Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-02-15
Harold NJ. sewall, consul ge neral To the

Harold NJ. Sewail, consul ge neral TO the
Samoan islands, has been asked To resign
because his views are not i'm harmony with
those OF the administration.
The business portion OF Walkerton, Ind,
was destroyed by fire the other morning.
Advocates of the river and harbJr bill
have given up all hope of the passage of the
bill AT this session OF congress.
The President has nominated Carroll ID.
Wright Of Massachusetts 10 be commission
er of labor.
The works Of the Pacific guano company
other day by the Lynn institution for saw
ings and they have assigned 10 John L.
Ropes. Liabilities about e 100000.
A quantity OF correspondence regarding
the dispute on the Samoan question was
sent TO congress the other day, accompanied
by message from the President.
Eighteen masked men entered the home
OF Wostly Oman, living near Pandora,
Ohio, the other night and, tearing up the
bed clothes, ted the family 10 chairs and
proceeded 10 ransack the house. Not find
ing anything, they turned upon the family
and threatened TO kill them if they did not
reveal the hiding place OF money they knew
was in the house. The family being fright
ened nearly TO death divulged where $500 in
money aud $500 in notes were hid, which
the robbers got
Henry Dieckmann, acting president OF
the Muantel-B orgers milling company of
ST Louis, is a defaulter To the amount OF
$4,000. DieckInann is in Windsor, Ont.
A. l.. Gorltin. cashier Of the Manhattan
elevated railroad company of New York,
is soIourning in Canada, with $4,000 of the
company's funds.
The sheriff Of Berks county, Pa, the
other day sold ten fine farms in that county
aggregating nearly 200 acres. During the
present winter season the sheriff has sold
some 20 other large farms, besides the
farm stock of some 20 other farmers, all OF
whom had failed. This condition Of things
is taken as an indication that farming no
longer pays as formerly, as a similar state
of affairs exists in other counties in this
section of the state.
Colonists are going to Oklahoma by
thousands.
Kansas petitions congress for bounty on
sugar.
Minister Phillips and wife arrived in
New York from England on the 9th inst.
Wyeth Bros chemical works in Phila-
delphia were entirely destroyed by fire on
the 10th inst. Adjacent property was bad
ly damaged, the fire causing "a total Joss
of 100000 One fireman was killed and
several others injured by falling walls.
Supreme Justice Martin V. Montgomery
has sentenced "A Young colored man named
Nelson Colbert to death, for the murder of
an old man named Phillip Wenzel, last DC
tober. Wenzel was employed as superin-
tendent at street car stables in Washington
where it was Colbert duty to change the
horses. Colbert had agreed TO extra duty
and went out and drank quantity of liquor.
He was reprimanded by Wenzel and be-
came angry and demanded his pay. This,
Weuzel said, he could not give him, and
Colbert fired the shot which killed him.
j. Bordeaux and two children died, and
another child will die, at Shelton, Mason
county, Wyoming, from poison. all being
seized with fits Immediately after dinner.
The family recently came from Canada.
LittleAnnie Redmond, who was kidnapped
from her home in Chicago over year ago,
was found in children's hospital in that
city few days ago. She has not been out
of the city since her abduction, notwith-
standing the efforts Of the police to find her.
Her alleged abductors have been arrested.
lie Caron, the informer, now giving evi-
dence before the Parnell commission in
London, wanted General Master Workmen
Powderly, TO let him blow up the property
Of the Missouri Pacific road during the
strike three years ago.
The decision of the Iowa supreme court
in the ''origina package" case does not
seriously alarm the liquor interest at Day
export. The case Will be appealed TO the
United States supreme court
A movement Is on foot to secure the par.
don OF Oscar w. Neebe, one Of the Chica-
go anarchists tried for the Haymarket con
spiracy, and who was sentenced to 10
years Imprisonment.
The Dakota house of representatives de-
feated the woman suffrage bill by vote Of
70 to29.
The entire works of the Wisconsin Sui
phite Fiber company, located at Monico,
Wis, were destroyed by fire the other
morning The loss is fully Sl20,0JO with
insurance Of $4,000 The company is com
posed of Kaukauna and Chicago capitalists.
The works will probably be rebuilt.
The president has sent the following
nomination 10 the senate: Hugh S. Thomp
son of South Carolina, 10 be United States
civil service commissioner in the place of
Alfred u. Edgerton, removed. Judge
Edgerton had been requested by the Presi-
dent to resign, but this he refused to do,
hence his removal.