The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-10-05
SUMMARY OF News
Happenings of the World In the Last
Week Told In Brief Paragraphs.

Noi. AllHuI muIldy, dCllHB Cnlel VI
artillery, was advanced to the rank
of brigadier general Tuesday, and be-
came chief of artillery, succeeding
Brigadier General S. M. Mills, who re-
tired short time ago.
Secretary of State Root will not
make any public statement concern
ing his recent extended South Amer;-
can trip until next month, when he
will deliversan address in st. Louis
before an organization interested in
commercial affairs.
An explosion of natural gas, in
Cherryvale, Kas., yesterday after
noon, demolished the Edgar Zinc
smelter, killing two workmen and in
juring four others, two Of whom will
die.
Walter Herrod, of Fort Wayne, Ind,
Thursday night, shot and killed his
wife and with the same weapon took
his own life. The couple came mere
recently from Mount Gilead, o. The
shooting is thought to have been the
result of quarrel, the woman having
applied for a divorce.
Refused an increase in wages from
$3.50 to $3.50 day, 1900 mill men in
Alameda county, CAL, walked out on
Monday. The owners offered an ad-
vance to "a per day, which was de-
clined after four meetings was held
Twenty-eight mills have closed down.
Fire Monday night started in the
rear of woodshop of The Western IL
Atlantic railroad in Atlanta, Ga, and
destroyed the entire repair and paint
shops, roundhouse and eighteen en-
gines, causing loss estimated at
$175,000. The fire was caused by q
spark from a passing locomotive.
Nearly 1000 printers and others
employed by the Methodist Book con-
Germ in New York and Cincinnati, will
work on an eight-hour day basis be-
ginning November 1st. This an
nouncement was made Monday by
Eaton and Mains, agents for the COM
pany. The change in holrs will effect
workmen in all departments.
A head-end collision occurred near
Murphysboro, H., Tuesday afternoon
between two passenger trains on the
st. Louis and Cairo line of the ILL
nois Central road. Eleven persons
were hunt, none fatally. The injuries
consist mostly Of cuts and bruises. The
cause of the collision is not known.
Hardening of the heart tissues
caused the death in ST. Louis, Tues.
day. of Judge Thomas Turner Faunt-
leroy, formerly Virginia supreme
court Judge, and once Secretary of
the commonwealth of Virginia. Judge
Fauntleroy was born in WINCHESTER
Va, in December, 1924.
The police Of Kharkov, Russia, have
discovered bomb factory in the out
skirts of that city. They took posses.
sion of two filed and sixty untitled
bombs and quantity of other ex-
plosives, and secured information
leading to the discovery of ether
laboratories, where four more bombs
were seized. Two arrests were made.
Inspector Mclaughlin, who was sent
to Wyoming by the bureau Of Indian
affairs at Washington, to induce a
wandering band of 200 Utcs from Utah
to return to their homes, is having
difficulty in locating the Indians.
They have apparently learned of his
errand and have started towards
South Dakota.
The "Sam s. Shubert," a new play
house at Tenth and Baltimore streets,
in Kansas City, was opened Monday
night by Eddie Foy, in the Earle and
the Girl" The theatre was built as
a memorial to Sam s. Shubert, who
was killed in railroad wreck near
Harrisburg, Pa, May IL, 1905, while
on his way to Kansas City to nego-
tiate for the erection Of the house.
Impressive commitment services
were held Tuesday at the Arlington
National cemetery, near Washington,
over the body of Rev. DR.. Robert j,
Neven, who, after serving as an officer
Of Pennsylvania organization in the
civil war, achieved a worldwide rep
utation by establishing st. Paul's
Episcopal church, the first Protestant
Episcopal church in Rome, of which
he was rector for thirty years. He
died suddenly In Mexico.
Jean de Nemours, prominent lath-
ing contractor, Of Chicago, commit
ted suicide at his home here on
Thursday, by taking poison. He was
to have appeared in court to answer
a charge of having threatened to kill
H. w. Pruitt, with whom he is said
to have quarreled over financial mat
tiers. This fact, together with finan-
cial losses, Nemours is said to have