Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-06-01
GENER AI,.


Francis r. Nichols was inaugurated gov
ernor Of Louisiana on the 2lst inst
The government of the Congo state has
been informed that DR.. Mongold Of kiel, is
about TO start in search of Stanley
George Washington Ewing, "a member Of
the confederate congress, died at his home
near Adaville, KY, recently, aged 50 years.
Thomas j. Smith of New Hampshire has
been nominated to be solicitor OF internal
revenue
The petition of ID. D. Dana, formerly pro
vost marshal, praying allowance for capture
Of assassins OF President Lincoln, has been
reported adversely 70 the senate. Report
says il was the petitioners duty 10 capture
assassins without hope of reward.
Col. a. w. Norris, auditor general Of
Pennsylvania, Is dead.
Several persons have been drowned in
the floods at Quincy, Ill.
The Missouri supreme court will meet
June T. and will then fix the date for the
execution Of Hugh NJ Brooks alias Max
well, the trunk murderer
The old congress hall OF centennial fame
in Philadelphia, was burned tho other
morning at a loss of $4,000.
Lieut. Gen Sheridan is very i'll at his
home ia Washington.
Two boys were killed by this explosion Of
boiler IL "a saw mill near Bowling Green,
Ohio, the other day.
DR.. l. w Joyce Of Cincinnati has been
elected bishop Of the NJ. +. General con
ference.
a railroad wreck, followed in ten min
utes by another wreck, occurred the other
morning al a point five miles from Kansas
City, Mo, where the Hannibal and Wabash
roads run parallel. The accident happened
about o'clock, and resulted in the death Of
four men and the injury Of three others,
one Of whom will die.
a A. Carlton of the executive board Of
the knights of labor, says that the order
has plenty of money and half a million
members
The ISIS season program at Lakeside
summer resort. near Putin bay, Ohio, is
Lakeside reform assembly. July 10 Il;
the Sunday school encampment, July Il 10
30 the camp meeting English and Ger
mani, July 81 II Aug II; Ohio good temp
lars, Aug. - and IL.
Congressman Walker Of Missouri, says
that it will take 500, 600 600 TO carry out
the provisions of the arrears OF pension
bill, and therefore opposes il.
President Cleveland addressed the Pres
byterian general assembly at Philadelphia
the other day, when lie said he couldn't
understand why the two general assemblies
should be designated north and south"
as these words, so far as they denote scpa-
ration, should bcobsoletc.
Prof r. y Elliott, for many years gov
ernmeut actuary IN the treasury depart
mcnt died In Washington May u.
A destructive cyclone swept over the
vicinity Of Brownton. Texas the other
afternoon. one person was killed. eight
others more or less injured, and an immense
amount OF damage done 10 property
CD. a. II Markland who was superin-
tendcnt Of the army mails under Gen.
Grant, died Ina Washington "a few days ago.
The Methodist conference at New York
elected Rev. j. NJ Thoburu missionary
bishop 10 India and MALAYSIA
J. NJ Phillips and Sanford Hunt, both Of
New York, have been elected eastern
agents Of the Methodist book concern. and
Earl Cranston of Colorado, and w. u.
Strowe of Wisconsin, were elected western
agents of the same, the salary being $1,000
year each.
Reuben Drake, his wife and their two
grandchildren, were murdered in their
home near kckabO, Wis, by unknown par
ties the other night Robbery was the OBJ
!ect of the wholesale slaughter
The general assembly of United Presby-
terians, IN session at Cedar Rapids Iowa,
decided that il had no right 10 instruct
PresDytcries 20 refuse 10 license candidates
for the ministry who are addicted to the use
Of tobacco.
Mrs. r.. G. Kruger Of El2in, H., was
killed while trying 10 save her child from
in front VI a. railroad train.
The cornerstone Of the confederate monu-
ment was lad al Jackson. Miss, May ~,
jon Davis was too i'll 10 attend.
The German Baptist convention decided
against admitting G.. y r. members.
The United and Reformed Presbyterian
churches Will not Join hands AZ present.
Kentucky distillers have about completed
aA agreement 10 restrict the whisky output.
The western and northwestern freight
association has been re-organized at Chi
cage.
Nearly sl3,Ooo,oo0 has been paid out in
pensions during May. In spite Of this and
other large expenditures the excess OF
receipts over expenditures during the
month is nearly 5000 900.
Crop reports from the northwest are
exceedingly favorable.
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott has boon elected
permanent pastor OF Plymouth church,
Brooklyn, and the first regular successor
Of Henry Ward BeeCher.
Col. Eli Slifor, formerly state treasurer
of Pennsylvania is dead.
w. b. AIRY, aged %, is under arrest at
Wichita, Kansas, for forgery.
Frank Mills, a Harvard student from
California, died few days ago from the
effects OF opium smoking.
in which he says he doesn't want ~ DO re-
elected general master workman.
The senate committee on commerce has
decided not 10 purchase the Portage Lake
canal.
A Baltimore gentleman, whose name is
withheld, has just given SlOO, 900 10 the new
Catholic university in Washington, and
New York lady subscrbcs so 600 to the
same institution.
A Panama merchant, now in Chicago
says tho success Of the canal is assured
since the concession by tho French of $l2O,-
900, 900 lottery bonds. Tho first vessel will
be sent through before the end Of 1891.
Boston Corbett, who killed Wilkes Booth,
tho slayer OF President Lincoln, escaped
from the insane asylum at Topeka, Kansas,
few days ago.
Bishop Gilmore OF the Canton, (Ohio)
district, has ordered that no priest shall
officiate at funerals where flowers are used
Rumored that there is great danger Of
an outbreak of tho Dakota Sioux. Oelrich
is the scene Of the threatened outbreak
An Italian boarding house at Pittston,
Pa, was burned the other night, and three
little children of Tho propriptor ferisho1 In,