Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-09-24


troyed by fire on the 18th inst Loss
about 100000, with small insurance. One
man was killed by falling walls.
A large influx of workmen from the iron
and steel producing districts OF England
Is expected at Pittsburgh A vigorous op-
position from the labor organizations Of
this country is expected
Gordon y. Hubbard, the first white set
tier of Chicago, is dead.
Arthur Arbuthnot has confessed TO the
murder of ex-Mayor Bow man of East st.
Louis, in November last Arbuthnot
claims to have been hired by leading
citizen of that city to do the job.
A secret organization of business men
has been formed in Pittsburgh To purify
local politics.
David Johnson, Westenport, Md, luna
tic, shot Edward White, business man,
on the street. He was lynched.
The committee authorized 10y the recent
meeting of citizens 10 arrange for the pro
rSsed national drill To be held in Wash
'ngton next May have decided to offer
prizes of at least $4,000
Another bond call for $1,000 900 In three
per cents. has been issued from the treas.
ury department..
The Hon. {. J.. Luce of Toledo, O., n
brother of c. q. Luce, republican candi
date for governor of Michigan, died in
Toledo on the 18th inst.
George Gould, son of the millionaire
was married in New York on the 18th inst.
to Miss Edith Kingdom, an actress.
Customs officers at San Francisco, were
charged with subjecting Chinese women to
great indignities. An investigation was
ordered and resulted in the acqlittal Of
the officers.
The treasury department has decided
that Indians living in the United States
near the Canadian frontier are not EMIT
led TO the privilege of purchasing horses
and cattle in Canada and importing them
into the United States free of duty, either
under section 25l5 of the revised statutes
or otherwise. The section applies only to
peltries brought into the territory of the
United States by Indians, and the proper
goods and effects of whatever nature Of
Indians passing or repassing the boundary
line, and has no reference TO merchandise,
animals, etc which may have been pLr-
chased by Indians and imported for the
purpose of sale in the United States.
Pittsburg window glass factories WIN
resume operations about October LIST
S. s. Cox, l.. $. minister of Turkey is
coming home on n vacation.
Three men were killed in a railroad &C
cident near Winnipeg on the 18th inst.
NJ. c. Wilson, school teacher OF lthica,
Ohio, and formerly a student in the
Toledo Medical college, and ply sician of
Toledo are under arrest for grave robbing
The other afternoon a trunk arrived in
Toledo by the Wheeling & Lake Erie road
from Bellevue which exhaled so horrible
an odor as TO drive the baggageman from
his post. 1t was placed on the platform
and the police authorities notified. Soon
after their arrival Wilson, who had come
from Bellevue on the Lake Shore railroad,
arrived with dray and presented the
check for the trunk. He was Immediately
arrested and the trunk opened, when it
was found to contain the body of n woman
packed in hay. Wilson and the trunk
were then taken to the police station,
where coroner examined the body 1t
was that OF n woman Of about 90 much
emaciated, partly dressed in underclothing
of the finest quality.
There are only four of the survivors OF
the battle of North Point during the war
of lSl2 The four held n reunion in Balti.
more on the 18th inst.
Freehold, " j.. had IA 100000 blaze on
tho nth inst. when some of the principal
business blocks IL ~ecity were destroyed.
Ex-Judge y. T. White was murdered in
ambush in Clay county, Ky, the other
day 10y unknown parties.
The second comptroller of the treasury
has given az opinion in regard TO the war
claims of the state OF Ohio. in which he
holds that whatever necessary stores and
supplies were furnished by that state for
its sick and wounded soldiers employed in
she federal service in the war of the rebel
lion and whatever hospital quarters were
furnished 10y the state for the care of such
soldiers, including the necessary cost Of
transportation from the field to the hospit-
al, are reimbursable under the provisions
of the acts Of July Il and -
John Gallagher,a Philadelphia street car
driver found wallet containing 81 GOO and
returned it to the bank from which the
money had been obtained by its owner.
He had no knowledge of the owner until
be read of the loss in the mornings papers.
President Fitzgerald of the Irish nation
al league has ordered 10000 copies of
Gladstone's pamphlet on the Irish question
for American distribution.
Judge Homer of Omaha, Neb., has been
sued for $4,000 by an ex-convict who was
his client, for allowing perjudicial steps
to be taken in the prosecution which land.
ed him in jail.
movement is on foot for building an
ice palace and holding winter carnival
in Sioux Falls, Dakota, the coming season,
with roboggan slide and all the usual
The Indians on the Yankton agency
raised large amount OF wheat this year.
A case of genuine Asiatic cholera is said
to have caused the death of man near
Lennox, Dakota.
Heavy gales are reported in Indiana and