Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-07-13

Random bullets did the damage.
In Northern California the blockade
more complete than IL has been at an
time since the inception Of the trouble
Out of Oakland and San Francisco not
train Is running. The Southern Pacif
managers have apparently thrown M
the sponge until settlement OF tn
trouble shall be arrived at in the East.
In the race for the Queens cup at tn,
regatta of the Royal Clyde Yacht Clul
the Prince of Wales Britannia by tn,
grace OF three minute time allowance
because of inferior measurements. OBJ.
taned her second triumph over the
American yacht Vigilant. The latter
however, finished sixty i've seconds ahead
Of her rival
The railroad strike situation at Bir-
mingham, Ala. is assuming gigantic pro-
portions. The local lodge of the A. Il.
L. has at present over 800 embers. and
is adding new ones hourly. general
strike has been declared on the Kentucky
Central, Mobile and Birmingham, Quee n
and Crescent. and Louisville ana Nash
vile roads, and every A. r. u. has been
called out.
California fruit growers are exception
ally large sufferers by the strike. II
caught them just at the hea West point
In the shipping season and deprived them
wholly Of market. Ordinarily the fruit
would be sent TO canneries or drying es-
adjustments. but the tie-up on the
Southern Pacific prevented. About fifty
car loads Of fruit have rotted every day
for nearly two weeks.
At the cabinet conference Sunday Gen
Miles was authorized 10 order TO Fort
sheridan, near Chicago three batteries
OF artillery, under Mai. Randolph. from
Fort Riley, Kan, and four troops Of cav
airy from the same point. Gen. Brooke
was also directed TO send four troops Of
cavalry from his command. and the
Ninth regiment OF infantry. stationed at
Sacketts Harbor, n. Y, received like
orders.
Americas crack yacht, the Vigilant.
was beaten by the Prince Of Wales cut
ter Britannia in their first contest on the
Clyde, Scotland. The Vigilant should
undoubtedly have won, with minute or
two TO spare, and would have done so
but for a sudden failing OF the wind. i'm
which the Britannia was well served. II
was admitted on II sides that the ViQi-
liant was the better boat and that she had
the hardest kind of lock in losing.
The l0sth volume of the New York
City Directory contains 3s74ll names.
and, at the ratio OF five 10 one, il is esti-
mated that the city contains 1897. O55 in
nabitants residing or doing business
within forty one square miles. In the
chicago directory the names represented |
spread over ls5 square miles and in Phil |
idelphla l29 square miles OF Chicago. !
estimated five 10 one, the population of |
hat city would exceed that OF New
York
The Pittsburg and Allegheny railroad
men, who met Sunday afternoon and
vening refused 10 have anything To do
With the strike. This settles the posi-
'ility OF a tie-up there unless sudden
urn OF affairs should be taken. which is
lot considered likely. As the Fort
Wayne engineers We're the first 10 make
he break in ls77 their meeting was con-
idered the most important. If they
vent out II was certain the men on other
ines would follow.
AtChicago Friday night. from Brighton
ARK to SiXty-trst street, the yards OF
he Pan Handle road were put TO the
orch by ihe rioters. Between 600 and
J0 freight ears were destroyed, many OF
hem loaded. Miles and miles of costly
rack are in a snarled tangle OF heat
visited rails. Not less than s75OOOO-
oSsibiy "a whole 100000 OF property
as been sacrificed 10 the caprice of a
lob OF drunken Anarchists and rebels.
hat is the record of one nights work
the Debs strikers in the Stock Yards
strict.
"A hnal attempt was made Monday by
lie committee representing the trades
40 labor orga Mira tions of Chicago, act {
x In conjunction with Mayor Hopkins I
no special committee of the city coun-
!, 10 nave the di fferences between the {
uIIman Company and its employees sub
Tilted 10 arbitration. 1t was not sue
ssful The Pullman officials even de-
lned TO submit 10 committee the ques-
on as To whether any difference existed
tween the company and its employees
hich might be made the subject of ar q
tration. !.
Patrick Eugene Prendergast, the muir I,
rer OF Mayor Carter II. Harrison. Of -
llcago, was adjudged sane and respon- u
DE Tor his crime by jury in the Grim II
~ NSui shOi OlI noon QeSQdY. n
ne verdict was returned exactly two n
urs after the jury went out 10 deliber- n
e on the evidence. With respect TO the p
W Prendergast now stands sentenced ~
be hanged July Is, and there is moth :,
z TO prevent IT, One jury has found -
N guilty OF murder and another jury :.
: decided that he was in his right mind n,
the time he committed the crime h,
dispatch has been received from a,
ALL. reporting that battle had been nj
ight June q between the insnrgent n,
ces under General Saraiva and the "a
vernment troops under General Lima. oil
e battle occurred near the Pass of m
10, and the rebels lost over 900 men.
'luding several officers The CORES
ldent of the Temps at Rio Janeiro
ties that the situation in the Brazilian eft
'ital was never darker. He says that CIV
1sident Peixoto has the fate Of the fr
izilian people in his hands. He takes lis
BODY into his confidence. tn
'awlessness in Hammond, Ind, re- ia
we'd severe check, II not its ouetus.
1day. The apparently fearless mob GU
t for more than week had periodi- M
ly damaged railroads and railroad pr