Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-11-30

dences OF an eruption on Mount Tacoma
now appears TO have been simply a cloud
OF vapor. There are no signs OF an erup-
tion having taken place.
The sudden disappearance OF Walter
II. Butler, Congressman and Presi-
dent and business manager OF Oelwein
Normal College, is still the reigning SEN
sation In northwestern Iowa.
Frank T. Moran, OF the Rockford, ILL.,,
Republican, has purchased half inter-
est in the Belvidere Weekly Republican,
and in the middle OF December the new
firm will start a daily edition.
A change for the better has taken place
in the condition OF Miss Mary Stevenson,
daughter OF the vice president, and while
she is still very Ill hope OF her ultimate
recovery is now entertained.
1t is estimated that 10000 Chinese SOL
diers were killed at the defense OF Port
Arthur. The japanese also lost heavily.
The japanese captured 1900 tons OF coal
and 1900, 900 taels' worth OF ammunition.
George Elder, ex manager OF the Amer
lean Loan and Trust Company, OF Du-
luth, pleaded not guilty TO the four in
dictments charging him with grand lar
ceny in amounts aggregating over $780,
600.
Five students Of the University Medi-
cal College we're arrested in Oak Grove
cemetery, Kansas City, Kan, in the act
OF robbing graves. Their names are A. c.
Zimmerman, Durant, Hinton, Hopper
and Ryburn.
Mrs. Katharine Schmidt took her has-
bands dinner down in a coal mine at
Belleville, H., and when 100 feet under
ground gave birth TO child. She was
hosted TO the surface and gave birth to
q second child.
Representatives OF ell the big lumber
ing firms operating on the upper Missis-
sippi met at Minneapolis and took pre-
liminary steps in the formation OF a pool
similar TO that recently organized on the
Chippewa River.
The American liner Indiana, Captain
Townsend, from Liverpool and Queens
town, for Philadelphia, with crew OF
seventy men and l40 steerage passen-
gers, has not yet turned up, and is now
seven days overdue.
c. O. Handles, Of Boston, Mass, is In
Oklahoma territory looking for his
brother Henry, who has been missing
FIVE years. The missing man is heir to
$3.50, 200, left him by his parents, who died
since his disappearance.
Twenty nine of thirty republican sem
ators- elect of Indiana met in caucus at
Indianapolis Thursday with prominent
republicans. 1t was resolved TO redis-
trct the state for congressman and MEM
bers Of the state Legislature.
Another protracted drought in sections
OF Kansas is doing mach damage. Win
ter wheat is suffering badly and all small
adjacent streams being dried up. Stock
is having hard time. II has been two
months since the last rainfall.
j. S. Sanders, commander of the COM
monweal army from Cripple Creek, ar
rested at Pueblo, Colo, on charge OF
stealing Denver and Rio Grande loco
motive, was discharged, the railroad
company Withdrawing the complaint.
Gov Fishback of Arkansas has de-
clined an invitation to attend the con-
vention OF the American Bimetallic
league, at ST. Louis, Nov. q, saying he
Is mot crank on the subject Of silver as
TO lose my common sense or knowledge Of
human nature"
In private letter TO friend in Wheel
ing w. Va, Judge Nathan Golf OF the
United States Court OF Appeals says that
he is not a candidate for United States
senator to succeed Mr.. Camden and that
he has no intention Of resigning his posi-
tion on the bench.
Jose Salvador Franch, one Of the most
desperate OF all anarchists, the man who
threw the dynamite bomb at the Liceo
81 ID. tn
1893, killing twenty persons and wound
ing fifty others, was executed Wednesday
morning by the garrote.
A promi nent official Of one Of the New
York trunk lines says the constitutional
amendments in that State prohibiting
the giving and accepting by public off,
Gals OF free passes will be gain TO the
railroads OF New York State OF from
$500, 900 to $4,000 annually.
A new church has been organized In
ST. Louis in which belief In deity, In
the divinity Of Christ. or In future state
is not required OF its member. It's avow-
ed design is 10 meet the social, industrial,
intellectual, moral and spiritual demands
OF liberal and progressive minds.
Leonard Brown, the wellknown popu-
sane and taken TO the Mount Pleasant,
Iowa, asylum. Brown has an erratic re-
cord He is the author of several vol
umes OF prose and verse. and has con-
tributed reform articles to the magazines.
A canvass to-day Of republicans elect
ed TO the legislature of West Virginia re-
moves all doubt Of the election OF S. b.
Elkns to the United States senate. Ev-
cry member from the I'd and 4th congress
sional districts has declared for him, with
over half OF those in the Sd and 1st dis
tricts.
The New York National Shoe and
Leather bank has been robbed of 1884,
600. The man accused is Samuel G.
Seely. For fourteen years Seely has
been trusted bookkeeper in the institu
ton. For more than nine years, it is
now alleged, he has been stealing the
banks funds methodically and persist
emily.
The annual report of the Lake Erie
road for the year ending Sept. 30 last,
makes the worst showing In the history
OF the road. Figuring on the basis OF
previous years-that Is, as III all charges