The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30
SUMMARY OF news
Happenings Of the World In the Last
Week Told In Brief Paragraphs.

WdlItT fdIi6, Wciinno"h N~NNA
color painter of Washington, died or
Monday from paralysis. He WAS q
years OF age and native or En2l2ni
Two new cases of yellow fever we-i
reported in Havana Monlay, anG W..
were found at Rodas, Santa Clais
province, Cuba. The total OF cas-.
now in the island is eleven.
A company has been organized <
connect the city of Panama and Ia
Boco, its port, by electric line. II. =
Cook has asked for franchise to con
struct the car line, and his proposal is
under consideration by the commsS
sioners.
Three men were killed and five 9th
ers were injured seriously Monday IL
a collision of work car crowded wiki
Italian laborers on the railroad and a
string of three gravel cars, in the
yards of the New York, New HaveI
& Hartford railroad in New Haven
Conn.
Captain Hugh H. Henry, past ma
tional commander of the army and
navy union, u. S. A., and chief of staff
Of the present national commandery
Browne, died in Washington Monday
after an operation for cancer of the
stomach. He was identified promi
nently with several patriotic societies
He will be buried at Arlington.
3 The unwilling of tablet Of bronze
Sunday, to the memory of the late
General Wilmon w. Blackman, who
was commander in chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic at the time OF
his death, took place at the 257th ami.
versary Of the foundation of the Sec
ond church (unitarian), in Boston.
Word has come from British Co.
lumbia that the Hindoos imported tc
work on railroad construction are suf
fering intensely from not being pro
vided with clothing suited to this Gil
mate. It is said several of the Hin
docs have persisted and that low tenn
perature and thin garments are the
cause.
A new use has been found fol
prisoners in Russia given sentences a
hard labor, most Of whom are servins
for political offenses. Instead of be
ing sent to the mines they will be EN-
ployed in the construction Of the road
bed for the double-tracking of the
trans-Siberian railway, on which thu
ministry of railways Is actively a
work.
Not single American died on tht
canal zone from disease in the las
three months, according to a repor
the Isthmian Canal commission ha;
just received from Col. w. G. Gorgas
the chief sanitary officer on the zone
The decrease in the death rate amons
the employees, Col Gorgas reports, il
due almost entirely to the decrease II
pneumonia.
Major Matthew MARYLAND, born il
Maysville, KY, Oct. 5, 1888, died a
Elk's home there Sunday morning. HI
was retired ON Feb. 25, 1891, will
rank of captain and promoted to ;
major on April %, 1904. His funera
will occur at Arlington cemetery
Washington, where he will be burie,
with military honors, alongside hi
wife, who was sister of Gen. Georg
A. Crook.
A dispatch received in Berlin from
Fee, reports that last Wednesday, Of
the occasion of tribute paying by Nc
roccan tribes, a Spanish doctor trie,
to force his way to the place reserves
for the American minister, Mr.. Hum
mere. The troops barred his way
whereupon the Spaniard grossly insult
ed a Moorish captain, and only TIL
tact of the troops prevented numerou
Europeans present from being mo
Tested.
H. c. Burch, proprietor OF the Eb
bit house in Washington, and for man.
years one of the best known hotel mel
in the country, died Sunday. He wa
Ga years old. For more than 81
years Mr.. Burch had been identified
with the hotel business in Washing
ton. and his guests included many no
table public men, including Mr.. Nc
Kinley during the latter's compression
al career, and on the eve Of his inaugu
ration as president Of the United
| States.