X. Roosevelt auxiliary OF Wash
igton.
r. e. Kemper, train dispatcher
for the Louisville & Nashville rail-
road, was arrested in Evansville, Ind,
Monday by deputy United States |
marshal on an indictment returned by |
the federal grand jury at Springfield, |
III. The charge against Kemper is |
that he discharged telegraph oper- |
ator because the latter joined the tel |
tegraphers' union.
Acting Secretary of the Navy New
berry, at Washington yesterday, APP
proved the findings of acquittaI in the |
court martial In the case of Captain |
Samuel p. Comley, who was recently |
tried on charges growing out OF the
collision between the Alabama and |
Illinois off Brenton's Reef, Rhode
Island, on July 21st. Captain Comley |
was in command Of the Alabama.
A bomb was thrown Monday at
Major General Dumbadze, command
er of the troops in Sebastopol, Rus
STA, as he was driving TO the bar
racks of the Brest regiment. The
general, who was slightly wounded,
fred on his assailant. The l.
after struggle with some soldiers,
escaped. Troops immediately sur
rounded the barracks and the neigh
borhood, and searched all the houses.
1t 10 believed that several persons
were implicated in the attempt.
China has protested to the Interna-
yional Bureau of Telegraphic Admin
istrations at Berne, Switzerland,