Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-05-28

The Ohio legislature has adjourned till
January f. 1887.
A terrible drouth in Texas, cattle and
sheep are dying by hundreds for want of
water.
Akron, Ohio, was destroyed by fire the
other night, and her four little children
were burned to death.
Three of the persons injured in the
theatre fire at Westerville, Ohio, have
died from their injuries.
Hon. James G.. Blaine is II member of the
Knights of Labor.
The St Louis deputies who fired on u
mob, in that city, have been released, the
grand jury refusing to find bills against
them.
The workmen in the Chicago lumber
yards again ceased work on the 18th, and
demand eight hours a day.
freight workers in Chicago have organ
lied. They refuse to ally themselves with
the Knights of Labor.
The president has approved the Indian
appropriation bill, the Fourth Of July
claims bill, to reimburse certain claim
ants for property destroyed by union
forces during the war, and % or 30 Bills for
constructing bridges in the west.
The Hon. John Deere, the well known
plow manufacturer of Moline, H., died in
that city on the 18th inst, aged So years.
Gov. Swineford is very modest man in
his demands for Alaska. He wants money
for an Indian hospital, an increased APP
preparation for industrial schools, mail
facilities for the Aleuts on the islands,
representation i'll congress, and a ter
ritorial council. The governor complains
that whisky bought in Portland Oregon,
for 81 80 a gallon is sold in Alaska for from
IS to $12; that rascally marshal beat
him out of 5000 by making him buy Uncle
Sans furniture and that the clerk at
tempted to put $50 into his (the COVER
nor's) pocket by charging up mileage
where Swineford had a pass. No wonder
the governor is virtuouslv indignant.
Francis T. Hord, encouragement OF
Indiana, has been taken to the insane
asylum. His mania is that of ungrounded
jealousy of his wife, an estimable lady of
81 years of age, and has assaulted and
threatened TO kill n reputable citizen who
is the victim of his jealous rage.
The easu-bOund p,,senset Ofain on the
Indiana, Bloomington q Western railroad
ran into "A culvert near New Castle, Henry
county, Ind the other night with fatal effect
The engine, baggage car and the first pas
senger car plunged into the abyss j. V
Trenary, engineer and James Hudson fire
man. both of indianapolis. and AN I'M
known passenger were instantly killed in
the crush and the baggageman and con
ductor severely injured.
o. ". Durant, veteran of the MexicaD
war, died in Elkhart, Ind, May 18th
The st. Louis deputies who fired upon
crowd of strikers in that city
in April last have been transferred from
the st. Louis jail TO Belleville, Ill.
Brooks, alias Maxwell the man on tria
ia st Louis for the murder of Arthur G.
prellcr IN that city some time ago, has
confessed the deed, but asserts that it
was accidental.
At camp meeting in johnson county,
Kansas, twenty miles south of Lawrence,
"a high wind blew down the tent in which
about 80 persons were sheltered Three
persons were killed. They were Mr.. and
Mrs Jackson and their babe, the child
being smothered great many persons
were injured slightly.
,hc .,. 1880 OF Iabor OF Cleveland an,
other labor organizations are working a.
n scheme for taxing all foreign emigration
and will soon forward petition to con
nrcss asking that such "a law be passed.