Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1885-06-12
GENERAL NEWS.
Smallpox is raging at Montreal

70 as against FOG last week and 239 the week
/ before that.
All the prizes this year awarded in the uni
Nersity OF Mississippi were carried on by
/ young women.
The wreath sent by Lord Tennyson to be
placed upon the body of Victor Hugo was in
sdocd; "Iothe worlds greatest post"
The Glen House in White mountains, which
was burned last summer. has been rebuilt in a
much improved form, and will be opened July
25th.
More people persisted i'm the Cashmere earth
quake of sunday and Monday of last week
than AT first reported. Whole cities and towns
are spoken OF as destroyed
The Apache lndiansare making II dangerous
! for people living in New Mexico. The houses
are pillaged and burned and all who fall into
their hands are treated most inhumanly.
The General Presbyterian Assembly at To.
/ peka, decided 10 give no help To young
men, would-be ministers, who use tobacco,an
10 extend no aid To churches where an organ
is in use
The Illinois legislature has gotten into a
genuine squabblc. Twenty-threc members are
charged with having approached "A corporation
| for money A committee has been appointed
70 investigate the charges aud ii is expected
that some other irregularities will be brought
| 10 light.
Myriads Of young grasshoppers, evidently
! just hatchOd out in the warm sand. have made
their appearance at Canon City, Col. There are
900 acres literally filled with young hoppers
IL is said that the insects are not
the much dreaded locusts and will bc inca
pable Of doing much damage.
A collision occurred between two freight
trains Saturday morning on the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad al York road The wreck
age war great, the locomotive and n number Of
cars 81 one of tho trains being knocked out OF
sil shape The engineer of the wrecked engine
had nm ankle broken but the other train hands
escaped 10y jumping.
John Henderson. whealthy farmer of the
town of Cicero near Syracuse, n. y, suspected
his wife Of infdelity. ON Saturday night he
started for Manlius. Returning homo the same
evening he found Charles Whiting, a farmer
OF Cicero. in company with Mrs. Hendersor
Henderson assaulted Whiting, but the Latte
escaped. About midnight Whiting was fclal
hanging dead in his barn,
4 terrible murdcrwas committed at London,
Ontario, last Friday, by one, Ben 81 mmons
/
several times in the chest, aims and sides
Though so fearfully injured it was though re
might survive, but she died euuday aftora.Hn
The william has been held for trial AIh.ulh
ne Is reckless. dissoute charter his 20 pie
are respectable and well-to do.
\ house ut Schenectady York was ror
long time infested 10y reaches and water bug.
Last fall servant, hearing that tosds were an
aptidote. caught three ordinary hop toad. and
put them i'm the kitchen Not Ii roach or oater
bug can now Zoe found in the house. The toads
have become domesticated. never wander n
bout the house, and are SO clcanly aud inofIen-
sive thst there is no objection to their presence
Tho earthquake shocks at Serinaguaa and
other points in the vale of Cashmere lnlia,con-
tiuue at intervals averaging three hours in
length. Whole villages have been ouguifod
and terrible subtcrrancau noises are heard,
driving the people frantic with fear The hor-
5 rors Of approachine famine are added to other
results OF the disaster. as many thousand
bushels Of grain in storage have been swallow
ed up "a hechasms which are constantly open
{ inc
There wasa spirited contest Mt the New Or
leans EXPOSITION over the awards for saw-mill
states were represented. The points discussed
= were the best in each Of the following; ], cir
cular saw-mil; p, hcsdliocks and carriages
3. combined edger and flooring machine; Z, III
q machinery; ., trimmer; g. suwdust convey or
, log-turuer; s,saw-mill machinery collective
Expert judges had been selected, and the re-
suit was that PENNSYLVANIA secured the h0nors
unc, additionally. II firm in Erie having beer
4 awarded the entire eight gold medals
e ALolt ls O'Clock saturday night the wife
wonch and four children were burned 10 deatl
in bed i'm their house at Barrie, Ont. Mr.. wonct
escaped 10y jumping ont the window after
: vain effort 20 recue his wife and childron IN
shirt being burned of in tho attempt Mr.
Women Is crazy with grief lie says when h
awokc the whole room seemed o. he on Gre
3. lie tried to pull his wife Of tho bed but couIC
j not do so as the fire WAS leaping out of th,
= mattres all around her lie thinks the iir'
originated in a back -hed and says there wat
no signs OF fire when he retired al 1880.
Several days ago a Bordcutowu y. j., dos
. fanc.er advertised the ioss OF yellow skye
Z terrier The same day the owner oil tho los
: terrier was amazed TO SEQ his hunting dcl
! push open the gate leading into bis residence
carrying the pet terrier IN his mouth. The do.
J. pursued bis way to the back porch, whore h'
r scratched the door until admitted ~ his IN s
. ter when in the house he let go his Pile AN.
barked vocifcronsly, which probably was
plea for tha reward which ha1 bee Ole 2
i Who're, when or now Inc hunting dog fuun.
u his lost companion remains a mystc'F 10 IA.
. master who youchcs for the above 30 -. Tn
. dog ia not known To have rci ths the advct
j. ti,cnent, although he may have seen it.
meteor OF remarkable size was seen go
II midn gAt one night last week at sherman Tex
moving In sou;hwCsttrly direction. Tho ~
a was brilliantly illuminated hy it Or sever
seconds and moment after the meteor dissp
peared loud explosion similar 90 the dischaig
Z of heavy artillcr, WAS ard, accompanied De-
90 rcrccpublc shock. This phencmen vt
followed 10y a rumbliug like distant thunde.
~ he meteor appeared to be about the sic 81
. Hour barrel. ltwas nlsoob erved at McKilur
p s. miles distant. whore Missing sound W.
heard, greatly alarming some colued pe0pi
VII, we're returning troma prayermectng un
. caused them % take to Hight. shouting that 10
e. day of judgment had come
III The sobbing Wren.
a.. tint.