Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-10-12
GENERAL.

sion passed twenty seven pension bills, and
1t 1913 ad. ourned until Monday.
GENERAL.
The president has signed the bill to Gre
lite boards of arbitration or commissions
Tor settling controversies and differences
between railroad corporations and other
rommon carriers engaged in inter state and
territorial transportation OF property or
passengers and their employees.
] Two years ago a party Of ten men started
from Albuquerque, n. NJ, on "A prospecting
tour Near Fort Apache, Ariz., they We're
embushed by an Apache Indian of the San
Carlos tribe, who shot and killed seven of
the men and robbed their camp. The other
men escaped. a reward of -. 90 was offer
ed by the government for the capture of
the daring Indian, dead or alive. The
Indian was captured on the 81 inst. by a
scout.
! Wilton Weston, the Chicago millionaire,
recently pardoned from the Pennsylvania
rcnitcntiary, is going To law about the
matter.
Deacon Richard Smith of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, has bought the Toledo
commercial Grazette and viii take posses
sion Nov. -. New presses and type will
be put in, and an effort made to convert the
sheet into newspaper
The Traders bank of Chicago, has failed
for 81 100000.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania has
decided that Jacob Reese of Pittsburg
must assign TO the Bessemer steel company
certain patents involving the Cosic process
in manufacturing steel, for which they
were to pay him So, 600 BY this decision
Mr.. Reese loses patents worth Sj0,OO0,D00.
Our treaty Of ''amity commerce and navi-
cation" with Peru has been ratified by the
latter.
There are &c, 500 Chinese return certif-
Gates" issued at San Francisco, still out
standing.
The supreme court Of Nevada has de-
rlared the Mormon test cath passed by
the last legislature 10 be unconstitutional.
The trustees of the Peabody educational
fund met at New York Oct 4. Dividends
amounting 10 SCI, 900 were distributed last
year Since 1865 the income distributed
amounted to 81, 20 $50. In round numbers
the fund amounts TO s l,0OO, COO and the in
come 10 be distributed the coming year is
about $40, 400.
f.. ID. Wggintou Of California has been
appointed to fill the vacancy on the Ameri-
can party's ticket occasioned by Judge
Grcer's declination of the vicepresidential
nomination.
Flour has advanced s. in two months in
Minneapolis, and it is predicted that it will
touch SO per barrel
There being no opposition, the election
in Georgia Tor governor and state officers
passed of quietly. Gov Gordon and the
other officials We're re elected. The amend
ment to the constitution increasing the
number of supreme court judges from
three 10 five was adopted.
Dakota's wheat crop is comparatively
failure.
The collector at San Francisco has issued
orders prohibiting the landing of any more
Chinese.
The pension Office has received notice to
suspend payment OF the pension OF Mrs.
Sarah Crutcher of Pitts Point, near Bards-
town, Ky, widow of James Crutcher a
revolutionary soldier. She died last Sat
hrday. She was IS years old and had
drawn pension since 1858.
The police Of San Francisco pulled 300
brokers and clerks few days ago who
were patronzing o'clock game.n They
were released on bail, but about 100 clerks
are occurring daily on account of losses at
those games.
Two Americans have been arrested in
London for the mysterious murders which
have taken place there recently.
The county house and Jail in Sac City,
Iowa, were burned the other morning
Charles Carson, aprisoner, was burned to
death.
1t is thought that congress will take a re-
i
James Slater was caught between two
cars at Warsaw, Ind, and crushed to death
on the 9th inst.
Many Chicago wheat dealers are on the
verge OF bankruptcy owing 20 tie unsettled
condition of the market.
A secret military order OF anarchists.
known as the National Order of Vidcttes''
has been discovered in Cowley and Sum
mer counties, Kansas Several well known
ht 81 M IN IN M hos nf no
Cotton and tobacco in North Carolina
have been damaged fully - per cent by
! frost.
Mrs. j. b. Childs, wife of the United
States minister To Siam. died Oct. 3 on
board the Inman line steamer City OF Chi.
cago. The body was landed in New York
| on the 9th inst.
The Mcclellan house in Birmingham.
Ala, was destroyed by fire the other day
Three persons escaped from the burning
building by leaping from the third story
window, "a distance of 40 feet. One sustain
ed fatal injuries. and the other two were
seriously injured.
Three men were killed and several others
seriously injured by collision on the B. Il
| o. road near Dickerson, w. Va, the other
night.
The corner stone of the Polish Catholic
church in Reading, Pa, was laid the other
afternoon. During the ceremony the floor
on which fully 1900 men, women and
children were standing gave way, prccipi
tating several hundred persons to the base
m'ent distance of fifteen feet. Over 100
men and women were thrown in a heap and
all more or less injured, some seriously and
others fatally.
The strike of street car conductors, driv-
ers and cable gripmcn on the north side in
Chicago was inaugr Grated rcording TO pro
gramme on the 9Th inst. Not car is run
ming in the entire north division. Express
wagons and rattle-traps of all descriptions
on which temporary seats have been fixed
arc being run by the brokers and others and
! ire patroniZed TO their fullest capacity.
Thus far no violence on the part OF the
strikers has been reported and none is ex-
pected.
Judge Thurman dined with President