Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-02-08

Francisco and there is not the slightest
clew 20 the perpetrators OF the crime.
Mrs. Sarah NJ Pierce, of ST. Louis, has
been awarded g., 500 damages 10y -.
/ Louis County jury for kiss that A. h.
/ Carpenter attempted To take from her.
A Joint resolution for the appointment
! OF committee TO investigate the offices
/ OF the attorney general and the state
treasurer was adopted by the Indiana
! house.
Rev. NJ. II. Nicolt, pastor OF the VI. f.
church. Seattle, Wash. was convicted in
the Superior court of criminaily iibeling
Rev. T. y. Ford presiding elder of that
district
! Chief Arthur of the brotherhood of En-
Z gineers has gone TO the Pacific coast 20
/ consult with men there ON the reductions
proposed in the new Southern Pacific
! schedule.
A new iron ore mine has been opened
near Sanborn. Wis which is turning out
/ GA per cent steel There is some excite
ment over the report that there is gold
| in the ore.
An investigation has shown that TWEEN
ty-one Of the chain gang Of congcts at
! Savannah. Ga, have been permanently
/ disabled 10y exposure TO the recent freez-
Ing weather.
The state convention Of the Young
Mems Christian Association at Fargo y.
! d., unanimously adopted resolutions
asking the Legislature not TO change the
prohibitory liquor laws.
An explosion Of fire damp is reported
from Mont Ceaules Mines, Department
of Saone ct Loire. France. Thirty per-
sons are believed To have been KILLED in
the mine whore the explosion took place.
The Americans who have for years
ranged their stock on the extensive lands
of the Blythe concession in Lower Cali
fornia, are likely to lose all their stock
through seizure by the Mexican customs
authorities.
At the fifth annual distribution OF the
proceeds OF prodt sharing al Congress-
man c. G.. Conn's band instrument fact
DRY ~ E.khart, Ind, $4,000 were divided
among about 100 men, sums ranging
from $50 TO $4,000.
Percy Ludlow cultivated the friend
ship while visiting at Sewaunee Spring,
| Fla, Of Mr.. Morrison, a sturdy English
bachelor Recently Morrison died and
willed Dudlow all his vast estate valued
at more than 81 100000 sterling.
The temperature throughout the upper
Michigan peninsula Monday morning
{, ranged from % 20 40 degrees below zero,
reaching A at Michigamma, or within
eight degree, OF the greatest cold ever
recorded in the upper peninsula.
The family of Peter Olsen, consisting
OF himself, his wife, and three children,
I. "a. l,ttr
with one Bathga, hired man employed
by Olsen, was burned 10 death at the
village OF Sterling, North Dakota.
After a stormy and protractcd session
the Massllon. Ohio. miners distri con-
vention adjourned, having resolved 10y
vote OF sol 10 SOL 20 remain in the United
Mine Workers OF America and not 10 N
ganize as an independent association.
The bankers OF Salt Lake and Denver
oppose CleveIand's financial proposals.
They think bond issues can be repeated
indefinitely without doing permanent
good. They think proper recognition Of
silver the only solution OF the problem.
A total of 5000, 900 in gold was ordered
for shipment to Europe Saturday, but
on the lowering OF the rates for sterling
exchange i'm the afternoon 100000 OF
the order was Cancelled, and it is not i'm
probable that the outward movement is
checked.
A fire broke out in the Deaconess
Home on Jennings avenue, Cleveland,
OHIO. and four OF the twenty inmates
were burned, while only parts Of the
buildings walls were left standing. Min
ME Banner, nurse. refused To- leave
hpr r,a tiapf nd bnrppd a dpqtn
First Grand Chief Thomas A. Ingra-
ham, Of the Brotherhood OF Locomotive
Engineers, states that there was very
little foundation in reference TO the re-
port telegraphed from Oakland. Cal, 70
the effect that the engineers were pre-
pairing for general strike on the Pacific
coast.
Arizona bandits held up a Southern
Pacific train near Wilcox and blew the
express safe with dynamite, securing
$4,000 to $4,000. They separated the
express car from the train, hauled it
five miles, and putting six shots Of dyna-
mite on the through safe blew it wide
open.
NJ Henri Rochefort, proprietor OF the
IntranSigeaut Of Paris, who has been eX-
lied from France since he left that coun-
try for England with the late Gen. Bou-
LANCER. in 1889, has left London for Paris.
the amnesty bill having been passed by
both the senate and the chamber Of dep
utes.
The Michigan senate has passed
Joint resolution submitting TO the people
an amendment to the constitution pro-
viding an educational qualification for
electors A resolution proposing an
amendment against the sale and manu-
facture of intoxicating liquors was in
troduced.
The Brooklyn board Of aldermen have
adopted the resolution presented by the
representatives Of the striking motormen
and conductors resembling the franchises
aud privileges granted TO the Brooklyn
trolley lines which are connected with
the present strike The vote stood 10
for, against.
The Lacon, H., wooden factory has
closed down, throwing 100 expert en-
ployes out of work. The plant had been
running night aud day the past year, but
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