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

cago for violating an act of congress pass
ed in February, 1885, prohibiting the i'm
portation and immigration of foreign la
borers. 1t is suspected that the suit has
been instigated by the Knights OF Labor,
who are down on the syndicate for work
ing penitentiary convicts furnished by the
state. The suit will be tried at tho August
term of court.
The Massachusetts, Republican conven-
ton will probably not meet before the
middle of September.
Numbers of farmers in Dakota propose
to boycott the chinch bug by agreeing not
to plant kernel OF wheat for nine
years.
Hugh NJ. Brooks, alias W. II. Lennox
Maxwell. convicted of numbering Charles
Arthur Preller in the Southern hotel in
st. Louis, has been sentenced to be hanged
Aug. ~, 1856.
Rumored that North Carolina Republi
cans will hold no state convention this
year.
st. John is said to be willing to accept n
Prohibition nomination for congress in
the Second Kansas district.
General Chalmers is again a candidate
for congress in the Second Mississippi dis
arict.
The West Virginia state board OF health
In annual session suspended the registra-
tion of graduates from the jefferson Medi-
cal College, Philadelphia; Louisville Medi-
cal College of Kentucky; and Columbus
Medical College of Ohio There is law
in that state granting the state board of
health power to do as the board pleases in
the matter of granting permission TO doc
tors of medicine to practice within that
state.
James j. Mason is wanted In New or
leans for embezzling $4,000 from Chafiin
Bros railway and bridge contractors in
that city.
o. Lanigan, cashier of the Exchange
bank of Button, Ohio, is under arrest for
embezzleing the funds of the bank.
Prohibitionists Of Kansas have placed
the following ticket in nomi nation: For
governor, G. H. Branscombe, lieutenant
governor. Z. w. Huston; secretary of
state. y. b. Klaine; auditor of state, G. III.
Langston, colored; Encouragement. W.
5. Wait. treasurer VIM Crosby; supern-
.endent of public schools, Mrs. Dr.. Sui
bert; associate justice, +. Ii. Payton.
Martin o. Van Fleet the defaulting
treasurer of Huron county, Ohio, who was
for three years n fugitive from justice,
and who was recently extradited from
Canada on a charge of forgery, has been
sentenced 10 six years imprisonment in
the penitentiary. Van Fleet pleaded
guilty, and this fact in connection with
the Impoverished condition OF his family,
is said to account for the light sentence.
The convicts of the Dade coal mines,
near Atlanta, Ga. are in open instruction,
and have entrenched themselves in some
sheds. and propose to die rather than re
turn to work. Gov. Mcdaniel has ordered
that they be starved into subordination.
Mary Maloney, a young woman employ
ed in laundry in Chicago was caught in
the rolls Of an ironing machine and held
suspended until her scalp was torn com
pletey off She will die.
Mrs. Mary Thomas of Arondale Del,
fell from a cherry tree the other morning
in such n manner as 20 be caught in the
crotch formed by two limbs, where she
hung until dead.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Record in
its semi-annual review OF the industrial
growth OF the south shows that during the
first six months of 1856 the values OF the
manufacturing and mining enterprises OF
the south have been increased by about
s63,61s, 900.
President Cleveland will spend $1,000 for
improvements on his cottage in the
suburbs of Washington.
Natural gas has thrown 5000 miners out
of employment in the vicinity OF Pitts
burg.
Justice Fields of the United States SUI
preme court, is very i'll, and his friends
fear that his seat on the bench will soon
become vacant.
W. c. Higgins and another man, both
colored, OF Arkansas City, were quarreling
when j. w. Dickson, Jr mayor of the city,
ordered them to stop. The men refused,
whereupon Dickson drew n revolver and
fired, instantly killing Higgins.
Carpenters in st. Louis have resolved to
adhere TO the eight hour system.
The Rev VIM. W. Downs, the Boston
divine who has recently acquired so much
notoriety, has been arrested for having
betrayed a young lady of his congregation.
Mrs. Theresa Turpin, of Princeton, Ind,
cut her 7-year-old daughters throat and
hanged her infant and then herself. She
left note saying the devil was after her
and she could not get away.
c. ID. Graham Of Philadelphia successful
ly swan the whirlpool rapids in Niagara
river on the llth inst. Incloscd in a bar
rel he was carried through the seething
waters of the rapids. He was slightly
bruised. but otherwise uninjured. His
only reward(D is the glory of the thing.
The Senate has passed bill TO reimburse
the officers and crew of the steamer Tai
lapoosa for the loss of their personal ef
fects on board that vessel when she ran
into the schooner Lowell and sank on the
Squash Meadow shoals of Rhode Island
Both officers and men lost everything or
board, and the bill proposes to pay 800 &c
each of the seamen and provides each OF
he officers with an outfit Of clothing.