The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-10-19
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Happenings Of the World In the Last
Week Told In Brief Paragraphs.

Admission, Ala, Thursday. He suffer
ed stroke of paralysis.
Passenger train No. SO, on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, from
New Orleans, and freight going
south, collided near Flomaton, Ala, on
Thursday, several persons being in
jured, some seriously.
A jury in the city court of Alton,
Ill.,, Thursday returned a verdict fning
the Chicago, Peoria and st. Louis rail
read $4,000, on charge of collecting
exorbitant switching charges. The
suit was filed by the Alton Lime and
Cement company.
1t is reported in Hungarian official
circles that Count Goluchowski, the
Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign
affairs, will resign the end Of this
month, and that his probable success.
or is Count Rudolph Won Welser-
sheigh, ex-minister Of national de.
tense.
Former Governor Van SAINT, of tho
state of Minnesota, speaking Thurs
day afternoon, before the National
Farmers congress, at Rock Iisland,
ILL.,, declared that agriculture of the
country had not kept pace with in.
dustrial progress, this being shown
by the fact that the United States has
been forced to import cereals during
the last few years.
DR.. Rosen, the German minister to
Morocco, was given private audience
of the sultan at Fez, Morocco, last
Saturday, and presented his majesty
numerous gifts from Emperor Will
lam. The German mission was dress.
ed in full uniform and Moorish troops
lined the route from DR.. Rosen's resi-
dence to the palace. This unusual
spectacle excited great curiosity
among the population.
The London Standard says the Brit
ish government purposes, before the
end Of the year, to remove twenty
efficient ships from active duty in
order to economic for an active fleet.
Nine persons were killed and nine
teen seriously and many more slight
ly injured in a railroad collision on
Sunday at Epernon, department of
Eure-et-Loire, France. The train was
standing at the station when a loco
motive crashed into it.
A wireless message from Bluefields,
Nicaragua, to the Times-Democrat CT
New Orleans, say that severe hurri-
cane in Port Limon, Costa RIGA, has
done a quarter Of a million dollars
damage to rubber and banana crops,
besides other property damage.
General Frank M. Reardon, briga-
dier-general of volunteers during the
civil war, is dead in Denver, of dis
placement OF the heart and Bright's
disease.
A terrific storm has caused an in
undatfon of mud from Mt. Vesuvius,
and the country roundabout is flooded.
Two women have been killed and
twenty-siX persons injured by the
storm.
Charles Williams, colored, shot and
instantly killed Mamie Nichols, also
colored, in Chicago, then committed
married Monday, but Williams became
jealous of the woman.
Robert Branham, a Negro, in At
lanta, Ca, was Monday found guilty
in two separate trials in the superior
court there of attempted criminal as.
sault on two white girls in suburb
Of this city, August 20. He was SEN
fenced to serve twenty years in the
penitentiary on each conviction.
Brighten. Barry, acting chief of
staff, has issued a general order stat
ing that by direction of the president,
the military forces now assembled in
Cuba, or to be assembled there, are
constituted as an army to be known az
the army of Cuban paciflcatlon, the
command of which is assigned to
Brig. Gen. Franklin Bell.
A Chesapeake and Ohio passenger
train, bound from Richmond, Va, to
Huntington, w. Va, jumped the track
at Ivy, seven miles west Of Charlottes-
vile Va, shortly after five o'clock on
Monday afternoon, and Fireman VIM.
Carper, of Clifton Forge, Va, was in
stantly killed. Engineer Henry John
son, Of Charlottesville, was fatally in
iured, and Engineer VIM. Jones, OF
Charlottesville, badly injured, but will
recover. Both engines rolled down a
high embankment.
The circuit court in Columbus, o.,
Monday refused TO GUST j. W. John
son from the Office of state printer.
Johnson was appointed by the late
Gov Pattison, and Mark Slater, then
state printer, refused to surrender the
Office. Johnson took possession, how
ever, Slater still retaining the keys.
Johnson had new locks placed on the
doors. Slater subsequently, brought
suit to GUST Johnson, Claiming that
johnson was not legally appointed,
Ind that he unlawfully usurped the
bffice. The circuit court decided
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