Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-03-09

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killed himself in a hotel at Pitts
burgh, Pa.
THE National Baseball league season
will open April 10.
A BLOODY riot occurred in the Kama
wha coal region at Eagle, w. Va, in
which at least one man was killed,
three fatally injured and many Others
hurt Troops were ordered to'the scene.
JESSE HICKMAN, a farmer near Glas-
gov, Ala, cut down tree near his
home and in falling IL struck his two
daughters and killed them.
GIFTS amounting 10 more than $780,
600 were received by trustees of the
Western Reserve university near Cleve-
land. q.
RESIDENTS of Benton Harbor, Mich,
were startled by rumbling noise and
shaking of the ground which lasted
minute.
AT Emporia, Kan, Mary c. Davis
was divorced from her husband, John
Davis. This was the fifth time one or
the other of these two had sued for di-
vorce. and each time the divorce had
been annulled by n remarriage.
THE public debt statement issued on
| the list showed that the debt increased
$40. O64, 215 during the month of Feb
rnary. The cash balance in the treas
ury was $751;. 07o, sS4 The total debt,
less the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts 70 81, 0O7, 35G,015.
! CHARLES SALYARDs was banged at
Carlisle, Pa, for the murder of Police
man George t. Martin.
HENRY BAKER and William Thomp-
son, negro burglars, killed Mrs. Moore
| Baker and her child at Franklin Park,
n. j., and were themselves killed by
Moore Baker after desperate fight
COLBY Bros livery barn at Fort
Dodge, Ia, with contents, was ce-
stroyed by fire and twenty-eight head
of horses were roasted alive.
NOTICES were posted by white caps
commanding all negroes TO leave Pike
county, Ala, by March 10 under penal
| " of lynching.
MEMBERS of the Protestant societies
would ask the courts for an order en-
! joining Catholic nuns from teaching in
the public schools of Pittsburgh, Pa
| WHITE CAPS took Wesley Thomas and
his wife, aged negroes from their beds
at Brantley, Ala, and whipped them
so severely that their lives we're de-
SPARED Of.
JONI CARBERRY died at Newark. y.
j., of hiccoughs. 1t was thirteen weeks
ago that the disease attacked him.
HENRY's opera house and other build
! ings were burned at North Baltimore,
! o., the loss being 100000.
FRANK RIPPY and Charles Dawson
were killed by an explosion in planning
mill ut Warsaw, Ind, and two other
men were fatally injured.
L. T. WHITE was fined $500 for aiding
in the hanging in efhgy of Secretary
Morton at Nebraska City
Miss ELLA MAY DICKERsoN, aged "a,
and Aunt Betsy Davis, aged lo7 years,
were fatally burned in the poor house
at Muucie, Ind, their clothes taking
fire from a CRATE.
A VERDICT of $1,000 against the de-
PENDANT was given at indianapolis in
the first case tried under the coem-
ployes' liability law.
NINE clipping Kentucky couples
crossed the river to Jacksonville, Ind. =,
and were married.
The Commercial bank of Milwaukee
resumed business after having been in
the hands of an assignee for seven
months.
JAMES j. CoRBETT, the prize fighter,
was found not guilty of violating the
law by jury at Jacksonville, Fla
THE Dexter Mich savings bank was
robbed of s., 600 by two mashed men,
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open the safe.
JoHS y. MCKANE, convicted at
Graveseud, n. V, of political frauds,
was taken 10 Sing Sing TO serve his
sentence of six years, all attempts at
securing stay having failed.
Six THOUSAND miners quit work in
Jackson county, o.. because the oper-
ators wished TO reduce wages 10 fifty
cents ton.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the I'd aggregated
ss9s, SOS, 1876, against 1901, 4gl, $50 the pre-
vious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1898,
was 80 O.
THERE were 204 business failures in
the I Hllcu DidbSS III Vic bCNCh
ended on the I'd, against 2Ss the week
previous and 200 in the corresponding
time in 1893
IL the opal mines near Caldwell,
Idaho, an opal has been found as large
as hens egg and without a flaw.
Two MEN were instantly killed, two
fatally burned and five others danger.
ousy hurt in an explosion in coaI
mine near Leeds, Mo.
WATERMAN & KATE, bankers at Port
Townsend, Wash, failed Cor sl20, 600.
! MORE troops were ordered TO the
mines near Charles ton, w. Va. The
miners threatened To burn the coal
company property and martial law had
been declared.
THE Worlds w. c. T. U. is preparing
temperance petition TO be presented
TO all the rulers on earth.
GEORGE HENsLEY and w. r Shelton
Jr., while In quarrel at dance in
Madison county, n. c., shot each other
fatally.
REv. Mr. RoBERTs, Methodist, o.
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