Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-11-15
GENERAL.
w. b. Hart, state treasurer of Pennsy
vania, is dead.

w. b. Hart, state treasurer of Pennsyl.
vania, is dead
Heston & Erben, wool buyers of Phila
delphia, have failed for S30O,0O0.
w. w. Bates of New York has been APP
pointed commissioner of navigation
The Courant, of Hartford, Conn, cele-
brated its 12oth birthday on the 4th inst.
The Montana legislature will meet on the
2lst inst. to elect United States senator's
On the Sth inst. the President issued a
proclamation admitting Montana as state
into the union.
At Fredericksburg, Va. on the 5th inst.
200 Negroes walked up TO the polls and
voted IA democratic ticket.
The governor of Utah says it will be a
long time before the Mormons are in the
minority in that territory.
Thirty citizens of Lexington, N c., have
been arrested for lynching Robert Berrier,
who murdered his mother-in law.
The locomotive engineers will hereafter
allow tremen TO remain members of the
brotherhood after joining the engineers.
The New York supreme court has re.
versed the decision of the lower court
which upheld the trust clause in the will of
the late Samuel j. Tilden.
The Mining and Engineering Journal
says only two pounds Of tin has been dis
covered in Dakota. yet s2.O00,OO0 capital
has been raised TO work the mines.n
Petersburg Va, had $3.50 900 fire Nov.
Z. Lieutenant Crichton of the police force
was in one of the buildings when the walls
fell on him. He was burned 10 death.
Secretary Rus1 has revoked the order to
GnOrfufiOu HOmnnDipa rppar1inU tho
shipment Of Texas and other southern cat
tie, believing there is now no danger from
fever.
Twenty passengers were injured by s
wreck on the Santa t'e railroad at Brown.
wood, Tex, the othor morning and some
will die.
BY the breaking of a stack of molten
iron in the ColebrOok furnace in Lebanon,
Pa, the other. morning five men were burn
ed TO death.
a Key West, Florida, fire a few days ago
consumed 100000 cigars and a large guam
tity of Havana tobacco Loss, $4,000
insurance, $4,000.
Among the marriage licenses issued In
St. Louis the other day was one TO Jesse
Fovel, ~ years DID, of Calhoun county, Ill.,,
and Mamie lsbell, % years old, of St.
Louis.
John f. Jones, who ran the elevators in
the suffolk and fremont Inill No . at
Lowell, Mass fell down the elevator well
and was instantly killed Nov. ,. He leaves
a widow and children.
DR. Mary Weeks Barrett of Chicago. has
sued Frances +. Willard, president of the
Womeu's Christian Temperance Union, Car
oline h. Buell. and Esther Pugh for $4,000
damages for circulating false reports about
her.
Ex-Cashier +. H. Van Hoesen of the To
ledo National bank, has been arrested
charged with emoezzling SIS, 900 of the
banks funds John NJ. Mckee teller, of
the bank, is also in custody for the embez-
element of Sl,SO0.
From the last report of the governor Of
Dakota, il Is shown that the two states
have 800, 900 population, 10000 00J acres of
cultivated land, and 4,463 miles of railroad
He says irrigation will be of great benefit
in retaining the waste lands.
$. Thomas Fortune has issued call TO
the colored citizens of the United States to
meet at Nashville, Tenn, Wednesday, Jan.
ID, 1890, for the purpose OF organizing a
national Afro American league, the object
of which is to secure rights denied the
race.
Ex-president and Mrs. Clcvel md paid
their respects to President and Mrs. Har-
rlson at the White House, the other day.
The great national marine exhibition was
formally opened in Boston Nov g.
IL covers seven acres. There is n
complete duplicate of the Burgess yacht
Quickstep. its mast penetrating the roof,
and on its deck the New York seventh reg
iment band discourses music.
The President has amended the civil SER
vice rules so as to provide for filling va
cancies in the Railway Mail Service by
certifying for each vacancy the names OF
three persons having the highest standing
on examination resident in the counties on
the line of road on which service Is to be
rendered,