Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-10-30
MEN AND THINGS.

Don Fernando Guzman, ex-presdent OF
Nicaragua, is dead.
Black diphtheria RACES at Soldiers Val
ley, la. There have been IA deaths.
The Gillian elections have resulted in an
overwhelming defeat for the Clericals.
Gov. Northen, of Georgia, has vetoed
the school bill involving an appropi iation
Of 81, 200, 600.
Claus Spreckels has dropped the price Of
granulated sugar TO four cents, and the
trust is buying.
Eugene +. Garcia. paying teller Of the
Louisville national bank, of New Orleans,
is declared defaulter in the sum Of $780,
600.
The death at Matabeleland from exhaus-
ton of DIR. Doyle Granville, the leader of
the British South African EXPEDITION, is an
nouced
Hon. John ]. ingalls, was unable TO lee
ture in Haverhill, Mass, last week, on ac-
count Of sickness. He is at the home of
his father, +. Il. ingalls,.
Cleveland had a 500, 900 fire last week;
the oxidized acid company, the Royalton
machine company and the Viaduct brass
company were the losers.
The condition Of II. A. T. Carter, Ha-
waiian minister TO the United States. who
is lying dangerously i'll at the Everett ho-
tel in New York, has not improved. He is
still low
Gilbert Vendor, president of the Gold
Queen mine OF Colorado, has been ar
rested in London, Eng, on the charge of
misapproprating funds with which he was
entrusted.
The statue of Admiral Farragut, by II.
X. Kitson. for the city Of Boston. has been
completed at a cost of SEE. 500 and is said
ty critics 10 be a masterpiece in compost
ion aud modelling.
Sylvester Wilson, convicted in the New
York courts Of abducting Libbie Souther-
land, IS years old, has been sentenced to
pay fine of 81. 600 or undergo one days
! Imprisonment for 1000 days.
! Near Natchez, last week three interest
| ing events happened OF one evening in a
family: An old lady and her husband
celebrated ncr golden wedding, daughter
and son-in-law their silver wedding, and q
grand daughter her wedding.
George SNYDER of Columbus, o., was
trying TO keep his sweetheart, the widow
Corbett, from attending party TO which
he wasn't invited. The woman yelled and
Ollie Hahn went TO her assistance. Then
! Snyder shot Hahn and the latter died.
The American bark, w. II. Macy, is at
San Francisco awaiting orders TO sail for
Europe. This is the vessel that was re-
ported in Chinese advices TO have sus-
tanned serious damage in cyclone in
Chirese waters She is loaded with
whesr.
Manuela Fimbres. the only female con-
| Wet in the Arizona territorial prison, has
been pardoned by the governor and dis
charged. She was provided with plenty
Of comfortable clothing and sent TO Tucson.
where the sheriff Of Pima county sent her
on TO Mexico
Leading ladies Of Hiawatha, Kas., have
combined against the good-looking London
gaiety girls who were playing there, and
announced that every man who attended
the meagerly-attired show was social
outcast 1t would surprise you to see the
number Of ''social outcasts" in Hiawatha.
The Russian steamer, Alexander H..
with 90, 900 skins has arrived at San Fran
cisco from Siberian port. Her captain,
In speaking OF the seizure OF the whaling
schooner J. Hamilton Lewis, denies that
the captain of the schooner or any Of her
crew had been shot at by Russian officials
for poaching.
The monument recently erected by the
states of Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts
Rhode Island. Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Delaware. Pennsylvania, Ohio.
Michigan and Minnesota, at the high
water mark OF the rebellion" was 20 have
been dedicated on November 10, but the
event has been postponed until early uex'
summer.