The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-08-24
SUMMARY OF News
Happenings Of the World In the Last
Week Told In Brief Paragraphs,

Count Roger de Castellane, son of
the late Marquis de Castellane, is dead
In Paris.
The chief of the rural constabulary
OF Chenstokhova, Poland, was killed
Monday, by terrorists.
1t is announced that the Santa Fe
railroad has Voluntarily granted it's
1000 telegraph operators, from Chi
cago to Ell Paso, an increase of wages.
While making a desperate struggle
to resist arrest, George Bird, negro,
aged 32, was shot and killed Monday
night by Policeman S. S. Newport.
In Columbus, Alabama. The shooting
was in a notorious negro section.
Severe thunderstorms and hail
storms occurred Sunday and Monday
in many parts Of Austria and Hungary.
A great deal OF snow fell in the Alps,
and many tourists are showed up in
shelter huts there.
A dispatch from Toxic to the Lon
don Daily Telegraph, states that Great
Britain, the United States and Japan
have intimated to China the necessity
of insisting that Russia establish GUS
toms stations in Northern Manchuria.
DR.. Charles ]. Jones, president of
Union Christian college, died at his
home in Merom, Ind, Monday after
noon of stomach trouble. He was &C
years old, and had been in the min
istry AZ years. DR.. Jones organized
and built six christian churches, the
largest of which was at Norfolk, Va.
Gustav II. Mosler, one of the most
promising of the younger school OF
American artists, died at his country
home at Margaretville, N. Y, in the
Catskills, Friday. Mr. Mosler was 80
years old. He was the son of Hy Mos
Ter, the we'll known American portrait
and genre painter.
Thirty pirates, disguised as pass
engers. attacked the British steam
err Kwaiping, on August Is, off Kwai-
chulu, China, The pirates escaped.
There is an unconfrmed report that
twenty of the passengers and crew
Of the steamer were wounded and that
the pirates secured booty TO the
amount of 5000 taels.
l.. l.. Whitman and G. S. CARTS,
who arrived at the Aston house, IN
New York, Friday night at 11:55
o'clock, in a thirty-six horse power
automobile, thereby established a new
cross-continent automobile record of
fifteen days, one hour and fifty min
utes. The former record, thirty-two
days and twenty-three hours they
made in 1904.
Reports have been received that
the fishery off Labrador is the worst
this season in twenty years. Ameri-
can halibut fishing vessels have Jared
very badly. Owing to the failure of
the Labrador catch and the short
catch along the Newfoundland coast
the price of this fish is advancing.
Brig. Gen. Howell and Col Lamb
OF the Salvation Army leave England
fo. Canada August II. having COM
pleted arrangements for the settle
ment of between 10000 anu $4,000 en-
igrants in the Dominion within q
year. A fleet of ten or twelve steam
ers will be chartered for their trans
portation. The emigrants will be
scattered through Canada in such
way as to place them within reach of
the work for which they are best
suited.
Secretary Taft has decided that en-
listed men shall have the first chance
at the forty-eight vacancies In the
grade of second lieutenant in the
army. An order was issued some time
ago granting only a small proportion
of the vacancies to enlisted candidates.
Secretary Taft's attention was called
to the order which Disseminated
against the thirty-five enlisted men
who gre candidates, and he imme.
diately asked that the order be an
nulled and another issued which will
do justice to the enlisted men who are
striving for advancement.
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