Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-25
News Summary.

ed rector of the Catholic university,
will be installed in Washington. Jan.
II, 1897.
The schooner Edwin Booth, of Pen
slcola, Fla, has been lost in II gaze of
Port Ends, and three of the crew were
drowned.
A. IA result of the meeting of the
steel raj pool in New York it is SAID
that prices on rails will remain sub.
slantialiy the same.
The official count of South Dakota
was completed THURSDAY. Highest
vote on electors. Bryan 4 ,225; McKin-
ley, Hop; Lowering, 664
Receivers have been appointed for
the Bavarian Star Brewing Co., of
New York. There are mortgages
against the plant amounting to ST.
| 6OO,0 600.
Dennis Ryan. the st. Paul million
aire, was quietly married at Spokane.
Wash. To Miss Mary Campbell, also
of 81. Paul, at > O'Clock Wednesday
morning.
by the explosion and fall of a l2-
inch steam pipe at the works of Syl-
van Steel Co., at Moline, H., Oscar
swan, an employee, was Instantly
| killed.
The Kansas orphans home at Atchi-
son has beer formerly dedicated.
About 100000 has been expended in
new buildings, and the home is open
TO all children.
Since it has become known that
| Senator Sherman has decided not to
enter the cabinet Mark Hanna, name
is again going the rounds as the prob
able secretary of the treasuarY.
The long overdue ship Marlborough
Hill from lndraiuage, which was
given up for lost, has arrived safely at
Tacoma, Wash. Adverse winds and
los, of sails caused the delay.
Schuyler Cole, son Of cX- United
States senator Cornelius Cole, and
NJ ISIS Bessie &. Gorham, niece Of Sena.
tor Jones, of Nevada, were qnietly
married Wednesday at Miramara,
New.
Postmaster +. f. IIclsch of New
! Port, Ky. j. missing. His brOther-,
who are his bondSmcn, have chan 90 OF
the Office and refuse to say where he
is. but his shortage is alleged to be
So 600.
The official count Of West Virginia
giveS the presidential vote as follows:
McKinlev. lOj.3GS: BRYAN 4,4so.
! Palmer. Go: lowering. l.2l6: Mckin-
lcy's plurality, l0.SSS; Mckmley's
majority, 1897.
Gus Zwissig, a carpenter, was
found by Western Indiana railway
detectives lying dead apon the Erie
tracks in Hammond, Ind. 1t i
thought the man attempted to pass
between freight cars.
While hunting near independence,
Kan, linn Robbins and Richard Webb
IF Cherry Vale quarreled. Both drew
rcvolvcrs, aud Robbins shot Webb
through the abdomen, fatally wound
ing him. Robbins is in Jail.
The physicians in the Fraz murder
| trial testified last week Thursday that
either OF the two bullets which enter
ed Bessie Little's head would have
killed ker. Franz was the girls lover,
and was with her the last time she
was seen alive.
Inspector General Breckenridge, of
| the soldiers homes, in testitving re-
| garding the Lcavenworth home last
Friday, said the uperintcndent of the
| home had demonstrated with him for
touching the Kelley cure in his annual
report.
Seven hundred men will be dis
charged from the Brooklyn navy yard
within few days. This is because
the next appropriation will not be
available until June, 1891 and the re-
cent appropriation of S2,O0O,OOO has
dwindled to 100000.
The will OF DR.. John Ellis, who
died on Dec. ?, at New York, be-
quca!hS $4,000 to the American
Nwedenborg society for printing and
| binding the first volume OF Sweden
borg's "Arccna Celentia," and giving
II 9ratuitOusly TO all clergvmen and
students who may apply for it.
John :. Hammond. formerly gencr-
al freight superintendent of the Erie
railway, with headquarters at Buffalo,
was killed at North East, Pa, last
Thursday. He attempted to crawl
under Lake Shore freight train
which blocked the crossing, and the
train started up.
Bandits started To rob the passcng-
crs of the NJ. Is d r. flyer a. it was
approaching Scdalia. Mo-, Thur7day.
They secured three gold watches aud
a small amount Of money with which
they escaped, fighting their way to
the platform of the chair car, from
which they jumped.
The annual report of the California
board of mincralogiSts shows there
are 40 gold mills and 100 arastras IN
operation in the state. Five OF these
are worked bv electricity: 800 by
water power; lSj by steam, , by gas,
( by gasoline and two bv horse power.
The remaining 26G are not classified.