Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-25

The coal famine has spread into Can
ada The Grand Trunk Railway has an
nounced that IL can accept no more lake
aSi rail shipments OF grain from Chi
cago, owing 10 the scarcity OF coal. The
grain train service east OF Port Huron
has been discontinued and all the coal
now owned by the Grand Trunk Line Is
being reserved under orders for Its fast
mail and perlshable freight trains.
Prof Larkin at Knox College observa-
tory at Galesburg, ILL.,, after Wa tching all
| day the solar cyclone, says its dimensions
exceed those OF any storm he has seen on
the sun during his career as an astrono-
mer. Ii is now at its full height. Its
length is 5000 miles and the width va
ries from 22.ODO 10 1900 miles. The
whole mass has a twisting, rotary mo-
ton. There are two storm centers
For five days and nights ending Mon
day night Western Pennsylvania was
storms swept, and In that time seven
Inches of rain fell at some places. The
country has been deluged. Cloudbursts
have repeatedly occurred at different
points. Booms have been torn 10 pieces
and immense quantities of valuable tim
Der scattered. Many county and rail-
road bridges have been carried away.
Chinchbugs have made their appear
ance in some parts OF southern Illinois in
the oats fields, and farmers are consider
ably agitated over the matte. SO fan
there have not been any depredatons To
amount TO anything The oats crop il
looking very fine. and the fear Of chlnch-
bugs is anything but pleasant Pastures
are excellent and corn is farther adj
yanced than IL has been for years at this
date.
The iron and steel factories in Muncie.
Ind, and the Indiana sas belt are being
greatly benefited by the coal famine
brought on by the miners strike. The
five iron and steel mills in Munce have
received orders that will rush them for
months and they have informed their
employees that they will not receive their
usual summer vacation. The rush is
caused by the closing of large factories
that depend on coal for fuel.
The French chamber of deputies, by
large majority, rejected the proposal to
suppress - bile executions and so abolish
capital punishment. Emile Henri, the
anarchist who threw the bomb in the
Cafe Terminus. was guilotined at Paris
Monday morning. He died shouting
"Vive l'anarchie!" Five anarchists, SEN
fenced for completely in the attempt on
the life OF Marshal Campos, were also
garroted at Barcelona Monday.
The great storm which swept over Min
nesota and western Wisconsin Wednes-
day night was the most severe since the
cyclone of April IL, 1885, crushing eighty
six lives at ST. Cloud and Sank Rapids
So far as reported only four people have
been killed, but the loss 20 buildings,
crops, bridges and railways by the wind,
! hail, lightning and flood will foot up at
| least 100000. The dOwnpour OF rain for
given period was the greatest ever
/ known.
The reservoir in the Allegheny Noun
/ tains at Kittanning Point. six miles above
Altoona, Pa, on the main line of the
Pennsylvania railroad, broke early sun
day morning and the flood poured down
upon Hollidaysburg and points below
/ An early report Of danger had put the
residents on the lookout. They fled for
safety and no lives were lost. The res
ervoir is used TO supply the City of AL
toona with water and the break is in one
/ section.
There have been $1,000 tons of English
and Nova Scotia coal sold % arrive in
ready been shipped from Cardiff. Liver
pool and Glasgow and from Sidney, Nova
Scotia. There are negotiation on foot
I for the purchase Of 100000 tons more to
be delivered between the first and tenth
of June by the same parties for the same
purpose. From this fact it is inferred
that the coal companies intend fighting
the strike 10 the finish.
At Johnstown, Pa, the heaviest rain
storm since the big food of 1889 ceased
Sunday. Fifty feet of stone wall along
the Conemaugh River was washed away
and the crops in the vicinity were ruined,
entailing loss of thousands of dollars.
During the storm the Baltimore and Ohio
tracks were submerged and the trains
were much delayed. Street cars were
stopped, and al the historic stone bridge
the water was 10 feet inches high and in
Stony Creek II was u feet
The principal business Of che great coal
conference at Cleveland, Ohio. Thurs
day, was the submission by the operators
Of mining rate Of 65 cents for Pennsyl-
vania and rs cents for Ohio. The miners
rejected the proposition and said that
they would be satisfied only with COM
! plete restoration OF the rates In effect last
winter. The operators met and decided
not TO advance upon their proposition.
No settlement will be reached, and indi-
cations are that the great strike will go
| on.
DR.. Henry c. f. Meyer charged at New
York with poisoning Ludwig Brandt,was
convicted of murder in the second de-
gree The penalty is imprisonment for
life. DR.. Meyer was accused of poison
ing Brandt in order that he might profit
| from the latter's life insurance. Brandt
had married DIR. Meyers wife, supposing
her single woman, whereas she was in
reality the doctors confederate. 1t was
expected that she would receive the in
surance and then she and the doctor
would enjoy il together.
The food which rushed through Will
| Transport, Pa, Monday, covered all the
streets from four TO fifteen feet deep and
reached its maximum at o'clock in the
evening. when il was thrty-fve feet
! above low water mark on the river reg
lister. and was eight feet deep on the