Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-02-10
NEWS SUNNI NARY.

/ was professor OF botany IN Harvard coll
lege.
Many lives are reported lost by snow
slides on the Canada Pacific road.
] a fire broke out on Broadway, New
| York, the other morning and property to
the value Of nearly -, % 800 was destroyed
before the flames were sublued.
Maxwell, the 81. Louis murderer, has
issued an appear for fair play"
The house committee ON invalid pen
sions has reported favorably the bill
granting pension OF 5000 year to Mrs.
John A. Logan, and TO increase the pen
sion of Mr., a. A. Blair, widow OF the late
ten. Francis +. Blair jr. to the same
amount.
A freight train went through brid ge
on the Lake Shore road near Pine Station,
Ind, the other mornng. One brakeman
was crushed TO death in the wreck and
several other trainmen were seriously ia %
jured.
The immense shoe factory in the Virginia
penitentiary was destroyed by fire few
days ago, causing loss of Sl15,OO).
Nina Van Iandt, August Spies proxy
WIFE has received "A resolution of condo
lence from Bohemian socialists, and Is
greatly pleased to have achieved interna-
tional anne
a suit for $4,000 damages against the
Western Union telegraph company has
been brought 10y Frank l.. Primrose, a
Philadelphia wool merchant, who lost
that amount of money by Numbered
message.
The greatest land slide ever known took
al.
IA few days ago. About 100 miles of track
are covered. The road is a new one, and
the recent heavy rains had thoroughly
soaked the road bed
The women Of Wisconsin have been de-
feated IN the supreme court the court
holding that the legisl iture of lSSj did not
for moment contemplate the same suf-
frage 10 female, "a 20 males.
General Master workman Powderly de-
MES McGlynn's statement that he pow
Derby sent an ambassador TO Rome.
Hugh Maxwell, under sentence Of d cath
at st. Louis for the murder of c. A. Prei-
Ter. has published an appeal IN which he
asks for fair play, and declares that his
trial and conviction were conducted in
violation of all precedent,.
The blockade has been raised on the
eastern railroads. For several days whole
armies of men worked to clear the tracks
of the leading lines, In many places the
drifts were as high as the caves Of the cars.
The senate postodice committee con
cludes that the time has not yet come for
penny postage and has made an adverse
report on the bill.
SO urgent is the demand for fuel west Of
Minneapolis, especially along the Northern
Pacific, that orders have been issued TO the
agents OF this road to ship nothing but
coal.
Three thousand shoe factory employees
in Cincinnati are locked out, pending a
settlement of the wage question.
The state board of imm grafton recently
formed in Arkansas VII spend 80, 900 this
year.
Earthquake shocks were felt in Maine,
New Hampshire land Vermont on the Is t
inst.
Capt. Polly Won Alexson has been ex-
PEELED from the salvation army at Little
Falls, y. Y, because she wore a hustle.
"A chinook in northwest territory on
the st inst. raised roofs OF many build
ings and mercury from zero To ~ above.
Buffalo, y. y, had "A 81, 100000 fire on
the lst inst.
Pittsburg carpenters have organized
and demand nine-hours as days work
after May /.
Four persons were killed in a collision
near Urbana, Ohio, Feb. l.
Twelve hundred convicts at Sing Sing
y. y, are idle and will remain SO until
the state passes an appropriation for
manufacturing In prison.
About 90 gentlemen, many OF them of
high prominence in the political history
of the past half century, assembled at the
club honse of the republican national
league in Washington the other night TO
celebrate the thirty anniversary OF
the election of the Hon. Nathanial p.
Banks as speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives in the thirty-fourth congress.
There were about dozen survivors
present.
George l.. Finkle leader in the famous
anti-rent war in tn Hudson and Mohawk
valleys in loi4 -, is dead, aged 50.
Prof. William Mcfarland, one of the
oldest actors in the country, diel on the
lst inst, in the county Jail in Minneapo.
lis Mcfarland has supported Mclleady,
the elder Booth, Forest and other noted
sears OF former generation. OF late
years he had done odd jobs TO get a living
Cyrus = Oberly, well known journal
ist of Texas and IA brother OF Civil Service
Commissions Oberiy, Is dead.
The president has signed the bill max
ing an appropriation for the establish
ment of experimental stations at agricul-
tural colleges.
Maurice f. kene1ly has been appointed
postmaster at Sitka, Alaska, on the rec
ommendation of Gov. Swineford.
Minnesota republicans have organic ed
a state league.
Prof. Charles Linden, the we'll known
naturalist, died in the insane asylum at
/ Blu slo "A few days ago.
Two miners at Hur.ey, Wis, fell down q
/ shaft and were instantly killed.
The product OF the southern cotton
mills for 1So7i ilued at Si3, 100000 against
] 2l,0Jl0)0 in i o.
\ passenger train was derailed near
! Longview, Texas, and the engineer and