Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-01-18
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tanooga, Tenn.
Scranton, Pa, is to have silk mill to en-
ploy COO hands.
Cattle are selling at $40 per head at San
Pedro, Arizona.
A man died at Wilmington, DEL, last Sat-
urday, aged 102 years.
Flour mills throughout the country will
restrict their production.
Pittsburg steel Is being used for manu.
featuring in Great Britain.
Another great loan has been decided upon
by the Russian government
The Spanish cabinet has approved bill
TO extend the suffrage in Spain.
A cooperative cotton mill, to cost GEO.
900 is being built at Atlanta, Ga.
The estimated expenditures for the war
department of France are S100, 600
The proprietor of a Chicago theatre fail
ed last week. with liabilities Of el5o,00o,
A large vein of coal. of good quality, has
been discovered near Chamberlain, Oak.
The Lake Superior ore mines will be de-
veloped to the extent of $50 600 this year.
For some time past there have been ex.
tensive robberies of the mails at Ottowa
Can.
An Alabama negro who took his first ride
on a railroad train last week died from
fright
The French senate has adopted the COM
mercial convention between France and
China.
New Zealand cheese is taking former
Canadian and American trade in Great
Britain.
The Western Union Telegraph company
has added 1900 miles of wire to its plant
this year.
Baron Hirsch has made donation OF $5,-
900, 900 for schools for Jews in Galicia and
Bukovina.
A New York firm sends Goldfish balls to
France, England, Scotland, South America,
Turkey and Greece.
All the coal mines along the Monongahela
river closed down last week, throw ing 5000
miners out of work.
The Italian senate, by small majority,
has rejected the bill for the extention of
political suffrage to women.
Chicago lard is composed principally OF
cotton seed oil, stearine and tallow, with
small proportion of genuine lard.
The proposed new grain elevator at Buff
falo, n. Y, is expected to have capacity
for the storage of l,5o0, 900 bushels.
The six-days' walking match in New
York city last week was won by Littlewood,
who broke the record with a score Of 623
miles.
The Haytian government has released tho
American schooner recently seized in Hay
tian waters, and paid an indemnity Of
SO, 600.
Chicago anarchists have established
schools in which children are taught their
doctrines; six Of them were visited having
from seventy-fve to $50 pupils.
The unusual demand from Portugal this
year for American wheat is largely for
making macaroni, as the wheat of that
country is not suitable this year.
The assistant dairy commissioner of
New York says that only about per cent.
Of the milk sold in the 1900 stores in New
York and Brooklyn is adulterated.
The commissioner Of agriculture has APP
pointed commission TO investigate swine
diseases in the United States, and the meth
DDS of their treatment and prevention.
There are 100000 negroes in the United
States. In the south there are 16, 900 colored
school teachers. They have colleges, uni
versities and semiraries, and are worth 81
600, 900 in property.
Besides combating authorizations within
her own borders, the Canadian authorities
have under consideration measures for the
exclusion of adulterated lard and other
products fro2 the United States and Eu-
rope.
An inspection Of the corn crop shows that
west of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers
1t is generally in excellent condition but
east of these rivers il is little soft, owing
TO excessive rains after the crop had ma
tured
London spends between 100000 and
S., 100000 a year on potted plants and cut
flowers. Many Of these flowers come from
Holland, France and even Italy A single
culturist in southern France claims TO send
every year $4,000 worth of whrte lilacs,
snowdrops, es-of-the-valley and roses to
London.
The repeal of the tobacco tax is engaging
particular attention in Indiana, and every
meeting so far held has passed resolutions
recommending that congress should repeal
the eight-cent tax. A most formidable petit
tion viii be prepared and laid before the
next congress, memorializing that body to
repeal the tax.
In 1887 the production Of wheat in Kansas
was about 1000, 900 bushels this year it was
about 100000 bushels. The reports of
acreage sown this fall show an increase OF
from thirty to fifty per cent. in that devoted
to wheat. The growing crop is reported "a
looking well throughout the state. 1t is al
together probable that in 1889 there will be
very large increase in the winter wheat
crop Of Kansas.
Many years ago, among the household
effects Of Scotch farmer who died in
Canada, was an old portrait Of Burns, which
sold for little, and found its way into a
pawn shop in Toronto. Some ono bought it
the other day FOR e., had it carefully
cleaned, and was rewarded by finding II to
be an oil painting in Raeburn, dated 1871.
He values it at $1,000 and will send it to
Scotland, where ii will be exhibited.
The recent convention Of all the leading
tobacco growers Of Indiana, at GAINESVILLE,
TO curtail the product, is causing considera-
BILE excitement among this class, as tho i'm
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