Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-08-03

days and was finally terminated by a demo
cratic caucus, AT which an agreement was
made 10 defer the bill until next session.
The senate passed the bill 10 refund the
direct taxes by very large majority.
Hence the action OF the linarne committee
in an effort To attach the measure 10 tho
| civil bill. If the senate amendment passes,
the house will OF course refuse TO concur
and the sundry civil appropriation bill may
be hung up in conference until after cleo
| ton.
Gen. Sheridan continues 10 improve.
Col. James Stevenson of the United States
| geological survey and for many years con-
nected with the chronological department OF
the Smithsonian institution at Washington,
died in New York July %.
Engineers on nearly all roads entering
| Chicago promise continued support 10 "Q'
| strikers.
Lieut. Col. Walter Mcfarland United
| States corps of engineers, died at his home
! in New Haven July -, aged - years. After
the war ne had charge of the harbOr and
river improvements from DunkirlS 20 the
| Sault, including Detroit river and st. Clair
flats, and many other works OF equal i'm
portance.
The monster steamer Puritan, building
at Chester for the Fall River line, was
! launched July 20. She is the largest vessel
of her class in the world The Puritan will
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| pected 20 have speed Of 81 miles per hour.
| Her hull is of steel, unsuitable and fire
proof. The Puritan will have 22O state
rooms, which will be more than any vessel
! in the world.
Hugh Harrison, wholesale grocer Of
| Minneapolis, is the prohibition nominee for
governor Of Minnesota
The coroners jury in the railroad acct
dent near Lynchburg, Va, holds the com
| pany responsible for the accident.
a package of $4,000 sent by the Pacific
express company by steamer from Portland,
| Oregon, TO Astoria, has been stolen.
The republican senator's in congress are
preparing new tariff bill which will make
a cut OF Si0,OoJ0t0.
Fire broke out in "A boarding house in the
| mining village OF Maynard. Belmont county,
Ohio, the other night entirely consuming
the structure. William Presser, his little
son and John Morgan were burned TO doath
At the convention OF cOlOred men held in
indianapolis July % President Cleveland
and the St Louis platform were heartily
| endorsed
Courtlandt Palmer, the noted free think
| er, is dead.
The president has approved the postofiice
| appropriation bill.
| Attorneys for the New York produce ex-
change have filed printed argument with
| the Interstate commission, pointing out the
| injustice OF "A lower rate from Chicago 20
| Liverpool than from Chicago 10 New York.
The house committee on manufactures are
| investigating the whisky trusts.
Il. ID. Cooper, for many years connected
with the Lake Shore * Michigan Southern
railroad, died in Elkhart, Ind, recently.
II is reported that the union labor party
Of Indiana has been delivered by its state
| committee to the democrats. The demo
| cratic state committee is 70 maintain the
Indianapolis Signal as the organ of the labor
party. The union men have placed John
| X. Wilson, the democratic nominee for at
torney- general on their ticket
Gen X. NJ Patrick. governor Of the ma
tional soldiers home in Dayton, Ohio, is
| dead.
A partial test Of the Standard oil compa
nys pipe line from Lima Ohio, 10 Chicago,
has been made with satisfactory results.
\ dynamite bomb was exploded the other
morning under the residence Of an intuen-
ual citizen of Chicago The police are in
vestigatng.
Joseph Welch. who created a reign of
terror some months ago among the women
Of the fashionable east end Of Pittsburg, by
assaulting and robbing several prominent
| ladies in broad daylight, has been SEN
fenced to - years Imprisonment at hard
labor in the Riverside pcnitentiary.
Capt. John f. Herne, the actor, and the
| '
Of the Potomac, died at Hot Springs, Ark,
a few days ago.
4 movement is on foot among the soap
manufacturers Of the United States 10 form
a soap trust.
4 fight occurred between Hugoton and
| WOodsdale men in Stearns county, Ks, the
other day, and seven men were killed.
The monthly statement Of the secretary
Of the treasury shows that during the twelve
la- ll..t ral Of
imports at Detroit was $50, coo in excess of
imports for the year ending June 30, lss1 ;
but the value Of exports was - 600 900 less.
At Port Huron imports were about $4,000
and exports nearly sl,OOOOOO.
Young Prudcn. a son of President Cleve-
lands assistant secretary, was run over
and killed on u farm in Virginia, where he
was visiting.
Eight hundred pounds Of nitro glycerine
exploded near Lima Ohio, the other morn
ing. Several tramps who were sleeping in
the vicinity were blown 10 fragments.
A company has been formed in pittsburg
with - 900, 0O0,OO0 capital 10 operate "A tin
mine near Durango, Mexico
The Sioux Indians refuse to sign the
treaty opening their reservation 10 white
settlers.
The Chicago police have discovered a
livery stable run by two boys who had
stolen the horses and carriages with which
10 stock the concern.
Gov. Foraker Of Ohio, refuses rc-nomi-
nation.
AS one result of the investigation of the
congressional committee. IL has been as
certained that discharged convicts are sent
10 this country by foreign societies. The
more degraded the convlcts. the more
desirable are they az emigrants. In many
cases men who have been sent back from
Castle Garden have been returned under
assumed names. The committee are still
Ut work.
FOREIGN.
4 dispatch from Wady Halfa says that
three boat loads of native iugitives who
left that place during the attack of the
Dervishes on the 10Th inst. sank in the Nile