Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-10-29
THE NATION.


The terrible hurricane which swept over
the country on the l4th inst, wrought
widespread damage Buildings were
wrecked in Chicago, Toledo, Fort Wayne
Buffalo, Rochester, Louisville, KY, Kan
kakee, H., and in many smaller cities and
villages. Several deaths are also reported.
The whole number of old soldiers in
Dakota receiving pension from the gov
eminent are 293S Tho amount paid
monthly is S31, 1914 50; for twelve months
500. 33S Is.
At n meeting OF the trustees of tho
Grant monument fund held Il tcw days
ago, model No , submitted 10y Louis +.
Rebisso, OF Cincinnati, was awarded first
premium, $500; model No. IL, 10y James
Mahoney OF Chicago, the second premium,
$500, and model No 10, 10y f. c. Potter Of
Boston, the third premium 500 The
contract for the statue has not been
awarded
PunxSutawney, mining village in
northern Pennsylvania, has been entirely
destroyed 10y fire The loss will reach
fully 10000.
Gen. Miles issued "A congratulatory or
der formally announcing the close Of the
most famous Indian campaign on record
and congratulatng the troops on the re-
suit With the exception OF one small
thievinS party row in Chihuahua Mexico,
all the hostile Indians have been removed
to a place of safety. The document will
doubtless correct the false impression tried
to be created in Washington that the
Apache war j. not yet over
A construction train on the Nebraska &
Colorado division of the Burlington q
Missouri River railroad was thrown from
the track near Fairfield Neb., the other
afternoon. The whole train was precipi'
tated down an embankment and six cars
were totally wrecked. Five men were in
stantly killed and a number II others
more or less seriously injured.
Secretary Whitney has put stop 20
the suspended" lists in the navy yards,
whereby men were enrolled some six
months before an election, and began
work within the Go-day limit allowed 10y
the law. BY means of these lists the law
forbidding the employent of men at cleo
tion time has been eyaded.
Ex-Gov. Hoadly of Ohio SAYS he will pay
hi, share (S5AOO0) as bondsman of b
Mannx. the dcfaultng assignee OF Arch.
bishop Purcell.
The will of the late Samuel j. Tildcn has
been admitted TO probate IN the surro-
gates court in New Plains New York,
without opposition, Messrs. Andrew II.
Green, John Bigelow and George W
Smith, executors and trustees, immediate
~ qualified rs such.
Two more rascals implicated in tho
murder of Rev. Haddock at Sioux city,
Iowa, have made confessions.
Another large and valuable tract OF land |
in the Walla Walla land district in Wash /
ihgton territory, has been recovered from
the Northern Pacific and restored 10 the
public domain
Wilmarth's bank, Ashland, Wis, has
been robbed of $4,000 by robbers who com
PEELED Wilmarth 10 open the vault.
Bayard Putnam, chief Of the govern /
ment Typographical survey, has hanged /
himself at North Adams. Mass.
The switchmen on the Minneapolis q .
st Paul line of roads are on q strike
Capt. Bailey, bar pilot at Port Eads /
reports chat there were twenty-six live, /
lost during the recent storm on the bayou,
leading from the Gulf in the direction Of /
anu biCh OF the ludIa Tile NlAlltU.
The citizens Of Raymond. Dakota. have
organized a joint stock company and /
erected grain storage warehouse which
will allow farmers in that vicinity TO ship
their grain direct to Chicago.
Five hundred head OF cattle were forded
across the Missouri at Pierre Dakota, last
week, an undertaking seldom attempted
Virgins, the weather prophet, has left
Montreal for the interior until the storm
about his own ears has blown over.
1t is thought the death list in Johnsons'
Bayon and Sabine Pass, will exceed 20
souls.
The village portion of Salisbury, Md,
was wiped out 10y fire on the 10Th inst.
Capt. Howgate, the defaulting disbur>-
ing officer of the signal service department
is living in Chicago under an assumed 4
name and earning his living as life in
surance agent.
The returns from the Quebec provincial .
election shows that the government party /
have been defeated by a small majority.
The liberals have elected 3j and the con
servatives p members to the provincial
parliament, with ono election yet 20 take
place
One hundred and fifty thousand soldiers
are 60 be concentrated in Russian Poland. |
Il meeting was held in London a few
days since for the purpose of organizing
the movement 20 erect memorial church |
in honor OF the attainment OF the fftieth
year Of Queen Victoria S reign which will be
completed June 20, 1857. An executive
committee was appointed TO manage tho
business appointments and 20 select
site Mr.. Gladstone declined TO permit
the use of his name as Il member of this
committee.
Mary Anderson, tho American actress
now playing in the British Isles, subscribed
the net proceeds of her performances dur
the past week, to the sufferers by the
Charleston earthquakes. The contribu.
ton amounted 20 az 800.
Great Britain was swept Ivy \ storm on