Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-11-09
LATE NEWS.

The Fox Wooden mills at Lapoyte, Ind,
have closed indefinitely because of lack
of orders.
Nihilisis in New York are arranging
for great demonstration on the death
of the car of Russia.
Hurricanes in Texas and Louisiana in
jured a number of people and destroyed
great amount OF property.
Enraged because Or. Zaccharin did not
save the cars life, residents of Moscow
wrecked the doctors house.
Smallpox is again spreading in Mil
waukee TO such an extent that one Of the
public schools has been closed
Advices from Yokohama state that the
japanese have captured Port Arthur,
one of the Chinese strongholdS
The damage by the earthquake in the
City Of Mexico is estimated at $4,000.
Several other towns were visited.
Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougar was for the
seventeenth time elected president of the
Indiana Equal Suffrage Association.
smallpox has again become epidemic
at Walkerton, Ind. The disease was
transmitted by washerwoman, who was
i'll.
1t is rumored in New York that Boss"
McKane was secretly pardoned by Gov
ernor Flower and at once left the cOun-
try.
The Minneapolis and St. Louis has
withdrawn from the Western Passenger
Association, leaving it in shaky condi-
ton.
William Henry Park. for many years
cd Of b. apl-aru' Mont To Iia1 Of
his residence In Chicago from heart dis
ease.
Honore MERCER, ex-premier OF Quebec,
and for years leader II the French Cana
dians, died at Montreal after long i'll
ness.
Judge Grosscup at Chicago decided ad-
verSely 10 the big four packers in their
suit 10 recover S5.OOJ,OJO paid in excessive
rates
In the encounter with the Waziris on
the Punjab frontier the British lost for
ty-fve men, while 250 Of the trbesmen
were killed.
An increase in the available supply Of
wheat in the United States and Canada
OF nearly 100000 bushels is reported by
Bradstreet's.
New York papers intimate that Prose-
cutor Golf Of the Lexow committee, has
been offered $4,000 to spare certain po-
lice captain.
Mrs. Hermann, the missing Lexow wit
ness, was put on the stand and said she
had paid s25 200 hush money TO the New
York police.
Fourteen White Caps who took part
in the battle in Sewer county, Tenn,
last week in which three were killed,
have been arrested.
decision which practically abolishes
habeas corpus proceedings in debarred
immigrant cases was rendered by Judge
Lacombe, Of New York.
Senator Martin was ARRESTED at To-
peka, Kan, on a charge OF criminal libel
preferred by Nelson f. Acers, attorney
for ex- Lottery King Kline.
Seven persons were suffocoted in
tenement house fire In New York. A
woman who jumped from third story
window was fatally injured.
Henry Schwartz, a member OF gang
of forgers that has been working Eastern
Iowa towns. was arrested In Clinton,
Iowa, in the act Of passing a forged draft
for $50.
The Moline, H., Wagon company has
closed its plant, employing ADO men, in
definitely. Crop failure in the west that
limited trade was assigned as the cause
Of closing.
At Terrell, Texas. by the collapse OF an
awning crowded with people assembled
TO witness a circus parade, four persons
were fatally crushed and 100 others more
or less seriously injured.
The president and vice president OF the
Gillian senate have resigned on account
of differences over the conversion law.
A majority Of the ministry declined TO
follow their example.
Paul Grant, republican, and Morris
Ferriter, a democrat, became involved in
a political discussion at Richmond, Va,
when Ferrlter struck Grant two blows
with his fist, causing death.
Five of the leaders OF the Sanctihed
band on Chncoteague island, Maryland,
have been indicted for cons piracy in sep
arating wives from their husbands, and
for being a public nuisance.