Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-03-30


which resulted in the wounding of
twenty men.
w. G.. DYE, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Winona, Mimi, also one of the
best known odd fellows in the United
States, committed suicide by shooting
THE worst snowstorm of the season
prevailed in Nebraska, Wyoming and
South Dakota, the snow at Deadwood
being feet on the level. The loss TO
cattlemen would be heavy.
THE interstate silver convention met
at Des Moines, Ia
MCQUAID, Emslie, Hurst, Lynch,
O'Rourlxe, Stage and Smartwood have
been selected as umpires of the Nation
al Baseball league.
PHELPS PERRIN. the Hurley bank rob-
Der, was released from the Wisconsin
penitentiary on pardon from the gov
ernor.
SECRETARY GRESHAM charges Great
Britain with dereliction in presenting
legislation concerning the Behring sea
dispute.
LAwToN A. SHERMAN, aged 90, and
Nancy, his wife, aged %, celebrated
the seventy-eighth anniversary of their
wedding at Providence, II. !.
Miss ANNIE BAUHART, of Massillon,
O., has been chosen to ride the white
horse at the head of CoXey's army of
peace.
The Iowa senate passed the mulct
tax liquor bill and it was ready for the
governors signature.
IT was feared that thousands of sheep
persisted in the blizzard in Wyoming.
A herder was found frozen to death.
WHITE CAPS at Fayette, Mo. terribly
whipped negro woman and ordered
her to leave the county under pain of
death
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, John Shandon
fatally shot man, killed a baby, fred
into a posse and narrowly escaped
lynching.
AT Denver the Champa building was
partially destroyed by fire, entailing a
total loss of 100000.
JUDGE CHETLAIN, of the superior
court at Chicago, has granted Patrick
Eugene Prendergast, murderer of
Mayor Carter ii. Harrison, fourteen
days lease of life, To inquire as TO his
sanity or insani ty.
BIMETALLIsTs in conference at Des
Moines, Ia, decided TO support only
free coinage ca ndidates for congress
AMBROSE HOFFMAN, in a fit of anger,
stabbed his wife 10 death at Lima, O.
AT Norfolk, Va, Mrs Henry Hugo
shot and instantly killed Frank Watts,
aged 10, for criminal assault upon her
daughter.
SILAs COVE, the self-styled Emmanuel.
the prince of peace, died at Auburn,
Me, at the age of So years
PHENOMENAL. strikes in the Cochiti
gold mining district have set New
Mexico wild, and the prospectors are
pouri ing into Cochiti from all directions.
A PRODUCTION OF gold throughout the
world of $3.50, 900, 600 for the calendar
year 1898 is the latest estimate of the
bureau of the mint at Washington.
The fifth international penitentiary
congress is TO meet at Paris in June,
1895, and this government has been in
vited to participate by sending dele
gates thereto.
III. a. SUTHERLAND, of Saugus, Mass,
coughed up bullet from his lungs.
II had been lodged there since
October II, 1868, when he was shot in
the neck at battle during the war;
LOUIS BUTscHER, u prominent citizen
of Parlxersburg, w. Va, insane from
exhaustion and grief shot and killed
himself at the bedside of his dying
mother.
THE commissioner of patents in his
annual report for the calendar year
1898 says the total numb Der Of applica-
tons tor patents received during the
year was 81, 293. There were 1870
patents granted, including designs; 90
patents reissued, and 1877 trade marks
registered The number of patents
which expired was 14,172.
IT was said that "a discrepancy of
81 800, 600 has been discovered in the
New York state comptroller's office.
The president has approved the bill
granting a pension TO Hannah Lyons,
OF years of age, daughter of John Rus
sell, the revolutionary soldier, whose
statue stands on guard at Trenton Bat
| tie Monument.
THERE will be l3S new money order
offices established throughout the couh-
THERE were pa business failures in
| the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the 23d, against 264 the week
previous and 100 in the corresponding
| time in 1898.
SIX months ago Samuel Ii. Gard dis
| appeared from Elwood, Ind. His body
has been found in the Arkansas river
at Little Rock.
BANK CASHIER HERRIcK, of San Fran
CISCO was killed by William Fred
ericks, an ex-convict, whose demand
/ for money he refused.
GEORGE GROVES, of Brighton, Wis,
has confessed that he murdered John
Callaghan on the night of February 90
MONEY POINT, village in Virginia,
was almost wiped out by fire, only six
houses being left The loss was $780,
900.
A NEW YORK commercial agency re-
| ports greater volume of business in