The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-10-26
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Happenings Of the World In the Last
Week Told In Brief Paragraphs.

Beniaros tribesmen have seized the
town OF Arzilla, twenty-five miles
south OF Tangier, Morocco, and as
sumed the governorship.
Sir Thomas Upton and party will
sail for home about November 10.
Sunday he said he thought he would
make one more attempt to lift the
cup. "And don't you believe" he add
ed, that it would be a good thing
for it to go back to it's old home just
once more? / do"
At a banquet given in Mexico City
by the Y. M. c. A. of the Republic of
Mexico, in honor of John r. Mott,
worlds general secretary, resolu-
ton was unanimously adopted favor
ing the raising Of $4,000 to be used
in the construction of an association
building in that city. Many distin-
guished men were present.
A sail ferry boat, plying between
Beaufort, S. c., and Ladies island,
swamped late Saturday afternoon dur
ing the storm with six men and four
women, all Negroes, on board. Three
women were drowned. A skiff from
pilot boat anchored in the stream, in
charge Of Tom Washington, a Negro
sailor, rescued the other passengers q,
considerable risk.
During the year 1905, the oil fields
| of the United States produced 1884,
717,580 barrels of petroleum, as
against 117,0S0,960 barrels in 1904, ac-
| cording to report just issued by
the United States geological survey.
| This was greater by 17,636,620 barrels
that the production in any previous
year, although the value of the oil
produced was $17,01S,056 less than
| that of 1904.
Personal friends of the family in
| New York, INST at the Church OF
| Zion and st. Timothy Sunday, to pay
| tribute to the memory Of Mrs. Jeffcr-
| son Davis. A service arranged JOINT
| ly by the congregation, of which Mrs
Davis was long member, and the
New York chapter of the United
| Daughters of the Confedracy, was con-
Quoted by DR.. Henry Lubbock, the
pastor, who also delivered the eulogy
A profound sensation has been
| caused in Mexico City by the an
nouncement that voluminous docu.
ments have been presented to cor-
| gress, formally accusing Rafael liza,
| bel, governor of the state of Sonore,
| Mexico, of being responsible for the
violation of territorial rights. The ac'
cusation refers to the entrance upon
| Mexican soil of Arizona rangers, al
legged to have been in the governors
convoy at the time of the Cananea
riots
| The derailing Of the Sunset Limit
ed" on the Southern Pacific railroad,
at Boutte, La, near New Orleans Mon
day, injured forty Negroes, one of
whom died. Several others are fatal.
| ly hurt Three white passengers were
slightly injured. The locomotive, the
mail and the baggage cars and the
passenger coach reserved for Negroes
left the rails.
Chairman Shonts, of the Isthmian
| Canal commission, has received re-
ports from Chief Engineer Stevens
and Chief Sanitary officer Gorgas,
stating that the Spanish laborers
brought to the is,hmus are doing very
well, not single one OF the 800
brought since January having died.
| They also resist the malaria better
than the Negroes, and Mr.. Stevens
says he is satisfied that any white man
| can do so.
Three Austrian miners were killed
and a fourth was probably fatally in
jured Monday, by an explosion CT
powder in mine of the Southwestern
Development company, near Mineral,
Kas. The miners were engaged in
getting shots ready for the shot firers,
and had several open Jacks" of
powder, each containing twelve
pounds OF powder. A spark from a
pit lamp in the cap Of the men fell
into one Of the open kegs of powder,
causing an explosion.
Three Apache Indians, represent
ing the $50 members of tn Geronimo
band held prisoners at Fort Sill, Okla,
called on Secretary Taft, in Washing
ton, Thursday, and urged that they be
permitted to take up lands in New
Mexico and Arizona, where they
formerly liked.
General Herman Sturm, brigadier.
general commanding Indian troops in
the civil war, general purchasing agent
Of the Mexican army during the
French invasion, afterward president
OF the Mexican, Cuernavaca and Pa
ciflc railway, and Of late years engaged
In mining in Colorado, died in Denver,
Col, Thursday, aged rs years.
The Rev. J. W. p McMullen, 80
years of age, one of the pioneer Meth
odist clergymen of Indiana, died at
his home in Lafayette, Ind, Thurs
day. He was one of the early circuit
riders Of Indiana, and was one CT the
best known preachers in the middle
west. At the request OF Governor
Morton, he organized the 57th Indiana