Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-09-04
MEN AND THING S.

There were $40 victims Of the Martin
| ique cyclone.
A 20-story building, $50 feet high, is
proposed in New York.
The special session Of the Vermont leg
islature has adjourned sine die.
The catch Of Irish mackerel has dimin-
ished more than rine-tenths in the past
three years.
The Venezuelan congress has rejected
the reciprocity treaty proposed by the
United States.
The census shows the wealth of the
United States TO be $50, Clio, 600, 900, nearly
81, 900 per capita.
The stock Of wheat in the northwest is
estimated at 4, 164, $50 bushels, decrease
of l, 200, 905 for the week.
John truth struck Jacob Stokesbury at
Ada, o., Saturday, with a stone, crushing
his skull and causing DEATH
Howard d. Earle. Of Buffalo. has been
arrested, charged with attempting to
poison his wife with laudanum.
An English syndicate has become inter-
ested in Port Royal, S. c., and Will try to
divert foreign business to that port
The Bremaker Moore paper company, of
Louisville, Ky, has made an assignment.
Assets, 500, 900; liabilities, $3.50, 600.
Engineer Young and fireman Cooper
were killed by collision on the Northern
Pacific east of Tacoma, Wash, Sunday.
The English government reduced the
duty on tea from Cd TO i'd and the loss 10
the treasury last year was over 81 900, 900.
A call for statehood convention To be
held at Oklahoma City, o. IT,, Sept "a,
has been issued by the commercial club of
that city.
Senator Stanford, of California, is
being talked Of in that state as candidate
for nomination for president on the repub-
lican ticket.
Paul Conrad and several OF his associ-
ate scoundrels on the Louisiana lottery
have been arrested for the violation Of the
anti-lotterv law.
In answers to inquiries from the Italian
government the Australian authorities say
that Italian immigration is not favored by
the people of Austria
a man named Roth and his guide were
carried by an avalanche into crevasse of
Mont Blanc. The two bodies were recov-
cred the following day.
The peoples party of Massachusetts met
in Boston, organized and adopted IA plat
form. A state ticLet will be put in the
field for the fall election.
Madam Astle, manicure and chiropo-
dist, is under arrest at Denver, charged
with murder. Her victims are said TO be
the children of society buds.
The supply of natural gas at Indian
apolis, Ind. is falling short Where it
was pired 20 miles two years ago it is now
brought from wells 40 miles distant
Engineers Of the Southern Pacific who
have been investigating the Salton lake
say the water is slowly receding and will
all have disappeared before next spring.
King Humbert has unveiled monu-
ment TO Victor Emmanuel at Mondovi and
granted an amnesty to 40. 900 men who had
evaded military service between the years
1918 and 1879.
Among the passengers who arrived in
New York from Odessa were Mr. and Mrs.
Rubenstein and their "a children, ranging
in age from TO 25 years. Mrs. Ruben
stein is As years old.
Clarence Hobart has defeated O. S.
Campbell in the match for the tennis
championship OF the United States at New
port, y l. Hobart won three straight
sets by score Of 6-2, as, 81.
A special from Finlay, o., says the
strike on the Lake Erie e. Western. Is as
tight as ever, and not wheel on a freight
car on any one Of the divisions has turned
since Monday night of last week. BY or
der OF General Manager Bradbury. all the
clerks in the freight houses along the line
have been laid of, there being no work for
them at any point No move has been
made in this vicinity to take out or receive
freight trains with other than the old
forces. A dispatch from Lima, o., reports
the situation there unchanged.