Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-08-23
News Summary.

The Bannock Indian scare has subsidized
Fifteen hundred West Virginia miners
are on a strike
Rumored that Guatmalia is on the verge
Of a revolution.
Hot winds have done great damage to
crops IN Iowa.
Brazil wants a commercial treaty with
the Onited States.
Seven thousand tailors in New YORK
| city are on a strike.
The republic of Cuba asks for recogni
ton by the United States.
Wind did 500. 600 damage to property
in Baltimore the other day.
The Indepe dent American party has
been organized in Kansas.
Rensselaer,, Ind, suffered great damage
one day last week by a tornado.
Ten Presbyterian missionaries left san
Francisco the other day for China.
a life size portrait Of ex President Har
rlso has been hung in the White House
The whiskey trust property was sold
at public auction IN Chicago the other
day
The German government has sent a del
ega'e TO this country 10 study American
crops.
Last week Germany celebrated on a
magnificent scale. the war victories Of
1876 IL
Three persons ~ ere instantly killed by
Tightening in Spartanburg, ;. c., few
days ago.
Foreigners in China have made an ap
peal to the United States for protection
and justice.
Pittsburg Iron and steel workers have
discovered the lost art Of welding copper
10 iron or steel
While temporarily insane, DR. J. II
Whiteford Of Wilmont. Mimi, killed his
wife and then suicided.
Ii Hung Chang, a prominent statesman
Of Chicago is said to be patching plot to
overthrow the Chinese dynasty.
The total value Of the clay products 10
the United States last year was more than
800, 900 900. Pottery was not included.
The boiler Of threshing machine ex
ploded near Morganstown, W. Va, the
other day, and three men were instantly
killed.
TX mayor Van Horn Of Denver, Colo.
was killed the other day by falling from
third story window of the Grand Central
Hotel.
Ex.Treasurer Taylor Of South Dakota
who stole $50 ono of state funds, has
been sentenced TO five years in the peni
Tertiary
Tie women Of America will have
special exhibit at the Atlantic exhibition, !
showing the achieyments of women in the |
field of invention.
The official returns for August show
that the prospective fruit crop of this |
country, taken as a whole, is much better |
than for several years.
A terrible storm ragged along the coast of !
Japan last week More than 3 600 per
sons were drowned and several villages |
were totally destroyed.
Several freight cars and an engine
went down with bridge near Greenfield. |
Ohio a few days ago. Several train men
were killed and many injured.
A civic confederation has been organ
lied in Chicago 10 prosecute the riotOus
Italians who participated in the trouble at
the mines in Spring Valley Ill.
The bank Of France has reserve fund |
of el30. 600, 600 This is not only the |
largest reserve in the world, and has never |
been paralleled in the history of finance.
a report Of the condition Of crops in |
Europe, made 10 the state department. in !
dicates that all countries except England, |
have excellent prospects for bountiful |
crops.
Ii is rumored that a special session Of |
the United States senate will be convened |
for the purpose I acting upon a nomina-
ton Of a justice for the supreme court to |
succeed Justice Jackson, deceased.
The Cubans have been victorious in
every battle with the Spanish thus far.
More than lj,001 Spanish soldiers are
dead. There are %. 600 insurgents in the
field and they are sweeping every thing
before them.
Capt. Judson n Cross, a prominent at
torney of Minneapolis. has plan by which
Hawaii may annex herself 20 the L nited
States without presidential intervention.
His proposition is that Hawaii elect dele
gates To the American congress aud de
mand that they be seated on the same