Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-03-15


state militia will have to be disbandedlin
South Dakota. The legislature has only
appropriated $500, whore two years ago
the appropriation wa 5000
The Seattle, Wash, Chamber OF Com
merce has appointed committee 20 in
veStigate the question of the boundary
between Alaska and British Columbia
and To arouse public opinion In the mat
| ter.
A plan TO reorganlze the whisky trust
is announced by the stockholders COM
I mittec. 1t contemplates the issuance of
al 100000 first mortgage bonds and So
/ 100000 preferred and S2s,OO0,OOJ common
stock.
The smallpox scare at Lima, Ohio, is
growing and assuming an alarming as
pect. Several new cases have been re-
ported, one "A railroad man located in "A
boarding house near the business part Of
the city.
Chief Justice Orton, of the supreme
court Of Wisconsin, is dangerously ill.,
He has not been in robust health for
some time, and owing To his advanced
age, being -, his illness is all the more
alarming.
Judge :. NJ Weaver who is holding
district court at Eldora, Iowa, has de-
cided that slot machines are gambling
devices. and the keepers Of the Same are
proprletors of gambling resorts and must
be indicted.
Three hundred and ten negroes from
North Mississippi and Eastern Arkansas
left for Savannah, where they embarked
Saturday for Liberia. They are under
the direction of the Southern Emigra-
ton Society.
few months ago f.. II. Spencer, agent
of the American Express Company at
Sunfeld Eaton County, Mich, was found
shore in his accounts and disappeared.
He lately gave himself up and was put
in the Eaton jail.
The Tudor iron works of East ST. Louis
secured from Judge Allen Of the United
States Circuit court an injunction re-
straining $50 striking employees from in
terfering by threats OF violence with the
operation Of the mills
1t will be fifty years Jan. 81 next since
the city OF Milwaukee began its corpor-
ate existence. and ii is now planned TO
have an elaborate celebration Of the
city's mi-centennal anniversary about
the end Of the present year
The New Jersey senate defeated Sep
ator Rogers bill making it a misdemeanor
for any public school teacher 10 wear
any garb, insignia, emblem or marks in
dicating that such teacher belongs u
any secret or religious order.
Judge Hastings, of Green Bay. Wis,
has decided that the city cannot pay
bonuses 10 manufacturing companies 10
locate there. The decision was on an
application for an injunction restraining
the payment OF a $500 bonus.
Already an active movement is on foot
among the hotel keepers OF New York,
railroad men, and few merchants TO in
fluence the national committee Of the re-
publican and democratic parties TO hold
the Presidential convention in that city.
Walter ). Richie OF Lima, Ohio. Sena-
tor Brice's right-hand man, in an inter-
view on the gubernatorial question said
emphatically that Paul j. Sorg, the Mid
dletown congressman, was the logical
democratic candidate for Governor Of
Ohio.
Otto Raacke, the son Of a wealthy
brewer OF ~. Louis, was arrested AT Los
Angeles at the instance Of his wife for
non-support. Raacke is said TO have
spent 100000 in two years in a merry life.
lie married his wife in Chicago and has
two children.
One tramp killed, one fatally hurt, q
third shot through the arm. and twelve
others arrested Is the record made by the
police Of Boone, Iowa. The tramps had
taken forcible possession OF a rail mill
and raised such a disturbance that the
police were called out.
That better times prevail in Western
Kansas is evidenced by the fact that
twelve counties have notified Gov. Nor
rlll they are in need Of no further outside
aid. The Legislature had appropriated
100000 TO distribute among the destitute
in the western counties.
The military commission in Ohio has
decided and Governor Mckinley has up
held its findings that Colonel Colt did
nothing but his duty at the recent Wash
ington Courthouse riot and did that in a
manner well deserving OF commentator
instead Of criticism and punishment.
Announcement is made in New York OF
a remarkable discovery Of a means OF
producing illuminating gas at cost
Which, may prove W Dt uOl mpIt IMAM
cents thousand feet for the same
amount Of light as is furnished by
thousand feet Of ordinary gas at 81. %.
Three masked men beat two male oc.
cupants of stephen Ross house, at
Sheakleyville, Pa, into insensibility and
then forced Mrs. Ross, by blistering her
feet and other torture, TO reveal the hid
ing place of $50. The victims, bound and
gagged, were found insensible by neigh
bors.
A colony Of Scandnavians own tract
OF land i'm Oconto county in the northern
part o. Wisconsin and will try TO carry
out i'm a crude way the scheme Of Ed
ward Bellamy. The community is called
the Sunrise Social community and was
duly Incorporated by the secretary Of
state.
Mrs. Lulu Richards, who is the sta
ton agent and operator at Kimbcrley,o on
the Duluth Staples division OF the North
ern Pacific railway, had desperate bat
tie with train robbers ami saved the
through passenger from the Pacific coast