Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-03-01
GENERAL.

ter resident OF Florida has offered a
premium of 81 900 for the city or town in
Florida whose public or private premises
on July |, 1859 shall be the most Clearly.
Iron workers in Pennsylvania have been
notified that their wages will be reduced
March /.
Col John +. Yard of the Eighteenth In
flntry died at Fort Hayes. Kan, on the 18th
inst. This VIII cause the promotion Of
Lieut. Col. Henry NJ. Lo7elle. Twenty-third
Infantry. and Mai, II. :. Hawkins, Tenth
Infantry
Mrs. Cleveland gave her last public re
ccption on the 10th inst
a lumberman's shapty near Lopez. Sulli
van county, Pa. was destroyed by fire the
other morning, and two woodchOppers who
were asleep IN the shanty were burned TO
ciuders.
One hundred pilgrims of the Catholic
church, two Of whom are bishops sailed
from New York on 22d inst, on a journey
to Rome and the Holy Land.
\ cyclone passed over sections Of Georgia
and Alabama Feb. Is, A number of per-
sons were killed and great damage done to
property.
The postofice department has issued ad
vertisements asking bids for carrying
mails in Michigan and Ohio for the term
beginning June 30, 1859.
The interstate commerce commission in
the case of the chamber Of commerce of the
city of Milwaukee VS.. the Flint ~ Pere
Marquette railroad company, ana the De
troit Grand Haven ~ Milwaukee railroad
company, opinion bV Omm ssiOner Bragg.
after discussing and defining what Const-
: tutes through rates on wheat, -four and
mill SUITS, decided That the rate Of Feb. /,
lsss on these articles from Minneapolis 10
eastern points was through rate and dis
miss the petition in this case.
Miss Hattie Stephenson has been q chief
al. 80 al.
some months. She is the daughter Of a
prominent merchant and has been regarded
as above reproaCh in all things. The young
woman was arrested "A few days ago charg
cd with robbing the mails of 500. She
pleaded guilty TO the Indictment but was
permitted to return to her home on 3, 600
bail.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York legislature providing that any beer
not made of pure barley, malt and hops,
shall be designated by means OF stamps.
and violation of the law carries 81 goo
fine and 80 days imprisonment.
There are II candidates for the guberna-
torial seat of Alaska
The machine shops, round house and car
shops OF the Big -Four railroad in CInciu.
natl burned the other morning. Loss
about S20O,OO0
A p. Wright & Son Of Buffalo, ". Y, on
the 10th inst, sold 100000 bushels Of No.
Chicago spring TO syndicate OF Buffalo
miller,. The wheat will be sent u Buffalo
by rail. the prices paid being seven cents
over Chicago May. This is the largest cash
transaction on record.
Work on the Nicaragua canal is to be
com menCed at once.
Within a short time there have been IS
deaths of children, all from diphtheria or
membranous Group, in Wabash, Ind. Local
physicians admit their inability to check
the epidemic. and have called to their as
sistance some of the most eminent prac-
titioners in the state. but 10 no purpose.
Every case has proved fatal.
James G. Flood. the bonanza king Of Cal
ifornia, died in Heidc!burg Feb 81.
Francis Wharton, the solicitor of the
state department. died in Washington FEB.
81.
John Kenna has been elected United
States senator FROM West Virginia, to sue
coed himself
The territorial conference bill as agreed
TO provides for the admission Of North Da-
kota, Montana ana Washington Dakota is
to be divided on the line of the seventh
standard parallel, extended due west from
the territory s western boundary. Each of
the new states is to have one representative
in congress, except South Dakota, which
Will have two representatives.
The President has vetoed the Des Moines
River land bill
y tariff reform convention was held I'm
Chicago Feb. 81. Aresolutiou was adopted
honoring President Cleveland for raising
the issue.
The national encamrment of the union
| veteran lie glFe was held in Altoona, Pa,
| Feb. %. The following officers were elect
! ed: Gen. "A. l.. ri rson OF Pittsburg, ma
| tional commander; G.. J. X. Miller, Phla-
! delphia, senior vice commander; G.. j. Dan
| iels, Mt. Vernon, o, Junior vice-command-
! cr; j. -. Reed, st. Louis, surgeon general;
! w. H. Chapman, Bradford, Pa, inspector
/ general; Frank l.. Blair, Allegheny Pa.
! quarter master general; John a. banks,
! Pittsburg, Pa, chaplain in chief; John II
! Short, Allegheny, Pa, ad utant- general;
Il. T.. Sedman, Allegheny Pa, chief nus
/ tering officer; Gen IL. =. McNair, Will
mington, Del chief Judge advocate New
| ark, O., was selected as the place at which
the next encampment will be held.
| General Master Workman Powderlv of
| the Knights OF Labor has issued another
! special call, the second in the year. for per
capita contributions from mcubers OF the
| order
The anniversary of Washingion's birth
! day was celebrated very generally through
| out the country.
A conservative member OF the dominion
| parliament will shortly introduce a resolu-
ton authorizing the government to pur-