Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-03-02
NEWS SUMMARY.

Some of the Reading miners complain
that the company has shown bad faith in
discriminating against certain OF the ex-
strikers An investigation has been or
dered.
Mexican troops are waging a war OF ex-
termination against bandits.
The new fisheries treaty has been made
public by the senate. The treaty has been
approved by the President, who considers
IT "A satisfactory, practical and final ad-
justment, and thinks that its adoption
will secure perpetual peace and harmony.
over $1,000 worth of property was de.
stroyed by fire in Holland, ~. Y. the other
day.
Western Massachusetts was visited by
the worst freshet ever experienced there
on the 2lst inst. Bridges were swept away,
fires extinguished in manufacturing es-
Establishments, cellars flooded and incalcu-
able damage lone to property.
The soldiers orphans school building at
Dayton, Armstrong county, Pa, was de
stroyed by fire the other night.
The internal revenue receipts for the
first seven months of the current fiscal
year are increased 100000 over the same
time last year.
The house committee on banking and
currency has agreed TO report with favor-
able recommendation the bill authorizing
the issue Of S,0,OOO,OOJ of silver certificates
in the denominations of five, ten, twenty
five and fifty cents.
The executors Of the estate of the late
Samuel j. Tilden nave been sued, and
asked TO repay a sum wrongfully given TO
the York mining company.
Gen. f., 5. Bragg, the new minister TO
Mexico, has gone To his port.
Graf, Bennet ~ CO., the prominent
iron manufacturer of P~ittsburg, have
failed. Liabilities in the neighborhood OF
Sl,2O0,OOO, and assets from 100000 TO
$500, 600.
Dennis McGraw and his wife of Lima,
Ohio, were asphy xiated by natural gas the
other night.
Geo. II. Corliss, the eminent mechanical
engineer, died in Providence, X. L., a few
days ago.
An effort is being made to have congress
pass a law abolishing local pools and
trusts.
The so-called industrial reform party
- men and 4 women-has nominated A.
+. Redstone Of California for president,
and J. A. Collins Of Kansas for vice presi
dent. This is the political heir of the Belva
Lockwood party.
Pittsburg had S3 900, 900 fire Feb. %.
Conductor David Vince is censured for
the accident OF the Grand Trunk, near
Hamilton, Feb. 10.
The Toledo Blade printing and publish
ing company suffered a $4,000 loss by fire
the other day.
"Blinkey" Morgan, now in the Ohio
penitentiary under sentence of death, ha,
been respited until motion for a new trial
has been heard. He was to have been
hanged March IL.
Representative j. +. Jones Of Alabama,
chairman OF the democratic congressional
campaign committee on the part of the
house of Representatives, has appointed
the following as the executive committee
Benton McMllin, Tennessee sR. w. Town
send, Illinois; Levi Marsh Pennsylvania
Samuel Dibble, South Carolina; L.. 5.
Boyce, New York, ). o.. Fisher, Michigan
George ID. Wise, Virginia; John A. Mac
Donald, Minnesota; John A. McShanc,
Nebraska; l.. f.. Mckinney, New Hamp
shire. The democratic executive com
mIttee on the part Of the sci ate are Sena
tors John f. Kenna West Virginia; George
Hearst, California, and James h. Jones,
Arkansas.
The Tilley house in Shreveport, La.
was destroyed by fire the other day, and
X. {. Craig, a commercial traveller Of Gin
cinnati, was burned to death.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland have
returned from their trip to Florida.
Il. q. Head president Of the international
range association, says hat range cattle
in the west are in better shape than at
this time last year, Notwithstanding the
reports of great losses.