Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-10-08
FOREIGN.

Chas. Hand, hotel keeper OF Sarnia,
Ont, has been arrested for being engaged
in n plot to blow up License Inspector
Palmer's house. Dynamite cartridges
were found on him which he claims he got
in Detroit. Palmer's duty is the enforce
ment Of the Scott act.
Paris journal wants the French to
trade with Canada and believes a change
Of feeling toward France would be n con-
sequence.
The mayor OF Madrid has ordered the
clergyman and congregation OF the British
protestant chapel TO cease holding service;
annoys the neighbors, he says.
The new copper ridge, situated few
miles from Sudbury junction, on the
Canadian Pacific railway, 394 miles from
Ottawa, is four miles long, 800 feet wide
and POO feet deep. Recent visitors report
the per cent of pure copper very large.
Operations have begun on a small scale,
the ore being sent TO New York. \ crush
ing mill will soon be erected at Sudbury.
The expulsion of Poles from eastern
Prussia continues.
The British foreign Office and the United
States legation authorize the statement
that new fishery treaty had been effected
between the United States and Canada is
an entire fabrication, and that no such
treaty has been proposed lay either gov
eminent.
The congregational board OF ministers in
London, entertained Henry Ward Beecher
at a banquet the other night
Three Frenchmen have been expelled
from Metz, Germany, on suspicion Of their
being spies in the employ of the French
military service.
Minister Phelps is making a pleasure
tour Of Scotland, and Senator Butler OF
South Carolina, and Judge Davis Pratt
the new United States minister to Persia,
are doing London.
The schooner Mary Ann collided with
British vessel liz the bay at st. Johns, n.
F., and four sailors were drowned.
An explosion OF fire damp occurred in q
coal pit near Schalke, Germany, Sept, "a,
and 45 persons instantly killed Sixteen
others were injured, eight fatally.
Three soldiers were killed and 20 wound
ed by a railroad accident near Berlin the
other day.
A rumor is in circulation that Parnell is
becoming tired Of parliamentary life.
The testimonial in honor OF Queen Vic
toria in London will take the form OF
permanent colonial exhibition.
King Otto of Bavaria grows more insane
every day.
Another desperate fight between Prot
estant and Catholic workmen occurred in
Belfast on the Goth ult. When the police
interfered the opposing mob joined hands
and stoned and routed the police, a mum
Der OF whom were injured.
Advices received from Newfoundland
state that taken as n whole, the record OK
this year will be one of the most serious
failures in fisheries that Newfoundland
has witnessed for many years, and that
the coming winter will he one OF great
trial and restitution among the families
Of fishermen The fishing along the coast
/ from Cape Race TO Cape st. John is re-
/ ported 10 be the worst ever known. News
from Labrador il also very discouraging.
~ dominion government is pushing FOR
public works to help the impoverished
people.
The Moniteur de Rome has received let
tiers emanating from Christian missions in
China stating that the Catholic Seminary
in that country had been burned by
natives and thousands OF native Catholic
adherents placed in manacles.