Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-10-26

had been Frustrated for several months
Four men held upa Texas Pacific pas
senger train near Gordon, Texas, at noon
Friday and robbed the express car Of an
amount estimated at from 81 900 To go,
600.
A block of granite weighing three tons,
used in the construction of the ST. Johns
Catholic Church at New York, fel, from
a height Of lO3 feet. One workman was
killed.
Michigan BaptiSts adopted resolutions
favoring suppression Of the liquor traffic
and against the use Of government money
for sectarian missions among the ln-
dians.
l.. ;. Merchant. editor and manager of
the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Daily Republic
can, died Of in1amat ton of the brain. He
was prominent politician and state Oil
Inspector,
-Four masked men held up the president
OF the Hissboro. ore. First National
bank and made him return 10 the bank.
They could not open the time lock, and
got nothing,
General Charles L. Kelley, who led
the California regiment OF the CoXey
army 10 Washington is masSng men at
Oakland. Cal, for another march across
the country.
Health Commissioner Kempster, Of
Milwaukee, against whom Impeachment
proceedings have been brought, threat
ems TO begin like action against his
chief accuser.
The trial Of kristian Kortgaard, OF
MINNEAPOLIS, indicted for the larceny OF
s23. 900, the funds Of the State bank, OF
which he was president, resulted in
verdict Of guilty.
A negro assaulted Mrs. Katharine
Neibling, an aged white woman, at New
ark, Ohio. Only the memory OF the
Washington Court House affair prevent
ed his being lynched.
The phyllonera has been discovered at
thirty-fve different places in the vine
yards of the Marne department. France,
and strenuous eXertions are being made
TO overcome the pest.
An omnibus indictment was found by
the Federal grand jury, at Chicago,
against the officers OF the a. K. L. ard
all strikers charged with violence and
abstrgcting the mails.
Settlement of the claims against the
failed seymour bank at Chippewa Falls.
Wis. has been made on a basis OF 40 cents
on the dollar. This puts $4,000 in circu-
lation in Chippewa county.
Anton PETER, 81. Cloud. Mimi. mer-
chant, was robbed of g, 400. The money
was in a cash drawer convenient TO a
window. which the thieves raised and
reached through to their booty
Judge ID. c. Welty Of the fourteenth
Nebraska judicial district has been ar
rested on a charge of bribery preferred
by the court reporter, for whose appoint
ment the Judge is alleged to have received
S235.
Last year 800 German Baptist Dunk
ards from Wabash. Ind, established a
colony near Pierre. ;. ID. The crops
failing. they have all Of the colony they
want and desire to return 10 Indiana be-
fore winter
The idea that corn is TO a considera BILE
extent responsible for hog sickness is
strengthened to a degree by the fact that
some Iowa farmers have checked the
! ravages Of so-called cholera by substi-
/ tuting wheat for corn.
/ Gvernor Mckinley Travelled 1000 miles
I TO spend few hours in New Orleans
and deliver the first and only speech by
/ a Northern republican in this section OF
the South since the inauguration OF
President Hayes in 1877.
Nelson Plumb, a heavy coal operator
at Streator. H., has been indicted 10y
the Grand Jury for violation Of the State
mining laws in refusing TO employ a
weghman in one Of the mines who was
recommended and indorsed by all his fell
low wOrkmen.
Women's Christian Temperance Cnior
leaders at Detroit have publicly de-
nounced a recent campaign document is
sued by the labor party in which cut o
the figure Of Justice appeared Theil
grievance is because the figure was nude
from the waist up.
The Federal grand jury at Des Moinss
Iowa, Thursday, returned eight indict
ments. DR.. ;. c. Dunkel, president OF th'
First National Bank. Of Carroll; DR.. a
L. Wright, of Carroll; and DR.. e.. ;
Stockley, Of Carroll, members of thu
late Board of Pension Examiners.
Chancey Wheaton. wealthy farmer
Of Athens. Pa. was buncoed out Of s.,
900 by two sharpers who led Wheaton Z
believe that they wished 10 purchase hi
farm and induced him 10 engage in
game Of cards, by which they succeede,
in fleeing him. The swindlers escaped
The record Of the disasters 10 the fish
ing fleet at Gloucester. Mass, for tn
year ending this month is the larges
ever known there in a single season
Twenty nine vessels with an aggregate
tonnage Of 2.354 tons and 1l2 men wer
lost, against 10 vessels and "a men las
year.
A Jury in the United States Circuit
court at New York awarded Miss Har
riet Monroe judgment against the Worl
for $1,000 damages. The suit was brough
to recover $4,000 for the publication il
the World OF the Columbian ode writer
by Miss Monroe. The ode had been copy
righted.
No further admissions 10 the Soldier,
and Sailors Home at Quincy. H.. will b
allowed until next spring. because OF ii
over-crOwded condition. All further ap
plications will be filed and held wthou
: action till that time. The order 20 thi
effect Is signed by George w. Fogg, Su
, perintendent.
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