Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-02-22
year and six months In prison. His CO.
defendants were freed

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Ex-Mayor Gllroy of New York and In
spectors Mclaughlin, McAvoy and VIII
liams. and two police captains were in
dicted by the grand jury through the
work OF the Lexow committee.
A. C. Wilson, of Maryland, was chosen
10 succeed President Luscomb, Of the
League OF American Wheelmcn. Asbury
? Park was selected for the next meet.
: The negro question was dropped.
i At Columbus, Ohio, John Mcbride, by
/ the unanimous report OF the committee
: of fifteen, was reported TO be not guilty
! of the charge OF corruption in Connection
! with the Hooking Valley Railroad strike.
At Ottumwa, Iowa, Bateman. the eX-
press robber, confessed TO robbing the
20" train Jan. t.. pleaded guilty, and
was sentenced 20 five years in the peni-
Tertiary. Ely, his partner in crime, still
al large.
The passenger train from Kansas City
on the Santa Fee Road was thrown down
"A dfteen-foot embankment near Pitts
burr. Kan. No oge was killed, but near
ly all on board were more or less in
iured.
Bishop Hare and other UNCONVENTIONAL
leaders, of South Dakota, have issued an
address 10 the public taking strong
grounds against the divorce bill now
pending and calling on the people to
tight il.
The French Chamber Of Deputies, by
vote of 3O5 TO 2l5. rejected motion for
the separation of church and state. and,
! by vote of 80 10 ll1,refused TO suppress
! the budget for the ministry OF public
worship.
Much anxiety is manifested among the
owners OF small cOastwise sailing vessels
in New York as 20 the safety of a fleet Of
about twenty five ships which are sup
posed 10 have been lost in the blizzard Of
week ago.
The assembly OF the State legislature
OF California, by unanimous vote,
adopted resolutions favoring the annex
alton Of the Hawaiian islands and the
election of United States senator's by
popular vote
Revivals are in progress at several OF
ihe churches in Portland, Ind, and the
buildings are not large enough to accom-
modate the crowds. At the Methodist
church there have been 295 conversions
and nearly 100 accessions.
J The knights Of Labor's general execu-
] tive board have decided 10 employ law
yers 10 test the validity OF the proposed
bond issue. This step has been advocated
by President Sovereign. The legal
processes will be begun at once
At Spring Valley. H.. two horses were
killed near the Rock Island depot. Aft
or the authorities had appraised the
damage the carcaSSes were surrounded
by half-starved Italians who cut of the
best cuts for steak for breakfast.
A public meeting at Rio Janeiro at
tended by 10000 persons was held in cele-
bration of President Cleveland's decision
in favor Of Brazil as against the Argen-
tine Republic in the matter OF the claim
20 jurisdiction over the territory OF Mis-
stones.
A packet containing fortysix letters,
which was dispatched from Bremen by
the lost steamship Elbe, has been picked
up from the water near Deal. The let
tiers were addressed to persons residing in
various places in the vicinity OF New
York.
The Russian Thistle Inter- State con-
ference at ~. Paul adopted a series OF
proposals for laws in the interested
States. Their purpOrt is that the weed
should be declared a public nuisance and
special law relating to Russian thistles
alone should be passed.
An explosion of gas, which will prob
ably result in the death OF at least
eleven miners, occurred Monday In the
West Bearridge mine at Mahanoy Plane,
Pa. Five men have been taken out
dead and some so badly injured that their
lives are despared Of
Women suffragists have won victory
in the California assembly. An amend
ment to kill the Spencer bill providing
for woman suffrage was defeated by
vote of Is to %. The Arizona house has
passed by two-thirds vote the right OF
woman Suffrage in Arizona.
A dispatch TO the London Times from
Odessa says that during the past week
! there were lis cases Of cholera and sixty
nine deaths from the disease in the gov
eminent Of Podolia. Cholera barracks
have been opened at Batoum, on the
Black Sea, in Asatic Russia.
The Pail Mall Gazette. in an editorial
article on the Hawaiian question, says:
There seems TO be no hope for Hawaii
save protectorate. America is good
friend and cousin OF ours, and II some
one must have the islands we know of no
power with better right to it"
1t was given out at the Federal Build
ne i'm Omaha that in the future the Ne
braska Indians are TO be paid their an
nuities in cash instead Of the customary
supplies OF blankets, groceries. etc. This
is said to be the result Of the thieving
perpetrated on the Indians by traders.
The continued cold weather in Wiscon-
sin has played havoc with the cellar
stored potatoes. Telephone reports from
many towns announce heavy losses. Cell
lars that have never frozen before are
found TO contain from 100 TO 500 bushels
Of "spuds" that are as hard as bullets.
The death of Judge j. NJ. Casey Of
Keokuk. Iowa, will bring number OF
candidates into the field for the appoint
meut. He was reelected last fall for
the third term, commencing Jan. /, 1895.
Gov. Jackson will appoint man TO fill
the vacancy. Judge Casey was a demo-
crat.
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