Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-04-26
NEWS SUMMARY.
GENERAL.

The Everest exploring party left Winni
peg on the 10th inst for their Dng journey
10 the Arctic circle.
A company for the manufacture Of beet
sugar has been Incorporated at San Fran
cisco, with 5,00O,0O0 capital
The President has made the following
appointments: VIM. T. Hepburn OF Iowa
to be solicitor Of the treasury; William III.
Whitman OF New Mexico, associate Justice
of the supreme court OF the territory OF New
Mexico.
New York has commenced vigorous
crusade against the telegraph, telephone
and electric light companies TO compel them
TO put their wires underground. The other
day large force of men under orders from
the mayor were busy chopplng down POI les
and wires.
Information has been received in San
Francisco TO the effect that cholera is
epidemic i'm the Philippine Islands. Out
Of ! 800 cases reported, 900 proved fatal.
The President has appointed Robert +.
Porter Of New York 10 be superintendent
of census; j. w. Cunningham TO be assayer,
United States mint At Boise City, Idaho:
VIM. Perkins 10 be associate justice su-
preme court Of Washington territory; j. Is.
Donnelly, to be marshal for the eastern
district OF Louisiana.
The report Of the Canada n labor com
mission shows that children employed ia
prisoned. The commission recommends
"labor day. holiday, and urges measures
against the reception OF foreigners likely To
become objects of charity, incu rably dis
eased persons or such as are undor contract
for labor
Perry Wine, living near Wheeling, w.
Va. was telling tree the other day, when
il broke across the stump, demolishing his
house and killing his wife and three child
rem.
Cash remittances are no longer needed
by the sufferers from the late Dakota
prairie fires, but supplies Of any kind can
be utilized In almost any quantity; lumber,
seed, grain and agricultural implements
being most in demand.
Scion w. Stocking Of OnOndaga, n. v,
has teen appointed 10 be examiner in, chief
N tie patent ONCE
DR.. j. Leland Miller, the wealthiest and
one OF the most charitable citizens Of
Springfield, Mass, died on the goth inst,
aged -.
The Republic of ST. Louis reports on the
prospect Of the wheat crop from 90 counties
in Missouri, - in Illinois, IS in Kansas, 20
IN Indiana, 53 in Kentucky and Is in Michi-
gan. The reports show that there is an i'm
proved condition in all Of these each state
being taken as whole, NJ cIigan being the
lowest, To- per cent Of last year condition,
with the greatest Improvement IN Kansas,
loo per CSul OF last ear crop.
Five Mormon elders were whipped, tar
red and featlered and drive out Of Dale
county, Alabama, tie OF err day.
Eight hundred men OF the Bessemer steel
company in Allegheny, Pa, are on strike.
The collections OF internal revenue dur
ing the first nine months of the fiscal year
were S93, 43a, 4iB, being an increase OF So
COS, 4S9, as compared with tie collections
during the corresponding period of the last
fiscal year.
a party Of four Cinnamon OF high stand
ing in the celestial empire arrived in Wash
ington the other day. They have come as q
special commission from the Emperor with
instructions TO investigate the ways, man
ners means and methods Of American civiH-
zation.
The salaries of light house kee ers have
been reduced, owing TO the failure Of con
gress TO make an appropriation for this pur
pose
Sparks from n locomotive caused $780,
900 fire in Marion, Wis, on the 9th inst
Sir Julian Paunceiote the new British
minister, arrived in New York on the 2lst
inst
As Mrs A. II. Lucas. ACCOMPANIED by
her two daughters and hired man, were
attempting to ford a swo len creek a few
miles below Carthage, Mo-, the rushing
waters upset their carriage and the entire
party and the horses were drowned.
The President has approved the recon
mendations made by Secretary Noble that
ceria II tracts Of land in Oklahoma be re
served as they heretofore have been, for
military purposes, as contemplated by the
Presidents order of Decem Der 20, 1885,
from any settlement, filing or entry what
ever.
John s. Clifford went to sleep on the
railroad track near Lima, oh o, and was
found the next morning with his head
severed from his body
There is an estate located In st. Clair
county, H., just across the river from -.
Louis, known as the Hannah Hillman es-
tate, and the estimated value Of the same
as placed by tho who claim heir hip 10 it
is Sl1,C0J,0UO. There are ia the neghbor-
hood of fifty persons who ella ~ TO be heirs
10 the big fortune, many OF whom reside in
Pittsburg. They have formed an associa
ton and propose 10 pro their claim.
Henry G.. Pearson, ex postmaster Of New
York, died on the 10th inst
FORElGN