Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-04
LATE NEWS.

Mrs Henry Ward Beecher is said to bt
very poor and benefit will be rendered
her.
New Orleans had a 100000 fire Sat
urday night, destroying the ST. Charles
Hotel.
Walter Wellman. the Arctic explorer,
has reached TromSoe on his way TO Spitz-
bergen.
Western Ohio reports that most of the
early sown wheat on rich land is begin :
ming to joint.
Fifteen thousand persons attended the
reunion of confederate veterans at Bir-
mingham, Ala.
The sixty days drought in California
was broken Wednesday by showers and
fruit prospects are good.
Great damage was done by the storm
ON the Irish coast. Forty-five vessels of
the ManX fleet are missing.
Colonel Leon Silverman, formerly a
prominent politician of Wisconsin, COM
mitted suicide at Pine Bluff, Ark.
Later returns from all Grecian districts
affected by the recent earthquake show
950 persons killed and $50 injured.
proposition by st. Paul business men to
submit the trouble TO arbitration.
Supervisors of Woodbury. county. Iowa.
are charged with having misappropriated
S@JO,OOO by taxpayers committee.
Congressman Fithian was renominated
by the democrats Of the nineteenth Hill
nois district. in session at Greenup.
Reports from southern Indiana state
THAT there is less old wheat down there
than there has been for three years.
Republicans in the New York senate
buried iactional differences and passed
three OF the bills aimed at Tammany.
Great Britain, Germany and the United
states are corresponding on the subject
OF annexation of Samoa TO New Zealand.
Miners at Toluca, H., have decided TO
return TO work. Manager Devlin has as
sured them protection from outside strik-
ers.
Striking longshoremen at Ludington.
Mich, attacked nonunion dock hands
and riot ensued in which many were
hurt.
Reports from various sections that
late-seeded oats are coming up and max
ing much better stand than the early
sown.
Illinois miners in convention at Spring
neld lndorsed the strike ordered by the
national body and adopted political
platform.
Colonel j. A. Watrous, OF Milwaukee,
was chosen commander Of the Wisconsin
department G. A. L. at the convention al
GAINESVILLE.
Wisconsin department, G. 4. r., suf- |
lered reduction in membership Of roc |
curing the year, according to Commander |
Shores report
President Diaz, Sunday, finished the
opening of the seven-mile tunnel out of
the Valley Of Mexico. The work will
cost $40, 100000
The Union house. at Cheboygan. Mich.
was destroyed by fire. Two guests were
asphyxated, the others saving their
lives by jumping.
Ten thousand men are said % be al
ready enrolled in the Coxey army home
reserve in Colorado. The force in Dem
yer number 1900.
Fifty OF the Coxey recruits who stole n
Union Pacific train at Troutdale. Oregon.
are in jail at Portland, and the rest are
imprisoned in box cars
Father Dominick O'Grady shot and
killed Mary Gilmartin in Cincinnati. He
was in love with the girl, whom he had
from Ireland.
Western lines have determined 70 con-
,inue the immigrant rate war. in spite Of
he refusal of the Southern Pacific Ia
landle the business.
Horace a. Taylor, editor OF the Madi-
on wis Journal, is considering the AID
disability of seeking the republican nom {
nation for governor.
Colonel Watrous, the new commander I
Il the Wisconsin G.. A. r. will investi-
ate the management of the veterans
ome at Waupaca. 9
III IS said that hundreds OF peop@e in
ron Mountain, Mich, are on the verge
I starvation. Governor Rich has been c
ppealed to for aid. e
Striking miners who went 10 Toluca
u, TO drive out the men there were sent 7
ONE, after listening to some advice by =
citing Governor Gill.