Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-13
GENERAL.

uL4t LII IL.
/ The total insurance on the Boston fire is
$50, 900
There are Goa destitute families in Miner
county, =. ID.
Rt. Rev. John Tuigg, Bishop of Pitts
burg diocese, is dead.
Charlotte has appropriated 5000 for
| public improvements.
The Roman Catholic church approves of
the BRAZILIAN republic.
Four persons were killed in a railroad
accident near Wilkosbarre, Pa, the other
day.
Two shocks of earthquake were felt in
several New Hampshire towns the other
day.
New Haven, Conn, has appropriated
$4,000 to provide free books TOR poor chill
dren.
Rev. NJ. NJ. williams of Troy. n. Y, the
Oldest graduate OF Princeton College, died
Dec. 5.
w. T. Petit, a Methodist minister of
Lafayette, Ind, has been arrested for wife
murder.
John l.. Rhodes of Vermoutvie lost
5000 by the destruction OF his home the
other night.
Three ZEN were killed and six injured
by an explosion OF natural & at BraddOck,
Pa, Nov. -.
The National steamship company's pier
on North River burned me other day, ana
four men were burned to death.
w. a. lines, one of the best known Jour
nal,sts in the state, ana son OF Gen. w.
l.. lnnes OF Grand Rapids, is dead.
The London Star is responsible for
the statement that Gen. Roulangcr is 10 de-
liver course OF lectures in America.
A misplaced switch wrecked train near
Chesterton, Ind, lew days ago. Two
persons We're killed and several injured.
1t is reported that an English syndicate
with SlOOO0O,0O0 capital will invest this
money Ia braciug up American railroads.
OF five Indians in Jail at Florence, Arz.,
70 be hanged, three committed suicide in
their cells the night before by strangula-
tion.
The grand jury OF San Francisco recon-
mended the adoption OF the Australian bal
lot system as a preventive OF crimes
against the franchise.
The Monongahela house in Pittsburg, Pa.
WAS destroyed by fire the other morning
The 700 guests had narrow escape, but
no fatalities are reported.
Two Italian laborers were killed at
Howard Junction, Pa, by an explosion Of
dynamite, and two Chicago ladies asphyXi-
ated by escaping coal gas.
1t is understood that the duties on mining
machinery and coke will be removed and
other tariff changes made at the coming ses-
sion OF the dominion parliament.
a collision of freight trains occurred near
Dubuque, Iowa the other day, and two OF
the traiumen were killed. The collision
Was caused oy the carelessness of brake
man.
Mrs Olive T.. Fri end, Mrs Emily How
ard, Orrin a. Halstead and Geo Halstead.
the remaining electric sugar swlndlers,
plead guilty to grand larceny in New York
the other DAY.
The public debt statement, Just issued
shows IA reduction during the month of No.
vember amounting to ~, S69,oi2 The total
debt, less cash in treasury, is q ,055, 0Sl ,U05.
The net cash or surplus in the treasury
amounts TO SO pa, lSi.
Daniel u. Micksell, chief clerk of the U.
=. express company at Youngstown, o.,
who was driven insane by the charge of
stealing package containing $500, has
been exouerated 10y the confession of w.
w. Niveson, who dmits taking the money.
George keddington, the young man who
was supposed 10 have died at Lakin, KS,
and upon whose Lille there was policy Of
~, 0O0 in favor % lis two partners, is alive.
scheme was put up TO beat the insurance
company, and that Reddington was in the
plot.
At Howard Junction. Pa, several labor
ers tried to thaw out some dynamite. Two
of the men were blown 10 pieces, while
three others were horribly wounded.
Giovanni Marganita was blown into the air
and every particle Of his clothes. except his
shoes, were torn from his body, but, al
though badly hurt, the man Will live.
At Spokane Falls, Wash. r., H. l.. San
derline, a pastry cook, shot his wife and
attempted TO kill hers Thinking he had
done SO, he blew his own brains out. His
first shot missed her, when he caught and
threw her on the floor, and placing the pis-
toll behind her ear, fired The man lin
gered unconscious several hours, when he
died. The woman will live.
The coroner's jury in the Minneapolis
Tribune building fire declares that the
owners, ii not legally responsible, are
morally cupab.e Tor the loss OF life. The
Jury also recommended that all electric
wires in the heart OF the city be placed un
der ground. as the network surrounding
the building prevented the hremen from
raising their escape ladders IN time 10 res
cue the inmates.
Casper Clispy Of 81. Iouis, Mo. loved
Mary Arson. The Arson family opposed
the match, and the other morning Casper
went 20 the Arson domici!c aud a quarrel
ensued, when Cipsy DIRE W revolver and
fired at Anson INJECTING "A mortal wound.
He then shot his sweetheart and her
younger sister, Agnes, fatally wounding
the former and seriously in uring the lat
ter The murderer then blew his brains
out, dying in half an hour.
FOREIGN.
Five hundred persons were killed by the
collapse If theatre at Wienhne China