Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-07-23
THE NATION.

Two hundred acres of cranberries in the
vicinity of Tomah, Wis, owned by j. |.
Case of Racine, the X. l.. Baker estate and
Judge Ryan, have been ruined by the
recent forest fires. The loss is estimated
at $4,000 1t will take eight or ten years
for the vines To grow again.
Four women were struck by lightning in
Galveston, Texas, on the l4th inst.
Rumored that Gen. Butler will accept
the Democratic nomination for congress.
Three thousand tanners in Peabody and
Salem, Mass, are on a strike.
Richard Ely Colt died of apoplexy at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Harriet Miller
! New York, the other day, in his s5th year.
He was n son of Richard Ely Colt and was
born in Pittsfield, Mass, where his ances-
tors for many generations have lived. He
was nephew of Col. Samuel Colt, the in
ventor of Colts revolver
The property of the Denver a Rio
! Grande railroad company was sold recent
! " under decree of the court for Sl5. 000,
600 TO a purchasing committee under the
! Coppen mortgage. The bid was really
nominal, as the property was purchased
/ for the benefit of the bondholders and
stockholders The company had defaulted
and was under IA foreclosure decree.
About 200 active Republicans from all
parts of Massachusetts met in Boston on
the 18th inst, and adopted resolutions as
sorting the Republican party in Massachu-
sets should declare its uncompromising
antagonism to the liquor saloon, and that
the question of constitutional prohibition
! Ia 4 81 in
viting men of all parties TO cooperate. An
executive committee of fifteen was APP
pointed.
The Senate has passed bill appropriate
| ing SD, 900 for the erection of a monument
at Stony Point, n. Y, TO commemorate
the revolutionary battle at that point.
Geronimo, the Apache chief, has become
very penitent and wants TO surrender.
The reason for his penitence is found in
the fact that he is without food and
| horses.
There is an understanding in the Senate
that when the river and harbor bill shall
have been perfected, item by item, n mo-
ton will be offered TO make a horizontal
reduction, bringing the aggregate appro-
priation to point somewhat below that
of the House bill. This will have the effect
of putting every item into conference.
The proposed reduction will probably be
fixed at the rate of twenty or thirty per
cent.
The parliamentary party will be repre-
scented at the Irish National League con
vention to be held in Chicago.
The doctors who attended the vic Tins
of the Haymarket riot in Chicago, have
bills aggregating something like $1,000
Several of these bills are now in the pos
session of the police department. having
been put III there with the expectation
that they would be paid out of the funds
of the Policemens Benevolent Associa-
! ton.
The large saw mill of Albert Lewis at
Meadow Run, Pa, was destroyed by fire
! the other day. The mill was situated about
two miles from the encampment of the
Ninth Regiment, National Guards OF
! Pennsylvania, and word was sent to the
camp. Three hundred soldiers responded
and were sent to the scene on special
train After two hour desperate work
| they succeeded in saving surrounding
buildings and several million feet Of lum-
Der The mill was entirely destroyed with
much valuable machinery. The loss is
/ $4,000; partially insured
At Lorain, Ohio, the other afternoon
while gang of men were taking out the
iron ore cargo of the schooner II. II.
! Brown one of the tramways gave way.
John A. Starke John Smith and j. Word
satisfy were precipitated into the vessels
! hold, heavily loaded cart falling on
them. Smith and Starke were both in
stantly killed, while the third man escaped
with slight injuries. The trestle had been
pronounced unsafe. but its owners patch
ed it up and ran the risk.
The breach of promise case instituted by
Miss Zefiie Coslett against Franklin How
ell, the young vice-president of the Mer-
chants and Mechanics bank of Scranton,
Pa, has been amicably settled. The pro
ceedings have been conducted entirely by
the lawyers. Mr.. Howell confessed judg-
ment in $4,000 20 the referee, and the
money has been paid over TO Miss Coslett.
The defendant is a spiritualist, and ii is
alleged that he broke the engagement be-
cause he says the spirit Of his father, who
was wealthy coal operator, told him at
a special manifestation in New York not
TO marry at present.
Persons in the west report that the 9th
er afternoon an immense cloud of grass
hoppers settled down on a wheatfield in
the vicinity OF Sanborn. on tine Northern
Pacific railroad, some sixty-fve miles west
of Fargo, Dakota, and in a very short
short time cleared off fifty acres of every
vestige of greenness. Several other fields
in that ,neighborhood were partially
swept. About sunset the hoppers rose
and flew southeast.
The total values of the exports of dom
este breadstuffs during the month of
June, 1856 and during the six and twelve
months ended June 80, 1856, rs compared
with similar exports during the cores
ponding periods of the preceding year
were as follows: June, 1sS6. Sl3, 1O2, 1913
June, 1885, s9O2i530. Six months ended
June 30, 1856, 500 SCI, 5G6; same period 1855,
s16 1jl 324 Twelve months ended June 30