Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-10-15

ments against ex-Deputy Worden Mamott
for bribery and ex-superintendent of Shoe
Shops Perry for embezzlement, No in
dictments were found in the election
forgery case.
Nearly 400 delegates attended the Nor
mon church conference at Ogden, Utah
President Taylor issued an edict from his
hiding place, which is supposed TO lay
down the Mormon policy that the present
status of the priesthood shall be maintain
ed and polygamy shall not bo abandoned.
AT the annual meeting OF the trustees OF
the Peabody educational fund, held in
New York, it was stated that in conse
quence OF the states Of Florida and Missis
sippi repudiating their bonds the fund had
lost 81, 100000 which had been given by Mr..
Peabody in these bonds as part OF the
fund The allotment had been stopped
and divided among the other states.
Lexington, Ky, celebrated the Tooth
anniversary of its birth on the eth inst.
Prairie fires have done great damage in
in Manitoba. Scores of settlers have lost
their all
The first public school in Douglass,
Wyoming, was opened on the 4th inst
Leadvillc, Col. is enjoying season OF
prosperity unequalled since the flush days
OF $50
a New York syndicate has purchased a
tract of land near Del Norte, Col, and will
prospect for oil and coal.
The treasury department. has published
a statement showing the population, net
4 8 10
ernment for the last fiscal year with the
per capita of revenues and expenditures.
The population is given at -, 600 and
the net revenue at 1886, 439, 727 being per
capita of $40 or ,06 greater than the fisca
wear of 1855. The expenditures were $242.
4S3 i3S, per capita of i.l5, or - less than
that of the previous year.
Drs. Henry Baker and j. II. Kellogg were
the Michigan delegates TO the annual ma
tional conference of the state boards of
health held in Toronto recently.
JAS. l.. Williams, who was arrested at
the White House in March, 1855, while in
sistng on the president paying him 500,
900 on a claim against the government.
and sent to an insane asylum. was
brought into the district court the other
day on a writ of habeas corpus and releas-
ed. The court decided that no person can
be restrained of his liberty as an insane
person unless the question had been passed
upon 10y a jury. There are but about
twenty per cent. Of the 1000 patients in
the government insane asylum whose
sanity la, been passed upon 10y IA jury de
lunatico inquirendo
Jacob romeis Frank Hurds opponent
in the Toledo district has been renomnat-
ed for congress by the republicans.
a box containing giant powder explod-
ed in the Caledonia mine near Deadwood.
D. T.. the other day, and four men were
killed outright.
A large deposit OF coal which can he
easily worked has been discovered n few
miles from Cheyenne on the line OF the
Northern road.
The Union Pacific has recently opened a
new coal mine at Amy, W T., and is do
lug great deal of Improvement work on
the mines at Carhorn, SO that if the an
ticipated cold winter comes there cannot
be coal famine.
a proposition 10 have letter postage re-
duced TO one cent is already under dis
cussion, and will probably be brought up
early at the next session of congress.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania has
decided that the store order system is
unconstitutional, as persons are prevented
making their own contracts. The Labor
Trj,p,e advises all Operatives TO make
fight against the system.
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Apache warfare, for number Of hostile
Araches are still out and raiding the
country.
The PRESIDENT of the National cotton
planter association has addressed a cir
cular letter - The governors OF the cotton
statc,. asking their cooperation in efforts
t. secure g. return of s6A0000J collected
illegally directly after the war, and known
as the cotton tax
There are large number Of brewers who
use barrels constructed so that the vent is
in the side Commissioner Miller has de
cider that such construction was contrary
to law and that the brewers must remodel
their barrels so that spgots may be insert
cd in the ends This decision will cost
many thousands Of dollars 20 brewers in
various parts Of the country.
y former employe OF the overnment
printing Office has preferred charges
under oath, against Mr.. James w. White
the foreman of the bindery. The charges
are in substance that Mr.. White had
executed private work for Mr.. Rounds,
the ex-public printer, and number of
congressman, TO the amount of $4,000
yearly. Public Printer Benedict ac-
knowledges that such charges have been
preferred by Mr.. Scott under oath, but
says that he has hardly had time to glance
over them, and is unable to speak as to the
exact nature Of the charges.
VIM. Z. Gould, the defaulting cashier Of
Portland, Maine, has been sentenced to
ten years in the state prison at Thomas
ton
A terrible explosion at the Ditmar Pow
der works in Baychester, n. Y, the other
day, and four men were blown into frag-
ments.
A great lockout in the Chicago stock
yards is threatened, pending q settlement
of the question of eight hours Or ten
hours.