Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-08-13
THE NATION.


hung herself the other morning with
strap. She was jealous of n neighbours
child TO whom a boy playmate had show
same childish attention.
The President has vetoed tho act grant
ing pension to Jennette Dow.
a boiler in the shops Of the Lehigh Valley
Coal a Navigation Company at Lansford,
Pa, exploded the other day. So far rs
heard from eight men were injured one
killed and two Others are expected 20 die
The boiler was put in fifteen years ago,
when the shops were built, and has been
condemned several times.
The total amount of taxable property in
Indiana is $21;, ll06o3
Hon y f. Williams has been elected
United State, Senator from California
The trophies and presents of Gen Grant,
which were jointly donated to the govern
ment by Mr. Vanderbilt and Mrs Grant
and which are stored in the War Depart
ment pending a formal acceptance by
Congress. will be returned 10 the donors
in case congress adjourns without accept
ing them
An effort is being made TO suppress
gambling at Saratoga. Anthony Com
stock of New York and Rev. Joseph Cook
of Boston are the ones most active in the
proposed reform.
Much needed rains have saved the crops
in Illinois, New Mexico and Texas.
Work has been resumed at nearly all the
flint glass factories in Pittsburg
Great alarm is felt in Montana over the
low prices Of silver. over $1,000 persons
in the territory are dependent upon the
mining industry, and if the present de
preston in the silver market continues
many mines will have to shut down.
The national convention of colored
journalists. in session al Atlantic City, y.
j., elected the following officers President
Rev. ". j. Simmons. D. D., Of Louisville;
Vice President Rev. i. +. Tanner ID. d.,
of Philadelphia; Secretary George Free
man Bragg o. Petersburg, Va; Treasurer
Alexander Clark of Chicago Historian
Calvin Chase Of Washington. Fred Doug
lass delivered rousing address before the
convention.
Snow fell TO the depth of one and one
half inches at Mt. Washington on the Sd
inst. Snow also fell at Rome, y. y, on
the same day.
An important arrest has been made 10y
Pinkerton's national detective agency In
the capture of Thomas Finnucan, David
Shanuhan and Noyes 5. Thompson, who
are charged with being implicated IN the
/, robbery of some 5000 worth Of stamps
which were stolen from the Minneapolis
postoflicc on the night of July eth.
One of Washngton's old landmarks was
torn down the other day. IL was a house
built by Thomas Jefferson during Wash
ington's administration, and while he was
secretary Of state.
The supreme court OF New Hampshire
has rendered a decision denying the right
of the salvation army to beat a drum in
the street Of any city town or village in
that state.
1t is reported that an intense war feeling
prevails throughout Texas, and that
thousand, of young men OF suitable age
are quietly enrolling for military service.
The Presidents wife was admitted TO
membership in the First Presbyterian
church in Washington, Sunday the lst inst.
The boat in which Philadelphia yacht
ing party were returning from Atlantic
City TO New York on the 3lst ult capsized
off Sandy Hook, and seven of the sixteen
persons in the party were drowned. The
remaining nine were saved by a tug. All
the bodies, except one, were recovered
capt. Mcdonald of Gloucester, Mass. OF
the schooner Thomas +. Bayard, whose
vessel was seized of the Newfoundland
coast 10y the Canadian authorities, has
brought suit for $1,000 against the
government Of Canada for violating the
existing treaty between that government
and the United states by driving him of
the coast. lie lost an entire trip of fish
The boiler of saw-mll located at
Tchula, Miss, on the Yazoo division of tho
Illinois Central railroad, belonging 10 Col
Graves exploded the other night, killing
six person, and injuring several others
Col. Graves was among the injured
President Cleveland has signed the sun
dry civil and general deficiency bill
Harrison Durkee vice president of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, died
in New YORK on the 4th inst.
The nomination OF II. a Beechcr to be
collector oil customs at Port Townsend
V 4 has been Withdrawn.
The Commissioner OF Agriculture has
decided % locate the new silk factory to
be established in connection with the Agri-
cultural Department IN the annex TO the
department building and to operate it
with the department employees.
The trial OF Cutting, the American now
in prison in Paso del Norte, Mexico has
been postponed again President Diaz does
not fear trouble over the affair.
Gladstone has written IA letterto a friend
in which he intimates his early retire
ment.
Forest fires have done incalculable dam
age on the line of the Lake Shore road in
Wisconsin.
n little daughter was born to a japanese
woman in Chicago, a few days ago. 1t is
the first full-blooded japanese born in
this country.