Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-07-16

/ in New Ork from Europe inc othcI Jay
The converts varied in age all the way
from 10 20 20 years. The agent in charge
stated that about 500 more would arrive
here in August or September.
Destructive forest fires are reported
from Wisconsin.
The entire village of Romeo, Wis, was
destroyed by fire on the 9Th inst, causing
n loss of $4,000.
Reports TO the Pioneer Press OF st. Paul,
are TO the effect that the outlook for
spring wheat is very discouraging
The powder companies of California
! have formed pool 10 boost the price OF
dynamite The trade amounts 10 five
million pounds of that explosive year.
Coal oil has been discovered near Rapid
! City, Dakota. 4 stock company, capital
$4,000, Ia, been organized % develop 1t.
There are about eight million fruit trees
i'm California.
Eli Horner of Butler, Ind. was run over
/ 10y "A train on the Wabash near Adrian on
| the >th inst, and instantly killed.
Mrs Everett Wilson Of Adrian was
/ drowned in the lake at Chicago few days
! ago.
Three ice houses in Ann Arbor belong
/ ing TO A. +. HungeSterfer were destroyed
! by fire the other morning.
/ San Francisco contributed $1,000 TO the
! Parnel fund.
The failures for the first six months OF
/ iss6 amount in number II 5,l5G, against
! 6OO4 for the first six months Of lSS5 The
/ liabilities amount TO $50 4;4 900 for the first
! half of 1886, as against, S54, 122, 900 for the
| first half of 1856, showing decrease in the
number of failures of SIS, and in amount
of liabilities 80, 2ss.OO0
! A G.. Ogilby, indicted for embezzlng
$50, 900 from the dime savings institution,
/ in New Brunswick, " j., of which he was
treasurer, has been sentenced TO four
years imprisonment. He made no de-
| Tense.
A national law and order league is talk
ed offor the investigation Of boycotts aad
labor disturbances.
Democrats and Greenbackers OF Iowa
will fuse"
John G. Shields, a Michigan man has been
re-nominated as chief Justice OF Arizona
vice Sumner Howard resigned.
The President is considering the advis-
ability of revising the civil service rules as
to the age of limit
Business in the Lake Shore yards in Chi
sago is resuming its normal condition
Eek President ]. A. Christian OF the
National Miller's Association, died in Min
neapolis July ..
The Wells Fargo q Co. express, under
the decision Of Judge Deadly that one com
mon carrier cannot be forced TO do bust.
ness for another, has been barred from the
Northern Pacific railroad
The conservators' league of America was
organized in Chicago recently. 1t is a
secret order intended 20 prevent the
/ paralysis of business through the strained
relations between labor and capital.
Cattle in Texas are dying by hundreds
for the want OF water and grass.
y deadly cattle disease has broken out
among the cattle in Arkansas. 1t resem-
bles some what the Texas fever.
Upwards of S3i,W0,0OO of gold has been
shipped out of this country in the last six
months, four times as much as for the en-
tire year ending June 80 last year.
The whisky di>tillerS in Ohio, Kentucky,
and Illinois are in a row, and the price of
their product Is down To II cents a gallon,
exclusive of the government tax.
James " komeyn has been confirmed as
consul at Valparaiso.
Crop reports from North Carolina and
Wet Virginia are very di>couraging.
Horace A. Whitney of New York, cash
Ter in the United States treasur-
er's Office, died suddenly while at his desk,
the other morning. lie had been in the
trcasurer's office about 81 years.
Cattlemen are making an effort to lease
the land in the Indian Territory. The land
embraces several million acres and the
rental would net the different tribes a
handsome sum.
Information has been received that
eight Fregch torpedo boats were lost on
tie Atlantic July 2d and 50 persons were
drowned.
Gladstone is ont in another letter in
which he says it is impossible for the Brit
1sh legislation TO proceed until the Irish
question has been settled. The old man is
confident of victory.
fierce war IS being waved against non
union carpenters in Chicago
Western Union telegraph operatives are
considering the adviSability Of a strike.
Forty-three treasury clerks were dis
charged recently, fourteen in the second
auditors office, seventeen in the sixth
auditors, ten in the second ccmptroller's
and two in the first comptroller's The re-
duction OF the salaries of twelve clerks also
took effect the same day.
The president has sig ned the bill for the
relief of Fitz John Porter
The Hazard graduates this year number
ed 2A and 326 graduates received
diplomas from Yale.
The Chicago Hr2,cdy Age says it is now
certain that the railway building of lAs
will far exceed hat of the two preceding
years, and indie. surpass that of most of
the years in tho history OF the coupt try.
The total new lway mileage 1886 will
not fall short o. 900 miles, and may con-
siderably excee hat.
The Massachu It's legislature passed a
bill appropriata $4,000 for entertaining
President Clevo nd in case he should pay
a visit TO that ate this summer. The