Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-03-22
LATE NEWS.

LAlE Me- -.
henry c. Thorn, chairman Of the re-
publican state central committee, died
at Madison.
Window glass manufacturers OF the
United States will meet at Pittsburg and
form trust.
Postmaster McBain, Of Owosso. Mich,
was assaulted and almost murdered by
an unknown thief.
The rebellion in Cuba has assumed
alarming proportions Fully 5000 men
are already under arms.
Plans have about been completed for
the colonization of l4,OJ0 soldiers in
Georgia on 100000 acres of land.
The strike at the Forest City furniture
factory in Ro oxford. H., is ended. The
men returned TO work Monday.
Bank clearings OF the principal cities
in the United States show total in
crease for the week Of 80 per cent.
Pietre Giabauco, one Of the Italians
missing after the lynching at Walsen-
burg, Colo, has been found and placed in
Jail.
Miners Of the PitCsburg district were
SUCCESSFUL in their strike for an advance
in the scale. All but 5000 have resumed
work
Frick and Southwestern coke com
panieS have notified their 1000 employees
Of advance in wages averaging Is per
cent.
Judge Ladd, Of Cherokee, Iowa. has
decided the petition of saloon keepers
void and every saloon in the county is
closed.
False alarm Of fire was started in a
New York bowery theater and many
persons were trampled in the struggle To
escape.
Because negroes have been admitted 10
the Federation of Women's Clubs the
Georgia Women's Press Club has with
drawn.
Indictments have been found at Des
Moines. Iowa, against building and loan
men, charging enlightenment, conspiracy
and Hell
Erastus Wman, the New York fnan-
cier convicted Of forgery and sentenced
TO the penitentiary, has been granted a
new trial
An Indiana judge has decided that
corporations are entitled under the law
10 discharge employees who belong to la
Dor unions.
Because of an error OF an enrolling
clerk OF the Indiana senate Governor
Matthews signed a bill which had not
been passed
The Spanish ministry has resigned,
owing to trouble in the chamber of depu-
ties resulting from the wrecking Of FL
Globo's offices.
number Of people in Waupun, Wis,
were injured, one fatally, during the
progress Of fire that destroyed several
business houses
Wreckage Of the Chcora, which went
down during the winter with twenty -four
persons on board, was washed ashore at
st. Joseph, Mich.
The attorney general OF Nebraska has
decided TO try Barrett Scotts alleged
lynchers in Boyd county, where SCOTS
body was found.
The engagement OF Miss Julia Steven
son, daughter Of the vice president, and
Martin ID. Hardin, OF Kentucky, has
been announced.
Ext Gov. Campbell OF Ohio is uffering
severely from drinking water into which
DOlblt CONTAINING SlIOlI 0plullbh Vi
amOnia had fallen.
The Gerry whipping post bill was de-
feated in the New York assembly, the
vote standing 50 TO 81. The bill had
passed the senate.
Liabilities OF G.. A. Budd & Co.. OF
Elyria Ohio, are now estimated at $780,
600, while available assets have shrunk
10 less than 10000.
Four mutual insurance companies OF
Toledo, Ohio, have been ordered 10 cease
doing business asa result of an examina-
ton of their affairs.
William Loeber has confessed that he
killed the Milwaukee cattleman, Ferdi
nand Moritz, but claims that the shoot
ing was accidental.
The Washburn and Moen Manufacture
ing company has made a cut in the wages
of some OF its employees at Waukegan,
ILL.,, and 100 have quit.
The American ship Meteor, from Mo-
bile, has been seized by Nicaraguan au-
thorities at Bluefeds. She is suspected
of carrying arms TO insurgents