Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-10-04

twenty TWO OF inc puSihco' Bi"N
Cresco. Iowa, were destroyed by lire sept
"a.
A boiler used in quarry at virgins
Vile. Pa. exploded the other morning.
Mrs. Lemuel Barnes was killed instantly
her head being blown from her body. Mr.;
Barnes was so badly injured that he dleu
"a few hours later.
1t is stated that disregard OF orders
caused the accident on the New York Cen
tral.
Harry +. Clifford, bookkeeper for GiDos,
Parish & Co. of Chicago, after embezzilng
$39, 900 from his employers, has HE'D.
A3 year old boy of Mrs. Siler OF Indian,
apolis, has mania for using matches ana
setting fire TO everything. Inc other usS
| he set fire TO his baby sisters clothing ana
held a lighted paper 10 her face, burning ~
SO terribly that she died.
The different women's societies OF WASH
! ington will unite and erect memorial 10
the late Mrs Lucy Webb Hayes. me
| mortal temple and IA statue are suggested
Frank II. Tyler, chief clerk OF Sherman
Bros. x Co., of Buffalo, who was
arrested for completely in their
grain stealings, is dying in nos
pital in that city. His family ~ one
| of the most respected in the city, and the
disgrace has so preyed upon his mind, tnat
he is dangerously ILL
The grand cross of commander OF the
| legion OF nODOf mas Dceu DcsloNcu upon
| Thomas A. Edison by the managers OF the
Paris exposition.
The commission selected TO find suita-
BILE site for new navy yard on the Ia
citic coast reports in favor OF Port Ofcnaru'
10 miles from Seattle, w. Il.
Thirteen violators of Edmund's anti-po-
lygamy law Were placed in durdnce vie IN
Salt Lake City the other day.
Hans Jesperson of Provo, Utah, has been
] an1 tiNra nm n N
polygamy.
The next annual reunion Of the Army OF
the Tennessee will be held in Chicago but
the permanent headquarters OF the society
are at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Sol. Purnell, colored, was taken from
Jail at Winona, Miss, the other night by a
mob and lynched. He was accused OF as
saulting the l5years old girl OF prominent
citizen.
julius l. Bailey. convicted in Kansas six
years ago of killing lis father, has been
released from the penitentiary by Govern
or Humphrey. The board OF pardons,
which recommended Baileys re ease con
slider him innocent OF the crime Tor winch
he was imprisoned.
T.. j. Schroeder the owner of the largest
farm in Clay county Mimi, was shot and
| killed by his nephew the other evening
The only reason given by the young man
for his crime is that he felt touch OF
| Jesse james OlOOu III MS NtluS'
James Quale, who about a year ago alb
seconded from Burton, Wis, with 5,UG
belonging to the lumber firm for which ht
worked. has been brought back from Sax
' ouy Germany. He has much OF the money
left and SAYS he is willing 20 suffer punish
5 ment for his crime.
: Mr.. Emmons Blaine, eldest son of th'
+ Hon. James G.. Blaine, and Miss Anlts
Mccormick, daughter OF the late cyrus II
4 Mccormick of Chicago, were married II
i Richfield Springs, n. Y, Sept 26. Thu
5 couple will reside in Baltimore where Tn
I groom is in railroad business
a A scheme is on foot to establish line
: transportation between Omaha, Neo., ant
Central and South America.
n Edward Fountain, a blood relation o
q Patrick Henry, has been pardoned out
l. the Ohio penitentidry, where he was serv
I ing a sentence for robbing post office.
: Anarchists in America are proposing I
d honor the memory OF the i've martyrs
who were hanged in Chicago November II
l. 1887.
: Victor Baughman, the present incum
l. bent, is the democratic nominee Tor conn
:, troller of Maryland.
Forty -four bodies in all have been take
,, from the debris of the Quebec Landslide
= Kentucky has voted by 1881 majority I
l. hold "A constitutional convention.
If Samuel L. Caldwell, ID. D., LID, e'
n president of Vassar college, died in Prov
s dence, L. l., Sept. p
Mrs. Emma A. Wood, wife of Georg
!, M Wood, "a clerk in the geological surVe
IL Office in Washington, was burned TO deaf
the other morning. She dropped mate
of upon pile of wood which had becon
TX saturated with oil. The flames flashed U
'. in her face, rendering her unconsciol
VI, and preventing an cutlery. When disco
u cred little later, she was burned 10
- crisp.
- John Allen and f. H. Plat arrived
San Francisco Sept. "a, on horsebac
They rode from New York in 100 days.
Anumber of coal miners of La Sale, II
:, have gone to Wyoming rather than acce
''' the companys terms.
IN Mrs. Josie Gurley of Joliet, H. has bee
nc sentenced to the state penetentiary for
IL years for abducting little Annie Redmon
- Mrs. Gurley says she stole the child
bo make IN actress OF her.
nm Joe Kemp aged ~, was dug from I
err Quebec landslide after being buried II
ne days, alive, and he may recover.
ed Bedford. Clark & Co, book publishers
", Chicrgo, have failed for 100000. Asse
al 5000. 900 1t was the largest book publis
he inc mousse west Of New York.
ed A Kansas City dispatch says that "A ga
'er of adrott swindlers are preparing TO flo
he eastern cities with fraudulent bonds
counties in southwestern Kansas, a
northwestern Texas.
The treasury department declines 10 &C
cur in the act Of the collector OF customs
a Burlington, Vermont, placing the du
on railway cars at ~ per cent ad valore
no. and orders the rate TO remain at 80 /
in cent.
of George Fr'ncis Train was arrested
he New York "A few days ago at the instan
es. of a Toledo man on an old debt OF SO, CO
IN tn cted in lo,2. The amount, after IL yea
rk is 81 900
n The Baltimore sugar refinery compa
les has been incorporated, with capital
ne 81 900, 600.
ien Judge Nelson of the United States COT
'"S i'm St Paul, declares tue meat inspect
law of Minnesota unconstitutional, ant
hindrance TO commerce.
The Toledo, Findlay & Springfield RI
ike way Company has been en- oiued at Til
are bv the standard Oil Company from bui
ING their line through or near TO any OF
eel lands owned by the Standard, and used
"a storage purposes. The injunction v
.rs granted by Judge Sawyer, and will s.
,ed work on the road until the matter is S
sal tied.
EnR EIEN