Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-02-17
NEWS SUMMARY.


Buffalo recently at the age of is.
DIR. T.. Miles Willett, supreme medical
examiner of the Catholic Knights of
America, died at Memphis, Tenn, a few
days ago.
Postmaster General Dickinson has asked
the secretary of the treasury for an ap-
preparation of $4,000 to make up the
deficiencies for the present fiscal year,
and that the same be made available i'm
mediately.
The secretary Of the interior has rem
dered an important decision in the case OF
julius A. Barnes ct al, who made appli-
cation to purchase at private cash entry,
within the indemnity limits of the grant
TO the state of Michigan for the benefit OF
of the Marquette and Ontonagon railroad.
These applications were rejected 10y the
ocal land office on the ground that the
lands were not subject to such entry, be-
ing between the fifteen and twenty mile
limits of the grant. The secretary in his
decision afirms that of the local Office.
"A committee has been appointed TO ar
range for a union OF st. Paul and Mime
apolis.
The residence OF Geo. ID. Hill, three
miles from Bolivar, y. Y, caught fire
from natural gas the other night and was
burned. Mrs. Hill and two children per
lshed, and a fireman was fatally injured.
The general secretary of the knights of
abor says late reports show $4,000 mem
hers in the order, and that it is growing
rapidly.
Speaker Carlisle has appointed as the
special committee on the Reading rail
..,.I ltrtE. Hr..apt.,fva fTtIIpn.n al
Soutn Carolina, Chapman of Michigan,
stone of Missouri, Parker o. New York,
and Anderson OF n ansas. The committee
has gone to Pennsylvania, and Will be
absent about IA month.
Postmaster-General Dickinson says that
the postal business has increased II per
cent in the past year.
Columbia college of New y ork has added
a postgraduate course for women.
The Springfield, Ohio, manufacturing
company has gone to the wall.
Gov. West of Utah has vetoed the bill
compelling courts to grant bail in the
case of convicts Who wish to appeal, where
their penalty is not greater than five
years imprisonment. The design of the
bill was TO help the polygamists to fight
the law.
Manitoba railroad bridge, only one
crossing the Missouri river north of Bis
marck, is completed.
Canadian manufacturing association
has passed resolutions opposing CONNER
cial union with the United States.
Lieut.. David l.. Brlinari, survivor
Greedy arctic expedition, married daugh.
ter OF the Hon. H.. NJ. Chase, Walla Walla.
Can W Il sherman calahratat bfs G.tb
birthday on the Sth inst.
Oh has been struck at Lehigh, indian
Territory.
Miss Louise Royce, the Nebraska school
teacher frozen during blizzard, has had
both feet amputated.
Amos j. Smell, one OF the wealthiest real
estate dealers OF Chicago, was murdered
in his office the other morning by a gang
of burglars.
Miss Eta Shattuck, the brave school
teacher of Seward, Neb., who wa frozen
in the blizzard last month, is dead.
Memorial services to dedicate a tablet
TO the late Senate John A. Logan were
held at the Metropolitan Episcopal church
in Washington the other night. Mrs.
Logan and John A. Logan and his wife
we're present. Addresses were delivered
by members OF the senate and house, and
Justice Miller of the supreme court.
Seven indian Territory murderers were
sentenced by Judge Parker in the United
States court at Fort Smith, Ark, to be
hanged on Friday, April 81.
The Hon. Benjamin Eggleston died in
Cincinnati the other morning. Mr.. Egg
gleston had served two terms in congress
and thraa farms in the Ohio sauata
The Kings county N. " democratic
club gave a banquet in New York city on
the 9th inst, in celebration OF the ami
versary OF the birth of Samuel J. Tilden.
Speeches were made by Gov. Hill, ex-Gov.
Hoadley, Secretary Villas and others.
President Cleveland and Postmaster-Gen-
eral Dickinson sent regret.
Eight hundred marble cutters in Boston
are on a strike because employers refuse
to make the work-day nine hours.
Israel Lucas, arrested in Toronto for
bringing s3l CAB stolen money into Canada
from Ohio. has been discharged from Gus
tody.
COMMISSIONS Coleman's report regard
ing pleuro-pneumonia among cattle ia
Chicago is declared untrue.
An opium ring has been organized IN
san Francisco. Custom, officers report an
increase OF smuggling.
Dakota poop e deny the reports of whole
sale freezing in that territory during the
great blizzard.
Services in c"ommemoration of the birth
day Of Abraham Lincoln were held in
Washington on the l-th inst. Addresses
were delivered by Senator Cul'om of Hi
nois, Frederick Douglass and others.
william Kelly, inventor of the pneumat-
ic steel process known as the Bessemer,
died at Louisville, KY, recently, aged =.
Bessemer applied for letter, patent on the
process here and in Great Britain at the
same time, but Kelly was granted the
patent on the ground of priority. He was
native of Pennsylvania.
Smallpox is raging in Mandan, Dakota.
Mr.. Sarah j. Robinson of Boston, who
killed her son, daughter, nephew, two hus-
bands and three other persons to obtain
insurance money, has been found guilty.
Mrs. Folsom, mother OF Mrs. Cleveland.
sailed for Europe the other day.