Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-08-20
THE NATION.

Using agents at No al West Fourth street.
Cincinnati. with n branch in New York
city. have made an assignment To A. M.
Warner. Their nominal liabilities are es-
timated at sl99 $50 with nominal assets at
S212.O0 These consist of contracts for
advertising and form IA peculiar sort OF
property This firm has been of long
standing and ha, carried on very e&ten-
sive business No close estimate can bt
made n to the real assets and liabilitie'
owing 10 the uncertain nature OF our
tanding accounts. -
Cutting, the belligerent American editor
now in Jail in Paso del Norte for defaming
the character of Mexican of that place,
has been convicted. The judge has 10 days
in which TO pronounce sentence.
The President has appointed Thomas
Cooper TO be Collector of Internal Revenue
of the Eight District of Illinois, and Nelson
f. Acers to be Collector of Internal Reve-
nue. for the District of Kansas. The above
were among the nominations upon which
the Senate failed To act.
The president has appointed VIM. c.
Langford to be associate justice of the
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vice :. &. Wngard, suspended and Gus
tavus Van Hoorebeke to be United States
attorney for the southern district Of Hi
nois. vice j. c. Connolly, suspended. These
were among the nominations left over.
According TO decision rendered by the
treasury department, brandy or other
spirituous liquors, in bulk, can only be inn
ported in casks of the capacity OF fourteen
gallons or greater. Wines, brandy and
other spirituous liquors in bottles must be
in packages of not less than one dozen bot
ties each, and malt and fermented liquors
are not limited TO any particularly sized
package
At Conneaut, o., Mrs. Slough, the wife
OF a laborer, went to the river TO wash,
taking her three children with her One
of the little ones fell into the water and in
the effort 10 rescue it the mother and all
the children were drowned. The bodies
were found close together in six feet of
water.
W O. Brockmai and his son Richard Of
Huntsville, Mo. determined to keep watch
for some thieves who were robbing bee
hives Neither knew of the others deter
mination. and the Sor. hearing some one
move in the bushes, fired and fatally
wounded his father, who, thinking the
shot came from a thie', fired and filled the
boys face with buckslot.
The STANDARD oil company. it is said, has
leased about fifty square miles of territory
in Erie and adjoining counties and will
put down about fifty gas wells, with the
intention of piping the gas TO Cleveland.
Two wells which are being put down in
the Ieboref valley are said to be yielding
oil in paying quantities
The stables Of the Omaha fair associa-
ton, were struck by lightning on the 9th
inst. and eight valuable horses were
killed
Cutting has appealed to Gov Ireland for
protection.
John Matthews. whose nomination as
Recorder Of Deeds for the District Of
Columbia, was elected 10y the Senate, has
been again appointed 70 the position, TO
succeed Fredericl, Douglass
Reports from Tombstone, \. T., say thu
Apaches are again on the war path, raid
ing, killing and stealing ms usual Eleven
teamsters. all Americans are reported 10
have been killed last week
\ collision occurred on the Louisville q,
Nashville railroad, about 80 miles from
Louisville, on the 10th inst. in which
three employees OF the road were fatally
injured and tho brakeman OF one of the
trains instantly killed. The collision is
the result OF carclessncss on the part Of
the engineer of the freight train
John W. Stevenson, ex- governor OF Ken
lucky. j. dead
Or. John MacLean, formerly president
of the college Of New Jersey, is dead.
The Cutting affair in Mexico seems TO
have created great excitement along the
border. and this excitement has been
greatly intensified by unfounded rumors
A feeling that war is certain prevails and
minute men have been organized and are
ready for duty. Despite the rumors from
the Mexican borders Secretary Bayard
sees no reason why "a satisfactory adjust
ment should not be reached. Cuttings
case has been appealed TO the supreme
court and the appeal granted
Forest fires are raging for over hun
dred miles along the Wisconsin Central
railroad. and the loss sustained is in
calculable For days and nights the in
habitant- fought the flames to save to-
towns The town CT Spencer has been
completely destroyed. Hundreds OF peo-
ple along the line of the road are homeless
and destitute, while 1t is very certain
that many lives will loo sacrificed to the
flames.
The record Of the present congress fills
$500 printed pages o. not including
the indexes and the appendix. This ex-
ceeds by about 100 pages the record of
any preceding session of congress.
The l0-cent delivery is to be extended TO
every Office in the country, and to all
classes of mail matter as well as well as
letters.
The Introduction to Poor's Railroad
Manual for lsS6, which has just been pub
lished. shows that BIB miles of road were
constructed during the year, the aggregate
mileage for the whole country being now
12S,95G. The capital stocks of all railroads
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