Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-12-07
NEWS SUMMARY.
GENERAL.


York base ball team has been sold 10 the
Washington club for $l2,OO
The commissioner OF the general land
Office has decided that tract of about
5000 acres Of land situated in township A
north, ranges and west, in the Ashland,
Wis, land district, claimed by the Chicago,
st Paul, Minneapolis e. Omaha railway
company, Is not mineral in character and
consequently passes " the railway com
pany under its grant
The yellow fever has blghted the pros
poets OF Florida hotelkeepers. Nearly all
the New Workers and Bostonese, who
usually spend their winter In that section,
will go TO southern California and Ber-
muda during the coming season. The tide
OF fashionable travel has set away from the
Pelican state.
Another railroad is TO be added to the
network OF systems In the northwest. The
new project has for its object an air kne
TO Kansas City from ST. Paul and Mime
apolis, via Des Moines, andcover route
almost equi-distant from the Kansas City
4 Omaha line.
The Hendricks club of indianapolis OBJ
served the anniversary OF the late vice
presidents death Nov 25,) in fitting man.
ner.
A furious storm ragged throughout the
middle and New England States Nov. %.
the fall of snow in many places being the
heaviest known in years. In New YORK
sleet and hail followed the snow. Great
damage was done 10 vessels in the harbors.
A strike of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers extending from the Gulf TO
the Pacific, and involving the entire South
ern Pacific system, is threatened. 80
The Pope has asked Cardinal Gibbons to
congratulate Mr.. Harrison on his election.
The Lehigh Valley railroad company
offered TO pay =, 900 each in the case of the
Mud Run disaster but the relatives Of the
victims demanded much larger sum.
The lS-year old daughter Of VIM. Turner
Of Amelia, Ohio, was shot and killed by her
brother Aaron, IL years OF age, the entire
contents Of a double barreled gun entering
her brain.
{ Two passenger trains collided near Hus-
ted, Col, the other morning. The upset
ting OF the stove in the baggage car Of one
OF the trains set fire TO the train, and before
IL could be exting'lished three cars were
consumed, but fortunately no one was inn
prisoned in them. The escape Of the pas
sengers seems miraculous. Two trainmen
were killed. w. II. Phillips, express mes
senger, and j. II, Milan, baggagemaster,
both Of Rock Island.
The Chinese lepers in British Columbia
have communicated their terrible malady
to the Indians in that province, numbering
5000. The Columbia authorities have for
several years been informed of the presence
Of Chinese lepers, but took little or no ac-
/ ton against them, fearing that the agitation
OF the subject would turn away the tide OF
emigration coming from Europe.
Frost in Florida has put stopt to the raw
ages OF yellow fever The authorities of
Jacksonville have decided TO remove the
restriction upon travel as soon as disin-
lection shall have been completed.
The true source OF the Mississippi river
has at last been discovered by persons liv-
/ ing at Sank Center, Mimi. 1t is two small
! lakes, one of which they named Lake Jose
phine. These lakes are fed by many small
creeks, and their waters are emptied into
Lake Glazier, which lake was discovered
| by Capt. Willard GIazier, who claimed it
as the source Of the Father of Waters
Secretary Whitney presented each of the
/ 40 employees of the navy department with
turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
! Tbs Philadelphia steam collier Allentown
foundered off Cohassett Mass, the other
morning. She was bound for Salem, Mass,
with 900 tons OF coal, and had crew of
Is men, all of whom were lost.
Virgins, the weather prophet, says he
predicted the recent California earthquake
six months ago The movement, he asserts,
Will extend east across the continent to
| Europe in February, but will be Of very
moderate nature.
J The republican spell binders association
was organized in New York recently, with
Iucbe OIHccfS. CUuuuCeN NJ. DepcW, pEesl-
dent; Col. Elliott l.. Shepherd, Mrs. j. El-
/ len Foster, Charles Foster, Hon. William
| Mckinley OF Ohio, and Gov. William Il.
Dillingham;, vice presidents. Among the
members of the executive committee are
Arson G. McCook and II. X. Thurber
Thomas Barry has prepared the program
for his new organization in opposition to
the knights of labor. The delegates are TO
meet in Chicago and prepare "A campaign
against child labor aud for the eight-hour
! day, factory and store inspection, etc. The
\ new order is 10 have local assemblies indie
/ pendent and is TO go into politics.
The destruction of property on Coney
Island by the late storm will amount To
$4,000.
Indiana's official canvass shows a repub-
/ lican plurality of 2.3iS. There were 9,SSl
! prohibition votes and 1904 labor votes.
The North Carolina rolling mill gave no
tice Of reduction of from II TO 20 per cent
in wages. The men objected and the mat
| ter is TO be left 10 arbitration.
Conductor Van Alstyne OF the Canadian
! Pacific railway has fallen heir 10 an estate
in Scotland valued at 100000. Van
Alstyne has gone 10 Scotland to take pos
session.
The Oklahoma settlers have organized an
association 10 protect their rights TO work
with the president in the matter of opening
the land, and 10 locate new corners free of
charge.
William II. Foster died at his home in
Salem, Mass, Nov. 30, aged 81. He was
the oldest bank Official in the country, hav
ing entered the Asiatic bank March 81, 1924.
He became its cashier in ls2s, which posi-
ton he retained for 80 years.
An immense vein of hard coal has been
found eight miles from Chamberlain, Da
kota.
The electoral vote of California is as fol
lows Harrison l24, 500, Cleveland III, 30
Fisk 5,76l, Curtis ,59l.
The Official canvass Of Wisconsin's vote
I shows that the total vote for president is
35i ,6j4 an increase of "a, 116 over the vote
of 1884. Harrison's plurality is 2l,211 !;
Blaine's plurality in 1884 was l4,6o0, a gain
for Harrison of 6,59l. TIE prohibition vote
OF the state for president was l4,211 the
vote for St John in 1884 was 1850, gain
for Fisk Of 6,62l, and loss OF =, ,62 over 1856
Oregons official vote is as follows: Har-
rison 80, 243, Cleveland 20, 524, Fisk l,677,
Streeter, 1863, scattering 81: fetal vote of
the state 6l,ylS. Harrison plurality soc.
AT the last presidential election Blaines
total vote in the state was 26 $40, Cleve