Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-03-23
THE Pittsburgh (Pa) board of educa-

Second Reformed church at Kingston,
n. Y, dropped dead while in church
rehearsing party for wedding.
FRED HILL shot and killed Il. III.
Geelan, postmaster at Big Springs,
Kan. because he would not resign his
position.
THE Western Baseball league mag
mates met at Milwaukee and adopted
schedule. The season will begin on
April 25.
PROF. MILTON WHITNEY has been
made chief of n new division of the
weather bureau in Washington which
will study agricultural soils
WALTER WELLMAN and the American
members of his arctic expedition sailed
from New York on the Britannia.
Nuns who taught in the Riverside
school at Pittsburgh, Pa, have with
drawn because of the stopping OF their
salaries
INDIAN CREEK reservoir in Idaho
burst its banks and fifty houses in
Nampa were ruined and two lives were
lost
NEAR Elba, Ala, the charred re-
mains of Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Thomas
were found in the embers of their home.
A PASSENGER tram on the Oregon
Short line was ditched near Mountain
Home, Idaho, resulting in the death of
the fireman, mail clerk and tree
tramps.
SIXTEEN houses were wrecked and
large number of barns and other build
ings were destroyed by cyclone on
a. 4 -, I'M 1nh
FREDERIC GERHARD, of New York,
whose wealth and admiration for Mrs.
Langtry brought him prominently be-
fore the public some years ago, was
united in marriage with Miss Louise ii.
Morris, a celebrated belle and heiress
of Baltimore, Md
The barn of Isaac Catanch at Rush
Vile Wis, was burned, and he and
twenty-five cows and two horses per-
ished in the flames
RICHARD PURYEAR (colored), who
murdered Christian Ehler at Strouds-
burg, Pa. escaped from Jail, but was
chased by mob, caught and hanged.
Gov. WAITE with body of state
troop attempted 70 forcibly install his
new appointees on the fire and police
board in Denver. He was met by an
armed force of police and deputy sher-
ifs, and n bloody affray was barely
averted 10y the arrival of federal troops
and the intervention of prominent citi
zens
FRANK JUG, lacking railroad fare,
walked 1873 miles TO answer summons
as witness in liquor case IN the fed
eral court in Chicago
NEARLY 100000 bushels of grain,
loaded in vessels, are held in Chicago
because insurance cannot be secured
until April.
CHARLES GooDE celebrated his Tooth
birthday at Platteville, III.
CHING MING LEE was under arrest in
Chicago for importing Chinese actors
and embezzling $50, 600 from the theater
in Midway plaisance during the worlds
fair.
FIRE in the old Atheneum building
in Chicago drove the audience from the
Schiller theater and did damage
amounting to $4,000.
THREE bandits, supposed 70 be Mex
leans, robbed the stage coach running
between Sherwood and Ozepa, Tex.
The interior of the Pickwick club
| building, the handsomest in the south,
was destroyed by fire at New Orleans,
the loss being Sl73,00o.
THE census bulletin on manufactures
in the United States shows the total
number OF manufacturing establish
ments 70 be 355, 40l, against 253 $50 in
| 1850. The capital was Sc, 1914, 475, 300:
miscellaneous expenses, $500, 944 O5S;
aggregate of the average number of
employments, 4,77l,sl2; wages. S2,2S2,-
| s23, 265; cost of materials used, g., 1885,
| Sos, $685. value of products, $3.50, OF, 624
THERE were 264 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against GAS the week
previous and 100 in the corresponding
time in 1898.
MULLINS & MCCLAIN's cold storage
warehouse at Omaha was burned, the
loss being 100000.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
| the week ended on the 10th aggregated
1855. O0l, 934, against 1886, $50, s64 the pre-
vious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1898,
was 30.7
Mrs. AGNES FURY, of Baltimore, Md.
was scared TO death by small fire in
her residence.
! BECAUSE he refused TO allow them to
ride, revengeful tramps fatally shot n
railway conductor at Taopi, Mimi,
JOHN HART was hanged at Rockford,
H., for the murder of his two sisters,
Mary and Nellie, on September 5 last.
He protested his innocence TO the last.
CASHIER CRAWFORD, of the American
national bank of Springfield, Mo-, was
arrested on a charge of embczzling
49,
IN her trip from New York to Queens
town the Cunard steamer Lucania
made an average of 81. 7S miles an hour.
MAGGIE Powers, aged Ia, of Cincin-
natl, donned male attire in order TO be-
come n tramp. She was arrested in
indianapolis.
Gov. WAITE, of Colorado, agreed to
submit his alteration with the police
| board TO the supreme court and To