Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-10-25

danger, and will be able TO resume MS
duties about Nov. lst
The Northern Pacific railroad is making
q desperate attempt TO get possession OF
valuable mineral lands IN Montana.
The attorney general of Texas will az
once bring suit against "a number OF rail-
road companies 10 recover 1,OUOOOO acres
of land gran ed the comp. MES by the state,
and since forfeited by violation OF the law.
The barbed wire manufacturers OF the
country are organizing gigantic trust
with the Washburn AZ Moen company OF
Chicago at its head. The capital Will be
~, OOO,OOO.
John Barrett of TT. Wayne, Ind, a man
75 years old, who killed his wife with
whom he had lived for over 30 years, mas
been sentenced 10 Il years in the peniteu-
tiary.
Two men were killed and several serious
ly injured in an accident on the Confluence
* Oakland railroad near Confluence, Ia,
the other day.
A lone highwayman he'd up the Baker
City, Ore, and took all the registered let
tiers in the mail pouches. His identity IS
unknown.
Clement G.. Morgan, Negro, has been
elected class orator OF the senior class al
Harvard, and there is considerable kicking
in consequence
VIM. Goddard, Bement, Ill, saloon
keeper, has been fined $1,000 and costs for
selling liquor in violation OF the law.
The great cotton seed oil trnst has been
compelled TO throw up the sponge.
Pettigrew banker Of Sioux Falls, and
Moody prominent lawyer OF lockwood,
have been elected United State senator's
| from South Dakota.
Southern Minnesota is suffering from a
water famine.
Andrew j. Cummings has been nomina-
tod hkr al n
vacancy caused by the death Of ). 5. Cox.
The stockholders of the Pullman car
company held their annual meeting in
| Chicago recently, and found out they had
built l45 cars during the year, with u
| others under construction, and had paid
4,54l men at Pullman s2,6@9,53l 's,an
| average of 81 a week. The total number
| of employees in all their departments was
| stated at IL 063, who averaged 81 80 day
each.
Last fall Joseph Blodel, aged II, and
| Agnes Jarvis, aged IL, both living near
Huntington, West Virginia, eloped and
were married They lived happily until u
| few days ago, when the husband died sud
denly, and the same day babe WAS born
TO the girl wife, who is mother and a
widow and less than twelve years old
Dr. r. II. Mcdonald of Vinegar Bitters
| fame, has sued Senator Leland Stamford
for 81 600 worth of Central Pacific
| en- and sold 10 Stanford
Citizens of Johnstown, Pa, are again
complaining because the relief money is
not forthcoming.
Oliver G.. Bosbyshell has been appointed
| superintendent OF the mint in Philadelphia.
Several men who were threshing wheat
| near Belelville, Ont, were poisoned in a
singular manner by inhaliDg the dust from
| poisonous weeds tied up with the grain.
Medical aid bought them through.
5. Davis of Providence Pa, while show
| ing two ladies through the works of the
| Scranton iron company, was struck by q
| large tiywheel and Instantly killed, his
| body being horribly mangled.
Adveutists of the United States, fix the
date for the end Of the world for Oct %.
Three indianapolis breweries have been
| sold TO an English syndicate for S2,O0O,0 0O
H. G.. Gregg, many years Gen. Sheridan's
| private secretary, and also "A newspaper
man, has been sentenced TO the Missouri
| penitentiary for five years for horse steal
| ing
The preferred stockholders of the
Northern Pacific railway have voted to is
sue slt0,OOO,OO0 new five per cent bonds,
payable 100 years hence.
Fifty persons were more or less injured
| in wreck on the Burlington q Missouri
railroad near Gibson, Neb., the other
morning.
Eight Thousand head of cattle and $50
| horses the last of a Montana ranch started
by Russell Harrison, were sold at auction
the other day.
Ex-Registar Robinson of Brown Univer-
sity is short in his accounts $1,000.
One of the first duties of the new pen
sions commissioner will be the recovery of
all money unlawfully paid on pension
claims.
The contest over the votes in Silver Bow,
Montana, which changes the complexion of
the legislature comes before the supreme
court Nov. 4.
AS by the recent act of congress every
Indian over 20 years of age who receives an
allotment of land becomes voter, there is
speculation as 10 what effect some 10000
Indian votes is likely TO have on the result
in the western states.
The headless body of A. II. Citizens, a
telegraph OPERATOR was picked up in the
Chillicothe, Mo, railroad yard, the body
still twitchng. IL is thought that he tried
to get on TO moving train and fell under
the wheels.
There was meeting of anarchists at
Turner hail. Chicago, the other day. The
American flag was roundly Kissed when IL
was displayed, but the red flag was greeted
with cheers. Editor Kevitch of New York
spoke in German, and said that the hang
ing OF the anarchists was the gravest crime
ever committed in the United States, and
predicted that fiery revolution would
soon break out.
rating Of the pension of Senator Henderson
of Nebraska was illegal, and the special
certificates received by Henderson have
been sent back To the deDartmenf