Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-07-10
MEN AND THINGS.

San Francisco had $40. 900 fire on the
Fourth.
Sturgeon, the famous London preach
er, is dying.
Thirteen of the Findlay, o., glass facto-
ries have shut down for the summer vaca-
ton OF two months.
Tho rise in silver in the United States
has encouraged the mining and smelling
interests in Mexico.
Arnold Siegfried jain. son of the found
er OF the German Turner Societies, was
buried at Chicago Sunday.
Chauncey M. Depew did not sail for
Europe Wednesday on account of the
illness of his mother-in-law.
A house in the Chinese section Of San
Francisco was burned Monday and Chi
nese woman burned to death.
Stephen Trice. wealthy farmer of
Lathrop, Mo, was robbed of %. 500 and a
fine team and buggy by confidence men on
Monday.
A cable and an electric carcollded We'd
nesday at Pittsburg, Pa. A motorman
and two passengers were injured, the
former fatally.
Gov. Boies of Iowa. has issued an APP
peal to the people of the state for aid for
the families who are left destitute on ac
count Of the late floods.
Five second cabin passengers on the
steamship City Of Paris. have been fined
at Liverpool for having contraband
tobacco in their possession.
The Spriugport agricultural and horse
breeders society viii hold races there on
August IL, II and 10. Purses to the
amount OF 81, 600 will be given.
Richard Butler. aged % years, died at
his home in Mt. Clemens On Sunday. He
was the father of tho late Milton Ii.
Butler. the we'll known banker.
The president has issued proclamation
granting copyright privileges in the United
States 10 citizens and subjects of Belgium,
France, Great Britain and Switzerland.
The Massachusetts supreme court has
ordered new trial in the libel case of j.
H. Burt against the Boston Advertiser
At a former trial Burt got verdict of sl2,-
600.
J. c.. Grant, prominent furniture
deaaler Of New Orleans, has asked his
creditors for an extension. The schedules
OF MIR. Grant show total assets CT s92. 900;
! total Liabilities SAP, 0OO.
The Manhattan airshp company has
been incorporated at New York. with a
capital of $50, 000 The company will
manufacture balloons and operate them for
amusement purposes.
7. II. Hood of Frankfor,. Ind, recently
! began doctorng for epleptc fits. He is
7 i'd l.
known for the change. Probably nitrate
of silver Mr.. Hood is, az wears old.
a fire broke out on the eastern slope of
Mt. Tamalapa.s IS, Cal, on Monday, and before
il could be checked tho flames covered an
area of thousand acres. Several build
ings and large crops of hay were destroyed.
Louis Dillinger, alias Paul May. who
escaped from the Jail at New England,
Mo-. in May in 1890, the day before he
was 10 have been hung for the murder of
his wife and two men, has been captured
in Chicago.
Belle Ammon, a l6 year old girl. and
Edward Morehead. her lover. have been
arrested at Toledo. o., charged with
stealing 81, 200. The girl was employed by
Mrs. Rist, a millner of Beaver Falls, and
it was from her the money was stolen.
William Henry Gladstone, eldest son of
ri. Hon. Wm. +. Gladstone, the great
English statesman, is dead, at the age of
81 years.
The Park theatre at ST. Paul, Mimi.
burned on Sunday. Loss, $50, 900.
An Ovid girl has passed her sth year
mark and hasn't tooth yet. She gets
along nicely on gap-and-swallow vituals
and does not miss the moars very much
although she cannot chew gum.
G. +. Buckley, an asylum attendant at
Kalamazoo. received fatal injui les We'd
nesday by trying TO stop "A runaway horse
and getting caught between the wheels of
the vehicle and the side Of tho building.