Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1900-07-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending July 20.

lily.
England is experiencing the hottest
weather ever known.
Illinois apples took the first prize at
the Paris exposition.
Fire I'm the navy yard al Charlestown.
Mass. caused a loss OF 100000.
Thieves stole Mrs. Potter Palmer's ST.
300 diamond necklace in Paris.
Japan has consented TO have American
troops land there on the way to China.
Admirers of late Rear Admiral Philip
are arranging a memorial fund of $780,
OO0
Miss Bessie Anthony, of Evanston, H..
won the woman golf championship OF the
west
A street car jumped the track at Min
eral Ridge, O., and 40 persons were in
jured
North Dakota democrats have nominated
NJ. \. Wippoimann, OF Richland, for gov
ernor
Florida republicans have nominated J.
n. Combs of Franklin county, for gov
ernor.
Iowa republicans decided to hold their
state convention in Des Moines on Aug
ust /.
Elias Carr, former governor of North
Carolina, died at his home in Edgecomb
county.
Recent rains are said to have been
worth S0O00000 TO the growing crops in
Nebraska.
Republican national headquarters in
Chicago were opened for the presidential
campaign
Lucinda Taylor (coloredD, aged 10 years,
eX-slave, was sent TO the intirmary in
Cincinnati, o.
Gen Chaffee. commander of the Amer
lean forces in China, has been made
major general.
Fifteen horses were burned TO death in
the stables Of the Garden city box fac
tory in Chicago.
Proposal TO withdraw the colored troops
from Arizona is opposed by the settlers
who fear Indian outbreaks.
Mount Azuma, near Bandaisan, Japan,
broke into a volcanic eruption and 20
persons were killed or injured.
Castle Crag tavern. a fashionable sum-
mer resort i'm Shasta county, Cal, was
burned, causing loss OF 100000.
Secret service men made important
seizure of counterfcits and counterfeit
ing apparatus at Rutherford, y.
Fire az st. Paul, Mimi. destroyed the
Cold Storage and Warehouse company )
warehouse causing $4,000 damage.
At Newton, O.. David Brown, hostlor.
killed Mark Robinson and Frank Murphy.
An old family quarrel was the cause.
Trouble growing from the hazing OF a
cadet at West Point resulted in the adop-
tion of severe disciplinary measures.
Mai Cen Ludlow. who is I'm Europe to
study military establishments, says Ger
many is the war college Of the world.
John T. Roberts. an American civil en-
gineer, says the killing OF high Chinese
officials will solve the Boxer problem.
Fred Puffer, champion hurdle racer and
broad jumper Of the United States and
Canada, died at his home in New York.
William Goodall at one time the cham
pion heavyweight puglist Of England,
died in Youngstown. O.. aged 81 years.
Charles Kuhn and William Wilson and
the two horses they were driving were
killed by a train at a crossing in Tifiin, o..
Joseph Mullen was electrocuted in the
state prison at Sing Sing y. y. lie muir
dered his wife in New York city on June
4, 1898.
Herman Strasser, aged 50 years. rail-
road man, shot and killed his divorced
wife in Evansville, Ind, and then killed
himself.
The American Federation of Labor has
issued an appeal urging the unions
throughout the country 10 organize under
one head
Young w X. Vanderbilt made an auto
mobile record from Newport to Boston
and return, 160 miles, in three hours and
81 minutes.
At the opening OF the Cape Colony par
lament Sir Alfred Miner, governor or
the colony prophesied an early close OF
the Boer war
The resignation of Perry S. Heath as
first assistant postmaster general has
reached the postmaster general, TO take
effect July 81.
A commissary depot for American troops
in China has been established at Taku and
80 car loads of meats are to be shipped from
Chicago next Friday.
Census figures, II is believed, will be a
disappointment to the western states,
where there has been little immigration
during the last ten years.
The United States army transport
Crook. having on board a detachment of
the Eighth United States infantry. from
Havana, has arrived in New York.
Gen. Torres, commander of the Mex
lean forces against the Yaqui Indians,
reports that the trouble is at an end
practically and that the Indians are
broken up into scattering bands.
A. d. T messenger boy 1884 whose
name is James Francis Smith, and who
carried a message from schoolboys in
Philadelphia to Dom Paul, writes from
Pretoria that he is on his way home.
The international surveyors have To-
Gated the Canada-Alaska boundary ac-
cording TO the modus Vivendi so as 10
include the north half of the American
Porcupine district. American miners pro-