Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-02-23

exceed SS7, 600, 900, an increase over 1892
of "a, 200, 000 The production of the
| world will reach Sl50,000,000, an in
crease of Sl2,000,0 900.
THE Massachusetts house of represen-
tatives, by vote of 100 to 50, passed n
bill abolishing fast days in that state
FIRE believed to be of incendiary
origin destroyed the greater portion of
the colonnade on the worlds fair
grounds.
CARLO THIEMAN, n lion tanner, was
attacked by three lions in the arena at
the midwinter fair in San Francisco
and mangled SO that he died.
THE annual review of the whale fish
cry for 1898 says that the season in the
Arctic ocean was phenomenal one.
The total of towheads by the entire
fleet was 294, against PA in 1892.
By the breaking Of the levee at Horn
Lake landing, below Memphis, Tenn,
5000 acres of land were inundated.
THE Burlington Qa.) Fire and Tor
nado Insurance company, doing bust
ness of f2S OO0, 900, assigned
! FIRE destroyed the entire west side of
the city square at SarcoXie, Mo.
THE Old Kentucky Paper company
was placed in the hands of n receiver at
Louisville with liabilities of $780, 900.
THE value of breadstuffs exported
from the United States during the
seven months ended January 81 last
was SOS, 027, SOS, against 1922, Cos, $50
during the corresponding time IN 1898.
THE firm of George ii. Altwell 81
| Sons, shoe manufacturers in Milwau-
| l<ee, failed for S170,0 0G
Bon COLLINS, a respectable negro, was
| dragged from his home at Oglethorpe,
Ga, scraped and cut with blunt knife
and left naked nearly seven hours in n
freezing atmosphere. He died just
after being found
PRINCE CoLoSNA was awarded his
children by the French courts. Mean
while they are with their mother in
! America.
THE twenty-siXth annual convention
of the National American Woman Suf-
frage association began in Washington.
\ FIRE in the Miller block at Column
bus, o., did damage TO the extent of
! $780, 900.
| JAMES f.. STONE, who murdered the
entire family of benson Wrattan, six
in number, at Washington, Ind, on
] September IS, 1893 was hanged in the
! prison at Jacksonville.
PROMINENT residents of Chicago have
! formed an organization the mission of
which is publication of municipal pol
| itics.
The state normal and training school
! . I,n
] ground, the loss being $50 000
john Y. MCKANE, charged with in
/ timidation of voters and gross election
frauds, was found guilty in Brooklyn,
y. y, of all the counts in the charge.
! MAY Brooklyn, leading actress OF the
| Palmer company, committed suicide by
| taking cdrbolic acid at San Francisco
GEN. JUBAL A. EARLY, aged SO years,
the ranking officer of the late re-
bellion, fell down stairs at Lynchburg,
! Va, and was probably fatally injured.
CLEVELAND, O., is favored as the
place for holding the general confer
ence of Methodists in 1895.
! THE Ohio serate passed bill requir-
! ing that all physicians must be exam
ined, and providing a board for the
purpose.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 10th aggregated
$50, PSI, I'll, against SsSs, 2l6, $50 the pre-
vious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1898,
was 37.1.
GOVERNMENT ownership of the Mica
| &
were favored by the trans Mississippi
congress in session in San Francisco.
THERE were 32S business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 3S5 the week
previous and 1877 in the corresponding
time in 1898.
ROBBERS ditched Southern Pacific
train at Roscoe, Cal, and secured con-
siderable booty. A fireman and tramp
were killed.
FRANK II. HARPER, said to be a clever
forger, swindled two Chicago banks
out of So, 500 by raised checks
FARRAND, WILLIAMS IL CLARK
wholesale drug house in Detroit,
Mich, was destroyed by fire, tho loss
being $40, 600.
ALL but -, 100000 worth of the new
5 per cent bonds have been paid for
and the money covered into the treas
ury.
THE lowest prices ever known in this
country were reached during the week
ended on the 10th in wheat, silver, coke
and some forms of iron and steel.
DIssATIsFlED land owners brought
work on Florida road to a stop bv
planting dynamite bombs along the
right of way.
JOE DICK, an Indian, who murdered
Thomas Gray last August, was exc
cuted at the county courthouse near
Eufala, /. T.
ENCOURAGING reports of the progress
of the movement were made To the ma.
tional woman's suffrage convention in
Washington.
BECAUSE he married an actress Rob
ert l.. Cutting, of New York, forfeited
all interest in his grandfather's i'm.
mense estate.
No INfpROVEMENT was renortad in the