Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1898-12-23
THE NEWS CONDENSED.


o The ". s. peace commissioners have
sailed for home.
Ii is said the deal whereby the Chi
| cago Il Alton road goes To the Missouri
Pacific has Just been concluded.
Chinese rebels have massacred a
French priest and 100 native converts.
Maj. Marchand has finally lowered
the French flag and evacuated Fashoda.
The President will submit the peace
treaty TO the senate during the present
session.
Admiral and Mrs. Sampson sailed
from Havana for home on the cruiser
New York.
Col. w. j. Bryan favors mastering
out volunteers at once and opposes
large army.
The pope will try to establish diplo-
matte relations between the vatican
the u. s. government.
The Filipino insurgents demand that
| Spain pay them $40, 600, 600 as a ransom
for the 10000 Spanish prisoners held
| by them.
The cruiser Yosemite, which was
manned by the Michigan naval reserves
during the Spanish war, has been or
! dered to Manila.
| Edward G.. Mason, a Chicago attorney
who was proposed as successor to
| President Dwight, of Yale, is dying of
| Bright's disease.
The Russian government has ordered
| 10 new torpedo boat destrovers to be
completed within two years, for her
| Pacific squadron.
Prince George of Greece, commits
sioner-general Of the European powers
in Crete, departed from Athens amidst
great popular ovation.
| The transports Mobile and Mohawk
are under orders 10 sail as soon as pos
sible for Manila. via the Suez canal,
each carrying 500 troops.
| The Mexican government has sub
mitted a colonization scheme to the
Spanish authorizes in Havana, for Span
ish soldiers evacuating Cuba.
A Paris cable says: President Faure
|
deputies and then resign his position,
because Of the Dreyfus case.
Secretary Alger has ordered the
| Third, Fourth, 18th, 18th, Goth and 22d
L. : infantry to Manila as soon as
| possible to relieve volunteers.
The T. s cruiser Cincinnati ran full
speed upon a rock in Santiago harbor,
clearly defined in the charts, but not
buoyed. She is probably badly dam
aged.
After the most bitter fight in Chicago
in years the city council has killed the
ordinances proposing the extension Of
the Yerkes street railway franchises 80
to 50 years.
Gen. Kitchener is planning a new
campaign TO recover the remaining
Egyptian provinces held by the NAH
dists, and will enlist 5000 Soudanese
for the expedition.
The First New York volunteers have
returned home from garrison duty at
Honolulu. Since August, 20 members
of the regiment died and $50 sick were
left in the Honolulu hospital.
Out of all the millions who Travelled
over the waters, the Great lakes
claimed "a victims for the season of
navigation just closed. OF these 81
were drowned No passengers were
lost.
Brig. Gen. Snyder reports from the
province of Puerto Principe, Cuba, that
there is great suffering and many
deaths are reported daily among the
natives from starvation.
1t cost the war department s513. SOC
to send Spanish soldiers home from
Cuba. and it is expected that to return
the 1900 Spaniards garrisoning the
Philippines will cost as much more
A wagon containing eight persons
was struck bp train on the Pennsvl-
vania railroad. near Manasquan. y. j.
and four were killed, two fatally in
iured and two others seriously injured.
Orders have been issued assigning
Brig Gen. Michael V. Sheridan TO the
command of the department of the
lakes. which includes Forts Wayne
and BRADY in Michigan. with head
quarters at Chicago.
Adit. Gen. Corbin has submitted TO
the house committee ON military affairs
the recommendation of Gems. Wade
and Butler and Admiral Sampson. the
Cuban evacuation commission, that
80. 600 troops be stationed in ca re.
The United States soldiers n cuba
and Porto Rico will not la 81 good
Christmas dinners Uncle SstA for
warded TO them by the steamship Mis-
sissippi, 10000 pounds of prime .rkcys
and ? ZOO pounds of fresh cran berries,
Under the impression that the Span
ish had evacuated Cerro, suburb of
Havana, the Cubans attempted cele-
bration which was resented by force
of Spanish troops. A fight resulted in
which one Cuban was killed and sew
eral wounded on each side.