Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-01-11
sewerage and tar drained from the IllI-
nois and Michigan Canal.

The Gazette de Charlerol, or Brussels,
states that France has informed Belgium
that she will not oppose the annexation
by Belgium OF the Congo State.
A wing OF the state asylum for i'm
beetles AT Columbus, Ohio, was burned.
The inmates were at supper in another
part of the building and escaped.
Colonel w. c. L. Breckenridge lectured
in Charleston, ;. C., on The Philosophy
OF oar Government" 10 an audience Of
forty people including three ladies.
Advices from Ashtabula. Ohio. where
has been terrible SaDurge Of diphtheria,
state that the new anti t0Xinc remedy
has been used there with great success.
Attorney General Ellis, of Michigan,
sued for an injunction to restrain the
warden OF the jackson prison from leas-
ing convict labor TO Chicago bicycle
company.
The sixth international geographical
congress will bee held in London next
July Goographers from every part of
the world have sIgniied their intention
90 be present.
Both branches Of the Colorado legsla-
ture met at Denver. The democrats,
who hold the balance Of power in the
senate. have not indicated what course
they viii pursue
Turkey has requested the signatories
OF the Berlin treaty 10 use their good Of
fees with a view To mojerationg the de-
mands OF Russia and England with re-
gard to Armenia
Chicago University has received Sl75,-
600 from John d. Rockefeller To pay its
running expenses and 10000 from Caro-
line +. Haskell 20 establish IA lecture
course al Bombay.
In the republican caucus at Pierre, $
d.. Senator Pcttigrew was unanimously
selected To succeed himself as United
States senator by vote OF 9l-the solid
delegation.
Henry Starnes. ex-speaker OF the legis-
lative council Of Quebec, was suddenly
stricken with paralysis while making a
speech i'm the council chamber, and IS
said to be dying.
The Chicago Fruit Exchange has adj
vices that the orange crop in Florida IS
complete failure owing 10 the cold Of the
last few days. The temperature has
been the lowest in twelve years.
Gov Knute Nelson gave the Minnesota
Of spice il has yet enjoyed by announcing
himself as candidate 70 succeed Wash
burn in the United States senate.
Mrs. Eunice Holcomb. aged a and a.
Holienbeck, aged =. were married at
Monmouth Iowa. This is the brides
sixth husband. She had secured divorce
from husband No. ; only two weeks ago.
The will OF the late James Thompson
was opened at Davenport. Iowa. II
leaves an estate OF nearly $4,000. 600 I'M
reserved 10 his widow. there being no be-
quests 20 other relatives or TO charities.
1t now almost certain that bill will
be passed al the next session OF the Wis
conSin leg stature for the appointment OF
a special committee TO investigate Off
cial corruption in the City and County
Of Milwaukee.
+. J. Baldwin. Of San Francisco, has
closed a contract with a fruit jobber for
his crop OF oranges in the Santa Anita
ranch, estimated at 1870 carloads, for 800
600 This probably is the largest orange
sale ever made by a single grower.
A midwinter coal strike, extending
throughout the country, is threatened.
The national executive board OF the
United Mineworkers. in session at CO.
lumbus, Ohio, took the preliminary steps
toward declaring general strike.
The Northwestern Grain shippers as
ISOLATION held a meeting at Onawa, Ia,
and adopted resolutions, addressed TO the
state board OF railroad commissioners,
protesting against the request OF the
railroads for an advance Of grain rates
in Iowa.
Silas A. Holcomb was formally induct-
ed into the office Of the chief executive OF
Nebraska Thursday. The Inauguration
ceremonies were OF the simplest and most
informal character: in fact, there was
but little of the ceremonial in the pro-
ceedings.
In deciding the celebrated Leveque
land case from the Duluth District Judge
Nelson Of the United States court settled
a moot point under the Federal land
laws. by holding that the REIMBURSEMENT
of preempted land extinguishes mort
gage upon il.
A letter just received in Boston from
point near the seat Of the recent outrages
in Eastern Turkey places the number Of
slaughtered Armenians at fully 1900
1t is written by a man in whom the high
est confidence is placed, and portions are
too horrible 10 repeat.
The strike at Carnegie's mills at Brad
dock, Pa, in which 600 men were out
was really broken Sunday. Two more
furnaces were blown in making nine now
running full Three hundred Of the
strikers returned 10 work, which leave
only 400 yet on the outside.
Italy proposes 10 encourage the natives
OF Abyssinia TO emigrate into the valleys
Of the Nile and open up the Soudan TO
civilization. The Italian colonists on
the high lands, now that the possession
OF Kassala has opened new horizons,
would protect and encourage the native
emigration.
Walter Watson. agent OF the Bank OF
Montreal in New York. confirmed the re-
port that branch Of that bank had been
estab shed in St Johns, y. f. The
Bank Of Montreal" said Mr.. Watson,
"has already loaned the government of
Newfoundland 100000 to tide over the
present financial emergency.
1t took only two ballots in the Mich