Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-02-01
LATE NEWS.

Aid is asked for 100 destitute families
IN Yuma county, Colo.
Bill Cook pleaded mot guilty" TO rob-
berry when arraigned at Fort Smith,
Ark.
Francois Certain Canrobert, marshal OF
France, and "a senator, is dying at Paris.
He Is - years old.
A bill forbidding display Of foreign
flags on public buildings has passed the
New York assembly.
Bank clearings Of the principal United
States cities show an increase for the
week Of 1913 per cent.
Morris O'Connor, county surveyor, was
arrested at Abba, Iowa, on a charge OF
selling whisky unla wfully.
Plans for the read iustment Of the bond
ed debt Of the Grand Rapids and Indiana
Railroad are under consideration.
Five men were scalded by the bursting
Of the valve Of steam pipe In mine at
Houghton. Mich. Two will die.
John ID. Thayer, state senator Of In
diana, died at his home in Warsaw from
the effects of a stroke Of paralysis.
Speaker Russells bill to make train
robbery capital ofiense has been favor
ably reported TO the Missouri house.
The Illinois agricultural board accept
ed plans for new state fair buildings,
which are estimated TO cost t24s, 600
Rev. Father O. Hare, priest, took part
in the Brooklyn trolley strike, paying
one Of the new men $40 to leave his car.
Mgr Satolli, papal delegate, is invest
ed with greatly enlarged powers by the
encyclical just received from Pope Leo.
The Governor of Nebraska has signed
the bill appropriatng $4,000 for drought
sufferers. Plenty OF supplies are now in
sight
Arrival OF nom union men at the glass
works at Martins Ferry, Ohio. caused
riot during which thirty shots were
fred.
section Of the hurricane deck and
other parts OF the lost steamer Chicora
were found in the ice of Saugatuck
Monday.
A temporary injunction has been grant
ed at Jefferson, Iowa, closing all saloons
in Calhoun county operating under the
mulct law.
Miners of the Bellevil,e, H., district
scale and have asked conference with
the operators.
The contract for the new sugar factory
at Chadron, Neb., has been signed, and
the starch glucose and chicory factories
will be started soon.
The executive committee Of the Cen
tral Traffic Association ordered re-
duction in Chicago New York grain rates
TO % cents hundred.
Gen. James y. Bethune, former owner
Of Blind Tom and ex-Solicitor General
Of Georgia, is seriously i'll at Washing
ton. He is 81 years old.
Rev. Benjamin +. Bolton was arrested
at Finday, Ohio, charged with forging
the names Of his wife and her mother TO
notes for large amount
The Nebraska house appointed com
mittee to investigate the charge that
Representative Robertson was a mem
Der OF a vigilance organization.
Resolutions favoring reciprocity, sub
sidized shipping and government control
of the Nicaragua Canal, were adopted
by the national cOnventioe Of manufact-
ures.
Mayor Pngree, Of Detroit. has called
mass meeting TO protest against the at
tempt of the legislature to place control
OF local affairs in the hands of the gov
ernor
Lucen Baker was elected sena OR from
Kansas. George f. Perkins was re- elect
ed ia California and in Wyoming Francis
L. Warren and Clarence ID. Clark were
selected.
The lower house OF the Indiana legis-
lature adopted a resolution favoring the
annexation OF Hawaii and defeated the
bill to place flags on all the schoolhouses
Of the state.
Senator Washburn asserts that his de-
feat was largely brought about by the
use OF money, and intlmates pretty
strongly that the Chicago wheat pit fur
nished at least some OF il.
NJ. A. Eddy. farmer living near Syca
more, H., read in his farm paper that
soft coal, ground fine, was a good thing
20 mix with feed for hogs. He tried il
and has sixty dead hogs
The entire Greek ministry has resign