Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-01-04

w. l.. kOSSnan, Jr., DOokkcepeT Oh the
Hudson River National Bank, Hudson,
n. Y. has been arrested, charged with
embezzling $4,000.
Michigan Knights of the Grip voted
down the accident insurance plan and a
proposition TO admit other than wolver-
ines 20 membership.
Miss Celeste Stauffer, who was engaged
10 samuel j. Tilden AT the time of his
death. was married in New Orleans 10
George :. Eastwick.
Ia an address before the American
Economic Association Carroll d. Wright
declared the A. Il. u. strike TO be an
epoch making event.
If the petitions for separate receivers for
the Oregon Short Line and Utah North
ern are granted a new transcontinental
system viii be formed.
A bus containing eighteen merrymak-
ers was struck at grade crossing in
Green Bay. Wis. All the occupants were
injured, four seriously.
Col. {. NJ. Faute threatens to resign
the presidency Of the Minnesota Demo-
cratic Association because of the recent
ly issued free trade address.
Minonk GllJ citizens held a meeting
and organized the Mnonk Western Re-
lief association, for the purpose of assist
ing the needy in western states.
Interviewed by San Francisco lady
reporter. John :. Garrison said he be-
lieved Reed would be the next repub-
lean nominee for the presidency
United States Commissioner Meet
trick. Of ST Adams. VI. has ruled that
the testimony of Chinese in exclusion
cases, when unimpeached, must be ac-
cepted.
George Roberts, given a life sentence
at Terre Haute, Ind, for train wreckinO,
says he was promised immunity for aid
ing the authorities 10 convict his asSo-
ciates.
William August Lippert, who left Cape
Town, South Africa. in 1890, without no.
tifying his creditors. and after forging
papers for $500 600 was captured in Gin
cinnat.
Walt II. Butler. who disappeared from
Oelwein, Iowa. several weeks ago, and
was found in indianapolis, declares he
has no recollection Of how he reached the
latter city.
Il
zil. The army, which is devoted 10
Peixoto refuses TO obey President Mo-
raes' orders, and 30 officers have been
imprisoned.
Pope Leo praised the progress. activity
and liberty Of the United States in an ad-
dress to the officers Of the Detroit, who
returned the vatican relics exhibited at
the worlds fair
A large canning establishment that
will employ 800 hands, will be located at
Newman. H., by home capitalists. The
capital stock Of the company is $4,000.
K. Thomas : president.
Charles X. Hardin. who was acquitted
at Nashville. Tenn. Of the charge Of
robbing the Adams Express Company Of
$4,000. has been rearrested, new evidence
having been discovered.
Senator Elect John II. Gear now hold
ing his seat as representative from the
Burlington district, Iowa. is said TO be
dying. A member of the senate is au-
thority for this statement.
The authorities of the cotton States
and International Exposition at Atlanta,
Ga. have received advice that the Ar
gentine Republic has appropriated 49,
OJ0 in gold for display next fail
A. X. Linderfelt, Milwaukee's default
ing librarian. who embezled $1,000 o.
the library funds has been located in
Paris, where he was about TO become
physician. He will be extradited.
Ex-Captain Stephenson, OF New York,
the first Of the police officials convicted
"a result Of the Lexow investigation,
was sentenced to three years and nine
months imprisonment and fined 81, 900.
A large meeting Of populists was held
at Omaha and a resolution was passed in
which the scheme TO meet at ST. Louis
and convert the populst party into an
exclusively free coinage party was de-
nounced.
At Huntsville, Ala. Mrs. Ida Ross was
given verdict Of $4,000 against the
Western Union Telegraph Company for
failure TO deliver message 10 her hus-
band warning him the Skeletons were on
his track.
Congressman Breckenridge began his
lecturing tour at Charleston, w. Va.
Only lis persons we're in the audience.
Madeline Pollard's attorneys propose to
follow Breckenridge on his tour and at
tach the receipts.
The Wisconsin Academy OF Science,
Arts, and Letters il perfecting a bill to
be presented TO the legislature which pro-
vides for appropriation TO meet the ex-
penses Of geological and natural his
tory survey Of the whole state.
CommanderinC Chief Lawler and other
G.. A. r. officials in Rockford. H., will
make an effort To secure the adoption OF
a military drill in the public schools OF
that city similar TO that which has been
introduced in New York by Lafayette
Post
AT Silver Lake, Lake county, Oregon,
on Christmas eve, while a large party
was attending a Christmas celebration
a lamp exploded, and, setting fire TO the
building, forty-one persons were burned
to death and fifteen injured five Of whom
will die.
The official statement of the wheat
crop of European Russia shows de-
crease OF "a, 10000 bushels as compared
with last year, and the use Of wheat for
feeding purposes is arousing abroad the
expectation OF an advance in wheat