Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-02-28

me next annudi convention Oh Tue
n 'tonal Republican League will be
he'd in Milwaukee, Aug. 20.
The sultan of Turker will recognize
the indendence OF Bulgaria in return
for lump sum of money paid down.
During "a revival meeting at Pana.
H.. commencing Thanksgiving, and
which has just closed there were $50
conversions. -. 80 c.
Great Britain is preparing 10 send
10000 armed men 10 South Africa 1t
j. rumored that native troops from
India will also be sent to the Iransvaal
The Armenian relief commission has
issued an appeal To the women of the
United States TO raise $3.50, 900 to keep
the victims of Turkish brutality from
starving.
The Pullman palace car company
will send lobby to Washington 10
fight all attemps at reduction by ma
tiOnal legislation of the price of sleeping
car berths.
has reconsidered its vote az INST the
Arizona and New Mexico statehood
bills, thus leaving the bills before the
committee.
Miss Mile Dawson of Point Pleasant,
Ohio. was 20 have been married the
other night. Just as the ceremony
was commenced, she fell to the floor
dead, Of heart disease.
Queen Victoria has made public IA
letter thanking her subjects for their
sympathy extended 10 her on the oc-
casion of the death of her sOn-in-law,
Prince Henry Of Baltinburg
Gladstone has written a letter in
which he declares that relations closer
than those Of friendship are necessary
between England and France, in order
To assure the peace of Europe
Robert Laughlin of Augusta. Ky.
has confessed that he murdered and
crcmated his wife and niece He
Drained them with poker while they
,lert, but says he doesn't know why he
did IT.
Eugene V. Debs, president Of the
American Railway Union, will, il D.,
said, be a candidate for govinor OF In
diana, on the populst ticket, on Il
platform favorn9 free coinage Of silver
and in opposition to corporations.
Another rebellion has broken out in
4 -.
place in which the insurgents were de-
fcatcd, but not subdued. japanese
reinforcement, will proceed against the
rebel army now in the mountains.
President Dole has pardoned ex-
Queen Lii for her participation in the
uprising of January, 1895, on condi-
ton that she will not leave the island
of Calm without the consent OF the
president or member of the cabinet.
II is rumored that the Order of the
Maccabees will be claSsed with the
Masons, Odd fellows and Knights Of
PythiaS, and placed under the ban of
the Roman Catholic church The
order has enrolled large Catholic
membership.
Mrs Nausen, wife of the Move gian
explorer, has received no news from her
husband, while hopeful she is still in
doubt Norwegian scientists believe
the news of his discovery Of the North
Pole. AMI think that the discover is on
his way home
A terrible accident occurred in a
mine at Newcastle, Colo, the other day.
The gas ignited in a pet, and caused
the most disastrous explosion in the
history of the state. A number of
miners were killed, and scores of others
terribly mangled.
Amelia Rivcs Chandler and Prince
Pierre Troubetzkoy, a Russian noble
man, were married few days ago. at
the home of the father of the BRIDE,
near Charlottesville. Va. The bride was
divorced last October from John Arm
strong Chandler of New York, to whom
she was married in 1883, while at the
hight of her ltirary fame.
\ boy caree> sly threw a match into
"A pile of oily waste ON the fifth floor of
Stettheimer Il Cos. shirt factory in
Troy. y. Y. the other evening, causing
fire that caused a destruction of
thousands of dollars worth of property.
The 800 women and girls AT work in
the factory fought for lives, and many
of them persisted IN the death trap.
The helpless womrn and girls were
penned in like sheep, and those who
did not meet death in the flames were
| crushed to death. Some of them
jumped from the fifth and sixth stories
of the building, and landed on the
pavement crushed and broken pieces of
humanity. More than a score of per
sons were killed, and more than three
score injured. The money loss by the
fire is about $500, 900. About 500
persons are thrown out of employment.
Eczema in any part of the body is in
stantly relieved aud permanently cured
by Doan's Ointment, the sovereign
4 "a 4. g q Il.