Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-09-28
GENERAL.

The One Hundred and Seventh New
York regiment unveiled their monument at
Gettysburg, which is located near Spang
ler's spring on Cups hill, on the 18th inst.
To avoid impediments To travel arising
, from recent Hoods and 10 escape annoyance
of quarantine regulations, the board of di
rectors of the Augusta, Ga, national expo
sition have deferred the opening from DC
tOber 10 TO November :, and TO close Deem
Der ID.
An incendiary fire at Paducah, KY. on
the 18th inst, destroyed property valued at
100000.
Charles a. Pillsbury & Co, of Minneapo-
lis, the largest milling firm in the world.
has just finished the division OF $50. 600
among Their employees, in pursuance of
profit sharing plan adopted four years ago.
ID. n. Vance, cashier of the national
bank at Carrolton, KY, has disappeared
with 81, 900.
The Chicago police have unearthed a
gang of youthful burglars The eldest is
but - years old, and the captain Of the
gang is only years old.
Postmaster General Dickinson has re-
moved Mr.. Milbanks superintendent of
mails at Chicago.
In sanguinary conflict between two
moonshiners and two United States deputy
marshals near the foot of Backbone mouu-
tain, in Clark county 30 miles from Hot
Springs, Ark, both moonshiners were shot
/ and killed.
Mrs. Lucy a. Elkins Of Chicago, widow
of the well-known artist. Henry ~ Elkins,
has secured "A verdict of 5000 in her case
against William Cudney and others. The
suit was brought under the dram shop act
10 recover $4,000, Mrs ElkiDs asserting
that despite her repeated protests defend
ant sold her husband liquor, thereby hast
ening his death.
David Scott, wealthy re,ident of Jer-
sey City, n. j., died recently of old age.
He was the first postmaster OF that city.
President Harrison appointed him, and his
commission bore the signature Of Daniel
Webster.
Three men were killed the other day by
the explosion of mill boiler at Point
Mountain, Va.
The positions Of the United States troops
on the battlefield at Gettysburg are being
located. The ground will be purchased and
monuments erected by the government
J. S. Pruitt of Kokomo, Ind. shot his
wife and her attorney, j. {. BlockHdge,
while they were in court arranging papers
in divorce suit.
| The Standard oil company is shutting of
/ production in the new Indiana oil fields.
! Rumored that Col. Dan. Lamont will re-
! sign the position of private secretary TO
| President Cleveland, whether the latter is
re elected or not.
w. n. Riddle, John p. Beal and NJ f.
McMullin, capitalists of Pittsburg, have
been ordered 10y the court to pay back 10
the Pennsylvania bank the sum of 81 ,0OO, coo
which they squandered.
In Walton, Ind, Miss Ida Flynn, a school
| teacher, was set upon by a woman named
| Ruth and beaten with club in a shocking
manner for having punished one OF Mrs.
Ruths children.
s l.. Holloway of Cincinnati, O., engin-
| eer on the Cincinnati, New Orleans ~ Texas
| Pacific railroad, was run over at Oakland,
| Tenn, and cut in two near the center Of the
body.
Gen. Walter G. Newberry has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Chicago, vice s. c.
Judd resigned.
The Hurnham House at Round Lake, n
| Y. has been purchased by Mrs Newman
wife Of Bishop j. Il. Newman, for $4,000
The building is TO be converted into home
for missionaries who return to this country
for rest.
The survivors of Durre,rs famous battery
held their annual reunion at Reading, Pa,
| Sept. -. OF the original members OF the
battery but 100 are known TO be living. A
handsome granite monument to the memory
| of George w. Thurrell, their late command
err, was dedicated by the survivors.
Sam Wah, n Chinaman, and his wife,
| Augusta, Il white woman, are locked up at
the armory police station in Chicago,
charged with bringing white women from
| Milwaukee and furnishing them for wives
| 10 Cinnamon ut S35 each. Through their
matrimonial agency 1t is charged four or
five Chicago Cinnamon have been furnished
with wives.
Two colored boys working in canning
factory at Frederick, Md, excited by wild
| west" novels, played Indian and cowboy.
| Gross lassoed Thomas and threw the rope
over a shaft just as the machinery started
resulting in injuries TO the latter from
which he will die.
The Acme manufacturing company OF
Wilmington, n. G., at the earnest soicita
tion Of farmers of that and other states
have decided 10 begin the manufacture OF
bagging for cotton, new machinery having
been purchased for this oh ect The fac
tory will run day and night. ms france
companies announce that Icy will take frs
rlsks on pine fber bagK1sx.